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87th Oscar Predictions For All Categories! (1/13/2015)

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My final predictions for nomination morning!

Best Picture
  1. Boyhood (Predicted Winner)
  2. Birdman
  3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  4. The Imitation Game
  5. The Theory Of Everything
  6. Selma
  7. Nightcrawler
  8. American Sniper
  9. Whiplash

Best Director
  1. Richard Linklater for Boyhood (Predicted Winner)
  2. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Birdman
  3. Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel
  4. Ava DuVernay for Selma
  5. Damien Chazelle for Whiplash

Best Actor
  1. Michael Keaton in Birdman (Predicted Winner)
  2. Eddie Redmayne in The Theory Of Everything
  3. Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler
  4. Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game
  5. David Oyelowo in Selma

Best Actress
  1. Julianne Moore in Still Alice (Predicted Winner)
  2. Reese Witherspoon in Wild
  3. Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl
  4. Felicity Jones in The Theory Of Everything
  5. Amy Adams in Big Eyes

Supporting Actor
  1. J.K. Simmons in Whiplash (Predicted Winner)
  2. Edward Norton in Birdman
  3. Ethan Hawke in Boyhood
  4. Mark Ruffalo in Foxcatcher
  5. Steve Carell in Foxcatcher

Supporting Actress
  1. Patricia Arquette in Boyhood (Predicted Winner)
  2. Keira Knightley in The Imitation Game
  3. Emma Stone in Birdman
  4. Meryl Streep in Into The Woods
  5. Rene Russo in Nightcrawler

Original Screenplay
  1. Birdman (Predicted Winner)
  2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  3. Boyhood
  4. Nightcrawler
  5. Foxcatcher

Adapted Screenplay
  1. The Imitation Game (Predicted Winner)
  2. The Theory Of Everything
  3. Gone Girl
  4. Whiplash
  5. American Sniper

Production Design
  1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Predicted Winner)
  2. Into The Woods
  3. The Imitation Game
  4. Interstellar
  5. Mr. Turner

Costume Design
  1. Into The Woods (Predicted Winner)
  2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  3. Mr. Turner
  4. The Imitation Game
  5. Maleficent

Makeup And Hairstyling
  1. Foxcatcher (Predicted Winner)
  2. Guardians Of The Galaxy
  3. The Theory Of Everything

Cinematography
  1. Birdman (Predicted Winner)
  2. Mr. Turner
  3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
  4. Unbroken
  5. Interstellar

Film Editing
  1. Birdman (Predicted Winner)
  2. Whiplash
  3. Boyhood
  4. The Imitation Game
  5. The Grand Budapest Hotel

Visual Effects
  1. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (Predicted Winner)
  2. Interstellar
  3. The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
  4. Guardians Of The Galaxy
  5. X-Men: Days Of Future Past

Song
  1. “Glory” from Selma (Predicted Winner)
  2. “Everything Is Awesome” from The Lego Movie
  3. “Lost Stars” from Begin Again
  4. “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
  5. “Big Eyes” from Big Eyes

Score
  1. The Theory Of Everything (Predicted Winner)
  2. The Imitation Game
  3. Interstellar
  4. Gone Girl
  5. The Grand Budapest Hotel

Sound Editing
  1. American Sniper (Predicted Winner)
  2. Interstellar
  3. Guardians Of The Galaxy
  4. Unbroken
  5. Birdman

Sound Mixing
  1. American Sniper (Predicted Winner)
  2. Birdman
  3. Whiplash
  4. Into The Woods
  5. Interstellar

Animated Feature
  1. How To Train Your Dragon 2 (Predicted Winner)
  2. The LEGO Movie
  3. Big Hero 6
  4. The Boxtrolls
  5. The Tale Of Princess Kaguya

Documentary Feature
  1. CitizenFour (Predicted Winner)
  2. Life Itself
  3. The Overnighters
  4. Virunga
  5. Last Days In Vietnam

Foreign Language Film
  1. Ida (Predicted Winner)
  2. Leviathan
  3. Wild Tales
  4. Tumbuktu
  5. Force Majeure

Animated Shorts
  1. Feast (Predicted Winner)
  2. Duet
  3. Coda
  4. The Numberlys
  5. The Bigger Picture

