The 86th Annual Academy Awards are being held this Sunday. To celebrate and help you prepare, OFCS members have submitted some of their links. This is everything submitted. You’ll want to click the Read More link to see them all.
10 Times Oscar Got It (Unexpectedly) Right
- Excerpt: It’s worth remembering that for all the times they got it wrong, the Oscars occasionally get it very right — even when it’s least expected. And in that spirit, we’ve collected ten occasions when the Academy Award went, surprisingly and delightfully, the right way.
2013 Best Picture Haiku
Dustin Freeley @ MoviesAboutGladiators.com
The 2014 Oscars: Predicting Best Actor, Actress and Supporting categories
The 2014 Oscars: Predicting the Best Animated, Foreign and Documentary films
The 2014 Oscars: Predicting the Screenplay categories and Best Picture
The 2014 Oscars: Predicting the Short Film categories
The 2014 Oscars: Predicting the technical categories
25 Years of Oscar Hosts, Ranked
- Excerpt: A good Oscar host has to be something of a miracle worker: they keep the show moving, react spontaneously to whatever clusterfucks occur (and they always do), rib the royalty but only gently, and make the night edgy enough for home viewers, but not too edgy for the Cryptkeepers in the audience. Many have tried, but only a few have succeeded, so in anticipation of Ellen Degeneres’ second run at the job, we’ve ranked every Oscar host from the last 25 ceremonies.
The 86th Annual Academy Awards Winners Prediction
Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
The 86th Annual Academy Awards: Best Actor
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
The 86th Annual Academy Awards: Best Actress
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
The 86th Annual Academy Awards: Best Director
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
The 86th Annual Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
The 86th Annual Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
86th Oscars: Oscar Guy’s Final Thoughts
- Excerpt: My final thoughts on all the categories for this year’s Oscars, ranked in order of least competitive to most competitive.
And the Winners Will Be… Our Predictions for the Oscars
Erik Childress @ RogerEbert.com
Best Picture and the Rule of Three
- Excerpt: If Best Picture winners like ‘The Godfather’, ‘Rocky’, and ‘Crash’ took the top prize with only 3 awards, how do contenders like ’12 Years a Slave’ and ‘American Hustle’ stand this year?
Can DiCaprio beat McConaughey? Fearless Oscar predictions give awards an edge
- Excerpt: America loves a comeback story and Matthew McConaughey is the story of the year.
Catching Up with Unseen Best Picture Oscar Winners
Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: Maybe most of these viewings confirmed why I had skipped a lot of these in the first place. But a good number were also reminders that even film critics haven’t seen all the great works of cinema.
Do the Oscars Offer a Generous Wink at Science Fiction Cinema from 2013?
Frank Ochieng @ Focus of New York Magazine
Exclusive Supercut: The Early Roles of Your Oscar Nominees
- Excerpt: For this exclusive supercut, we dug up over 100 clips from the early film and television performances of the twenty nominees for acting Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards.
Flavorwire’s Official 2014 Oscar Picks and Predictions
Four Oscar Wishes
Frank Ochieng’s 2014 Oscar Predictions
Frank Ochieng @ Focus of New York Magazine
If I Picked the Winners . . .
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: Yeah, I stole the idea from Siskel and Ebert
The Latest in Lupita Fashion and the 2014 NAACP Image Award Winners
My (reasonably accurate) Oscar Picks!
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: I’m usually right. This year things are so predicatable that I’m not worried.
My Annual (and reasonably accurate) Oscar Picks . . .
Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: I’m usually right. This year things are so predicatable that I’m not worried.
No Concessions: My Oscar ballot
Oscar Bridesmaids: The 2013 Wedding Party
- Excerpt: This year’s wedding party of Oscar bridesmaids includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Amy Adams, Brad Pitt, and Roger Deakins.
Oscar Mania
Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Susan Granger’s Oscar Predictions
Oscar Predictions
R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine
Oscar Predictions 2014: The Major Awards
Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: While I think the film itself doesn’t hold together terribly well, Dallas Buyers Club works pretty much solely thanks to McConaughey’s performance, and it seems only right that his act of reinvention end with him picking up an Oscar on Sunday night.
Oscar Predictions 2014: The Technical Awards
Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: I have to go with Gravity [for Sound Mixing] once more, though this time it’s less to do with momentum than with the fact that I’m still not 100% clear on what the difference between Sound Editing and Sound Mixing is, and given how often the two awards have gone to the same film in the past, I suspect that most of the Academy don’t either.
Oscar Predictions Video Cheat-Sheet
Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: ALL 24 AWARDS IN CEREMONY ORDER
Oscar Predictions: Final Round – Might as Well Pick from a Hat!
- Excerpt: The Oscar race is so close that two rounds of predictions are offered: one based on buzz and such, and one picked randomly from a hat.
Oscar Predictions: Our Final Predictions
- Excerpt: Cinema Sight’s Contributors’ Final Predictions.
Oscar Preview: Precursor Winners & Losers, Week 13
- Excerpt: Looking at the winners and losers from Precursor Season, Week 13
The Rundown 2013: Editing & Cinematography
- Excerpt: Discussing our predictions for the winners of Best Editing & Best Cinematography
The Rundown 2013: Original Screenplay & Adapted Screenplay
- Excerpt: Discussing our predictions for the winners of Best Original Screenplay & Best Adapted Screenplay
The Rundown 2013: Picture
- Excerpt: Discussing our predictions for the winners of Best Picture.
The Rundown 2013: Production Design & Costume Design
- Excerpt: Discussing our predictions for the winners of Best Production Design & Best Costume Design
The Rundown 2013: Sound Mixing & Sound Editing
- Excerpt: Discussing our predictions for the winners of Best Sound Mixing & Best Sound Editing
A Terrifying Peek Inside the Empty Brain of a Typical Oscar Voter
- Excerpt: For all the hip, beautiful people on the stage and in the audience on Oscar night, the awards themselves are bestowed by a giant body that is filled to the brim with mouth-breathing troglodytes. And if you’d like a fresher confirmation of that fact, I direct you to this interview with an anonymous Oscar voter, courtesy of the great Michael Musto.
