The 87th academy awards will be about 2014 movies, many of which weren't even seen, so it is quite hard to come up with a reasonable best director, actor, or actress, so the review does not go there.
Best picture will fall to Boyhood as in the end the academy doesn't get movies like Grand Budapest Hotel or Birdman. Budapest is still too long ago (February 2014) and too niche to make any kind of win. Birdman makes fun of Hollywood through theater and for that reason they will likely be squeamish to give it a nod for that.
However, Michael Keaton might very well win best actor.
Each year the action picture and the science fiction picture are left out, and that has not changed. Even though Interstellar and The Lego Movie and Guardians of the Galaxy were better than anything dramatic or boring (old codger stuff) this year, they were all not nominated. Interstellar could win something small like sound our visuals, but it will not make any waves otherwise.
Like call in American Sniper, Foxcathcer and others are just there to pad the thing. Sniper is too niche also, appealing ambiguous about snipers and 'realistic' movies where there are no Hollywood endings. (Cowboy movies of the past, like that one about blood did this). Sure Oscar likes those kinds of movies, but it is too soon (wide release late December), and also seems to be not liberal enough. Favored among old conservative Fox watchers, it will not make best picture. That's Boyhood. (Kat has not seen Sniper and could not rate it and he did not see Foxcatcher or Nightcrawler either).
Foxcatcher would be odd if it won anything.
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Kat's choice for best picture, best comedy, and best original story, is noted but he is not the old Oscar people.
The Lego Movie will get an honorable mention in Kat's review as he left it out.
The Guardians of the Galaxy will not get anything, but it is best science fiction film, best superhero film, and best comedic fantasy of the year as Kat's reviews indicated. Making a special category for fantasy makes sense.
Interstellar wasn't really worthy. It had cool visuals but it's no best picture, and certainly not best actor or actress material.
Birdman gets Kat's review for best drama and best actor if they had one. It is possible eaton might win best actor for that film.
Worst pictures were off also, because the only bad movies this year Kat saw were Terenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 5 and Transformers Age of Extinction. They were nominated for Razzies! (Kat is not in the Razzies).
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