Oscar Movies

2015 Oscar Nominees

• American Sniper (Best Picture, Best Actor: Bradley Cooper, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing)

• Begin Again (Original Song)

• Big Hero 6 (Best Animated Feature)

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor: Michael Keaton, Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton, Best Supporting Actress: Emma Stone, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing)

• The Boxtrolls (Best Animated Feature)

• Boyhood (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor: Ethan Hawke, Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette, Original Screenplay, Film Editing)

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Visual Effects)

• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Visual Effects)

• Guardians of the Galaxy (Visual Effects, Makeup and Hairstyling)

• Gone Girl (Best Actress: Rosamund Pike)

• The Grand Budapest Hotel (Best Picture, Best Director, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Production Design, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score) 

• How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Best Animated Feature)

• The Imitation Game (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor: Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Supporting Actress: Keira Knightly, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Production Design, Original Score)

• Into the Woods (Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep, Production Design, Costume Design)

• The Judge (Best Supporting Actor: Robert Duvall)

• The LEGO Movie (Original Song)

• X-Men: Days of Future Past (Visual Effects)

2014 Oscar Nominees [winners]:

My 2014 Oscar predictions were slightly less successful than 2013 (I tried get too creative with my upsets), but still managed to finagle free fish tacos from a bet. And really, if you can't win free fish tacos, then predicting Oscar winners just isn't worth it.

But if you're lazy (like the 67% of Americans who said they hadn't seen a single Best Picture nominee), you probably never got around to reading the predictions in the first place (and may never do it). So here is a full list of all the 2014 Oscar nominated movies I got around to watching this year.

• American Hustle (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor: Christian Bale, Best Supporting Actor: Bradley Cooper, Best Actress: Amy Adams, Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Costume Design, Film Editing, Production Design, Original Screenplay)

• August: Osage County (Best Actress: Meryl Streep, Best Supporting Actress: Julia Roberts)

• Before Midnight (Adapted Screenplay)

• Blue Jasmine (Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Best Supporting Actress: Sally Hawkins, Original Screenplay)

• Captain Phillips (Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor: Barkhad Abdi, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Adapted Screenplay)

• Dallas Buyers Club (Best Picture, Best Actor: Matthew McConaughey, Best Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Screenplay)

• Despicable Me 2 (Best Animated Feature, Original Song)

• Frozen (Best Animated Feature, Original Song)

• Gravity (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Production Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects)

• The Great Gatsby (Costume Design, Production Design)

• Her (Best Picture, Original Score, Original Song, Production Design, Original Screenplay)

• Ironman 3 (Visual Effects)

• Nebraska (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor: Bruce Dern, Best Supporting Actress: June Squibb, Cinematography, Original Screenplay)

• Philomena (Best Picture, Best Actress: Judi Dench, Original Score, Adapted Screenplay)

• Saving Mr. Banks (Original Score)

• Star Trek Into Darkness (Visual Effects)

• The Wolf of Wall Street (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Supporting Actor: Jonah Hill, Adapted Screenplay)

2013 Oscar Nominees [winners]:

Of course, you could just read my 2013 Oscar predictions, which contains a little snippet about each movie, but in case you're lazy and/or looking for a nominee outside of the major categories, here is a complete list below of every nominee I've watched and reviewed:

Side note: It also serves as a nice reminder that Hollywood likes to pick a handful of a movie and just nominate them in every category, whether or not they deserve it. Case in point: Lincoln, who went 2 for 12, with one of their wins being production design. And what's with Ted getting a nomination?!?

• Amour (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva, Foreign Language Film, Original Screenplay)

• Anna Karenina (Cinematography, Costume Design, Original Score, Production Design)

• Argo (Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, Film Editing, Original Score, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Adapted Screenplay) 

• The Avengers (Visual Effects)

• Beasts of the Southern Wild (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress: Quvenzhane Wallis, Adapted Screenplay)

• Brave (Best Animated Feature)

• Flight (Best Actor: Denzel Washington, Original Screenplay)

• Frankenweenie (Best Animated Feature)

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design, Visual Effects)

• Les Miserables (Best Picture, Best Actor: Hugh Jackman, Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Song, Production Design, Sound Mixing)

• Life of Pi (Best Picture, Best Director, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Production Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, Adapted Screenplay)

• Lincoln (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis, Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones, Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field, Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Original Score, Production Design, Sound Mixing, Adapted Screenplay)

• The Master (Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, Best Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams)

• Mirror Mirror (Costume Design)

• Pirates! The Band of Misfits (Best Animated Feature)

• The Sessions (Best Supporting Actress: Helen Hunt)

• Silver Linings Playbook (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor: Bradley Cooper, Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Best Supporting Actor: Robert DeNiro, Best Supporting Actress: Jacki Weaver, Film Editing, Adapted Screenplay)  

• Skyfall (Cinematography, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing)

• Ted (Original Song)

• Wreck-It Ralph (Best Animated Feature)

• Zero Dark Thirty (Best Picture, Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Original Screenplay)