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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