Aggie Radio’s Oscar Predictions

The Academy Awards are right around the corner and we here at Aggie Radio want to give you our Oscar predictions. Below are the list of Categories and a link to where you can fill out your own Oscar bracket.

Best Picture:

Prediction: Boyhood

This revolutionary movie about a boy and his hood is sure to do well at the Oscars. It was filmed over 12 years, using the same actors. The progression from boyhood into young adulthood is shown through vignettes of one boy’s life. This movie includes several very relatable scenes from playing with a 20 Questions ball during dinner to finding out your stepdad is abusive. The only fault is that there wasn’t a scene depicted the most important part of a millenial’s childhood; beating the Elite Four on Pokemon.

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Prediction: Micheal Keaton, Birdman

A couple of us watched birdman last night and Michael Keaton is easily the best part of this movie. His obviously mentally ill character is portrayed with all the hubris and vulnerability that you would expect from the former 90’s batman star. Keaton’s emotional proximity to Birdman’s Riggin is something that could only be acheived by someone who is a washed up actor himself. It’s the role he was made to play.

Actress in a Leading role:

Prediction: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Moore is crazy good in Still Alice. She portrays an older woman with early onset Alzheimers. I actually haven’t seen Still Alice (I forgot to rent it last time I was at the store. . . get it. . . It’s an Alzheimer’s joke), but the trailer was enough to make me see that she is a shoe-in. And, I am not at all ashamed to say that at 54, Julianne Moore still does it for me.

Actor in a supporting role:

Prediction: Edward Norton, Birdman

If Micheal Keaton plays a washed up former superhero, then it’s only fair that Edward Norton plays an actor that takes himself way to seriously. Norton does a fantastic Job in Birdman, he is so hateable and likeable at the same time. He brings out everything I hate about actors and everything I love about them in one character.

Actress in a supporting role:

Prediction: Anyone but Merril Streep

I’m so sick of Merril Streep getting nominated for an Oscar every year. Seriously, she just has to be in a movie to get a nomination. It doesn’t help that she loses 90 percent of the time, making her one of the biggest losers in Oscar history. Discounting the unfair attention that Merril Streep gets, I like Patricia Arquette in Boyhood, she had a tough role and did a good job. We see her full emotional range and her evolution as an actress in the movie.

Best Director:

Prediction: Richard Linklater

I feel bad for Wes Anderson and whoever directed Birdman (some foreign guy), but Linklater has this one in the bag. His sheer commitment to a movie for 15 years is going to earn him the award.

Best Animated Film:

Prediction: The Lego Movie

Seriously? Merril Streep gets a nomination, but not the lego movie? My prediction is that out of nowhere, the Lego Movie will win by write-in. At least, that’s what should happen. It will probably be How to Train Your Dragon 2.

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Other Categories:

Our prediction for the other categories is that you will probably sleep through them. Wes Anderson may pick up a couple of oscars for costume design, makeup, and best original screenplay, and American Sniper may win an editing award, but you probably won’t care. You will be doing something else, like flirting with that girl from down the hall or playing Trivia Crack with your arch enemy from English 2010.

Bonus Predictions: Neil Patrick Harris

NPH will do an awesome job and be asked to do it again next year. He will make at least one joke about being the only funny character on How I met your Mother. He will do a lot of dancing and singing and hopefully does something to reference Doogie Howser.