EXTREMELY Premature 2015 Oscar Predictions?

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Inspired by Indiewire's early Oscar predictions, I decided I might predict some categories of my own. Since Oscar season is around the corner, I figured why not? So here are some of my extremely early Academy-Award predictions for 2015, and feel free to post your own. Ordered from most likely to win to least likely to win.

Best Director
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman
Angelina Jolie – Unbroken
Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher
David Fincher – Gone Girl

Best Picture
Boyhood
Unbroken
Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game
Birdman
Gone Girl
Interstellar
Whiplash
Into The Woods


Best Actor
Steve Carell – Foxcatcher
Michael Keaton – Birdman
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
Joaquin Phoenix – Inherent Vice

Best Actress
Amy Adams – Big Eyes
Reese Witherspoon - Wild
Meryl Streep- Into The Woods
Julianne Moore – Maps to the Stars
Jessica Chastain -The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby

Best Supporting Actor
JK Simmons – Whiplash
Edward Norton – Birdman
Ethan Hawk - Boyhood
Channing Tatum - Foxcatcher
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood
Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
Emma Stone - Birdman
Vanessa Redgrave - Foxcatcher
Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl

Best Original Screenplay
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Dan Futterman & E. Max Frye – Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness – The Grandbudapest Hotel
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
Jon Favreu - Chef

Best Adapted Screenplay
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, & William Nicholson - Unbroken
Nick Hornby - Wild
Paul Thomas Anderson – Inherent Vice
Graham Moore - The Imitation Game

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki - Birdman
Hoyte van Hoytema - Interstellar
Roger A. Deakins - Unbroken
Darius Khondji - The Immigrant
Jeff Cronenweth - Gone Girl

Best Visual Effects
Interstellar
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
Guardians of the Galaxy
Godzilla