Oscar Predictions

It's never too early to begin making predictions for the Oscars, right?

This list is definitely a work in progress and is mostly guesswork and some wishful thinking. However it will hopefully become more accurate as we get closer to March 2, 2014. Feel free to comment below and let me know who you think will be nominated!

And to help make this less confusing: Strikethrough = no longer a contender. Red highlight = nomination that I didn't predict. *Asterisk* = predicted winner. Bold = winner.

(Updated 3/2/14)

Best Picture
*12 Years a Slave*
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Blue is the Warmest Color
Blue Jasmine
Captain Phillips
Elysium
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Monuments Men
Nebraska
Philomena
Rush
Saving Mr. Banks
The Wolf of Wall Street

Directing
J.J Abrams - Star Trek Into Darkness
Woody Allen - Blue Jasmine
Neill Blomkamp - Elysium
Danny Boyle - Trance
George Clooney - The Monuments Men
Joel and Ethan Coen - Inside Llewyn Davis
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Stephen Frears - Philomena
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
John Lee Hancock - Saving Mr. Banks
Ron Howard - Rush
Spike Jonze - Her
Baz Luhrmann - The Great Gatsby
*Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave*
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
Jason Reitman - Labor Day
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
Ridley Scott - The Counselor

Actor in a Leading Role
Casey Affleck - Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Christian Bale - American Hustle
Christian Bale - Out of the Furnace
George Clooney - The Monuments Men
Matt Damon - Elysium
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Great Gatsby
*Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street*
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Idris Elba - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips
James McAvoy - Trance
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
Joaquin Phoenix - Her
Robert Redford - All is Lost

Actress in a Leading Role
Adèle Exarchopoulos - Blue is the Warmest Color
Amy Adams - American Hustle
Berenice Bejo - The Past
*Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine*
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Judi Dench - Philomena
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss - Enough Said
Nicole Kidman - Grace of Monaco
Rooney Mara - Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
Meryl Streep - August: Osage County
Emma Thompson - Saving Mr. Banks
Naomi Watts - Diana
Kate Winslet - Labor Day

Actor in a Supporting Role
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl - Rush
George Clooney - Gravity
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Benidict Cumberbatch - Star Trek Into Darkness
*Micheal Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave*
Harrison Ford - 42
James Gandolfini - Enough Said
Tom Hanks - Saving Mr. Banks
Woody Harrelson - Out of the Furnace
Jonah Hill - The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey - The Wolf of Wall Street

Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams - Her
Jodie Foster - Elysium
Jennifer Garner - Dallas Buyers Club
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
*Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave*
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
Lea Seydoux - Blue is the Warmest Color
Octavia Spencer - Fruitvale Station
June Squibb - Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey - Lee Daniels' The Butler
Scarlett Johansson - Her

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
*12 Years a Slave - John Ridley*
August: Osage County - Tracy Letts
Before Midnight - Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater
Captain Phillips - Billy Ray
Labor Day - Jason Reitman
The Monuments Men - George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Much Ado About Nothing - Joss Whedon
Philomena - Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
*The Spectacular Now - Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber*
The Wolf of Wall Street - Terence Winter

Writing (Original Screenplay)
American Hustle - Eric Singer and David O. Russell
*Blue Jasmine - Woody Allen*
Dallas Buyers Club - Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Don Jon - Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Elysium - Neill Blomkamp
Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron and Jonas Cuaron
Her - Spike Jonze
Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel and Ethan Coen
Nebraska - Bob Nelson
Saving Mr. Banks - Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith

Cinematography
12 Years a Slave - Sean Bobbitt
The Grandmaster - Philippe Le Sourd
*Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki*
The Great Gatsby - Simon Duggan
Inside Llewyn Davis - Bruno Delbonnel
Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael
Prisoners - Roger Deakins
Rush - Anthony Dod Mantle
The Spectacular Now - Jess Hall
The Wolf of Wall Street - Rodrigo Prieto

Film Editing
12 Years a Slave - Joe Walker
*American Hustle - Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten*
Captain Phillips - Christopher Rouse
Dallas Buyers Club - John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa
Elysium - Julian Clarke, Lee Smith
Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron, Mark Sanger
Nebraska - Kevin Tent
Parkland - Dylan Tichenor, Leo Trombetta
Prisoners - Joel Cox, Gary Roach
*Rush - Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill*
Star Trek Into Darkness - Mary Jo Markey, Maryann Brandon
Trance - Jon Harris
The Wolf of Wall Street - Thelma Schoonmaker

Production Design
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
The Book Thief
Gravity
*The Great Gatsby*
Her
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Lone Ranger
Man of Steel
The Monuments Men
Saving Mr. Banks
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Star Trek Into Darkness

Costume Design
12 Years a Slave
*American Hustle*
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
*The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug*
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Invisible Woman
The Lone Ranger
Man of Steel
The Monuments Men
Saving Mr. Banks

Makeup and Hairstyling
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
*Dallas Buyers Club*
*The Great Gatsby*
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger
Rush
*Star Trek Into Darkness*

