Jimmy's Oscar Pool
Welcome back to Oscarama! You already know how this works, so just get to it. I bet you can already smell the Raisinets.
For the process junkies, here's a list of the categories by weight:
10 pts. - Picture
5 pts. - Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay
3 pts. - Animated Feature, Foreign Film, Production Design, Costume Design, Original Song, Original Score, Documentary (Feature Length), Cinematography
1 pt. - Documentary Short, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, Short Film (Animated), Short Film (Live Action)
And the nominees are ...
Best Picture
American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
The Imitation Game
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash
Best Director
Richard Linklater
for
Boyhood
Alejandro González Iñárritu
for
Birdman
Bennett Miller
for
Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson
for
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Morten Tyldum
for
The Imitation Game
Best Actor
Steve Carell
for
Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch
for
The Imitation Game
Bradley Cooper
for
American Sniper
Michael Keaton
for
Birdman
Eddie Redmayne
for
The Theory of Everything
Best Actress
Marion Cotillard
for
Two Days, One Night
Felicity Jones
for
The Theory of Everything
Rosamund Pike
for
Gone Girl
Julianne Moore
for
Still Alice
Reese Witherspoon
for
Wild
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall
for
The Judge
Ethan Hawke
for
Boyhood
Edward Norton
for
Birdman
Mark Ruffalo
for
Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons
for
Whiplash
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette
for
Boyhood
Laura Dern
for
Wild
Keira Knightley
for
The Imitation Game
Emma Stone
for
Birdman
Meryl Streep
for
Into the Woods
Best Original Screenplay
Boyhood
:
Richard Linklater
Birdman
:
Alejandro González Iñárritu
,
Nicolás Giacobone
,
Alexander Dinelaris
,
Armando Bo
Foxcatcher
:
E. Max Frye
,
Dan Futterman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
:
Wes Anderson
,
Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler
:
Dan Gilroy
Best Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper
:
Jason Hall
Inherent Vice
:
Paul Thomas Anderson
The Imitation Game
:
Graham Moore
The Theory of Everything
:
Anthony McCarten
Whiplash
:
Damien Chazelle
Best Animated Feature Film
The Boxtrolls
Big Hero 6
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Best Foreign Language Film
Tangerines
:
Zaza Urushadze
Ida
:
Pawel Pawlikowski
Leviathan
:
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Wild Tales
:
Damián Szifrón
Timbuktu
:
Abderrahmane Sissako
Cinematography
Birdman
:
Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel
:
Robert D. Yeoman
Ida
:
Lukasz Zal
,
Ryszard Lenczewski
Mr. Turner
:
Dick Pope
Unbroken
:
Roger Deakins
Editing
Boyhood
:
Sandra Adair
The Imitation Game
:
William Goldenberg
The Grand Budapest Hotel
:
Barney Pilling
Whiplash
:
Tom Cross
American Sniper
:
Joel Cox
,
Gary Roach
Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel
:
Adam Stockhausen
,
Anna Pinnock
The Imitation Game
:
Maria Djurkovic
,
Tatiana Macdonald
Interstellar
:
Nathan Crowley
,
Gary Fettis
Into the Woods
:
Dennis Gassner
,
Anna Pinnock
Mr. Turner
:
Suzie Davies
,
Charlotte Watts
Costume Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel
:
Milena Canonero
Inherent Vice
:
Mark Bridges
Into the Woods
:
Colleen Atwood
Maleficent
:
Anna B. Sheppard
Mr. Turner
:
Jacqueline Durran
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Foxcatcher
:
Bill Corso
,
Dennis Liddiard
The Grand Budapest Hotel
:
Frances Hannon
,
Mark Coulier
Guardians of the Galaxy
:
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou
,
David White
Original Score
The Imitation Game
:
Alexandre Desplat
The Grand Budapest Hotel
:
Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar
:
Hans Zimmer
The Theory of Everything
:
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Mr. Turner
:
Gary Yershon
Original Song
Selma
:
Common
,
John Legend
(
Glory
)
Begin Again
:
Gregg Alexander
,
Danielle Brisebois
(
Lost Stars
)
The Lego Movie
:
Shawn Patterson
(
Everything is Awesome
)
Beyond the Lights
:
Diane Warren
(
Grateful
)
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
:
Glen Campbell
,
Julian Raymond
(
I'm Not Going to Miss You
Best Sound Mixing
American Sniper
:
John T. Reitz
,
Gregg Rudloff
,
Walt Martin
Birdman
:
Jon Taylor
,
Frank A. Montaño
,
Thomas Varga
Interstellar
:
Gary Rizzo
,
Gregg Landaker
,
Mark Weingarten
Unbroken
:
Jon Taylor
,
Frank A. Montaño
,
David Lee
Whiplash
:
Craig Mann
,
Ben Wilkins
,
Thomas Curley
Best Sound Editing
American Sniper
:
Alan Robert Murray
,
Bub Asman
Birdman
:
Aaron Glascock
,
Martín Hernández
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
:
Brent Burge
,
Jason Canovas
Interstellar
:
Richard King
Unbroken
:
Becky Sullivan
,
Andrew DeCristofaro
Best Visual Effects
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
:
Dan Deleeuw
,
Russell Earl
,
Bryan Grill
,
Daniel Sudick
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
:
Joe Letteri
,
Dan Lemmon
,
Daniel Barrett
,
Erik Winquist
Guardians of the Galaxy
:
Stephane Ceretti
,
Nicolas Aithadi
,
Jonathan Fawkner
,
Paul Corbould
Interstellar
:
Paul J. Franklin
,
Andrew Lockley
,
Ian Hunter
,
Scott R. Fisher
X-Men: Days of Future Past
:
Richard Stammers
,
Lou Pecora
,
Tim Crosbie
,
Cameron Waldbauer
Best Documentary Feature
Citizenfour
:
Laura Poitras
,
Mathilde Bonnefoy
,
Dirk Wilutzky
Finding Vivian Maier
:
John Maloof
,
Charlie Siskel
Last Days in Vietnam
:
Rory Kennedy
,
Keven McAlester
The Salt of the Earth
:
Wim Wenders
,
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
,
David Rosier
Virunga
:
Orlando von Einsiedel
,
Joanna Natasegara
Best Documentary Short
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
:
Ellen Goosenberg Kent
,
Dana Perry
Joanna
:
Aneta Kopacz
Our Curse
:
Tomasz Sliwinski
,
Maciej Slesicki
The Reaper
:
Gabriel Serra
White Earth
:
Christian Jensen
Best Animated Short
The Bigger Picture
:
Daisy Jacobs
,
Chris Hees
The Dam Keeper
:
Robert Kondo
,
Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi
Feast
:
Patrick Osborne
,
Kristina Reed
Me and My Moulton
:
Torill Kove
A Single Life
:
Joris Oprins
Best Live Action Short
Aya
:
Oded Binnun
,
Mihal Brezis
Boogaloo and Graham
:
Michael Lennox
,
Ronan Blaney
Butter Lamp
:
Wei Hu
,
Julien Féret
Parvaneh
:
Talkhon Hamzavi
,
Stefan Eichenberger
The Phone Call
:
Mat Kirkby
,
James Lucas
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