Documentary Shorts
  1. Kehinde Wiley: An Economy Of Grace (Predicted Winner)
  2. Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
  3. The Lion’s Mouth Opens
  4. One Child
  5. White Earth

Live Action Shorts
  1. Carry On (Predicted Winner)
  2. Butter Lamp
  3. The Phone Call
  4. Boogaloo And Graham
  5. My Father’s Truck

87th Oscar Final Predictions For All Categories! (2014-2015 Awards Season) (2/20/2015)

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No long explanations, and none of that “will win/might win/should win” business to hedge my bets. Either I’ll be right on Sunday or I won’t, simple as that!

Best Picture: Boyhood
Director: Richard Linklater for Boyhood
Lead Actress: Julianne Moore for Still Alice
Lead Actor: Eddie Redmayne for The Theory Of Everything
Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette for Boyhood
Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons for Whiplash
Original Screenplay: Birdman
Adapted Screenplay: The Imitation Game
Cinematography: Birdman
Costume Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Film Editing: Boyhood
Makeup And Hairstyling: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Production Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Visual Effects: Interstellar
Song: “Glory” from Selma
Score: The Theory Of Everything
Sound Editing: American Sniper
Sound Mixing: Whiplash
Animated Feature: How To Train Your Dragon 2
Documentary Feature: CitizenFour
Foreign Language: Ida
Animated Short: Feast
Documentary Short: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Live Action Short: Boogaloo And Graham
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When Your Friends Ask Who Votes For The Oscars, Send Them To Us!

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Today’s the big day, when even the most casual moviegoer begins to wonder who makes up “The Academy.” As a film lover, they look to you to have the answer. And you should look to us!

Lots of sites can give you statistics and anonymous interviews, but we’ve got the largest public list of Oscar voters you’ll find on the internet right here at The Academy Members Project! We’ve now discovered the names of 4,850 current academy members (about 70% of the full membership) and over 4400 historical (deceased) members. We’ve even got a page where you can see some of the famous people who are NOT members of the academy.

Think of how impressed your friends will be that you know about this resource. They could even peruse our pages while they’re watching the red carpet or waiting for the commercials to run. We do the research year-round, so that you can be the hit of your Oscar party tonight!
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If You’re Going To The TCM Film Festival, The Academy Members Project Could Use Your Help!

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The Turner Classic Movies Film Festival is happening this weekend, and I’ve always understood it to be one of those magical places where the stars take questions and mingle with the fans. As such, it is a perfect chance for you to help us build The Academy Members Project - the largest public list of Oscar voters you’ll find on the internet.

I went through the festival’s list of announced Special Guests for this year, and many are already confirmed Oscar voters. But several others aren’t, so if you’re attending the festival and happen to be in the same room with these folks, we’d love it if you got a chance to ask them if they’re part of the Academy!

Note that it is usually considered un-cool to ask who they voted for on their secret Oscar ballots, but more general questions like whether they are a member, for how long, in what branch of the academy, if they know who sponsored them for membership, and what they think of the process in general are all fair game!

Top filmmakers who aren’t confirmed on our list yet and who we’d love you to ask:
  • Robert Osborne
  • Ben Mankiewicz
  • Ann-Margret
  • Cari Beauchamp
  • William Daniels
  • Carl Davis
  • Christine Ebersole
  • Ronald J. Fields - ask about his grandfather!
  • Allen Fields - ask about his grandfather!
  • Zach Galligan
  • Bruce Goldstein
  • Ken Howard
  • Peter H. Hunt
  • William Joyce
  • George Lazenby
  • Terry Leonard
  • Nelie Adams McQueen - ask about her & her husband!
  • Robert Morse
  • Millie Perkins
  • Christopher Plummer
  • Edoardo Ponti
  • Andrew Prine
  • Greg Proops
  • Katherine Quinn
  • Bruce Raynor
  • Alex Trebek
  • Edgar Wright
  • Brane Zivkovic