Music (Original Score)
12 Years a Slave - Hans Zimmer
The Book Thief - John Williams
*Gravity - Steven Price*
Her - William Butler and Owen Pallett
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Howard Shore
Monsters University - Randy Newman
The Monuments Men - Alexandre Desplat
Oblivion - M83
Philomena - Alexandre Desplat
Saving Mr. Banks - Thomas Newman
*Star Trek Into Darkness - Michael Giacchino*
The Wolf of Wall Street - Howard Shore

Music (Original Song)
"Alone Yet Not Alone" - Alone Yet Not Alone (disqualified)
"Atlas" by Coldplay - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
"For the First Time in Forever" by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez - Frozen
"Happy" Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams - Despicable Me 2
"I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
"Let it Go" Music and Lyric by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez - Frozen
"Monsters University" by Randy Newman - Monsters University
*"The Moon Song" Music by Karen O, Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze - Her*
*"Oblivion" by M83 - Oblivion*
"Ordinary Love" Music by U2, Lyric by Paul Hewson - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
"Rise Up" by Beyonce Knowles - Epic
"Young and Beautiful" by Lana Del Rey and Rick Nowels - The Great Gatsby

Sound Mixing
Captain Phillips
*Gravity*
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Iron Man 3
Lone Survivor
Man of Steel
Star Trek Into Darkness

Sound Editing
12 Years a Slave
All is Lost
Captain Phillips
*Gravity*
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Lone Survivor
Man of Steel
Oblivion
Rush
Star Trek Into Darkness

Visual Effects
Elysium
Ender's Game
*Gravity*
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Man of Steel
Now You See Me
The Lone Ranger
Oblivion
Pacific Rim
Rush
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Star Trek Into Darkness
Thor: The Dark World
World War Z

Animated Feature Film
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Epic
Ernest & Celestine
Free Birds
Frozen
Monsters University
*The Wind Rises*

Documentary Feature Film
20 Feet from Stardom
*The Act of Killing*
The Armstrong Lie
Blackfish
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
Stories We Tell
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

Foreign Language Film
Afghanistan: Wajma
Albania: Agon
Argentina: Wakolda
Australia: The Rocket
Austria: The Wall
Bangladesh: Television
Belgium: The Broken Circle Breakdown
Bosnia and Herzegovina: An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker
Brazil: Neighboring Sounds
Bulgaria: Colour of the Chameleon
Cambodia: The Missing Picture
Canada: Gabrielle
Chad: GriGris
Chile: Gloria
China: Back to 1942
Colombia: La Playa DC
Croatia: Halima's Path
Czech Republic: Burning Bush
*Denmark: The Hunt*
Dominican Republic: Who's the Boss?
Ecuador: Porcelain Horse
Egypt: Winter of Discontent Estonia: Free Range
Finland: Disciple
France: Renoir
Georgia: In Bloom
Germany: Two Lives
Greece: Boy Eating the Bird's Food
Hong Kong: The Grandmaster
Hungary: The Notebook
Iceland: Of Horses and Men
India: The Good Road
Indonesia: Sang Kiai
Iran: The Past
Israel: Bethlehem
Italy: The Great Beauty
Japan: The Great Passage
Kazakhstan: The Old Man
Latvia: Mother, I Love You
Lebanon: Ghadi
Lithuania: Conversations on Serious Topics
Luxembourg: Blind Spot
Mexico: Heli
Moldova: All God's Children
Montenegro: Bad Destiny
Morocco: God's Horses
Nepal: Soongava: Dance of the Orchids
The Netherlands: Borgman
New Zealand: White Lies
Norway: I Am Yours
Pakistan: Zinda Bhaag
Palestine: Omar
Peru: The Cleaner
The Philippines: Transit
Poland: Wałęsa: Man of Hope
Portugal: Lines of Wellington
Romania: Child's Pose
Russia: Stalingrad
Saudi Arabia: Wadjda
Serbia: Circles
Singapore: Ilo Ilo
Slovakia: My Dog Killer
Slovenia: Class Enemy
South Africa: Four Corners
South Korea: Juvenile Offender
Spain: 15 Years Plus a Day
Sweden: Eat Sleep Die
Switzerland: More Than Honey
Taiwan: Soul
Thailand: Countdown
Turkey: The Butterfly's Dream
Ukraine: Paradjanov
United Kingdom: Metro Manila
Uruguay: Anina
Venezuela: Breach in the Silence

Live Action Short Film
Aningaaq
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)
Dva (Two)
*Helium*
Kush
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)
Record/Play
Throat Song
Tiger Boy
The Voorman Problem

Animated Short Film
The Blue Umbrella
Feral
Get a Horse!
Gloria Victoria
Hollow Land
The Missing Scarf
*Mr. Hublot*
Possessions
Requiem for Romance
Room on the Broom
Subconscious Password

Documentary Short Film
CaveDigger
Facing Fear
Jujitsu-ing Reality
Karama Has No Walls
*The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life*
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Recollections
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