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If nominated I think U2 can be considered as locks, even is the song is "minor U2". It's a Mandela movie, Bono is really campaining, it's constantly on the radio and they might be considered as "overdue" after losing ten years ago.
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I'm still not sold on Jared Leto being such a lock...sure he looks like a front-runner, but I can still see Michael Fassbender or even Bradley Cooper setting up a fight there.
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Right now, I think there appears to be locks to win in 8 of the 24 categories.

Adapted Screenplay -- John Ridley, 12 Years A Slave
Lead Actress -- Cate Blanchett -- Blue Jasmine
Supporting Actor -- Jared Leto -- Dallas Buyers Club
Costume Design -- The Great Gatsby

Plus Gravity for Cinematography, Visual Effects, Sound Mixing, and Sound Editing

Does anyone think there is any category where I am either overconfident or ignoring a shoo-in?
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Number of total nominations in parentheses next to each Best Picture nominee.

BEST PICTURE
12 Years A Slave (11)
American Hustle (10)
Blue Jasmine (2)
Captain Phillips (6)
Dallas Buyers Club (4)
Gravity (10)
Inside Llewyn Davis (3)
Nebraska (5)
Saving Mr. Banks (5)
The Wolf Of Wall Street (5)

DIRECTING
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Nebraska
The Wolf Of Wall Street

LEAD ACTRESS
Amy Adams – American Hustle
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

LEAD ACTOR
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf Of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years A Slave
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years A Slave
Julia Roberts – August: Osage County
June Squibb – Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey – The Butler

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Daniel Brühl – Rush
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years A Slave
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
12 Years A Slave
August: Osage County
Before Midnight
Philomena
The Wolf Of Wall Street

FILM EDITING
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Rush
The Wolf Of Wall Street

CINEMATOGRAPHY
12 Years A Slave
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Prisoners
The Grandmaster

COSTUME DESIGN
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
The Great Gatsby
Oz, The Great And Powerful
Saving Mr. Banks

ART DIRECTION
12 Years A Slave
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
Saving Mr. Banks

ORIGINAL SCORE
12 Years A Slave
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Saving Mr. Banks

SOUND MIXING
12 Years A Slave
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Rush

SOUND EDITING
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Rush
Monster University

VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Star Trek: Into Darkness

MAKEUP
American Hustle
Dallas Buyer’s Club
The Lone Ranger

ORIGINAL SONG
“Amen” – All Is Lost
“Let It Go” – Frozen
“Stay Alive” – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
“Ordinary Love” – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
“Young And Beautiful” – The Great Gatsby

ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Great Beauty – Italy
The Hunt – Denmark
The Notebook – Hungary
Omar – Palestine
Two Lives – Germany
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Predictions for only some of the categories

Film

American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Director

Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle

Actor

Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Chiwitel Ejiofer, 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Actress

Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks

Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl, Rush
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Will Forte, Nebraska
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers’ Club

Supporting Actress

Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Octavia Spencer, Fruitvale Station
June Squibb, Nebraska

Original Screenplay

American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska

Adapted Screenplay

Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Foreign Language Film

The Broken Circle Breakdown
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
Omar
Two Lives
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I asked MovieWes some comments a while back…

Honestly why do I think Christian Bale will get in? Because while I think he's slightly miscast in this role, he's a lot of fun and has some genuinely great moments. He's a previous winner doing something very fun and he gets to play dress-up and get fat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Redford, and Forest Whitaker certainly could get nominated, but I could see a plethora of voters consistently ranking Christian Bale on their ballot whereas I could see someone not doing that for DiCaprio, Redford, and Whitaker. So that's Best Actor. My buddy is currently predicting Amy Adams for Best Supporting Actress for American Hustle as a reverse Kate Winslet in The Reader/Keisha Castle-Hughes in Whale Rider nomination. I haven't seen August, Osage County but I've heard nothing positive about it and, like Meryl Streep, Amy Adams is demonstrating a talent for getting nominated for anything she can be nominated for. Only Enchanted has eluded her. She does some of the best work of her career in American Hustle, so I figure why not? Bradley Cooper is the least likely in my book if only because he's a bit broad and I'm not sure how many people are really talking about him, but I'm not convinced that enough voters have seen Enough Said and Jonah Hill has been stiffing very bad. Bradley Cooper was nominated last year and he's a star slumming it in a supporting role. That seems reason enough.
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Sabin wrote:What's the point of predicting if you can't have some fun? I'd argue all American Hustle's four acting contenders have better chances than I'd have given Jacki Weaver.
Oh, of course, of course. I love balls-to-the-wall predictions (and I thought the same thing after reading yours, that the chances of all four of them being nominated really are better than Weaver's were at the time). I was just thinking about that statistic. It could easily happen.