Scholars & Authors In Attendance - They’re less likely to be members, but there’s no harm in popping the question!
  • Jeremy Arnold
  • Jeanine Basinger
  • Dick Brookz
  • Dorothy Dietrich
  • Scott Eyman
  • Rory Flynn
  • Joseph Gomez
  • Darlene C. Hoffman
  • Lynne Kirste
  • James Layton
  • Leonard Maltin
  • Tara McNamara
  • Ann Morra
  • Eddie Muller
  • David Pierce
  • Aron Ralston
  • Rick Schmidlin

If you do manage to get a moment with any of these great individuals, be sure to let us know. You can write up a blog story about it and send us a link, you can tweet us at @NeverTooEarlyMP, or email us at nevertooearlymoviepredictions@gmail.com, or simply leave a comment below letting us know what you found!
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The Academy Members Project Has Now Identified Over 5,000 Oscar Voters!

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Big news today as The Academy Members Project leaps over another major milestone.

We have now identified the names of over 5,000 Oscar voters!

From the very beginning, our goal has been to identify and celebrate the artists who make up this prestigious club. We get a rush of excitement every time we find a new name, but we have to admit that surpassing big round numbers like 5,000 brings a special thrill.

In addition to the 5,000 current members, we have found a significant number of historical members, and even begun to identify some famous people who have not been admitted to the academy (yet!).

I want to thank everyone who has helped with the research, or even just smiled supportively over the years. Reading through archival materials and hunting down news articles can be lonely work, but your encouragement helps immensely. There are still lots of names left to find, but the days when people can claim that they have “no idea” who makes up the academy are dwindling fast.

You can check out all the names using the index below, or learn how you can join the search to help us get to 6,000!

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Academy Invites 322 New Members

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their new invitations today, and we here at The Academy Members Project couldn’t be more excited!

Check out the names of the 322 new invitees below, and then make sure to check out the names of over 5,100 existing members that we’ve previously identified here.

The 2015 invitees are:

Actors
Elizabeth Banks – “Love & Mercy,” “The Hunger Games”
Choi Min-sik- “Lucy,” “Oldboy”
Benedict Cumberbatch – “The Imitation Game,” “Star Trek Into Darkness”
Martin Freeman – “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “Hot Fuzz”
Heather Graham – “The Hangover,” “Boogie Nights”
Tom Hardy – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Inception”
Kevin Hart – “The Wedding Ringer,” “Ride Along”
Felicity Jones – “The Theory of Everything,” “Like Crazy”
Stephen Lang – “Avatar,” “The Men Who Stare at Goats”
Jodi Long – “A Picture of You,” “Beginners”
John Carroll Lynch – “Shutter Island,” “Zodiac”
Gugu Mbatha-Raw – “Beyond the Lights,” “Belle”
Denis O’Hare – “Milk,” “Michael Clayton”
Michael O’Neill – “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Transformers”
David Oyelowo – “Selma,” “A Most Violent Year”
Dev Patel – “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” “Slumdog Millionaire”
Rosamund Pike – “Gone Girl,” “Pride & Prejudice”
Chris Pine – “Into the Woods,” “Star Trek”
Daniel Radcliffe – “Kill Your Darlings,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
Eddie Redmayne – “The Theory of Everything,” “Les Misérables”
Jason Segel – “The Five-Year Engagement,” “The Muppets”
J.K. Simmons – “Whiplash,” “Juno”
Sonny Skyhawk – “Geronimo: An American Legend,” “Young Guns II”
Song Kang-ho – “Snowpiercer,” “The Host”
Emma Stone – “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “The Help”

Casting Directors
Lucy Bevan – “Cinderella,” “The Hundred-Foot Journey”
Victoria Burrows – “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” “King Kong”
Aisha Coley – “Selma,” “Beyond the Lights”
Patricia DiCerto – “Blue Jasmine,” “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
Mary Hidalgo – “The Lego Movie,” “The Incredibles”
Roger Mussenden – “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “Get Smart”
Lucie Robitaille – “Incendies,” “The Barbarian Invasions”
Luis San Narciso – “The Skin I Live In,” “The Sea Inside”
April Webster – “Tomorrowland,” “Star Trek”
Tricia Wood – “Woman in Gold,” “The Lincoln Lawyer”

