2015 Oscars: Gold Rush Gang Oscar Predictions August 2014 – Birdman Flies, Boyhood Grows Up, Selma Marches On
| BEST ORIGINAL SCORE | Erik | Alexander | David | Evan | Jason | Kenneth | Matt L. | Matt M. | Peter | Richard | TOTALS |
| Big Eyes (Danny Elfman) | * | * | * | * | * | * | 6 | ||||
| Birdman (Antonio Sanchez) | 0 | ||||||||||
| Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Michael Giacchino) | 0 | ||||||||||
| Exodus: Gods and King (Alberto Iglesias) | 0 | ||||||||||
| Foxcatcher (Mychael Danna, Rob Simonsen and West Dylan Thordson) | * | * | * | 3 | |||||||
| Fury (Stephen Price) | 0 | ||||||||||
| Get On Up (Thomas Newman) | 0 | ||||||||||
| Gone Girl (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 8 | ||
| The Grand Budapest Hotel (Alexandre Desplat) | 0 | ||||||||||
| The Hundred-Foot Journey (A.R. Rahman) | 0 | ||||||||||
| The Imitation Game (Alexandre Desplat) | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 9 | |
| Inherent Vice (Johnny Greenwood) | * | 1 | |||||||||
| Interstellar (Hans Zimmer) | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 9 | |
| Maleficent (James Newton Howard) | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mr. Turner (Gary Yershon) | 0 | ||||||||||
| Noah (Clint Mansell) | 0 | ||||||||||
| Selma (???) | 0 | ||||||||||
| Unbroken (Alexandre Desplat) | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 9 | |
| Wild (???) | 0 |
| BEST ORIGINAL SONG | Erik | Alexander | David | Evan | Jason | Kenneth | Matt L. | Matt M. | Peter | Richard | TOTALS |
| Annie, “TBA” | * | * | * | 3 | |||||||
| Begin Again ” Lost Stars” | * | * | * | * | 4 | ||||||
| The Boxtrolls, “TBA” | * | * | 2 | ||||||||
| The Giver, “Ordinary Human” | 0 | ||||||||||
| Home, “TBA” | 0 | ||||||||||
| How to Train Your Dragon 2, “Where No One Goes” | 0 | ||||||||||
| Into the Woods, “TBA” | * | * | * | * | 4 | ||||||
| The Lego Movie, “Everything is Awesome” | * | * | * | * | 4 | ||||||
| Muppets Most Wanted, “The Big House” | 0 | ||||||||||
| Muppets Most Wanted, “I’m Number One” | 0 | ||||||||||
| Muppets Most Wanted, “Something So Right” | 0 | ||||||||||
| Muppets Most Wanted, “We’re Doing a Sequel” | 0 | ||||||||||
| Rio 2, “What Is Love” | * | 1 |
| BEST SOUND MIXING | Erik | Alexander | David | Evan | Jason | Kenneth | Matt L. | Matt M. | Peter | Richard | TOTALS |
| Birdman | * | 1 | |||||||||
| Captain America: The Winter Solder | 0 | ||||||||||
| Edge of Tomorrow | 0 | ||||||||||
| Exodus: Gods and Men | * | * | 2 | ||||||||
| Foxcatcher | 0 | ||||||||||
| Fury | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 7 | |||
| Get On Up | 0 | ||||||||||
| Godzilla | 0 | ||||||||||
| Gone Girl | * | * | 2 | ||||||||
| Guardians of the Galaxy | * | 1 | |||||||||
| The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | |||||
| The Imitation Game | 0 | ||||||||||
| Interstellar | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 9 | |
| Into the Woods | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 9 | |
| Maleficent | 0 | ||||||||||
| Noah | 0 | ||||||||||
| Transformers: Age of Extinction | 0 | ||||||||||
| Unbroken | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 9 | |
| Wild | 0 |
| BEST SOUND EDITING | Erik | Alexander | David | Evan | Jason | Kenneth | Matt L. | Matt M. | Peter | Richard | TOTALS |
| Captain America: The Winter Solder | 0 | ||||||||||
| Edge of Tomorrow | 0 | ||||||||||
| Exodus: Gods and Men | * | * | * | * | * | 5 | |||||
| Foxcatcher | 0 | ||||||||||
| Fury | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 8 | ||
| Godzilla | 0 | ||||||||||
| Gone Girl | * | * | 2 | ||||||||
| Guardians of the Galaxy | 0 | ||||||||||
| The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 8 | ||
| How to Train Your Dragon 2 | * | 1 | |||||||||
| Interstellar | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 8 | ||
| Into the Woods | 0 | ||||||||||
| Maleficent | 0 | ||||||||||
| Noah | 0 | ||||||||||
| Transformers: Age of Extinction | 0 | ||||||||||
| Unbroken | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | 8 |
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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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