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2015 Oscar Predictions: Predictions Outcome

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It’s partly over. The nominations for the 88th Academy Awards have been announced. Looking back over our predictions, here’s how we performed.

Here are some statistics before we get into the details.

Perfect Categories:
Wesley – Actor, Actress, Sound Editing
Tripp – Actress, Sound Mixing
Thomas – Actor, Actress, Cinematography

No One Picked It:
Best Animated Feature: Boy and the World
Best Director: Lenny Abrahamson – Room
Best Supporting Actor: Tom Hardy – The Revenant
Best Supporting Actress: Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl (instead of for Ex Machina)
Best Original Song: “Earned It” – Fifty Shades of Grey
Best Original Song: “Manta Ray” – Extinction
Best Film Editing: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Best Production Design: The Revenant
Best Costume Design: The Revenant
Best Visual Effects: Ex Machina
Best Foreign Language Film: Theeb
Best Documentary Feature: What Happened, Miss Simone?
Best Animated Short Film: Prologue

Only One to Pick It:
Best Original Screenplay: Straight Outta Compton (Thomas)
Best Cinematography: The Hateful Eight (Thomas)
Best Costume Design: Mad Max: Fury Road (Thomas)
Best Makeup & Hairstyling: The 100-Year-Old Man… (Tripp)
Best Sound Editing: Sicario (Wesley)
Best Foreign Language Film: Embrace the Serpement (Tripp)
Best Documentary Short Subject: Chau, Beyond the Lines (Thomas)
Best Documentary Short Subject: Last Day of Freedom (Peter)

Total Predictions Correct:
Thomas – 88
Wesley – 83
Tripp – 83
Peter – 67


KEY:

Appears on Four Lists
Appears on Three Lists
Appears on Two Lists

Wesley Lovell Peter Patrick Tripp Burton Thomas LaTourrette 		[New] = New Prediction
[Return] = Prior Prediction Returning
(O) = Original Prediction
(J) = July / Post-Cannes Predictions
(T) = Post-Telluride / Toronto Predictions
(N) = November Predictions
(D) = December Pre-Guild Predictions
(F) = Final Nomination Predictions

Best Picture

  • (24) The Big Short (WL 6 D) (PP 1 F) [New] (TB 9 D) (TL 8 D)
  • (20) Bridge of Spies (WL 8 O) (PP 2 O) (TB 6 O) (TL 4 O)
  • (18) Brooklyn (WL 3 N) (PP 9 O) (TB 1 O) (TL 5 O)
  • (18) Mad Max: Fury Road (WL 5 D) (PP 4 D) (TB 7 D) (TL 2 D)
  • (28) The Martian (WL 7 O) (PP 6 T) (TB 8 N) (TL 7 D)
  • (28) The Revenant (WL 9 O) (PP 5 O) (TB 5 O/N) (TL 9 O)
  • (11) Room (WL 1 N) (PP 7 N)(TL 3 N)
  • (40) Spotlight (WL 10 T) (PP 10 J) (TB 10 N) (TL 10 N)

Not Nominated:

  • (21) Carol (WL 4 J) (PP 8 O) (TB 3 J) (TL 6 O/D)
  • (6) Inside Out (WL 2 J) (TB 4 T)
  • (3) Straight Outta Compton (TB 2 T/F) (TL 1 D)
  • (3) Ex Machina (PP 3 D)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 7 out of 8 in order (8 out of 10 total)
Peter J. Patrick: 6 out of 8 in order (8 out of 10 total)
Tripp Burton: 6 out of 8 in order (7 out of 10 total)
Thomas LaTourrette: 7 out of 8 in order (8 out of 10 total)

Best Animated Feature

  • Anomalisa (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • Boy and the World
  • Inside Out (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL TL1 O)
  • Shaun the Sheep Movie (WL D) (TB D) (TL O)
  • When Marnie Was There (PP O) (TB O)

Not Nominated:

  • The Good Dinosaur (WL O) (PP O)(TL O)
  • Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (TL F) [New]
  • The Peanuts Movie (WL O) (PP O) (TB O)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 3 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 3 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 4 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 3 out of 5

Best Director

  • Lenny Abrahamson – Room
  • Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – The Revenant (WL J) (PP O/N) (TB N/F) (TL O)
  • Tom McCarthy – Spotlight (WL T) (PP T)(TL N)
  • Adam McKay – The Big Short (WL F) [New] (TB D) (TL F) [New]
  • George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road (WL D) (TB D) (TL F) [New]

Not Nominated:

  • Todd Haynes – Carol (PP O/D) (TB J/D)
  • Laszlo Nemes – Son of Saul (PP F) [New]
  • Ridley Scott – The Martian (WL D) (PP N) (TB N) (TL D)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 4 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 2 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 3 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 4 out of 5

