Are are my picks for 2014. Most years, I get around 18/24 picks correct, though last year I got 20/24. Am pretty confident in most of these except for Best Picture (where I almost picked 12 Years a Slave) and Best Supporting Actress (where if support for 12 Years is a soft I’d see Jennifer Lawrence winning). By picking Gravity for Best Picture and Nyong’o for Supporting Actress I’m sort of splitting the difference; gotta get at least one of these correct.
Update: 18/24 this year (winners in bold)
Best Picture: Gravity
Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)
Best Director: Alfonso CuarĂ³n (Gravity)
Best Adapted Screenplay: John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)
Best Original Screenplay: David O. Russell and Eric Singer (American Hustle)
Best Foreign Film: Italy, The Great Beauty
Best Documentary Feature: 20 Feet from Stardom
Best Animated Feature: Frozen
Film Editing: Captain Phillips
Best Song: “Let It Go” (Frozen)
Best Original Score: Steven Price (Gravity)
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity)
Costume Design: American Hustle
Makeup and Hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club
Production Design: The Great Gatsby
Sound Editing: Gravity
Sound Mixing: Gravity
Visual Effects: Gravity
Short Film, Live Action: The Voorman Problem
Short Film, Animated: Get a Horse!
Documentary Short Subject: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life