Is this thread just to post predictions or can we make comments and talk about them as well?
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What's the point of predicting if you can't have some fun? I'd argue all American Hustle's four acting contenders have better chances than I'd have given Jacki Weaver.
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Do you really think that Russell will repeat the — what was it at the time? 31 year old? — record he broke last year with Silver Linings Playbook of having actors nominated in each acting category? That would be quite something, breaking a record that old and then breaking it again the very next year.

With that said, I do think that Bale is the weakest link in American Hustle and Best Actor is one of the strongest categories this year.
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Final.

Best Picture
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Chiwitel Ejiofer, 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks

Best Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl, Rush
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers’ Club

Best Supporting Actress
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Julia Roberts, August, Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska

Best Original Screenplay
Craig Borten & Melisa Walick, Dallas Buyers Club
Joel & Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
Spike Jonze, Her
Bob Nelson, Nebraska
David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer, American Hustle

Best Adapted Screenplay
Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope, Philomena
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, & Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight
Billy Ray, Captain Phillips
John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave
Terrene Winter, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Original Score
Thomas Newman, Saving Mr. Banks
Alex North, All is Lost
Steven Price, Gravity
John Williams, The Book Thief
Hans Zimmer, 12 Years a Slave

Best Original Song
“Amen”, All is Lost
“Atlas”, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
“Let It Go”, Frozen
“Ordinary Love”, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
“Young and Beautiful”, The Great Gatsby

Best Animated Film
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises

Best Foreign-Language Film
The Broken Circle Breakdown [Belgium]
The Great Beauty [Italy]
The Hunt [Denmark]
The Notebook [Hungary]
Omar [Palestine]

Best Cinematography
Sean Bobbitt, 12 Years a Slave
Roger Deakins, Prisoners
Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
Emmanuel Lubeszki, Gravity
Phedon Papamichael, Nebraska

Best Film Editing
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Gravity
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Production Design
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Oz, The Great and Powerful
Saving Mr. Banks
12 Years a Slave

Best Costume Design
American Hustle
The Great Gatsby
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Invisible Woman
12 Years a Slave

Best Makeup
American Hustle
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger

Best Sound Mixing
All is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
12 Years a Slave

Best Sound Effects
All is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Lone Survivor
Pacific Rim

Best Visual Effects
Gravity
Elysium
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
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BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR

American Hustle (Columbia) Megan Ellison, Charles Roven and Jonathan Gordon (producers)

Captain Phillips (Columbia/Sony Pictures) Dana Brunetti, Scott Rudin and Michael De Luca (producers)

Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features) Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter (producers)

Gravity (Warner Bros.) Alfonso Cuaron and David Heyman (producers)

Her (Annapurna Pictures) Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay (producers)

Inside Llewyn Davis (Sony Pictures) Scott Rudin, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (producers)

Nebraska (Paramount Vantage) Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa (producers)

12 Years a Slave (20th Century Fox) Brad Pitt, Steve McQueen and Arnon Milchan (producers)

The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount) Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Riza Aziz (producers).

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Spike Jonze, Her
Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl, Rush
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years A Slave
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years A Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska

BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR THE SCREEN

American Hustle
written by David O. Russell and Eric Singer

Blue Jasmine
written by Woody Allen

Her
written by Spike Jonze

Inside Llewyn Davis
written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Nebraska
written by Bob Nelson

BEST SCREENPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY PRODUCED or PUBLISHED

Before Midnight
screenplay by Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy
based on the characters created by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan.

Captain Phillips
screenplay by Billy Ray
based on the book A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips and Stephan Talty.

Philomena
screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
based on the book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith

12 Years a Slave
screenplay by John Ridley
based on the book by Solomon Northrup

The Wolf of Wall Street
screenplay by Terence Winter
based on the book by Jordan Belfort

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Philippe Le Sourd, The Grandmaster
Emmanuel Lubezki, Gravity
Bruno Delbonnel, Inside Llewyn Davis
Roger Deakins, Prisoners
Sean Bobbitt, 12 Years a Slave

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN

American Hustle
Judy Becker (production design) & Heather Loeffler (set decoration)

Gravity
Andy Nicholson (production design) & Rosie Goodwin (set decoration)

The Great Gatsby
Catherine Martin (production design) & Beverley Dunn (set decoration)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Dan Hennah (production design) & Ra Vincent (set decoration)

