OSCARS 2014: Nominee Predictions

By Chris Luckett

This year’s Oscar nominations are being announced tomorrow morning. In the wake of surprise wins and snubs at Sunday’s Golden Globes, you’d be forgiven for thinking the Academy Awards will line up, but for two factors.

Firstly, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (which awards the Golden Globes) has no overlap with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (which awards the Oscars). Secondly, the nomination ballots for the Academy Awards were already sent in weeks ago, so there’s no opportunity for Sunday’s wins to affect the Oscars – at least, as far as nominations go.

Still, with 2013 being the relatively weak year that it was, there is a limited pool from which to nominate movies, so a lot of the same movies will be in contention. Here’s how we at The Apple Box see tomorrow’s announcement going.

BEST PICTURE

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ACTOR

Bruce Dern (Nebraska)

Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

Robert Redford (All is Lost)

Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips)

Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

BEST ACTRESS

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

Judi Dench (Philomena)

Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)

Daniel Brühl (Rush)

Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)

Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)

Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)

June Squibb (Nebraska)

Oprah Winfrey (The Butler)

BEST DIRECTOR

Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips)

Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

David O. Russell (American Hustle)

Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

American Hustle

Blue Jasmine

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

12 Years a Slave

Before Midnight

Captain Phillips

Philomena

The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

The Croods

Despicable Me 2

Frozen

Monsters University

The Wind Rises

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

12 Years a Slave

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Inside Llewyn Davis

Prisoners

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

The Great Gatsby

Inside Llewyn Davis

Saving Mr. Banks

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

20 Feet from Stardom

The Act of Killing

Blackfish

Stories We Tell

Tim’s Vermeer

BEST EDITING

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Rush

The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST FOREIGN-LANGAUGE FEATURE

The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)

The Great Beauty (Italy)

The Hunt (Denmark)

The Notebook (Hungary)

Omar (Palestine)

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

American Hustle

Bad Grandpa

Dallas Buyers Club

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

12 Years a Slave

All is Lost

The Book Thief

Gravity

Saving Mr. Banks

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Let it Go” (Frozen)

“Ordinary Love” (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

“Sweeter Than Fiction” (One Chance)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

The Great Gatsby

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Saving Mr. Banks

BEST SHORT (ANIMATED)

Feral

The Missing Horse

Get a Horse!

Mr. Hublot

Subconscious Password

BEST SHORT (DOCUMENTARY)

CaveDigger

Facing Fear

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

Recollections

SLOMO

BEST SHORT (LIVE-ACTION)

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)

Dva (Two)

Helium

Record/Play

Tiger Boy

BEST SOUND EDITING

All is Lost

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Iron Man 3

Rush

BEST SOUND MIXING

12 Years a Slave

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Inside Llewyn Davis

Rush

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Iron Man 3

Pacific Rim

Star Trek Into Darkness