Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Film - Drama: The Imitation Game
Film - Comedy/Musical: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Actor - Drama: Benedict Cumberbatch
Actress - Drama: Julianne Moore
Actor - Comedy/Musical: Ralph Fiennes
Actress - Comedy/Musical: Emily Blunt
Supporting Actor: JK Simmons
Supporting Actress: Keira Knightley
Director: Richard Linklater
Screenplay: Gone Girl
Score: Birdman
Song: "Glory"
Foreign Film: Ida
Animated Film: Big Hero 6

Film - Drama: Selma
Film - Comedy/Musical: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Actor - Drama: Eddie Redmayne
Actress - Drama: Julianne Moore
Actor - Comedy/Musical: Ralph Fiennes
Actress - Comedy/Musical: Emily Blunt
Supporting Actor: JK Simmons
Supporting Actress: Emma Stone
Director: Richard Linklater
Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Score: Birdman
Song: "Glory"
Foreign Film: Ida
Animated Film: The Lego Movie

Film - Drama: Selma (don't feel too confident, but like Tee says, Boyhood doesn't really feel like the type of movie they give the big prize to)
Film - Comedy/Musical: Birdman
Actor - Drama: Benedict Cumberbatch
Actress - Drama: Julianne Moore
Actor - Comedy/Musical: Michael Keaton
Actress - Comedy/Musical: Emily Blunt
Supporting Actor: JK Simmons
Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette
Director: Richard Linklater
Screenplay: The Imitation Game
Score: Birdman
Song: "Glory"
Foreign Film: Ida
Animated Film: The Lego Movie

I have multiple dilemmas here:

1) The past several years have convinced me the only way to win here is to go suicide on all choices -- the points you lose for hedging your bets seem to invariably outweigh the gains you make for a good second-place pick. But this is a year where I feel less than confident about several categories.

2) Boyhood seems to me not a Globes pick (as Hurt Locker wasn't). The Imitation Game seems very much a Globes pick. However...Tyldum isn't nominated for best director, and that's more crucial than you might guess. I went back 50 years, and found literally only one best film-drama -- Scent of a Woman -- whose director was not a nominee.

3) Most of you have probably heard that HFPA's web site earlier today showed Selma and Into the Woods as winners for film-drama and film-musical/comedy. This recalls the inadvertent post of Anne Hathaway for Rachel Getting Married in 2008, which turned out just an innocent mistake. Because it was two films this time -- and two plausible winners, given Globe taste -- I'm not finding it as easy to dismiss them as possible accidental leak.

All that exhaustively said, my with-no-backup choices:

Film-Drama: Selma
Film-Musical/Comedy: Birdman
Actor-Drama: Eddie Redmayne
Actor-Musical/Comedy: Michael Keaton
Actress-Drama: Julianne Moore
Actress-Musical/Comedy: Emily Blunt
Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons
Supporting Actress: Emma Stone (ru: Patricia Arquette)
(if not, Simmons/Arquette are Waltz/M'onique, and we may almost never have a truly competitive supporting race again)
Director: Alejandro G. Innaritu
Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Foreign Film: Ida
Animated Feature: The Lego Movie
Song: "Glory"
Score: The Imitation Game

PICTURE DRAMA: Boyhood
PICTURE COMEDY: Birdman (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
PICTURE ANIMATED: The LEGO Movie
DIRECTOR: Richard Linklater
ACTOR DRAMA: Benedict Cumberbatch
ACTRESS DRAMA: Julianne Moore
ACTOR COMEDY: Michael Keaton
ACTRESS COMEDY: Emily Blunt
SUPPORTING ACTOR: J.K. Simmons
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette
SCREENPLAY: Birdman
SONG: Glory
SCORE: Birdman
FOREIGN FILM: Ida

PICTURE DRAMA: The Imitation Game
PICTURE COMEDY: The Grand Budapest Hotel
PICTURE ANIMATED: The LEGO Movie (Big Hero 6)
DIRECTOR: Richard Linklater
ACTOR DRAMA: Benedict Cumberbatch (Steve Carell)
ACTRESS DRAMA: Julianne Moore
ACTOR COMEDY: Michael Keaton
ACTRESS COMEDY: Emily Blunt
SUPPORTING ACTOR: J.K. Simmons (Robert Duvall)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Emma Stone
SCREENPLAY: Birdman (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
SONG: Glory
SCORE: Birdman
FOREIGN FILM: Ida (Force Majeure)

PICTURE DRAMA: The Imitation Game
ACTRESS DRAMA: Julianne Moore
ACTOR DRAMA: Benedict Cumberbatch
PICTURE COMEDY: The Grand Budapest Hotel
ACTRESS COMEDY: Emily Blunt
ACTOR COMEDY: Michael Keaton
ANIMATED FEATURE: The Lego Movie
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Leviathan
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette
SUPPORTING ACTOR; J.K. Simmons
DIRECTOR: Richard Linklater
SCREENPLAY: The Grand Budapest Hotel
SCORE: The Imitation Game
SONG: Glory