12 Years a Slave
Adam Stockhausen (production design) & Alice Baker (set decoration)

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
Jay Cassidy, Alan Baumgarten and Crispin Struthers, American Hustle
Christopher Rouse, Captain Phillips
Alfonso Cuaron and Marc Sanger, Gravity
Joe Walker, 12 Years a Slave
Thelma Schoonmaker, The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE
John Williams, The Book Thief
Steven Price, Gravity
Alexandre Desplat, Philomena
Thomas Newman, Saving Mr. Banks
Hans Zimmer, 12 Years a Slave

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG

"Amen", All Is Lost
music & lyrics by Alex Ebert

"Happy", Despicable Me 2
music & lyrics by Pharrell Williams

"I See Fire", The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
music & lyrics Ed Sheeran

"Let It Go", Frozen
music by Robert Lopez & lyrics by Kristin Anderson-Lopez

"Ordinary Love", Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
music & lyrics by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen Jr.


BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Wilkinson, American Hustle
William Chang, The Grandmaster
Catherine Martin, The Great Gatsby
Trish Summerville, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Patricia Norris, 12 Years A Slave

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
Richard Hymns, Steve Boedekker and Brandon Proctor, All is Lost
Chris Burdon, Mike Prestwood Smith, Mark Taylor and Chris Munro, Captain Phillips
Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Skip Lievsay and Chris Munro, Gravity
Stefan Korte and Martin Steyer, Rush
Shayna Brown, Ryan Collins, Jon Vogl, Leslie Shatz, 12 Years A Slave

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
Richard Hymns, All is Lost
Oliver Tarney, Captain Phillips
Glenn Freemantle, Gravity
Wylie Stateman, Lone Survivor
Frank Kruse, Rush

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
Peter Muyzers, Dan Mayer, Votch Levy and Grady Cofer, Elysium
Tim Webber, Neil Corbould, Chris Lawrence and Dadi Einarrson, Gravity
Joe Letteri, Jeff Capogreco, Matt Aitken and Eric Saindon, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Christopher Townsend, Erik Nash, Matt Aikten and Dan Sudick, Iron Man Three
John Knoll, James E. Price, Clay Pinney and Hal Hickel, Pacific Rim

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP and HAIRSTYLING
Evelyn Noraz, Kathrine Gordon and Trish Seeney, American Hustle
Melanie Deforrest and Kat Percy, Dallas Buyers Club
Tony Gardner and Justin Stafford, Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods (Dreamworks) Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders
Ernest & Celestine (GKids/Studio Canal) Stephan Aubier
Frozen (Disney) Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
Monsters University (PIXAR/Disney) Dan Scanlon
The Wind Rises (Studio Ghibli/Disney) Hayao Miyazaki

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium) Felix von Groeningen, director
The Grandmaster (Hong Kong) Wong Kar-Wai, director
The Great Beauty (Italy) Paolo Sorrentino, director
The Hunt (Denmark) Thomas Vinterberg, director
The Notebook (Hungary) Janos Szasz, director

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing (Final Cut for Real) Joshua Oppenheimer, Christina Cynn and Anonymous
Blackfish (Our Turn Productions) Gabriela Cowperthwaite
The Square (Noujaim Films/Maktube Productions) Jehane Noujaim
Stories We Tell (National Film Board of Canada) Sarah Polley
20 Feet from Stardom (Gil Friesen Productions/Tremolo Productions) Morgan Neville
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Before I do mine, I'm going to ask…

…I'm starting to lean towards Alexander Payne for Nebraska over Paul Greengrass, and Spike Jonze for that matter who seems to be everybody's preferred wild card nominee (he's certainly mine), because Academy screenings of Nebraska have gone fantastically well. He's been nominated twice before and I can't see any reason for them not to nominate him again. They like him and his work. On the one hand, it's not showy, but on the other hand it totally is. It's in black and white after all.

…I have no choice but to chalk up Lee Daniels' The Butler showing at The Screen Actor's Guild Awards to the SAG/AFTRA merger. I really don't think Academy voters are going to vote for Forest Whitaker or Oprah Winfrey. Sally Hawkins just seems more likely to me.

…I want to ask if you think Saving Mr. Banks is done? I haven't seen it yet, but you don't have Emma Thompson down for Best Actress but you also don't have the film down for Production Design or Costume Design. I'm resigned to the fact that Her and Inside Llewyn Davis likely aren't getting Best Production Design nominations and the lineup will likely be The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit, Oz The Great and Powerful, and 12 Years a Slave, which I agree with. You have The Invisible Woman in the fifth spot and also for Best Costume Design along with American Hustle, The Great Gatsby, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and 12 Years a Slave. Isn't Saving Mr. Banks getting in for one of these?

