Film critics Carrie and Chad on who will – and who should – win the 87th Academy Awards
The 87th Academy Awards air this Sunday, February 22nd on ABC at 5:00pm PST (red carpet coverage begins at 4:00, if you want to dish on fashion highs and lows). There are some tight races this year – Best Picture and Best Actor are especially hard to call. Here are Carrie and Chad’s predictions – and hopes – for the major categories:
BEST PICTURE:
Nominees: American Sniper/Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)/Boyhood/The Grand Budapest Hotel/The Imitation Game/Selma/The Theory of Everything/Whiplash
Carrie: Will Win: Boyhood; Should Win: Boyhood
Chad: Will Win: Boyhood; Should Win: Boyhood
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING:
Nominees: Alexander G. Iñárritu, Birdman/Richard Linklater, Boyhood/Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher/Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel/Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game
Carrie: Will Win: Richard Linklater; Should Win: Richard Linklater
Chad: Will Win: Richard Linklater; Should Win: Richard Linklater
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
Nominees: Steve Carell, Foxcatcher/Bradley Cooper, American Sniper/Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game/Michael Keaton, Birdman/Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Carrie: Will Win: Michael Keaton; Should Win: Eddie Redmayne
Chad: Will Win: Michael Keaton; Should Win: Michael Keaton
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
Nominees: Marion Cotillard, Two Days, One Night/Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything/Julianne Moore, Still Alice/Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl/Reese Witherspoon, Wild
Carrie: Will Win: Julianne Moore; Should Win: Julianne Moore
Chad: Will Win: Julianne Moore; Should Win: Julianne Moore
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Nominees: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood/Laura Dern, Wild/Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game/Emma Stone, Birdman/Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
Carrie: Will Win: Patricia Arquette; Should Win: Patricia Arquette
Chad: Will Win: Patricia Arquette; Should Win: Patricia Arquette
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Nominees: Robert Duvall, The Judge/Ethan Hawke, Boyhood/Edward Norton, Birdman/Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher/J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Carrie: Will Win: J.K. Simmons; Should Win: J.K. Simmons
Chad: Will Win: J.K. Simmons; Should Win: Mark Ruffalo
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Nominees: Big Hero 6/The Boxtrolls/How to Train Your Dragon 2/Song of the Sea/The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Carrie: Will Win: How to Train Your Dragon 2; Should Win: Big Hero 6
Chad: Will Win: How to Train Your Dragon 2; Should Win: Didn’t see enough nominees.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Nominees: Citzenfour/Finding Vivian Maier/Last Days in Vietnam/The Salt of the Earth/Virunga
Carrie: Will Win: Citizenfour; Should Win: Life Itself (okay, it’s not even nominated, but it should have been – and it should have won!)
Chad: Will Win: Citizenfour; Should Win: Didn’t see enough nominees.
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Nominees: Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman/Robert Yeoman, The Grand Budapest Hotel/Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski, Ida/Dick Pope, Mr. Turner/Roger Deakins, Unbroken
Carrie: Will Win: Birdman; Should Win: Birdman
Chad: Will Win: Birdman; Should Win: Birdman
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN:
Nominees: Milena Canonero, The Grand Budapest Hotel/Mark Bridges, Inherent Vice/Colleen Atwood, Into the Woods/Anna B. Sheppard, Maleficent/Jacqueline Durran, Mr. Turner
Carrie: Will Win: The Grand Budapest Hotel; Should Win: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Chad: Will Win: The Grand Budapest Hotel; Should Win: The Grand Budapest Hotel
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE:
Nominees: Ida (Poland)/Leviathan (Russia)/Tangerines (Estonia)/Timbuktu (Mauritania)/Wild Tales (Argentina)
Carrie: Will Win: Ida; Should Win: Ida
Chad: Will Win: Ida; Should Win: Didn’t see enough nominees.
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Nominees: Jason Hall, American Sniper/Graham Moore, The Imitation Game/Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice/Anthony McCarten, The Theory of Everything/Damien Chazelle, Whiplash
Carrie: Will Win: The Imitation Game; Should Win: The The Theory of Everything
Chad: Will Win: Whiplash; Should Win: Whiplash
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Nominees: Alexander G. Iñárritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., and Armando Bo, Birdman/Richard Linklater, Boyhood/E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman, Foxcatcher/Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness, The Grand Budapest Hotel/Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler
Carrie: Will Win: The Grand Budapest Hotel; Should Win: Nightcrawler
Chad: Will Win: The Grand Budapest Hotel; Should Win: Birdman
And just for fun – and to tide you over until the big night on Sunday – enjoy this very funny spoof of one of the Best Picture nominees:
