2015 Oscars: The Gold Rush Gang’s 87th Academy Award Winner Predictions

Erik Anderson January 26, 2015

The Oscar nominations are in and the guilds are starting to help shape the race…or are they? Is Birdman going to topple Boyhood with its PGA and SAG wins? Is Eddie Redmayne the new lock in Best Actor? Bookmark this page right here for the Gold Rush Gang’s winner predictions for the 87th Academy Awards.

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BEST PICTURE


1	BEST PICTURE	Erik	Alexander	David	Evan	Jason	Kenneth	Matt L.	Matt M.	Peter	Richard	TOTAL POINTS
2	American Sniper	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	5	43
3	Birdman	1	1	2	4	2	4	2	1	1	4	68
4	Boyhood	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	76
5	The Grand Budapest Hotel	3	6	4	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	58
6	The Imitation Game	5	5	3	2	3	2	8	4	4	2	52
7	Selma	1	8	8	6	6	6	6	8	8	6	20
8	The Theory of Everything	8	6	6	8	8	8	7	6	6	8	21
9	Whiplash	7	7	7	7	7	7	5	7	7	7	22

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BEST DIRECTOR


1	BEST DIRECTOR	Erik	Alexander	David	Evan	Jason	Kenneth	Matt L.	Matt M.	Peter	Richard	TOTAL POINTS
2	Birdman, Alejandro G. Iñárritu	2	1	2	4	2	3	2	2	1	2	39
3	Boyhood, Richard Linklater	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	48
4	Foxcatcher, Bennett Miller	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	10
5	The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson	3	3	3	3	4	2	3	3	4	3	29
6	The Imitation Game, Morten Tyldum	4	4	4	2	3	4	4	4	3	4	24

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BEST ACTOR


1	BEST ACTOR	Erik	Alexander	David	Evan	Jason	Kenneth	Matt L.	Matt M.	Peter	Richard	TOTAL POINTS
2	Steve Carell, Foxcatcher	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	10
3	Bradley Cooper, American Sniper	3	4	3	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	30
4	Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	21
5	Michael Keaton, Birdman	2	2	2	1	2	1	2	2	2	1	43
6	Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything	1	1	1	2	1	3	1	1	1	2	46

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BEST ACTRESS


1	BEST ACTRESS	Erik	Alexander	David	Evan	Jason	Kenneth	Matt L.	Matt M.	Peter	Richard	TOTALS
2	Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night	2	5	2	2	2	4	4	4	4	4	27
3	Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything	3	4	4	4	4	2	2	2	2	3	30
4	Julianne Moore, Still Alice	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	50
5	Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl	5	3	5	5	5	5	3	5	5	5	14
6	Reese Witherspoon, Wild	4	2	3	3	3	3	5	3	3	2	29

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR


1	BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR	Erik	Alexander	David	Evan	Jason	Kenneth	Matt L.	Matt M.	Peter	Richard	TOTALS
2	Robert Duvall, The Judge	5	5	5	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	13
3	Ethan Hawke, Boyhood	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	28
4	Edward Norton, Birdman	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	40
5	Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher	3	4	4	5	5	4	4	3	4	5	19
6	J.K. Simmons, Whiplash	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	50

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS


1	BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS	Erik	Alexander	David	Evan	Jason	Kenneth	Matt L.	Matt M.	Peter	Richard	TOTAL POINTS
2	Patricia Arquette, Boyhood	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	50
3	Laura Dern, Wild	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	5	11
4	Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game	2	3	2	3	3	3	3	4	2	2	33
5	Emma Stone, Birdman	4	2	4	2	2	2	2	2	4	3	33
6	Meryl Streep, Into the Woods	3	4	3	4	4	4	5	3	3	4	23

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Erik Anderson

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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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.