Oscar Predictions 2015

I'm going to give it a shot again. Today the nominees for the 87th annual Academy Awards were announced and I've been predicting the winners for a couple of years now. So this year is no different. Some really great nominees this year, but as usual I don't agree with every all the winners. So, here are my prediction on who will win and who I think should win the awards.

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Should Win: "The Grand Budapest Hotel" or "Whiplash"

Would Win: "Boyhood"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Should Win: Benedict Cumberbatch for "The Imitation Game" or Michael Keaton for "Birdman" 

Would Win: Eddie Redmayne for "The Theory of Everything"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Should Win: Rosamund Pike for "Gone Girl"

Would Win: Julianne Moore for "Still Alice"

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Should Win: J.K. Simmons for "Whiplash"

Would Win: J.K. Simmons for "Whiplash"

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Should Win: Emma Stone for "Birdman" or Keira Knightley for "The Imitation Game"

Would Win: Patricia Arquette for "Boyhood"

Best Achievement in Directing Should Win: Wes Anderson for "The Grand Budapest Hotel"

Would Win: Richard Linklater for "Boyhood"

Movie Trailer Sunday (136)

Here are this weeks trailers.

Boyhood

Description: The life of a young man, Mason (Ellar Coltrane), from age 5 to age 18.

Director: RIchard Linklater

Starring: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Lorelei Linklater

Trailer: Trailer "Boyhood"

Comment: This movie was actually filmed over 12 years, where the boy in the story actually grows up on the screen. That's amazing!

The Rover

Description: A loner tracks the gang who stole his car from a desolate town in the Australian outback with the forced assistance of a wounded guy left behind in the wake of the theft.

Director: David Michôd

Starring: Guy Pierce, Robert Pattinson

Trailer: Trailer "The Rover"

Comment: Looks exciting

 

If I Stay

Description:

Director: R.J. Cutler

Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley, Joshua Leonard, Liana Liberato, Aisha Hinds and Stacy Keach

Trailer: Trailer "If I Stay"

Comment: Chills...

 

Let's Be Cops

Description: Two struggling pals dress as police officers for a costume party and become neighborhood sensations. But when these newly-minted "heroes" get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

Director: Luke Greenfield

Starring: Damon Wayans, Jake Johnson, Rob Riggle, Nina Dobrev, James D'Arcy and Andy Garcia

Trailer: Trailer "Let's Be Cops"

Comment: It looks funny, but it's probably not any good.

The Wind Rises

Description: A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.

Director:Hayao Miyazaki

Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci, Mandy Patinkin, William H. Macy, Werner Herzog, Mae Whitman, Jennifer Grey, Darren Criss, Elijah Wood, Ronan Farrow

Trailer: Trailer "The Wind Rises"

Comment: Not new in the US, but it comes out this may here in the Netherlands.