Sunday, February 28, 2016

Totally Accurate, 100 Percent Guaranteed 2015 Academy Awards Predictions*


Alright, I did not do so hot at this last year. I ignored the warning signs and went with my gut, which is always a fatal error in the predicting game. If it looks like a winner and talks like a winner, it is probably the winner. This year, I am throwing my lot in with the blockbuster epic to win it all by a couple touchdowns.

If you have followed the site this month, you know that movie is The Revenant. It is a big, artsy statement by a well respected director and features not just the best crafts of the year but the most, which is always a plus with this group. I am unsure how wise it is to predict something that has never happened – a filmmaker directing back-to-back Best Picture winners – but it feels like this is the year to throw out the past and embrace the now. The movie of “the now” just happens to be a survivalist revenge saga set in the American pioneer days. Go figure.

So, here they are, Last Cinema Standing’s Totally Accurate, 100 Percent Guaranteed 2015 Academy Awards Predictions*. Click on any category to jump to a full analysis of the nominees and check back after the ceremony for some thoughts about the winners and the show itself. Enjoy, everybody.

*Once again, I cannot vouch for the efficacy of this guarantee anywhere a human language is spoken.

Will win: The Revenant
Should win: Spotlight

Will win: Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenant
Should win: Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenant

Will win: Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant
Should win: Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant

Will win: Brie Larson for Room
Should win: Charlotte Rampling for 45 Years

Will win: Sylvester Stallone for Creed
Should win: Mark Rylance for Bridge of Spies

Will win: Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl
Should win: Jennifer Jason Leigh for The Hateful Eight

Will win: Spotlight
Should win: Ex Machina

Will win: The Big Short
Should win: Room

Will win: The Revenant
Should win: The Revenant

Should win: Mad Max: Fury Road

Will win: Mad Max: Fury Road
Should win: Mad Max: Fury Road

Will win: Cinderella
Should win: Carol

Will win: Mad Max: Fury Road
Should win: Mad Max: Fury Road

Will win: The Revenant
Should win: The Revenant

Will win: The Revenant
Should win: The Revenant

Will win: The Revenant
Should win: Ex Machina

Will win: The Hateful Eight
Should win: The Hateful Eight

Will win: “’Til It Happens to You” from The Hunting Ground
Should win: “Simple Song #3” from Youth

Will win: Inside Out
Should win: Anomalisa

Will win: Amy
Should win: Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

Will win: Son of Saul
Should win: Mustang

Will win: Stutterer
Should win: Shok

Will win: Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
Should win: Last Day of Freedom

Will win: Sanjay’s Super Team
Should win: World of Tomorrow

Predicted big winners

The Revenant – 7
Mad Max: Fury Road – 3

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