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87th Oscars. The Oscar Contenders of 2014 - For prediction, discussion and entertainment purposes only. This is not a endorsement of quality work, especially since no one has seen the pictures yet!
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Best Costume Design
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Grand Budapest Hotel
Milena Canonero (9 noms / 4 wins) WINNER |
Inherent Vice
Mark Bridges (2 noms / 1 win) |
Into the Woods
Colleen Atwood (11 noms / 3 wins) |
Mr Turner
Jacqueline Durran (4 noms / 1 win) |
Maleficent
Anna B Sheppard 3 nominations |
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Oscar can be stuffy about stylized work but few did it better than Canonero and from the hotel staff to the filthy rich baddies, this is memorably designed |
Though Oscar doesn't generally go for films from this time period now that they've finally noticed Bridges (who won for The Artist) they're there for him again |
Oscar loves few things more than Atwood's whimsical designs for Burton's gothic tales or other such genre trips. A collection of fairy tale icons thrilled them. |
Winning all sorts of raves at Cannes, the only true precedent in Leigh's filmography is Topsy Turvy (1999) which Oscar loved in this category. Durran is really something. |
Most of her career has been World War II focused so this reinterpretation of iconic Disney costumes must been a dream detour |
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Left Out / Should Win / Will Win
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Omissions: Selma - Ruth Carter (2 noms), Birdman -Albert Wolsky (7 noms | 2 wins), Guardians of the Galaxy - Alexandra Byrne (4 noms / 1 win) The Homesman - Lahly Poore (never nominated) Hunger Games: Mockinjay Part One - Kurt & Bart (never nominated) The Immigrant - Patricia Norris (6 nominations) , Snowpiercer Catherine George (never nominated), Noah - Michael Wilkinson (1 nomination), Big Eyes (Colleen Atwood), Unbroken - Louise Frogley, The Imitation Game (Sammy Sheldon), Theory of Everything (Steven Noble)
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Best Cinematography
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Birdman
Emmanuel Lubezki (6 noms | 2 wins) WINNER |
Grand Budapest Hotel
Robert Yeoman 1st nomination! |
Ida
Ryszard Lenczewksi & Lukasz Zal 1st nomination! |
Mr Turner
Dick Pope (1 nomination) |
Unbroken
Roger Deakins (11 nominations) |
| Lubezki finally won last year for Gravity. Can the reigning champ win back to back gold? | Wes's favorite contributors are finally being acknowledged. And all at once. | Fantastic work. Pope makes a film about art into one of its subjects paintings. |
This legendary DP is still waiting for his Oscar win |
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Omissions: Bradford Young was the most high profile missing. The young DP superstar lensed both A Most Violent Year and Selma this year.
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Best Production Design
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Grand Budapest Hotel
Adam Stockhausen 2 noms | 1 win WINNER |
The Imitation Game
Marja Durjovic 1st nomination! |
Interstellar
Nathan Crowley 3 nominations |
Into the Woods
Dennis Gassner 4 noms / 1 win |
Mr Turner
Suzie Davis 1st nomination! |
| The first time they've ever honored a Wes Anderson film in this category which is the most ridiculous stat ever, you must agree. Stockhausen was nominated last year for 12 years a Slave. What range! | Despite work like Billy Elliott, The Hours and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy this is her first nomination. She did make the spaces memorable | Desolate food-starved earth? Spaceships, unfamiliar unforgiving terrains. Crowley is a favorite for Oscar | Gassner is one of the greatest production designers alive but this is the type of film that gets nominated even if it's not everything |
Mr Turner is eye candy and those work rooms and galleries are really something |
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Omissions: Birdman -Kevin Thompson (never nominated), Selma or Noah - Mark Friedberg , Foxcatcher - Jess Gonchor (1 nomination), Unbroken - Jon Hutman (never nominated), Gone Girl - Donald Graham Burt (1 nom / 1 win) |
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Best Film Editing
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American Sniper
Joel Cox (3 noms and 1 win) & Gary Roach 1st nomination! |
Boyhood
Sandra Adair 1st nomination! |
Grand Budapest Hotel
Barney Pilling 1st nomination! |
The Imitation Game
William Goldenberg (5 noms | 1 win) |
Whiplash |
| War scenes and crosscutting | They appreciated that 12 year commitment | They liked its madcap speed and elegance | They liked its trifurcated structure and metronome urgency |
The editing definitely contributes to its energy, well sustained |
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Best Visual Effects
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
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Guardians of the Galaxy
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Interstellar
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
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They ignored the first Captain. But this film is better and the effects more impressive. They responded
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The most technologically impressive. Will that be enough for the win? The film is strangely underdiscussed given the rapture that greeted it on release
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The year's second biggest hit. The talking tree and aggressive raccoon surely did it.
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Chris Nolan always facttors into this category. |
The first nomination for this series. Let's blame it on Blink (awesome) and that slo-mo Quicksilver scene (funny)
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Best MakeUp and Hair |
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Foxcatcher
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Grand Budapest Hotel
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Guardians of the Galaxy |
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| fake noses - Oscar loves 'em! | ancient Tilda, tattooed jailbirds, and more | if the crazy love transfers to AMPAS from the public this is where it scores outside of Visual FX | ||
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