With the Oscars arriving in 12 hours and your host (er, Nathaniel -- your host here at TFE-- not NPH) still sick as a dog, I turn the time over to you. Your votes have been tallied from the polls we ran on the individual Oscar Chart pages over the past month and here's who YOU -- the collective you at least -- are rooting for tonight.
Grand Budapest Hotel won 37% of your hearts. In solid second place was Birdman with 30%. Nightcrawler and Boyhood had their fans with 16% and 12% of the vote respectively. Trailing them all with a poor showing was Foxcatcher with 4%.
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Interestingly the leader here won by the same percentage. Whiplash whipped 37% of you into a frenzy with its shouty quotables. Inherent Vice and The Imitation Game were neck and neck for second place with 25% and 24% of your votes which is amusing because could they be more diametrically opposed? The Theory of Everything and American Sniper were way in the back with 8% and 3% respectively.
J.K. Simmons who steamrolled through the precursors also wins by a significant margin here with 42% of the votes. Edward Norton comes in a respectable second with 31% and I really do believe that if J.K. Simmons weren't in the running he'd be pretty lockish for the Oscar. Ethan Hawke took 15%, Mark Ruffalo 9%, and Robert Duvall's 1% proves that he still has his fans. Which is right considering the filmography but yeesh, that movie!
Patricia Arquette hogged 54% of your vote with everyone else far far behind. Streep fans are never quiet so the Supreme Actress was in second place with 16%. The other contenders had equal passion. Emma Stone came in third place with 10% and Laura Dern and Keira Knightley tied for last with 9% each.
Surprisingly in that formidable Best Actor race where we assumed votes would be more evenly spreadd, Michael Keaton took 56% of the votes -- the biggest win in any of the polls! Eddie Redmayne was a distant second with 24% (they both made my best actor ballot). Bradley Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Steve Carell brought up the rear in a close battle with 7%, 6% and 5% of the remaining vote crumbs.
Julianne Moore, fending off the formidable Marion Cotillard, managed 49% against Cotillards 28%. Rosamund Pike was in third with 16% and naturally this was the most popular poll to vote on since we attract the actress-lovers here. (I actually expected Pike to do much better given the comments over the film year on Gone Girl right here). Reese Witherspoon was a distant 4th with 3% and Felicity Jones tied Robert Duvall for worst showing in a poll with only 1% of the votes.
Richard Linklater was way out front with 52% of the votes for his 12 year filmmaking experiment. Alejandro G Inarritu and Wes Anderson were in 2nd and 3rd with 24% and 18% for their very distinctive visions. Bennett Miller took 3% for Foxcatcher and Morten Tyldum made it a three way tie for worst individual showing with Felicity and Duvall with only 1% of the readership behind him.
Boyhood prevailed with 39% of The Film Experience readers vote. Birdman and Grand Budapest Hotel were the only films to put up a fight with 23% and 16% of the vote. The rest of the films fought over scraps: Selma: 7%; Whiplash 5%; The Imitation Game 3%; American Sniper: 2%; and The Theory of Everything: 1%.
Thanks for voting! Given how close some of these races are tonight there's no telling how happy y'all will be tonight. Happy Oscar Watching regardless.