2015 Oscars: Best Actor Nomination Predictions
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| BEST ACTOR | Erik | Alexander | David | Evan | Jason | Kenneth | Matt L. | Matt M. | Peter | Richard | TOTALS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradley Cooper, American Sniper | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 31 |
| Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | |||
| Michael Keaton, Birdman | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 41 |
| David Oyelowo, Selma | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 16 | ||
| Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 45 |
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.
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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