AwardsWatch - 2015 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS – Julianne Moore (Still Alice) Gets a Perfect Score

2015 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS – Julianne Moore (Still Alice) Gets a Perfect Score

When you’re a lock, you’re a lock. Julianne Moore (Still Alice) now has a perfect score of 50 with the Gold Rush Gang, meaning all 10 of us have her at the #1 spot. And rightfully so, the stars have aligned in a way that they rarely do with the Oscars. Combining timing, overdue factor and exceptionally strong reviews Sony Pictures Classics is going to have two Best Actress winners in a row. And with Kristen Stewart getting ‘best of career’ notices herself, Moore could easily pull her into Supporting Actress, but more on that tomorrow.

Reese Witherspoon (Wild) and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) flip-flop for 2nd place again, this time with Witherspoon coming out on top as Pike’s supernova status falls back down to Earth, just as the film and its director (David Fincher) have also done this month.

The one to watch out for is Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything). She moves up 7 points, ahead of Amy Adams to land in 4th. Poor Amy Adams (Big Eyes). It wasn’t but a few months ago that she held Moore’s status as the overdue actress but since then disastrous screenings, word of Harvey Scissorhands cutting the film to shreds and poor marketing are dooming her chances at even a nomination now. When you consider that Meryl Streep (Into the Woods) and Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year) are both up in the air in terms of category placement, either or both landing here could end Adams’ shot before it even starts.

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.