2015 Oscars: Gold Rush Gang Oscar Predictions August 2014 – Birdman Flies, Boyhood Grows Up, Selma Marches On
Results are in for the most current Gold Rush Gang Oscar predictions and Fox Searchlight’s Birdman continues to hold strong, Paramount’s Selma rises and both IFC’s Boyhood and The Weinstein Company’s perceived main horse, The Imitation Game, make gains in multiple categories. Plus, we’ve added the below-the-line predictions in all categories save Documentary Feature and Foreign Language Film for now. So, who do you agree with? Am I crazy for being the lone person to predict Jack O’Connell in Best Actor? What about Jason’s full-bore stanning for The Imitation Game? Will it pay off or go bust? Is Nicole Kidman really in 5th place for a film without a distributor or is it just Kidmaniacs reacting to the screening this week?
| BEST PICTURE | Erik | Alexander | David | Evan | Jason | Kenneth | Matt L. | Matt M. | Peter | Richard | TOTALS |
| Big Eyes | 0 | ||||||||||
| Birdman | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 10 |
| Blackhat | 0 | ||||||||||
| Boyhood | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 10 |
| The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby | 0 | ||||||||||
| Exodus: Gods and Kings | 0 | ||||||||||
| Foxcatcher | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 10 |
| Fury | 0 | ||||||||||
| Get on Up | 0 | ||||||||||
| Gone Girl | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 9 | |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel | * | 1 | |||||||||
| The Imitation Game | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 10 |
| Inherent Vice | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 9 | |
| Interstellar | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 10 |
| Into the Woods | 0 | ||||||||||
| Kill the Messenger | 0 | ||||||||||
| Men, Women & Children | 0 | ||||||||||
| A Most Violent Year | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mr. Turner | 0 | ||||||||||
| Queen of the Desert | 0 | ||||||||||
| Selma | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 9 | |
| The Theory of Everything | * | 1 | |||||||||
| Trash | * | 1 | |||||||||
| Unbroken | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 10 |
| Wild | * | * | * | * | * | * | 6 |
| BEST DIRECTOR | Erik | Alexander | David | Evan | Jason | Kenneth | Matt L. | Matt M. | Peter | Richard | TOTALS |
| Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice | 0 | ||||||||||
| Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel | 0 | ||||||||||
| David Ayer, Fury | 0 | ||||||||||
| Tim Burton, Big Eyes | 0 | ||||||||||
| J.C. Chandor, A Most Violent Year | 0 | ||||||||||
| Stephen Daldry, Trash | 0 | ||||||||||
| Ava DuVernay, Selma | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 7 | |||
| David Fincher, Gone Girl | * | * | * | 3 | |||||||
| Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 10 |
| Werner Herzog, Queen of the Desert | 0 | ||||||||||
| Angelina Jolie, Unbroken | * | * | 2 | ||||||||
| Justin Kurzel, Macbeth | 0 | ||||||||||
| Richard Linklater, Boyhood | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 10 |
| Mike Leigh, Mr. Turner | 0 | ||||||||||
| Michael Mann, Blackhat | 0 | ||||||||||
| Rob Marshall, Into the Woods | 0 | ||||||||||
| Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 7 | |||
| Christopher Nolan, Interstellar | * | * | * | * | 4 | ||||||
| Jason Reitman, Men, Women & Children | 0 | ||||||||||
| Ridley Scott, Exodus: Gods and Kings | 0 | ||||||||||
| Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 6 | |||
| Liv Ullmann, Miss Julie | 0 | ||||||||||
| Jean-Marc Vallée, Wild | 0 |
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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.
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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.
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