Thursday, January 15, 2015

Last minute Oscar nomination predictions

I never find time for this blog, I've been planning to write a recap on how I did with the Golden Globe nomination predictions, and which ones surprise me and so forth, and another article I've been planning for ages, but I don't come around.

Meanwhile the Golden Globes have been given out, but I still will comment on the outcome later, together with the outcome of today then.

Because today is Oscar nomination "morning" (well, it will be afternoon where I live, hence the quotation marks.

Predicting the winners would be easy in the six categories I really care to think about. There is really only one real question mark, which is Best Actor. I can perceive both Michael Keaton and Eddie Redmayne as the most likely winner.
This year's Golden Globe winners for Best Actor - Comedy/Musical and Best Actor - Drama (pictured above) both seem to have a really good shot at the Oscar.

Predicting the nominees seems a lot tougher, at least if you don't want to go with the most likely and unimaginative lineups by default for the acting categories. I hate to go with these, though it seems between 1-3 of them always turn out like this in the end.

So without anymore rambling, here are my predictions. I will honour my guesses who will and won't translate to the Oscars that I included in my Globe predictions, though in some cases I think otherwise. I will add a small note when that's the case.