We’re only hours away from the live broadcast of the 86th Annual Academy Awards! As we do every year, we’ll be live blogging the entire event starting from the pre-show red carpet arrivals starting at 7pm EST through the final Oscar acceptance for Best Picture.
Before the show begins, we figured we’d just put a quick two cents with our predictions of who we think will win and also who we hope will win. Check it out here below and remember to turn into ABC for the broadcast and come back href=”https://www.geeksofdoom.com/2014/03/02/academy-awards-live-blog” target=”_blank”>HERE to us for the live blog, with red carpet arrivals beginning at 7pm EST and the awards ceremony starting at 8:30pm EST.
Empress Eve
Best Picture
Prediction: American Hustle
Pick: Gravity
Best Actor
Prediction: Christian Bale, “American Hustle”
Pick: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Actress
Prediction: Meryl Streep, “August: Osage County”
Pick: Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
Best Supporting Actor
Prediction: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Pick: Michael Fassbender, “12 Years A Slave”
Best Supporting Actress
Prediction: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Pick: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Best Director
Prediction: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Pick: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Animated Film
Prediction: Frozen
Pick: Frozen
Pick for all the tech/visual awards: Gravity
Pick for Make-Up: Hands down Jackass: Bad Grandpa deserves the win and I’d love to see it win so that it will forever be known as “The Academy Award Winning Jackass: Bad Grandpa.”
Dave3
Best Picture
Prediction: Gravity
Pick: Gravity
Best Actor
Prediction: Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Pick: Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years A Slave”
Best Actress
Prediction: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Pick: Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
Best Supporting Actor
Prediction: Bradley Cooper, “American Hustle”
Pick: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Supporting Actress
Prediction: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Pick: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Best Director
Prediction: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Pick: Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”
Stoogeypedia
Best Picture
Prediction: Gravity
Pick: 12 Years A Slave
Best Actor
Prediction: Bruce Dern “Nebraska”
Pick: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Actress
Prediction: Meryl Streep, “August: Osage County”
Pick: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Best Supporting Actor
Prediction: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Pick: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Supporting Actress
Prediction: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Pick: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Best Director
Prediction: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Pick: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Eelyajekim
Best Picture:
Pick: 12 Years A Slave
Best Actor:
Pick: Matthew McConaughey “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Actress:
Pick: Cate Blanchett “Blue Jasmine”
Supporting Actress:
Pick: Luipta Nyong’o “12 Years A Slave”
Supporting Actor:
Pick: Jared Leto “Dallas Buyers Club”
Technical Awards Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Visual Effects, and Directing: Gravity
Animated film: FROZEN
Ryan Midnight
Best Picture
Pick: American Hustle
Prediction: 12 Years a Slave
Best Actor
Pick: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Prediction: Chiwatel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Actress
Pick: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Prediction: Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
Best Supporting Actor
Pick: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Prediction: Michael Fassbender, “12 Years A Slave”
Best Supporting Actress
Pick: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Prediction: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Best Director
Pick: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Prediction: David O. Russell, “American Hustle”
Three-D
Best Picture
Prediction: “12 Years a Slave”
Pick: “12 Years a Slave”
Best Actor
Prediction: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Pick: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Actress
Prediction: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Pick: Amy Adams, “American Hustle”
Best Supporting Actor
Prediction: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Pick: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Supporting Actress
Prediction: Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”
Pick: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Best Director
Prediction: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Pick: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
The Rub
Best Picture
Prediction: American Hustle
Pick: Her
Best Actor
Prediction: Matthew McConaughey
Pick: Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Actress
Prediction and Pick: Sandra Bullock
Best Supporting Actor
Prediction and Pick: Jared Leto
Best Supporting Actress
Prediction and Pick: Jennifer Lawrence
Best Director
Prediction and Pick: Alfonso Cuaron
Brett Nachman
Best Picture
Prediction: “Gravity”
Best Actor
Prediction: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Actress
Prediction: Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
Best Supporting Actor
Prediction: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Supporting Actress
Prediction: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Best Director
Prediction: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Best Animated Film
Prediction: “Frozen”
Best Writing – Original Screenplay
Prediction: “Nebraska”
Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
Prediction: “12 Years a Slave”
Best Original Score
Prediction: Steven Price, “Gravity”
Best Original Song
Prediction: “Let It Go” from “Frozen”
Henchman21
Best Picture
Pick: American Hustle
Best Actor
Pick: Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf Of Wall Street”
Best Actress
Pick: Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
Best Supporting Actor
Pick: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Supporting Actress
Pick: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Best Animated Film
Pick: Frozen
Best Cinematography
Pick: Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Best Director
Pick: Alfonso Cuaron “Gravity”
Mr Babyman
Best Picture
Prediction: 12 Years a Slave
Pick: Wolf of Wall Street
Best Actor
Prediction: Christian Bale, “American Hustle”
Pick: Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”
Best Actress
Prediction: Amy Adams, “American Hustle”
Pick: Amy Adams, “American Hustle”
Best Supporting Actor
Prediction: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Pick: Barkad Abdi, “Captain Philips”
Best Supporting Actress
Prediction: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Pick: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
Best Director
Prediction: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Pick: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Best Animated Feature
Prediction: Frozen
Pick: The Wind Rises
Best Cinematography
Prediction: Phedon Papamichael, “Nebraska”
Pick: Phedon Papamichael, “Nebraska”
Best Costume Design
Prediction & Pick: American Hustle
Best Documentary
Prediction & Pick: The Act of Killing
Best Film Editing
Prediction & Pick: Gravity
Obvious Zombie
Best Animated Feature
Pick: FROZEN. Norwegians are my peoples. Plus, TROLLS. Helloooo!
Best Foreign Language Film
Pick: THE HUNT. Mads Mikkelsen under constant false accusations… probably because everyone watched Hannibal, ya nutcase! I love him, though! This movie was super depressing. It’ll definitely win.
Best Documentary Short
Pick: CAVEDIGGER. I originally read that as ‘Gravedigger,’ but I’m sticking to my guns.
Best Documentary Feature
Pick: THE ACT OF KILLING. No jokes here. This is a terrifying world we live in, even for a zombie.
Best Costume Design
Pick: THE GRANDMASTER. I’ve watched this 80 like times already. I want Wong Kar-wai to have my zombabies.
Helen Degenerate
Comment by Jamie Lee — March 2, 2014 @ 10:38 pm