The Academy Awards will be coming up soon and this is actually just the 2nd time ever I'm actually going to watch. I watched them 2 years ago to see if Skyfall would win anything and last year I only read the results.

The only reason I will be watching this year is to see how well Interstellar wins, I think it was nominated for maybe 5 awards but the ones I am the most interested in are Best Score and Sound Editing.

What do you think of the nominations and do you plan on watching the ceremony or just reading up on it later? Is there a movie that has been nominated for a certain award and you really hope it can win? Was there a movie that wasn't nominated that you think deserved to be?

Share your thoughts on this years Academy Awards here.

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My predictions and my favorites: (Note, among other movies, I have no seen the Imitation Game (yet) and Selma).

Best Picture:
Prediction - Boyhood (unfortunately), if not, then Birdman
Personal Choice - Of the nominees, The Grand Budapest Hotel would be my favorite. I think Boyhood was a very cool concept and well done, but was it really the BEST movie out of the nominees?

Actor:
Prediction - Obviously Eddie Redmayne (Theory of everything)
Personal Choice - While I didn't love the movie, I think Bradley Cooper did awesome in his role, and pretty much carried the movie American Sniper. I also did like Eddie Redmayne, and Steve Carell (Foxcatcher). It'll go to Redmayne because he had to play a progressive disease, but not film it in chronological order...  hard stuff.

Actress:
Prediction - Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl), though I've only seen that movie and The Theory of Everything on that nominee list.
Personal Choice - Definitely Rosamund Pike; she was the perfection of acting, in my opinion.

Supporting Actor:
Prediction - JK Simmons (Whiplash)
Personal Choice - JK Simmons did one of my favorite performances of the year, period. He made the whole movie.

Supporting Actress:
Prediction - Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) will win because she had to come back to her rold once every year and keep her character
Personal Choice - Patricia Arquette, I guess. I didn't really love any other the nomenees to be honest, though I didn't see Wild or The Immitation game.

Animated: (I haven't seen Song of the Sea yet)
Prediction - Big Hero 6, but maybe Dragon 2
Personal Choice - Tale of Princess Kaguya was such a good emotional movie, but not really a kids movie (it was 2h20min long, for example), and I really don't think it has any chance of winning.

Cinematography:
Prediction - Birdman
Personal Choice - Birdman. To me, it's the obvious choice, I mean to film practically the whole thing in a few takes takes extreme precision by the director and cinematographer, it's really mind boggling.

Costume Design: (I haven't seen Inherent Vice and Mr. Turner)
Prediction - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Personal Choice - I think Budapest Hotel had really well done and interesting costume design. It's not simply for "immersion" like other movies, it actually really is a part of the characters.

Directing:
Prediction - Birdman
Personal Choice - I think the skill needed to coordinate Birdman is really amazing, and it all runs seamlessly. Amazing.

Documentaries: I haven't seen any.

Film Editing:
Prediction - Boyhood
Personal Choice - Obviously Boyhood has the most award-able editing, though American Sniper did a good job too.

Foreign Language:
I've only seen Ida, but thought it was very good, and I think it has a chance at winning.

Makeup & Hairstyling:
Prediction - Foxcatcher
Personal Choice - I'm fine with Foxcatcher winning for turning Steve Carell into a terrifying creep, but I think I would rather see Budapest Hotel win a little.

Original Score:
Prediction - Alexandre Desplait (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Personal Choice - Budapest Hotel had a really interesting score, not "typical". Same with Hans Zimmer (Interstellar), though I thought it was a tad annoying, and not his best; still liked it.

Original Song: I haven't really listened to them.

Production Design:
Prediction - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Personal Choice - I think any Wes Anderson film has great production design, though I think Interstellar was well done too.

Short films: I haven't seen any.

Sound Editing:
Prediction - Interstellar
Personal Choice - Interstellar made some very tripy interesting sounds.

Sound Mixing:
Prediction - American Sniper
Personal Choice - American Sniper had a bunch of stuff going on all at once, explosions, gun shots, yells, all if great 7.1 sound, and it was all extremely unnoticeable, which is what you want.

Visual Effects:
Prediction - Planet of the Apes (I think, I'm not great with this category actually)
Personal Choice - X-Men, I don't know why, I thought it was very interesting, and well done.

Adapted Screenplay:
Prediction - The Theory of Everything
Personal Choice - The Theory of Everything, it was a cool perspective on the romance of Hawkin's life.

Original Screenplay:
Prediction - Birdman or Boyhood
Personal Choice - I think Budapest Hotel had the most interesting and original screenplay by far, though I would be also happy if Birdman won.