Category Archives: Award Ceremonies

My thoughts and predictions, or results and other news on various Award shows.

Academy Awards 2016: Best Animated Feature Nominee Predictions

The award season is beginning to ramp up as we head into the Holiday. As such, Oscar buzz is beginning to bubble up. Which animated films will get the nomination for best animated feature? Here are my predictions:

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Academy Awards 2016: Best Director Nominee Predictions

The Academy Awards are right around the corner (a few months from now). With the holiday movie season kicking into full gear, it is time to look at what film directors could be honored as nominees at the 2016 Oscar ceremony.

The list of possible candidates is rather long, but here are my projected top five:

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Academy Awards 2016: Best Picture Nominee Predictions

It’s a long way to Academy Award night, but there are plenty of films already vying for Hollywood’s top honor. As it stands now, Spotlight might be the film to beat, but many films could make a viable run for the award in the coming months.

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Academy Awards 2015: Reaction & Surprises

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Best Makeup & Hair-styling

The Grand Budapest Hotel started racking up the wins early on with their shoo-in win for Best Costume Design and a more surprising win for Best Makeup and Hair-styling. The transformations in Budapest, were fine, sure, but it doesn’t quite live up to the other nominees in my opinion. Guardians of the Galaxy should have taken this one by a light year for the intricate makeup work.

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2015 Academy Award Predictions — Live Action Short Film

 

The Nominees:

  • Aya — Oded Binnum, Mihal Brezis
  • Boogaloo and Graham — Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney
  • Butter Lamp — Wei Hu, Julien Feret
  • Parvaneh — Talkhon Hamzavi, Stefan Echenberger
  • The Phone Call — Mat Kirkby, James Lucas

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2015 Academy Award Predictions — Best Documentary

 

The Nominees:

  • Citizenfour — Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefor, Dirk Wilutzky
  • Finding Vivian Maier — John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
  • Last Days in Vietnam — Rory Kennedy, Keven McAlester
  • The Salt of the Earth — Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, David Rosier
  • Virunga — Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara

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2015 Academy Award Predictions — Best Visual Effects

 

The Nominees:

  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Dan Deleeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill, Daniel Sudick
  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Erik Winquist
  • Guardians of the Galaxy — Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould
  • Interstellar — Paul J. Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Scott R. Fisher
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past — Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie, Cameron Waldbauer

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2015 Academy Award Predictions — Best Sound Editing

 

The Nominees:

  • American Sniper — Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
  • Birdman — Aaron Glascock, Martin Hernandez
  • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies — Brent Burge, Jason Canovas
  • Interstellar — Richard King
  • Unbroken — Becky Sullivan, Andrew DeCristofaro

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