OSCAR PREDICTIONS 1 - 10 WEEKS TO GO

12 Years a Slave leads the field in the first of my Oscar nominations for the 2013-14 season with 12 mentions. It's the only one to hit Director, Screenplay and Editing too, never mind Acting categories, which is not a likely scenario. Gravity and Lee Daniels' The Butler follow with nine apiece. Saving Mr. Banks makes a middling show, but American Hustle is almost completely absent. I'm surely way off, but then so are the nominations! 10 weeks and counting...

Best Picture

·          12 Years a Slave

·          Gravity

·          Her

·          Inside Llewyn Davis

·          Lee Daniels’ The Butler

·          Nebraska

·          Saving Mr. Banks

·          The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Director

·          Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

·          Lee Daniels (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)

·          Spike Jonze (Her)

·          Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

·          Alexander Payne (Nebraska)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

·          Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

·          Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips)

·          Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

·          Joaquin Phoenix (Her)

·          Forest Whitaker (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

·          Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

·          Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

·          Judi Dench (Philomena)

·          Brie Larson (Short Term 12)

·          Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

·          Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)

·          Daniel Brühl (Rush)

·          Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)

·          Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

·          Matthew McConaughey (Mud)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

·          Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)

·          Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)

·          Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale Station)

·          June Squibb (Nebraska)

·          Oprah Winfrey (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)

Best Original Screenplay

·          Blue Jasmine

·          Her

·          Inside Llewyn Davis

·          Lee Daniels’ The Butler

·          Nebraska

Best Adapted Screenplay

·          12 Years a Slave

·          August: Osage County

·          Before Midnight

·          Blue Is the Warmest Colour

·          The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Cinematography

·          12 Years a Slave

·          Gravity

·          Inside Llewyn Davis

·          Prisoners

·          Rush

Best Editing

·          12 Years a Slave

·          Captain Phillips

·          Gravity

·          Rush

·          The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Production Design

·          12 Years a Slave

·          The Great Gatsby

·          Inside Llewyn Davis

·          Lee Daniels’ The Butler

·          Saving Mr. Banks

Best Costume Design

·          12 Years a Slave

·          American Hustle

·          The Great Gatsby

·          The Invisible Woman

·          Lee Daniels’ The Butler

Best Sound Mixing

·          12 Years a Slave

·          Captain Phillips

·          Gravity

·          Inside Llewyn Davis

·          Rush

Best Sound Editing

·          Captain Phillips

·          Gravity

·          Monsters University

·          Pacific Rim

·          Rush

Best Visual Effects

·          Gravity

·          Iron Man 3

·          Man of Steel

·          Pacific Rim

·          World War Z

Best Makeup

·          The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

·          Lee Daniels’ The Butler

·          Rush

Best Original Score

·          12 Years a Slave

·          The Book Thief

·          Gravity

·          Monsters University

·          Saving Mr. Banks

Best Original Song

·          ‘Just a Cloudy Day’ (Despicable Me 2)

·          ‘Let It Go’ (Frozen)

·          ‘The Moon Song’ (Her)

·          ‘So You Know What It’s Like’ (Short Term 12)

·          ‘You and I Ain’t Nothin’ No More’ (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)

Best Animated Feature

·          The Apostle

·          Ernest & Celestine

·          Frozen

·          Monsters University

·          The Wind Rises

Best Documentary

·          The Act of Killing

·          Blackfish

·          The Crash Reel

·          The Missing Picture

·          Stories We Tell

Best Foreign Language Film

·          The Hunt – Denmark

·          Ilo Ilo – Singapore

·          The Missing Picture – Cambodia

·          Renoir – France

·          Wadjda – Saudi Arabia