Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Yeah, scoff at the people who love the movie (and I will), this is not a Tea with Mussolini situation when it comes to year-end awards.

The Original BJ wrote:
Magilla, I love your unyielding faith in Philomena. It brings back such fond memories of Les Misérables, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, and other pet favorites you stuck with through thick and thin, never deserting them when the going got rough, even up until the end.

It's true. But in this case - and I'm not saying that he actually realizes it - he may be closer to the truth. Dench is supposed to be really good in it (I say this based on the Italian critics who saw Philomena at Venice and generally liked it, and trust me, they aren't that easy to please), and at the Oscars the movie itself may get one or two nominations more than just Best Actress - which it definitely will get.

2014 Golden Globe Predictions

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Blue Jasmine
The Butler
Captain Phillips
Gravity
12 Years A Slave

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
American Hustle
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Director
Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine
Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Spike Jonze, Her
Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave
David O. Russell, American Hustle

Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford, All is Lost
Forest Whitaker, The Butler

Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix, Her
Ben Stiller, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks
Kate Winslet, Labor Day

Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Enough Said
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years A Slave
Harrison Ford, 42
Tom Hanks, Saving Mr. Banks
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Octavia Spencer, Fruitvale Station
June Squibb, Nebraska,
Oprah Winfrey, The Butler

Best Screenplay
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Inside Llewyn Davis
12 Years A Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Original Score
Captain Phillips
Frozen
Gravity
Her
12 Years a Slave

Best Original Song
"Atlas", The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
"Let It Go", Frozen
"The Moon Song",Her
"Please Mr. Kennedy", Inside Llewyn Davis
"Young and Beautiful", The Great Gatsby

Best Foreign Language Film
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
The Grandmaster
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Past

Best Animated Feature Film
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises

The HFPA loves Philomena. Per In Contention's Gregory Ellwood, it's a lock for a Best Picture - Drama nod along with 12 Years a Slave and Gravity while Dench leads Blanchett, Bullock and Thompson in that order for Best Actress - Drama. So we shall see what we shall see.

Five words


Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

I truly hope everyone presenting the Best Director prizes this season has fun pronouncing the phrase "David O. Russell, American Hustle." (Sounds like a sequel to Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, does it not?)

Magilla, I love your unyielding faith in Philomena. It brings back such fond memories of Les Misérables, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, and other pet favorites you stuck with through thick and thin, never deserting them when the going got rough, even up until the end.

Here we go.

2014 Golden Globe Predictions

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
Saving Mr. Banks
12 Years A Slave

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
American Hustle
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Director
Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Spike Jonze, Her
Steve McQueen, 12 Years A Slave
David O. Russell, American Hustle

Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years A Slave
Iris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford, All is Lost

Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix, Her
Ben Stiller, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Berenice Bejo, The Past
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks

Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Enough Said
Keri Russell, Ausenland
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years A Slave
Tom Hanks, Saving Mr. Banks
Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska,
Oprah Winfrey, Lee Daniels' The Butler

Best Screenplay
American Hustle
Inside Llewyn Davis
Philomena
Saving Mr. Banks
12 Years A Slave

Best Original Score
Captain Phillips
Frozen
Gravity
Rush
12 Years a Slave

Best Original Song
"Atlas", The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
"Let It Go", Frozen
"The Moon Song",Her
"Please Mr. Kennedy", Inside Llewyn Davis
"Young and Beautiful", The Great Gatsby

Best Foreign Language Film
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Gloria
The Grandmaster
The Hunt
The Past

Best Animated Feature Film
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monsters University