Picture (Drama) - Boyhood
Picture (Comedy/Musical) - Birdman
Director - Richard Linklater
Actor (Drama) - Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor (Comedy/Musical) - Michael Keaton
Actress (Drama) - Julianne Moore
Actress (Comedy/Musical) - Emily Blunt
Supporting Actor - J.K. Simmons
Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette
Screenplay - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Foreign Language Film - Ida
Animated Feature - The LEGO Movie
Original Song - "Glory"
Original Score - Birdman

Best Dramatic Film - Boyhood
Best Comedy/Musical Film - Birdman
Best Foreign Language Film - Ida
Best Animated Film - The Lego Movie
Best Director - Richard Linklater (Innaritu)
Best Dramatic Actor - Eddie Redmayne (Benedict Cumberbatch)
Best Dramatic Actress - Julianne Moore
Best Comedy/Musical Actor - Michael Keaton
Best Comedy/Musical Actress - Emily Blunt
Best Supporting Actor - J.K. Simmons
Best Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette (Emma Stone)
Best Screenplay - The Grand Budapest Hotel (Birdman)
Best Original Score - The Imitation Game
Best Original Song - "Glory", Selma

Best Picture, Drama - Selma
Best Picture, Comedy/Musical - Birdman
Best Picture, Animated - The Lego Movie
Best Director - Ava DuVernay
Best Actor, Drama - David Oyelowo
Best Actress, Drama - Julianne Moore
Best Actor, Comedy/Musical - Michael Keaton
Best Actress, Comedy/Musical - Emily Blunt
Best Supporting Actor - J. K. Simmons
Best Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette
Best Screenplay - Birdman
Best Original Score - The Imitation Game
Best Song - "Glory"
Best Froeign Language Film - Ida

Best Picture, Drama - Boyhood, The Imitation Game
Best Picture, Comedy/Musical - Birdman
Best Picture, Animated - The Lego Movie
Best Director - Richard Linklater, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Best Actor, Drama - Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne
Best Actress, Drama - Julianne Moore
Best Actor, Comedy/Musical - Michael Keaton
Best Actress, Comedy/Musical - Emily Blunt
Best Supporting Actor - J.K. Simmons
Best Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette, Keira Knighley
Best Screenplay - Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Original Score - Birdman, The Imitation Game
Best Original Song - "Glory", Selma
Best Foreign Language Film - Ida

BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Boyhood

BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL or COMEDY
Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
(RU: Eddie Redmayne)

BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Julianne Moore, Still Alice

BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL or COMEDY
Michael Keaton, Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL or COMEDY
Emily Blunt, Into the Woods

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
(RU: Emma Stone)

BEST DIRECTOR FOR A MOTION PICTURE
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
(RU: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu)

BEST SCREENPLAY FOR A MOTION PICTURE
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
(RU: Boyhood)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A MOTION PICTURE
Antonio Sanchez, Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG FOR A MOTION PICTURE
"Glory", Selma

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Ida (Poland)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The LEGO Movie
(RU: How to Train Your Dragon 2)

Best Motion Picture - Drama
"Boyhood"

Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
"Birdman"
ru: "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Benedict Cumberbatch, "The Imitation Game"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Julianne Moore, "Still Alice"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Emily Blunt, "Into the Woods"


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Michael Keaton, "Birdman"
ru: Ralph Fiennes, "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Patricia Arquette, "Boyhood"

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash"

Best Director - Motion Picture
Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"
ru: Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman"

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
"Birdman"
ru: "Boyhood"

Best Animated Feature Film
"The LEGO Movie"

Best Foreign Language Film
"Ida" - Poland

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"Big Eyes"
ru: "Mercy Is"

Best Original Score - Motion Picture
"Birdman"

Best Motion Picture - Drama
"Boyhood"
ru: "Selma"

Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
"Birdman"
ru: "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Steve Carell, "Foxcatcher"
ru: Eddie Redmayne, "The Theory of Everything"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Julianne Moore, "Still Alice"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Emily Blunt, "Into the Woods"


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Michael Keaton, "Birdman"

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Patricia Arquette, "Boyhood"

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash"

Best Director - Motion Picture
Alejandro González Iñárritu, "Birdman"
ru: Richard Linklater, "Boyhood"

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
"Boyhood"
ru: "Birdman"

Best Animated Feature Film
"The LEGO Movie"
ru: "Big Hero 6"

Best Foreign Language Film
"Ida" - Poland


Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"Big Eyes" - "Big Eyes" - Music and Lyrics by: Lana Del Rey
ru:"Glory" - "Selma" - Music and Lyrics by: John Legend, Common

Best Original Score - Motion Picture
"Birdman"
ru: "Interstellar"

What the hell. Let's do it again!

You know the rules but to refresh your memory:

1. Pick a winner and an optional runner-up in all the FILM categories.

2. A correct prediction with a runner-up earns 2 points.

3. A correct runner-up prediction earns 1 point.

4. A correct prediction without a runner-up earns 3 points.

5. Most accumulated points win.

6. Deadline is the moment Tina and Amy hit the stage and start their opening monologue.