Our Film Studies professors (Colleen Glenn* and John Bruns**) pick their winners for Sunday’s 2015 Oscars. They are…
Best Picture
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Boyhood**
The Grant Budapest Hotel*
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash
Best Director
Birdman – Alejandro G. Iñárritu *
Boyhood – Richard Linklater**
Foxcatcher – Bennett Miller
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson
Leading Actor
Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
Bradley Cooper (American Sniper)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
Michael Keaton (Birdman)***
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
Leading Actress
Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night)
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)*
Julianne Moore (Still Alice)**
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Reese Witherspoon (Wild)
Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall (The Judge)
Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)
Edward Norton (Birdman)*
Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)**
Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)**
Laura Dern (Wild)
Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)*
Emma Stone (Birdman)
Meryl Streep (Into the Woods)
Best Cinematography
Birdman or (the Unexpected Virture of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki**
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman*
Ida – Lukasz Zal and Ryzaard Lenczewski
Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
Unbroken – Roger Deakins
Best Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper – Jason Hall
The Imitation Game – Graham Moore**
Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson*
The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten
Whiplash – Damien Chazelle
Best Original Screenplay
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virture of Ignorance) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo
Boyhood – E. Max Frey and Dan Futterman
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness***
Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy
***Picked by both Colleen and John