My 87th Annual Academy Awards Nomination Predictions

        Tomorrow at 8:30am EST the nominations for the 87th Academy Awards will be announced by Academy President Cheryl Boone Issacs, directors JJ Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron and actor Chris Pine. So with that being said, I'm here to give you my predictions on what I believe will be nominated in each category for the Awards show. Now all of the technical (behind the scenes excluding director) categories have a random numbers of different nominees (one category could have 5 another could have 3). With that being said I will put down what I believe he top 5 contenders for each award is since I do not know which categories will have 5, less than 5 or more than 5. The awards for Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress and Director always have 5 nominees, so the ones you see are who I think will be nominated. So without further ado..........

Best Picture

Now Best Picture has a catch. There can be between 5 and 10 nominations. So I'll give you my 5 that will without a doubt make the list and then I will add what I believe would be the 6th, 7th etc.

1. Boyhood
2. Birdman
3. Selma
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. The Theory of Everything

6. The Imitation Game
7. Gone Girl
8. Whiplash
9. Foxcatcher
10. Interstellar

Best Director

1. David Fincher- Gone Girl
2. Richard Linkliter- Boyhood
3. Alejandro González Iñárritu- Birdman
4. Wes Anderson- The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Ava Duvernay- Selma

Best Actor

1. Michael Keaton- Birdman
2. Benedict Cumberbatch- The Imitation Game
3. Eddie Redmayne- The Theory of Everything
4. David Oyelowo- Selma
5. Jake Gyllenhaal- Nightcrawler

Best Actress

1. Rosamund Pike- Gone Girl
2. Jennifer Anniston- Cake
3. Julianne Moore- Still Alice
4. Reese Witherspoon- Wild
5. Felicity Jones- The Theory of Everything

Best Supporting Actor

1. J.K. Simmons- Whiplash
2. Edward Norton- Birdman
3. Mark Ruffalo- Foxcatcher
4. Ethan Hawke- Boyhood
5. Robert Duvall- The Judge

Best Supporting Actress

1. Patricia Arquette- Boyhood
2. Keira Knightley- The Imitation Game
3. Naomi Watts- St. Vincent
4. Emma Stone- Birdman
5. Meryl Streep- Into the Woods

Best Original Screenplay

1. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo- Birdman
2. Richard Linkliter- Boyhood
3. Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye- Foxcatcher
4. Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness- The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Damien Chazelle- Whiplash

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Gillian Flynn- Gone Girl
2. Paul Thomas Anderson- Inherent Vice
3. Joel Coen. Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, William Nicholson- Unbroken
4. Graham Moore- The Imitation Game
5. Anthony McCarten- The Theory of Everything

Best Foreign Language Film

In Best Foreign Language Film I will list what country the films come from along with the film.

1. Russia- Leviathan
2. Poland- Ida
3. Sweden- Force Majeure
4. Argentina- Wild Tales
5. Mauritania- Timbuktu

Best Documentary Feature

1. Citizenfour
2.  Life Itself
3. The Case Against 8
4. Virunga
5. Keep On Keepin’ On

Best Animated Feature

1. The Lego Movie
2. How to Train Your Dragon 2
3. Big Hero 6
4. The Boxtrolls
5. The Book of Life

Best Cinematography

1. Emmanuel Lubezki- Birdman
2. Roger Deakins- Unbroken
3. Hoyte Van Hoytema- Interstellar
4. Jeff Cronenweth- Gone Girl
5. Robert D. Yeoman- The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Film Editing

1. Sandra Adair- Boyhood
2. Douglas Crise- Birdman
3. William Goldenberg- The Imitation Game
4. Lee Smith- Interstellar
5. Kirk Baxter- Gone Girl

Best Production Design

1. Adam Stockhausen & Anna Pinnock- The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Nathan Crowley, Garry Fettis & Paul Healy- Interstellar
3. Maria Djurkovic- The Imitation Game
4. Jon Hutman & Lisa Thompson- Unbroken
5. Dennis Gassner & Anna Pinnock- Into the Woods

Best Costume Design

1. Jacqueline Durran- Mr. Turner
2. Milena Canonero- The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Anna B. Sheppard- Maleficent
4. Sammy Sheldon Differ- The Imitation Game
5. Colleen Atwood- Into The Woods

Best Original Score

1. Johann Johannsson- The Theory of Everything
2. Hans Zimmer- Interstellar
3. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross- Gone Girl
4. Alexandre Desplat- The Imitation Game
5. Alexandre Despalt- Unbroken

Best Original Song

In this category I will give the song, the artist who sang the the song and the movie the song was made for

1. Lost Stars- Craig Alexander and Keira Knightley - Begin Again
2. Everything is Awesome- Tegan and Sara, The Lonely Island -The LEGO Movie
3. Big Eyes- Lana Del Ray- Big Eyes
4. Glory- John Legend and Common- Selma
5. Mercy Is- Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye - Noah

Best Visual Effects

1. Interstellar
2. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Godzilla
5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Best Makeup & Hairstyling
For this category there are only three films that usually get nominated (only 3 times have there been less or more than 3 nominees), but I'm going to predict my top 3 and two possible contenders

1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Foxcatcher
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel

4. Maleficent
5. The Theory of Everything

Best Sound Mixing

1. Interstellar
2. Fury
3. Unbroken
4. Whiplash
5. Into the Woods

Best Sound Editing

1. Interstellar
2. Fury
3. Whiplash
4. Unbroken
5. Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Live Action Short

1. Aya
2. Carry On
3. Boogaloo and Graham
4. The Phone Call
5. Baghdad Messi

Best Animated Short
For this category there are only three films that usually get nominated (only 3 times have there been less or more than 3 nominees), but I'm going to predict my top 3 and two possible contenders

1. Feast
2. Coda
3. The Dam Keeper

4. Duet
5. Symphony No. 42

Best Documentary Short

1. Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
2. Joanna
3. Our Curse
4. One Child
5. Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace

        So ladies and gentlemen who and what do you think will get nominated for the 87th Academy Awards? Let me know in the comments section below and let your voice be heard.

                                                                                                                           Jonah Sparks