2015 Oscar's Pick-Em!

[Fnord]

AND THE OSCAR WINNERS ARE...

Best Picture - 50 points
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole

Best Director - 25 points
Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Best Actor - 20 points
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

Best Actress - 20 points
Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland

Best Supporting Actor - 15 points
J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher

Best Supporting Actress - 15 points
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans

Best Original Screenplay - 10 points
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo

Best Adapted Screenplay - 10 points
The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

Best Animated Feature Film - 10 points
Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli

Best Foreign Language Film - 5 points
Ida (Poland) in Polish – Paweł Pawlikowski

Best Documentary – Feature - 5 points
Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutsky

Best Documentary – Short Subject - 5 points
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry

Best Live Action Short Film - 3 points
The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas

Best Animated Short Film - 3 points
Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed

Best Original Score - 10 points
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat

Best Original Song - 10 points
"Glory" from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Legend and Common

Best Sound Editing - 1 point
American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

Best Sound Mixing - 1 point
Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

Best Production Design - 1 point
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)

Best Cinematography - 5 points
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Makeup and Hairstyling - 5 points
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier

Best Costume Design - 5 points
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero

Best Film Editing - 1 point
Whiplash – Tom Cross

Best Visual Effects - 10 points
Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher

[Fnord]

AND THE PICK-EM WINNER IS...

Total Possible Points: 245

Cory: 228

Here are the rest of the scores
Franchise: 169
J-Reb: 116
Ian: 210
Midas: 121
Fnord: 213
Tritch: 26
Jon: 215
Grave: 88
Alex: 110
Powers: 103
Pancho: 156

Congrats to Cory, let me know by PM your name and address and I'll send you either a blu-ray or DVD copy of Birdman! Yay for Cory!

[Cory]

yeah baby, thanks Fnord you da man.