Oscar: 2015 Oscar Predictions – Post Cannes

Oscar: 2015 Oscar Predictions – Post Cannes

Now that two of the most important film festivals have completed it’s time for us to examine which films are looking strong for the Oscar season.

We have fully updated all of our predictions, click on the Oscar tab to see all predicted nominees, alternates, and dark horses.

What did we learn from Cannes? It may not have taken home the Palme, but “Foxcatcher” now looks like our front-runner for many Oscars. The films stands at an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, so even though it is topping most of our lists it seems highly unlikely that it will be a major winner at the end of 2014.

Many festival attendees said that “Foxcatcher” was divisive, yielding comparisons to “The Master” which had a solid critical reception to most, but not everyone took the bait. Taking the “Best Director” prize at Cannes also puts Bennett Miller in a better spot than any other potential.

You can never count our a Palme winner, even if it is a foreign film. “Winter Sleep” could also show up outside the “Foreign Film” category and contend in Screenplay, Director, or even Picture. It’s hard to picture it’ll have the same success as the 2012 Palme Winner “Amour,” but we shouldn’t count it out.

“Mr. Turner” could also be big. Timothy Spall easily won the Cannes “Best Actor” award and the film currently holds a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with 17 reviews. It could also likely storm the technical categories, such as Costumes, Makeup, Cinematography, and Production Design.

Along with Spall, we shouldn’t count out Julianne Moore, even with the poor reviews “Map to the Stars” has been receiving. The “Best Actress” category doesn’t look too strong this year, so it’s likely, with enough advertisement, that Moore could land in that category. It’s unlikely, but for now she’s there.

So here are our full predictions:

Best Picture
Big Eyes
Birdman
Foxcatcher
Get On Up
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Interstellar
Whiplash

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Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice
Tim Burton, Big Eyes
Angelina Jolie, Unbroken
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Christopher Nolan, Interstellar

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Best Actor
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice
Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner
Christoph Waltz, Big Eyes

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Best Actress
Amy Adams, Big Eyes
Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
Marion Cotillard, MacBeth
Julianne Moore, Map to the Stars
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

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Supporting Actor
Garrett Hedlund, Unbroken
Logan Lerman, Fury
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher

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Supporting Actress
Viola Davis, Get On Up
Laura Dern, Wild
Jena Malone, Inherent Vice
Krysten Ritter, Big Eyes
Reese Witherspoon, Inherent Vice

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Adapted Screenplay
Foxcatcher
Inherent Vice
Unbroken
Whiplash
Wild

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Original Screenplay
Big Eyes
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mr. Turner

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Production Design
Big Eyes
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Mr. Turner
Unbroken

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Cinematography
Big Eyes
Birdman
Gone Girl
Interstellar
Unbroken