86th Academy Award Predictions (WHO WILL WIN)
by tjsawatzky8 | created - 24 Feb 2014 | updated - 24 Feb 2014 | PublicTHE MAIN CATEGORIES FOR THE AWARDS WILL BE LISTED BELOW
1. Steve McQueen
Director | 12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen was born on October 9, 1969 in London, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for 12 Years a Slave (2013), Shame (2011) and Hunger (2008). He is married to Bianca Stigter. They have two children.
(BEST PICTURE) 12 Years A Slave - McQueen will take home the biggest prize of the night
2. Matthew McConaughey
Actor | Interstellar
American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is ...
(BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE) Dallas Buyers Clube - McConaughey will take home the lead actor award for his powerful performace in Dallas Buyers Club
3. Cate Blanchett
Actress | Carol
Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...
(BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE) Blue Jasmine - Cate plays her character so well it is unbelievable and breathtaking. She will take it home.
4. Jared Leto
Actor | Dallas Buyers Club
Jared Leto is a very familiar face in recent film history. Although he has always been the lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter for American band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto is an accomplished actor merited by the numerous, challenging projects he has taken in his life. He is known to be ...
(BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE) Dallas Buyers Club - He. Was. Incredible. So much dedication and attention to detail for his character, which will pay off with him winning the supporting male actor award.
5. Lupita Nyong'o
Actress | 12 Years a Slave
Lupita Amondi Nyong'o was born March 1, 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico, to Kenyan parents, Dorothy Ogada Buyu and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o. Her father, a senator, was then a visiting lecturer in political science. She was raised in Kenya. At age 16, her parents sent her back to Mexico for seven months to...
(BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE) 12 Years A Slave - Incredible performance by such a young and talented actress. Just graduated from Yale and already nominated for an Oscar. Such a powerful and steller perfromance. This is not the last time we will see Lupita Nyong'o at the Oscars.
6. Alfonso Cuarón
Producer | Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...
(BEST DIRECTOR) Gravity - the movie Gravity (enough said)
7. Spike Jonze
Producer | Her
Spike Jonze made up one-third (along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman) of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These three uncommon characters were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the ...
(BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) - Her - Spike Jonze's fresh take on a love story will earn him the Oscar for best original screenplay. Truly a breath of fresh air in typical Hollywood romance movies. Incredible story.
8. John Ridley
Producer | 12 Years a Slave
John Ridley is the author of seven published novels, the most recent, What Fire Cannot Burn from Warner Books and The Drift from Knopf. His first novel, Stray Dogs, was made into the feature film U Turn (1997) directed by Oliver Stone and starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, and Nick Nolte. ...
(BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) - 12 Years A Slave - a beautiful and powerful story. A great movie begins with a great screenplay and thats just what Mr. Ridley gave Steve McQueen. And McQueen delievered on his end and so did Ridley.
9. Chris Buck
Director | Frozen
Chris Buck is an animation film director from Wichita, Kansas. He directed the Disney animated films Tarzan, Frozen, Frozen Fever and Frozen II and Sony Pictures Animation's Surf's Up. He was a supervising animator for Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins for Pocahontas. He won Best Animated ...
(BEST ANIMATED FEATURE) - FROZEN - A beautiful story with truly amazing characters.
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