Best Actor

  • Bryan Cranston – Trumbo (WL D)(TL D)
  • Matt Damon – The Martian (WL D) (PP N) (TB N) (TL N)
  • Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant (WL J) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • Michael Fassbender – Steve Jobs (WL T) (PP T) (TB O) (TL O)
  • Eddie Redmayne – The Danish Girl (WL O) (PP O/F) (TB O) (TL O)

Not Nominated:

  • Steve Carell – The Big Short (TB F) [New]
  • Ian McKellen – Mr. Holmes (PP O/D)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 5 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 4 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 4 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 5 out of 5

Best Actress

  • Cate Blanchett – Carol (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • Brie Larson – Room (WL T) (PP T) (TB T) (TL N)
  • Jennifer Lawrence – Joy (WL O) (TB O) (TL F) [New]
  • Charlotte Rampling – 45 Years (WL D) (PP D) (TB F) [New] (TL N)
  • Saoirse Ronan – Brooklyn (WL N) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)

Not Nominated:

  • Rooney Mara – Carol (PP O/D)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 5 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 4 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 5 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 5 out of 5

Best Supporting Actor

  • Christian Bale – The Big Short (WL D) (TB D) (TL D)
  • Tom Hardy – The Revenant
  • Mark Ruffalo – Spotlight (WL T) (PP T/D)(TL F) [New]
  • Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies (WL N) (PP T) (TB N) (TL N)
  • Sylvester Stallone – Creed (WL D) (PP F) [New] (TB F) [New] (TL D)

Not Nominated:

  • Benicio del Toro – Sicario (WL F) [New]
  • Idris Elba – Beasts of No Nation (TB T/F) (TL O/D)
  • Michael Keaton – Spotlight (PP T)
  • Michael Shannon – 99 Homes (TB D)
  • Jacob Tremblay – Room (PP N/F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 4 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 3 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 3 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 4 out of 5

Best Supporting Actress

  • Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight (WL J) (PP T/D) (TB O) (TL O)
  • Rooney Mara – Carol (WL O) (TB J/F) (TL F) [New]
  • Rachel McAdams – Spotlight (TB D) (TL D)
  • Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
  • Kate Winslet – Steve Jobs (WL N) (PP T) (TB T/D) (TL N)

Not Nominated:

  • Helen Mirren – Trumbo (WL O)
  • Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria (PP D)
  • Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina (WL D) (PP D) (TB D) (TL D)
  • Julie Walters – Brooklyn (PP O)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 3 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 2 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 4 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 4 out of 5

Best Original Screenplay

  • Bridge of Spies (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • Ex Machina (WL D) (PP O) (TB F) [New]
  • Inside Out (WL O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • Spotlight (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • Straight Outta Compton (TL F) [New]

Not Nominated:

  • The Hateful Eight (TB O) (TL O)
  • Sicario (WL F) [New] (PP O)
  • Son of Saul (PP O)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 4 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 3 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 4 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 4 out of 5

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • The Big Short (WL D) (TB D) (TL D)
  • Brooklyn (PP O)(TL O)
  • Carol (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • The Martian (WL O) (PP O) (TB O)
  • Room (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)

Not Nominated:

  • Steve Jobs (WL F) [New] (PP O) (TB O) (TL F) [New]

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 4 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 4 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 4 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 4 out of 5

Best Original Score

  • Bridge of Spies (PP F)(TL F)
  • Carol (WL F) (PP F)(TL F)
  • The Hateful Eight (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Sicario (WL F) (PP F)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)

Not Nominated:

  • Brooklyn (PP F)
  • The Danish Girl (TB F)
  • Inside Out (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Spotlight (TB F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 4 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 4 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 2 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 4 out of 5

Best Original Song

  • “Earned It” – Fifty Shades of Grey
  • “Manta Ray” – Extinction
  • “Simple Song #3” – Youth (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • “Til It Happens to You” – The Hunting Ground (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • “Writing’s On the Wall” – Spectre (WL F) (PP F)(TL F)

Not Nominated:

  • “Feels Like Summer” – Shaun the Sheep Movie (WL F)
  • “Hands of Love” – Freeheld (PP F)
  • “The Light That Never Fails” – Meru (TB F)
  • “Love Me Like You Do” – Fifty Shades of Grey (PP F)(TL F)
  • “None of Them Are You” – Anomalisa (PP F) (TB F)
  • “See You Again” – Furious 7 (WL F) (PP F)(TL F)
  • “So Long” – Concussion (TB F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 3 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 1 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 2 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 3 out of 5

Best Film Editing

  • Bridge of Spies (WL F) (PP F)(TL F)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • The Revenant (WL F) (TB F)
  • Spotlight (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Not Nominated:

  • The Big Short (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • The Martian (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Sicario (PP F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 3 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 2 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 3 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 3 out of 5

Best Cinematography

  • Carol (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • The Hateful Eight (TL F)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • The Revenant (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Sicario (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)

Not Nominated:

