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Magic Mike
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 National Board of Review Predictions These announce Tuesday. They sometimes have some "interesting" inclusions, such as Walter Mitty last year.
Here are my predictions:
Best Picture - Birdman
Top 10
Boyhood
Nightcrawler
Interstellar
Whiplash
Big Eyes
Unbroken
American Sniper
The Imitation Game
Gone Girl
The Theory of Everything
Best Director of the Year - Alejandro Inarritu, Birdman
Best Actor - Michael Keaton, Birdman
Best Actress - Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Supporting Actress - Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
Supporting Actor - JK Simmons, Whiplash
Best Original Screenplay - Birdman
Best Adapted Screenplay - The Imitation Game
Best Ensemble - Into the Woods
Animated Feature - Big Hero 6
Best Foreign Language Picture of the Year - Two Days, One Night
Top 5
Ida
Mommy
Leviathan
Force Majeure
The Circle
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David
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Re: National Board of Review Predictions Best Film: Boyhood
Top Films:
American Sniper
Birdman
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
Inherent Vice
Interstellar
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Unbroken
Wild
(I suspect they are going to relegate Whiplash to their Top 10 Independent Films list, which is often extremely hard to predict. Last year's list included Ain't Them Bodies Saints, In a World..., Much Ado About Nothing, The Place Beyond the Pines, and Sightseers. It is my hope this may be the one high-profile place where Locke and/or Tracks show up this awards season.)
Best Director: Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Best Actor: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Wild
Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton, Birdman
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Best Original Screenplay: Birdman
Best Adapted Screenplay: Gone Girl
Best Ensemble: Inherent Vice
Best Animated Feature: Big Hero 6
Best Documentary: Citizenfour
Best Foreign Language Film: Ida
Documentary runners-up:
Finding Vivian Maier
Last Days in Vietnam
Life Itself
National Gallery
Rich Hill
Foreign-language film runners-up:
Force Majeure
Leviathan
Mommy
Two Days, One Night
Wild Tales
_________________   1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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David
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Re: National Board of Review Predictions Oh, and I expect them to give Angelina Jolie a special citation or prize for directing Unbroken.
_________________1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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Magic Mike
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Re: National Board of Review Predictions Since they like to honor something that usually gets a luke-warm critical response at best I went with Big Eyes  . There has to be some odd-ball in their top 10. And I went back and forth between Boyhood and Birdman for their pick of Best Film of the Year but ultimately saw them going with Birdman.
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David
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Re: National Board of Review Predictions I believe the "oddball" inclusion will be Inherent Vice.
_________________1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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Magic Mike
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Re: National Board of Review Predictions David wrote: I believe the "oddball" inclusion will be Inherent Vice. That's not oddball enough, IMO.
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David
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Re: National Board of Review Predictions But a Weinstein-released Amy Adams vehicle released on Christmas Day with decent-to-strong reviews is. _________________1. The Lost City of Z - 2. A Cure for Wellness - 3. Phantom Thread - 4. T2 Trainspotting - 5. Detroit - 6. Good Time - 7. The Beguiled - 8. The Florida Project - 9. Logan and 10. Molly's Game
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Magic Mike
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Re: National Board of Review Predictions David wrote: But a Weinstein-released Amy Adams vehicle released on Christmas Day with decent-to-strong reviews is. Because reviews are lukewarm .
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