Gold Rush Gang Oscar Predictions: April 2014

April 2014 predictions from the best Oscar predictors in the business, The Gold Rush Gang, are here! In Best Picture, support for Big Eyes, Birdman, Foxcatcher, Inherent Vice and Interstellar is still strong. Unbroken is still trying to break into that top 5 but who would it unseat? Fury and Get On Up drop a bit, each losing one vote from last month.

BEST PICTURE

Big Eyes – 10
Birdman – 10
Foxcatcher – 10
Inherent Vice – 10
Interstellar – 10
Unbroken – 9
(Erik, Alexander, David, Evan, Jason, Kenneth, Matt M., Peter, Richard)
Gone Girl – 8
(Erik, Alexander, Evan, Jason, Matt L., Matt M., Peter, Richard)
Fury – 7
(Erik, Alexander, David, Jason, Kenneth, Matt L., Matt M.)
Get On Up – 5
(Erik, David, Evan, Kenneth, Matt L.)
A Most Violent Year – 5
(David, Evan, Kenneth, Peter, Richard)

BEST DIRECTOR

Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman – 10
Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice – 8
(Alexander, David, Evan, Jason, Kenneth, Matt L., Matt M., Peter, Richard)
Tim Burton, Big Eyes – 8
(Erik, Alexander, David, Evan, Kenneth, Matt L., Matt M., Peter, Richard)
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher – 8
(Erik, Alexander, David, Evan, Kenneth, Matt L.,, Matt M., Richard)
David Fincher, Gone Girl – 5
(Erik, David, Evan, Matt M., Richard)
Angelina Jolie, Unbroken – 5
(Erik, Alexander, Jason, Peter, Richard)

BEST ACTOR

Steve Carell, Foxcatcher – 10
Michael Keaton, Birdman – 10
Christoph Waltz, Big Eyes – 9
(Erik, David, Evan, Jason, Kenneth, Matt L., Matt M., Peter, Richard)
Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice – 8
(Alexander, David, Evan, Jason, Kenneth, Matt L., Matt M., Richard)
Chadwick Boseman, Get On Up – 5
(Erik, Alexander, David, Kenneth, Matt L.)
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game – 4 (Jason, Matt M., Peter, Richard)
Jack O’Connell, Unbroken – 4 (Erik, Alexander, Evan, Peter)

BEST ACTRESS

Amy Adams, Big Eyes – 10
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl – 10
Reese Witherspoon, Wild – 10
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods – 7
(Erik, Alexander, David, Evan, Jason, Kenneth, Matt M.)
Michelle Williams, Suite française – 7
(Alexander, David, Jason, Kenneth, Matt L., Matt M., Peter)

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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), 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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