  • Bridge of Spies (WL F)
  • The Martian (PP F) (TB F)
  • The Walk (PP F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 4 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 3 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 4 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 5 out of 5

Best Production Design

  • Bridge of Spies (WL F) (PP F) (TB F)
  • The Danish Girl (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • The Martian (PP F)(TL F)
  • The Revenant

Not Nominated:

  • Brooklyn (PP F)
  • Carol (WL F) (PP F)(TL F)
  • Crimson Peak (TB F)
  • Ex Machina (PP F)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 3 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 2 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 3 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 3 out of 5

Best Costume Design

  • Carol (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Cinderella (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • The Danish Girl (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (TL F)
  • The Revenant

Not Nominated:

  • Brooklyn (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Crimson Peak (WL F)
  • Pan (TB F)
  • Trumbo (PP F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 3 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 3 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 3 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 4 out of 5

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (TB F)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • The Revenant (WL F) (PP F)(TL F)

Not Nominated:

  • Black Mass (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Legend (PP F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 2/3
Peter J. Patrick: 1/3
Tripp Burton: 2/3
Thomas LaTourrette: 2/3

Best Sound Mixing

  • Bridge of Spies (PP F) (TB F)
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • The Martian (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • The Revenant (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)

Not Nominated:

  • The Hateful Eight (WL F) (PP F)
  • Straight Outta Compton (TL F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 4 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 4 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 5 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 4 out of 5

Best Sound Editing

  • Mad Max: Fury Road (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • The Martian (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • The Revenant (WL F) (PP F)(TL F)
  • Sicario (WL F)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)

Not Nominated:

  • Bridge of Spies (PP F)
  • The Hateful Eight (PP F)(TL F)
  • Inside Out (TB F)
  • Jurassic World (TB F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 5 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 3 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 3 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 4 out of 5

Best Visual Effects

  • Ex Machina
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • The Martian (WL O) (PP O) (TB F) [New] (TL O)
  • The Revenant (WL F) [New] (PP O)
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)

Not Nominated:

  • Jurassic World (TB O) (TL O)
  • The Walk (WL F) [New] (PP F) [New] (TB O) (TL F) [New]

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 4 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 4 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 3 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 3 out of 5

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Embrace the Serpent (TB O)
  • Mustang (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • Son of Saul (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • Theeb
  • A War (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)

Not Nominated:

  • The Brand New Testament (WL O)(TL F) [New]
  • Labyrinth of Lies (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • Viva (WL F) [New] (PP O)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 2 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 3 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 4 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 3 out of 5

Best Documentary Feature

  • Amy (WL O) (PP O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • Cartel Land (WL O) (TB O) (TL O)
  • The Look of Silence (WL O) (PP O) (TB F) [New] (TL O)
  • What Happened, Miss Simone
  • Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom (WL O) (TB O) (TL F) [New]

Not Nominated:

  • Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (TL O)
  • He Named Me Malala (PP O)
  • The Hunting Ground (PP O) (TB O)
  • Listen to Me Marlon (PP O)
  • Where to Invade Next (WL O)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 4 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 2 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 4 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 4 out of 5

Best Documentary Short Subject

  • Body Team 12 (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Chau, Beyond the Lines (TL F)
  • Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (WL F) (TB F)
  • A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Last Day of Freedom (PP F)

Not Nominated:

  • 50 Feet from Syria (PP F) (TB F)
  • Minerita (TB F)
  • My Enemy, My Brother (WL F) (PP F)(TL F)
  • Starting Point (WL F)
  • The Testimony (WL F) (PP F)(TL F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 2 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 2 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 3 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 3 out of 5

Best Animated Short Film

  • Bear Story (Historial De Un Oso) (WL F)(TL F)
  • Prologue
  • Sanjay’s Super Team (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • We Can’t Live Without Cosmos (PP F) (TB F)
  • World of Tomorrow (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)

Not Nominated:

  • Carface (TB F) (TL F)
  • If I Was God… (PP F)(TL F)
  • Love in the Time of March Madness (WL F) (PP F)
  • My Home (PP F) (TB F)
  • An Object at Rest (WL F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 3 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 2 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 3 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 3 out of 5

Best Live-Action Short Film

  • Ave Maria (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Day One (TB F) (TL F)
  • Everything Will Be Okay (PP F) (TB F)
  • Shok (WL F) (TB F) (TL F)
  • Stutterer (WL F) (PP F) (TB F) (TL F)

Not Nominated:

  • Bad Hunter (WL F)
  • Bis Gleich (Till Then) (WL F)
  • The Free Man (PP F)
  • Winter Light (WL F) (PP F)(TL F)

Outcome:

Wesley Lovell: 2 out of 5
Peter J. Patrick: 3 out of 5
Tripp Burton: 5 out of 5
Thomas LaTourrette: 4 out of 5

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One response to “2015 Oscar Predictions: Predictions Outcome”

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    Tripp Burton

    Not to be picky, but I had Live Action Short 5/5 also 🙂

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