…we do have a musical in contention for Best Picture this year. Inside Llewyn Davis. Doesn't that make it likely for a Best Sound Mixing nomination? You can say that this is different, this is a Coen Brothers film, but their films have been up twice before. Also, wouldn't Lone Survivor factor into both sound categories this year? Especially considering that All is Lost is kind of a dud?
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Since the Best Picture expansion in 2009, every year there has been at least one Best Picture nominee that showed up on nomination morning without picking up a nomination for one of the major guild prizes (PGA, DGA, WGA, SAG Ensemble or BAFTA):

2012: Amour (which was ineligible for WGA)
2011: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Tree of Life (which did have a nod from AFI)
2010: Winter's Bone (which did have a nod from AFI, and was ineligible for WGA)
2009: The Blind Side

It seems like 7 Best Picture nominees this year are pretty set:
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street

In the running for the three possible leftover spots are her, Blue Jasmine, The Butler, Philomena or Saving Mr. Banks, all of which have 1 or 2 guild acknowledgments.

If there is something with no guild love, we could see Inside Llewyn Davis, which has the advantage of a Globe Best Picture nod (which none of the above films did in their respective years).

Or should we be expecting something completely out of the blue? Fruitvale Station, with only an AFI nomination (and a lot of critics debut film prizes) or Golden Globe nominee Rush seem the most likely to me...
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Best Picture

***12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner
American Hustle (Columbia Pictures) Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon, Charles Roven
Captain Phillips (Columbia Pictures) Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin
Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features) Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter
Gravity (Warner Bros.) Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman
Her (Warner Bros.) Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay
Inside Llewyn Davis (CBS Films) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin
Nebraska (Paramount Vantage) Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa
The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount Pictures) Rita Aziz, Emma Kozkoff, Joey McFarland

Best Director

Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
***Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle
Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor

Bruce Dern, Nebraska
***Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Joaquin Phoenix, Her

Best Actress

***Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Daniel Brühl, Rush
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
***Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
***Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Octavia Spencer, Fruitvale Station
June Squibb, Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey, Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Best Original Screenplay

American Hustle – David O. Russell, Eric Singer
Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen
***Her – Spike Jonze
Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Nebraska – Bob Nelson

Best Adapted Screenplay

***12 Years a Slave – John Ridley
Before Midnight – Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater
Captain Phillips – Billy Ray
Philomena – Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
The Wolf of Wall Street – Terence Winter

Best Animated Feature

The Croods (DreamWorks Animation/20th Century Fox) Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders
Despicable Me 2 (Universal Pictures/Illumination Entertainment) Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Frozen (Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Animation Studios) Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Monsters University (Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios) Dan Scanlon
***The Wind Rises (Touchstone Pictures/Studio Ghibli) Hayao Miyazaki

Best Foreign Language Film

The Grandmaster – Hong Kong
The Hunt – Denmark
The Notebook – Hungary
Omar – Palestine
***Two Lives – Germany

Best Film Editing

12 Years a Slave – Joe Walker
American Hustle – Jay Cassidy, Crispin Strothers
Captain Phillips – Christopher Rouse
***Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Sanger
The Wolf of Wall Street – Thelma Schoonmaker

Best Cinematography

12 Years a Slave – Sean Bobbitt
***Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki
Prisoners – Roger Deakins
Rush – Anthony Dod Mantle
To the Wonder – Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Costume Design

12 Years a Slave – Patricia Norris
American Hustle – Michael Wilkinson
***The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Trish Summerville
The Invisible Woman – Michael O’Connor

Best Art Direction

12 Years a Slave – Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker
***The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin, Beverly Dunn
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Dan Hennah, Ra Vincent
The Invisible Woman – Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
Oz the Great and Powerful – Robert Stromberg, Nancy Haigh

Best Makeup

***American Hustle
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger

Best Sound Mixing

12 Years a Slave
All is Lost
Captain Phillips
***Gravity
Rush

Best Sound Editing

All is Lost
***Gravity
Lone Survivor
Pacific Rim
Rush

Best Visual Effects

***Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
World War Z

Best Original Score

***12 Years a Slave – Hans Zimmer
The Book Thief – John Williams
Gravity – Steven Price
Rush – Hans Zimmer
Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman

Best Original Song

***“Let it Go” from Frozen
“I See Fire” from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
“The Moon Song” from Her
“So You Know What It’s Like” from Short Term 12
“Young and Beautiful” from The Great Gatsby

Best Documentary Feature

20 Feet from Stardom (RADiUS-TWC) Morgan Neville
***The Act of Killing (Drafthouse Films) Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous
Blackfish (CNN Films) Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Stories We Tell (Roadside Attractions) Sarah Polley
The Square (Netflix/Participant Media) Jehane Noujaim
"Young men make wars and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution." -- Alec Guinness (Lawrence of Arabia)
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