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Alex Heeney / January 14, 2014

If I picked the Oscar nominees…

Best picture
Before Midnight
Inside Llewyn Davis
Enough Said
Stories We Tell
Frances Ha

Best Director
Richard Linklater – “Before Midnight”
Joel and Ethan Coen – “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Alfonso Cuarón – “Gravity”
Sarah Polley – “Stories We Tell”
Pablo Sorrentino – “The Great Beauty”

Best Actor
Oscar Isaac – “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Joaquin Phoenix – “Her”
Bruce Dern – “Nebraska”
Michael B. Jordan – “Fruitvale Station”
Christian Bale – “Out of the Furnace”

Best Actress
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – “Enough Said”
Julie Delpy – “Before Midnight”
Cate Blanchett – “Blue Jasmine”
Adele Exarchopoulos – “Blue is the Warmest Color”
Brie Larson – “Short Term 12”

Best Supporting Actor
Will Forte – “Nebraska”
Kyle Chandler – “The Spectacular Now”
Nathan Fillion – “Much Ado About Nothing”
James Gandolfini – “Enough Said”
Daniel Brühl – “Rush”

Best Supporting Actress
Léa Seydoux – “Blue is the Warmest Color”
Carey Mulligan – “Inside Llewyn Davis”
June Squibb – “Nebraska”
Sally Hawkins – “Blue Jasmine”
Scarlett Johansson – “Her”

Best Original Screenplay
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach – “Frances Ha”
Joel and Ethan Coen – “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Nicole Holofcener – “Enough Said”
Asghar Farhadi – “The Past”
Lake Bell – “In A World…”

Best Adapted Screenplay
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke – “Before Midnight”
Daniel Cretton – “Short Term 12”
Ghalia Lacroix and Abdellatif Kechiche – “Blue is the Warmest Colour”
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope – “Philomena”
Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”

Best Cinematography
Bruce Delbonnel – “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Anthony Dod Mantle – “Rush”
Luca Bigazzi – “The Great Beauty”
Roger Deakins – “Prisoners”
Peter Andrews – “Side Effects”

Best Documentary
“At Berkeley”
“Terms and Conditions May Apply”
“Watermark”
“Stories We Tell”

Filed Under: Essays

About Alex Heeney

Alex is the Editor-in-Chief of The Seventh Row, based in San Francisco and from Toronto, Canada.

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