Gold Rush Gang: National Board of Review Preview and Predictions

The Gold Rush Gang has chosen their picks to win at the National Board of Review tomorrow. We all know about the affinity of the NBR for all things Warner Brothers, George Clooney and Clint Eastwood but how far will that love go? Every GRG member is picking Gravity to take the big win plus a handful of WB films populating the top 10. Will they break from tradition this year? Will they be in Harvey’s pocket or actually make some brave choices this year. Jump over to the forums and make your vote count in our Gold Rush Contest!

Film
*Gravity – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Michael, Richard

Top Ten Films
*12 Years a Slave – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Michael
*American Hustle – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Michael
*Her – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Beth, Michael, Richard
*Prisoners – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Michael
*The Wolf of Wall Street – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Michael
*Captain Phillips – Evan, Kenneth, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Michael
*Inside Llewyn Davis – Evan, Kenneth, Peter, Beth, Michael
*Lee Daniels’ The Butler – Evan, Kenneth, Dennis, Beth, Michael
*Nebraska – Evan, Kenneth, Dennis, Beth, Michael, Peter
*Saving Mr. Banks – Evan, Erik, Michael, Peter

All is Lost – Erik, Beth
August: Osage County – Kenneth, Michael
Fruitvale Station – Erik
Before Midnight – Erik
Dallas Buyers Club – Dennis
Labor Day – Peter
Philomena – Dennis

Foreign Language Film
*Blue is the Warmest Color – Evan, Kenneth, Peter, Beth, Michael, Richard
Wadjda – Erik, Dennis

Top Five Foreign Language Films
*Gloria – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Dennis, Beth, Peter
*The Great Beauty – Evan, Kenneth, Dennis, Beth, Michael
*The Hunt – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Beth, Michael
*The Past – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Michael
*Wadjda – Evan, Kenneth, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Michael

Blue is the Warmest Color – Erik, Dennis
The Grandmaster – Michael
A Hijacking – Erik
A Touch of Sin – Peter

Documentary
*The Act of Killing – Evan, Michael, Kenneth
20 Feet From Stardom – Dennis
Stories We Tell – Erik, Beth

Top Five Documentaries
*After Tiller – Evan, Beth, Michael, Kenneth
*Blackfish – Evan, Erik, Dennis, Beth, Kenneth
*Tim’s Vermeer – Dennis, Michael, Kenneth, Beth
*20 Feet From Stardom – Evan, Michael, Kenneth
*The Act of Killing – Erik, Dennis, Beth
*Stories We Tell – Evan, Dennis, Kenneth

The Armstrong Lie – Beth, Michael
Salinger – Dennis, Michael
The Square – Evan, Erik
At Berkeley – Erik
Bridegroom – Peter

Animated Film
*Frozen – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Michael, Richard

Actor
*Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club – Erik, Peter, Dennis
*Robert Redford, All is Lost – Beth, Michael, Richard
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave – Evan, Kenneth

Actress
*Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine – Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Dennis, Beth
Sandra Bullock, Gravity – Evan, Michael

Supporting Actor
*Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave – Erik, Peter, Richard
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street – Evan, Kenneth
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club – Dennis, Beth

Supporting Actress
*June Squibb, Nebraska – Evan, Kenneth, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Richard
Scarlett Johansson, Don Jon – Erik

Breakthrough Performance – Actor
*Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Richard, Michael

Breakthrough Performance – Actress
*Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave – Evan, Kenneth, Dennis, Beth, Michael, Richard
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color – Erik
Brie Larson, Short Term 12 – Peter

Ensemble
*August: Osage County – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Dennis, Beth, Michael, Richard, Peter

Director
*Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity – Evan, Erik, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Kenneth, Michael, Richard

Directorial Debut
*Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station – Evan, Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Dennis, Beth, Michael, Richard

Original Screenplay
*Her – Peter, Beth, Michael, Richard
Nebraska – Erik, Dennis, Kenneth

Adapted Screenplay
*12 Years a Slave – Kenneth, Erik, Peter, Beth, Richard
Philomena – Dennis
The Wolf of Wall Street – Michael

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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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