BEST Motion PICTURE of the year
American Hustle Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon, Producers — My inner 15-year-old boy wants me to point out that one of the producers of American Hustle is named Richard Suckle. Captain Phillips Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers Dallas Buyers Club Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers
Gravity Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers
— Okay, so maybe this is the only one of these nominees that I’ve seen. And maybe that’s why I’m picking it. Maybe the sun is going to explode tomorrow. Who knows? All I’m saying is that watching this movie was like being a passenger on a two-hour car ride with a person who has a lead foot. You’re stomping the floor where there is no brake pedal, gripping the door and the armrest with white knuckles, waiting for the crash. That’s some next level shit. I also think that maybe George Clooney was just at the studio the day they began filming and they were like, “Hey, you wanna be in this movie?” and he was like, “Yeah. Can I be George Clooney?” Sandra Bullock nailed it though. Nailed. It. Her Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers Nebraska Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers Philomena Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward, Producers 12 Years A Slave Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers The Wolf Of Wall Street Nominees to be determined
Performance by an Act or in a Leading Role
Christian Bale AMERICAN HUSTLE Bruce Dern NEBRASKA
Leonardo DiCaprio THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
— After last year, I really think the Academy owes Leo a supersolid. His performance in DJANGO was unparalleled. I like to imagine the Academy all shitfaced one night at a bar in Beverly Hills shouting, “Where’s Arnie?” while they filled out their ballots. But really, it’s not about it being his turn. Leo has really stepped out of his comfort zone. He’s making excellent career moves and giving Oscar-worthy performances. Plus, his mom is gonna be PISSED if he gets passed up this time. Chiwetel Ejiofor 12 YEARS A SLAVE Matthew McConaughey DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Barkhad Abdi CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Bradley Cooper AMERICAN HUSTLE Michael Fassbender 12 YEARS A SLAVE Jonah Hill THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Jared Leto DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
— Jared Leto’s mom is hot. That said, he’s kinda been sweeping this awards season. Let’s face it, drag works for him. He looks kinda like his mom in the movie. And it all comes full circle.
PERFORMANCE BY AN Actress in a Leading Role
Amy Adams AMERICAN HUSTLE Cate Blanchett BLUE JASMINE
Sandra Bullock GRAVITY
— As I said earlier, Sandra Bullock nailed this role. She totally made me never want to go to space. The scene with the dog over the radio made me fall madly in love with her. She’s kinda been owning the whole movie thing since the dawn of time and somehow looks better now than ever before. She’s the kind of woman I’d like to work with and then sit down and drink a couple pitchers of beer. And then run off into the night with her Oscar. Judi Dench PHILOMENA Meryl Streep AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
PERFORMANCE BY AN Actress in a Supporting Role
Sally Hawkins BLUE JASMINE Jennifer Lawrence AMERICAN HUSTLE
Lupita Nyong’o 12 YEARS A SLAVE
— Don’t get me wrong, I love Jennifer Lawrence as much as everyone else in the world. I’m a little annoyed by how likable she is, actually. And while I’m sure she’ll win the night in terms of looking adorable, being charming, getting hit on by Jack Nicholson, and saying something candid and hilarious, I’m pretty sure Lupita Nyong’o is going to go home with the little golden man. Julia Roberts AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY June Squibb NEBRASKA
BEST Animated Feature Film OF THE YEAR
THE CROODS Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson
— All of my co-workers have seen this movie. They all cried and called their fathers afterward. So there you have it. DESPICABLE ME 2 Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri ERNEST & CELESTINE Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner FROZEN Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho THE WIND RISES Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE GRANDMASTER Philippe Le Sourd
GRAVITY Emmanuel Lubezki
— I’ve never been to space, per say, but let’s just say I felt like I was there. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Bruno Delbonnel Nebraska Phedon Papamichael PRISONERS Roger A. Deakins
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
AMERICAN HUSTLE Michael Wilkinson
— Everyone looked so groovy and stylish in the previews. THE GRANDMASTER William Chang Suk Ping THE GREAT GATSBY Catherine Martin THE INVISIBLE WOMAN Michael O’Connor 12 YEARS A SLAVE Patricia Norris
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
AMERICAN HUSTLE David O. Russell
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón
— I swear I’m not picking this over and over again because it’s the only one I’ve seen. NEBRASKA Alexander Payne 12 YEARS A SLAVE Steve McQueen THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Martin Scorsese
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
THE ACT OF KILLING Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
