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Oscars 2015: Prognosis and Film Excess' favorites

Tonight is the night of the 87th annual Academy Awards, hosted this year by the handsome, entertaining Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother (2005-14)).
Below follows a list of most of the nominated films and performers.
Red marks the person or film I expect will win.
To the right is indicated which is Film Excess' favorite.


Best Sound Mixing

American Sniper Film Excess' favorite
Birdman
Interstellar
Unbroken
Whiplash

Best Sound Editing

American Sniper Film Excess' favorite
Birdman
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Unbroken

Best Visual Effects

Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar Film Excess' favorite
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Best Make-up and Hair

Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel Film Excess' favorite
Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Production Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel Film Excess' favorite
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Mr. Turner

Best Costume Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel Film Excess' favorite
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Mr. Turner 

Best Song

Selma
Begin Again Film Excess' favorite
The Lego Movie
Beyond the Lights
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me

Best Editing

Boyhood
The Imitation Game
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash
American Sniper Film Excess' favorite

Best Animated Film

The Boxtrolls
Big Hero 6
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea Film Excess' favorite
The Tale of Princess Kaguya 

Best Documentary

Citizenfour
Finding Vivian Maier Film Excess' favorite
Last Days in Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) Film Excess' favorite
Laura Dern (Wild)
Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
Emma Stone (Birdman)
Meryl Streep (Into the Woods)

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Duvall (The Judge)
Ethan Hawke (Boyhood) Film Excess' favorite
Edward Norton (Birdman)
Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
J. K. Simmons (Whiplash)

Best Adapted Script

American Sniper Film Excess' favorite
Inherent Vice
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash 

Best Score

The Imitation Game
The Grand Budapest Hotel Film Excess' favorite
Interstellar
The Theory of Everything
Mr. Turner

Best Cinematography

Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel Film Excess' favorite
Mr. Turner
Unbroken
Ida

Best Foreign Film

Tangerines
Ida Film Excess' favorite
Leviathan
Wild Tales
Timbuktu

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Julianne Moore (Still Alice) Film Excess' favorite
Reese Witherspoon (Wild)

Best Actor

Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
Bradley Cooper (American Sniper) Film Excess' favorite
Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)

Best Original Screenplay

Boyhood Film Excess' favorite
Birdman
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler

Best Director

Richard Linklater (Boyhood) Film Excess' favorite
Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu (Birdman)
Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher)
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)

Best Film

American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood Film Excess' favorite
The Imitation Game
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash


NOTE:

The short film categories are left out, because I have no qualified opinion about them.
These guesses are just that. Guesses. And they will most likely be shown wrong (a good deal of them in any case) in a few hours. Then again, they may also all come true.

- Have a great Oscar evening and night 2015!

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