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Annual Awards Nerdism Oscar Predictions Soundies and Design

Annual Awards Nerdism Oscar Predictions Soundies and Design

Forgive me if this years awards nerdism has been a little slight compared to previous years. Normally Id attribute this to not being able to watch most of the films before the Oscars, but since I finally moved to a place that has three multiplexes and three other smaller cinemas, I have no excuse (except in the case of Nebraska, which is only playing in Auckland and Wellington so I wont see that until DVD time). And unlike the past couple of years, Ive been much more into this years awards season because I think theres a few races that remain wide open - even the bigger categories (I still have my prayer circle for Leo going, just tweet out something with #prayercircleforleo and we can make a movement). So yeah, as per usual, Ill roll out my 55% informed predictions, but I dont have the usual pictures to go with them (like Smiling Silva, Overjoyed David and Loopy Looper) because Im lazy and couldnt be bothered figuring out three photos for them. Instead, I have colours, because thats totally original. To add to the originality, theyre traffic light colours, and heres how they work:

Red - The longshot, the outsider who pretty much wont be getting their name called out.
Orange - The real prediction, the one who will probably get their name called out.
Green - Who I really want to win.

Tonight, Ill be looking at the Sound categories (Best Achievement in Sound Mixing, Best Achievement in Sound Editing, Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures - Original Song, and Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures - Original Score) and the Design categories (Best Achievement in Production Design, Best Achievement in Make-Up and Hairstyling, Best Achievement in Costume Design). As we get through the predictions, I promise therell be some of my famous prediction poetry. Because Im secretly Shakespeare.




Im not sure about anyone else, but did anyone kinda forget that Lone Survivor was a thing? It comes out in NZ today, and I was genuinely surprised at when the trailer popped up before a couple of movies I went to go and see. It was strange to see it pushed so much for awards contention, considering it looks like just another Mark Wahlberg film, and well, it came out on the other side worse off, and has its place in the two sound categories. Will it win big? Unlikely. This is definitely going all to Gravity, because the sound in that is INSANE. It is probably in my top three aspects of that film (theres a long, long list of stuff I love about that film). Just as a side note: isnt it sad how little love Inside Llewyn Davis got? I just saw it yesterday and while I wasnt taken by the whole film, it was impeccably made and Oscar Isaac gave a perfect performance (then again, the acting category was so packed this year).






All Gravity. And just putting The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug as the longshot because I cant wait to hear on the news after the Oscars that The Hobbit didnt win any Oscars. They even did that for the bloody Baftas. Only one more year, one more year.




Yes, I did just put Alone Yet Not Alone as the longshot because the rest of the songs are so close together, it is hard to pick a longshot. So lets just have a moment of silence for the rescinded nominee, whos song was actually terrible, and the movie looks equally terrible, and which should have been replaced by a song from The Great Gatsby (ANY ONE OF THEM WOULD HAVE DONE FINE THANK YOU). Alas, this is a pretty tough race, and Im going with Frozen to take the award, even though any one of them could take it. And even though Happy has been played on the radio here a ridiculous amount of times, Id be, um, happy if that wins.

But for the last time, lets tell a few Alone Yet Not Alone funnies:
-Nominated Yet Not Nominated
-Weirdest Possible Oscar Performance Ever Yet Not Weirdest Possible Oscar Performance Ever
-"Friendly Campaigning" Yet Not Friendly Campaigning
-"Distributed" Yet Not Distributed
-etc etc etc




Seems to be many of the usual suspects here. Like, John Williams could just hit a single piano key and then hed have a nomination. However, Id say hes the long shot here, and first time nominee Steven Price will probably get the award for his brilliant scoring of Gravity. Because Gravity will probably win all of the awards, yall.




Lets just call this the section where The Great Gatsby wins all the awards because Elizabeth Debicki still deserved a supporting nod and if The Wolf of Wall Street wasnt so brilliant, Leo would be flying the Gatsby flag too. But yes, Ive accepted the fact that Im one of a small minority who thinks Baz Luhrmann and his Gatsby are the best, so Im excited to campaign the shit out of it being nominated for a few awards. And itll probably win. Why? Because for the 50 millionth time, Gatsby is awesome.




This category kind of confuses me, but Id say that Dallas Buyers Club because it has the rest of its big nominations behind it and Jared Letos make-up in particular was quite good. But yeah, it is really anyones game. I wouldnt be surprised if Bad Grandpa won, but then again, it would be weird if Bad Grandpa was an Oscar winner, yknow?




Yeeeeeeah, some more Gatsby love for me to campaign the shit out of. But the costumes were actually amazing, werent they? Especially that dress that Daisy wears to Gatsbys party that is made from crystals, and everything that Jordan wears, and Gatsbys pink suit...ugh, theyre all so pretty. Id say that Gatsby does have the most expansive and exciting costume set out of them all, but they may just give American Hustle a bit of love here (but Im banking on American Hustle being completely shut out, just to spite David O. Russell).

So theres tonights set! Tomorrow Ill look at all the "Bests" categories (Animated, Foreign...) and the "Visuals". Who do you think will win big in these categories?

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