— Yeah, I have no clue. Not even an inkling. But that shit looks crazy, right? CUTIE AND THE BOXER Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher DIRTY WARS Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill THE SQUARE Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer 20 FEET FROM STARDOM Nominees to be determined
BEST Documentary Short Subject
CAVEDIGGER Jeffrey Karoff
— Again, I haven’t the foggiest. FACING FEAR Jason Cohen KARAMA HAS NO WALLS Sara Ishaq THE LADY IN NUMBER 6: MUSIC SAVED MY LIFE Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed PRISON TERMINAL: THE LAST DAYS OF PRIVATE JACK HALL Edgar Barens
ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
AMERICAN HUSTLE Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Christopher Rouse DALLAS BUYERS CLUB John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
— What? WHAT?! 12 YEARS A SLAVE Joe Walker
BEST Foreign Language Film OF THE YEAR
BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN Belgium THE GREAT BEAUTY Italy
THE HUNT Denmark
— A guy I know saw this and loved it. THE MISSING PICTURE Cambodia OMAR Palestine
ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP and hairstyling
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
— My mom will be really upset that I didn’t pick The Lone Ranger, but Johnny Depp kinda looks like that all the time. JACKASS PRESENTS : BAD GRANDPA Stephen Prouty THE LONE RANGER Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny
ACHIEVEMENT IN Music WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (Original Score)
THE BOOK THIEF John Williams
GRAVITY Steven Price
— I’ve been in a long-term relationship with scores for like 20 years. Movies just wouldn’t be the same without them. There are three others in this category that I am intimately familiar with. Steven Price is not someone whose work I don’t know well. I feel like he did strong work for Gravity. HER William Butler and Owen Pallett PHILOMENA Alexandre Desplat SAVING MR. BANKS Thomas Newman
ACHIEVEMENT IN Music WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (Original Song)
Alone Yet Not Alone ALONE YET NOT ALONE Music by Bruce Broughton Lyric by Dennis Spiegel Happy DESPICABLE ME 2 Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams Let It Go FROZEN Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
The Moon Song HER Music by Karen O Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze
— This is the only song out of these that I’ve heard and I like it a lot. Bam. Ordinary Love MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Lyric by Paul Hewson
ACHIEVEMENT IN Production Design
AMERICAN HUSTLE Production Design: Judy Becker Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler
— I didn’t pick Gravity! Jennifer Lawrence is psyched. GRAVITY Production Design: Andy Nicholson Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard THE GREAT GATSBY Production Design: Catherine Martin Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn HER Production Design: K.K. Barrett Set Decoration: Gene Serdena 12 YEARS A SLAVE Production Design: Adam Stockhausen Set Decoration: Alice Baker
BEST ANIMATED Short Film
FERAL Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden
— I never seen any of these. This one sounds interesting. GET A HORSE! Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim MR. HUBLOT Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares POSSESSIONS Shuhei Morita ROOM ON THE BROOM Max Lang and Jan Lachauer
BEST Live Action Short Film
AQUEL NO ERA YO (THAT WASN’T ME) Esteban Crespo AVANT QUE DE TOUT PERDRE (JUST BEFORE LOSING EVERYTHING) Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras HELIUM Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
PITÄÄKÖ MUN KAIKKI HOITAA? (DO I HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING?) Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari
— No idea, but I can totally relate. THE VOORM AN PROBLEM Mark Gill and Baldwin Li
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
ALL IS LOST Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Oliver Tarney
GRAVITY Glenn Freemantle
— Probably. THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Brent Burge LONE SURVIVOR Wylie Stateman
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
GRAVITY Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
— Maybe they should call it The Gravity Awards this year. THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland LONE SURVIVOR Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow
ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
GRAVITY Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds IRON MAN 3 Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick THE LONE RANGER Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton
— I own this and I still haven’t seen it. Gravity will probably win this too, but I feel this is becoming redundant.
Adapted Screenplay
BEFORE MIDNIGHT Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Screenplay by Billy Ray PHILOMENA Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope 12 YEARS A SLAVE Screenplay by John Ridley
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Screenplay by Terence Winter
— Guys, I’m just closing my eyes and pointing.
Original Screenplay
AMERICAN HUSTLE Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell BLUE JASMINE Written by Woody Allen DALLAS BUYERS CLUB Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
HER Written by Spike Jonze
— I think this is a brilliant concept. And it’s not that far-fetched. NEBRASKA Written by Bob Nelson
Ms. Silver Screen 