Well, the Oscars are tonight. Everyone else has their basketball and their Super Bowl and their Final Four or whatever. I have the Oscars. Sure, they’re basically meaningless, a bunch of old white guys deciding the best films of the year and always getting it wrong, but they’re a bunch of fun. I get waaaaay to into them. Anyway, the nominations did get a lot of things right, but also a whole lot wrong and if I had my way, this is probably how the Oscar categories would shake out.*
*Shorts, foreign films, and various crafts omitted, as I frankly have no clue what I’m talking about.
BEST PICTURE (I’ll pick up to 8, since that’s how many the Academy picked.)
Boyhood,(Winner)
Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash
The Immigrant
Gone Girl
The Babadook
Nightcrawler
A Most Violent Year
BEST ACTOR
Ralph Fiennes – Grand Budapest Hotel (Winner)
Joaquin Phoenix – The Immigrant
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
Tom Hardy – Locke
BEST ACTRESS
Marion Cotillard – The Immigrant (Great in Two Days, One Night, but this is BETTER)
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl (Winner)
Emily Blunt – Into the Woods
Scarlett Johannson – Under the Skin
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Edward Norton – Birdman
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash (Winner)
Chris Pine – Into the Woods
Tony Revolori – The Grand Budapest Hotel
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods (Winner)
Tessa Thompson – Dear White People
Emma Stone – Birdman
Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer
BEST DIRECTOR
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel (Winner)
David Fincher – Gone Girl
Ava DuVernay – Selma
Damien Chanzelle – Whiplash
ANIMATED FILM
The Lego Movie (Winner)
Big Hero 6
Song of the Sea
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
The Boxtrolls
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Immigrant (Winner)
Gone Girl
Interstellar
Birdman
COSTUME DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into the Woods (Winner)
Mr. Turner
FILM EDITING
Whiplash (Winner)
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Babadook
The Grand Budapest Hotel
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Into the Woods
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Winner. FOR TILDA SWINTON)
Guardians of the Galaxy
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Interstellar (Winner)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Theory of Everything
The Immigrant
Gone Girl
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Everything Is Awesome – The Lego Movie (Winner)
Lost Stars – Begin Again
The Hanging Tree – Mockingjay Part 1
Not About Angels – The Fault in Our Stars
The Last Goodbye – The Hobbit: The Movie: Part 3: Battle of the Five Armies: Part 1: Of 2.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Winner)
Mr. Turner
Into the Woods
The Immigrant
Snowpiercer
VISUAL EFFECTS
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar (Winner)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Noah
Under the Skin
WRITING (Adapted)
The Imitation Game
Whiplash
Gone Girl (Winner)
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods
WRITING (Original)
Boyhood (Winner)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler
The Lego Movie
A Most Violent Year
Okay. That’s everything.
So what would be the tally, then?
Boyhood – 2
The Grand Budapest Hotel – 4
Gone Girl – 2
Into the Woods – 2
Whiplash – 2
Interstellar – 2
The Lego Movie – 2
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