This Sunday, the Critics Choice will tell us what they think will happen at the Oscars. They have six categories for acting and thus, it gives them a bit of an unfair advantage when it comes to matching up with the Oscars. Keep to five and match? Then I’m impressed. Six? Well, as we all know, isn’t that hard. Either way, they will be picking their winners and now it’s your chance to predict what they will do.
I actually have no idea. Given what we know about them (Boyhood, not Birdman last year) there are two possible ways they can go. They can do what the Globes did – reward Inarritu because they didn’t last year (the Academy DID, however, as did the PGA and DGA), or they can pick Spotlight. They generally go for the film that has the momentum with critics – like Boyhood. This year, that movie is Spotlight or Mad Max: Fury Road. I am just going to go ahead and predict that they go for Spotlight and George Miller split vote, presuming that the Academy might follow suit. They will vote party line the rest of the way, I figure, with Leo and Brie in the lead categories. Sly will get supporting actor. Spotlight will get original screenplay and I’m not sure what gets adapted, though I suspect it will be The Big Short or Carol. Supporting actress is a tough call – it will either be Rooney Mara for Carol or Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl.
But enough of my yacking, here is your contest. As usual, you can enter as many times as you want but generally we keep your most recent form.