Cinematographers
Christopher Blauvelt – “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,” “The Bling Ring”
Adriano Goldman – “August: Osage County,” “Jane Eyre”
Ben Kasulke – “Laggies,” “Safety Not Guaranteed”
Ryszard Lenczewski – “Ida,” “Margaret”
Jody Lee Lipes – “Ballet 422,” “Martha Marcy May Marlene”
Sharone Meir – “Whiplash,” “Mean Creek”
Rachel Morrison – “Cake,” “Fruitvale Station”
Tristan Oliver – “ParaNorman,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
Hoyte Van Hoytema – “Interstellar,” “Her”
Roman Vasyanov – “Fury,” “End of Watch”
Łukasz Żal – “Ida,” “Joanna”

Costume Designers
Kasia Walicka Maimone – “Foxcatcher,” “Moonrise Kingdom”
Francesca Livia Sartori – “Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy,” “When the Night”
Jany Temime – “Gravity,” “Skyfall”

Designers
Ramsey Avery – “Tomorrowland,” “Star Trek Into Darkness”
Gae Buckley – “The Book of Eli,” “He’s Just Not That into You”
Keith Brian Burns – “The Best Man Holiday,” “2 Fast 2 Furious”
Lester W. Cohen – “Fading Gigolo,” “Cop Land”
Suzie Davies – “Mr. Turner,” “The Children”
John F. Fenner – “The Phantom of the Opera,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley”
Darren Gilford – “Oblivion,” “Tron: Legacy”
Derek R. Hill – “Southpaw,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl”
Bryn Imagire – “Cars 2,” “Up”
Dina Lipton – “Baggage Claim,” “Love Hurts”
Tatiana Macdonald – “The Imitation Game,” “The Invisible Woman”
Dominic Masters – “Woman in Gold,” “Casino Royale”
Doug Meerdink – “Jurassic World,” “Ocean’s Thirteen”
Chris Spellman – “Paper Towns,” “This Is the End”
Patrick Tatopoulos – “300: Rise of an Empire,” “Total Recall”
Charlotte Watts – “Mr. Holmes,” “Mr. Turner”

Directors
Michael Binder – “Black or White,” “Reign over Me”
Bong Joon-ho – “Snowpiercer,” “Mother”
Niki Caro – “North Country,” “Whale Rider”
Damien Chazelle* – “Whiplash,” “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench”
Simon Curtis – “Woman in Gold,” “My Week with Marilyn”
François Girard – “Silk,” “The Red Violin”
F. Gary Gray – “The Italian Job,” “Friday”
James Gunn – “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Super”
Im Kwon-taek – “Chi-Hwa-Seon (Painted Fire),” “Chunhyang”
Stan Lathan – “Beat Street,” “Amazing Grace”
Malcolm D. Lee* – “The Best Man Holiday,” “The Best Man”
Justin Lin – “Fast & Furious 6,” “Better Luck Tomorrow”
François Ozon – “Young & Beautiful,” “Swimming Pool”
Paweł Pawlikowski* – “Ida,” “My Summer of Love”
Kelly Reichardt – “Meek’s Cutoff,” “Wendy and Lucy”
Ira Sachs – “Love Is Strange,” “Keep the Lights On”
Lynn Shelton – “Laggies,” “Your Sister’s Sister”
Abderrahmane Sissako* – “Timbuktu,” “Bamako”
Damián Szifron* – “Wild Tales,” “On Probation”
Fernando Trueba – “Chico & Rita,” “Belle Epoque”
Morten Tyldum – “The Imitation Game,” “Headhunters”
Zaza Urushadze – “Tangerines,” “The Guardian”
Wayne Wang – “Anywhere but Here,” “The Joy Luck Club”
Edgar Wright – “The World’s End,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”
Joe Wright – “Anna Karenina,” “Atonement”
Andrey Zvyagintsev* – “Leviathan,” “Elena”

Documentary
Richard Berge – “The Island President,” “The Rape of Europa”
Mathilde Bonnefoy* – “CitizenFour,” “The Invisibles”
Emad Burnat – “5 Broken Cameras”
Guy Davidi – “5 Broken Cameras,” “Interrupted Streams”
Geralyn Dreyfous – “The Square,” “The Invisible War”
Lewis Erskine – “Free Angela: And All Political Prisoners,” “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple”
Shana Hagan – “Misconception,” “This Film Is Not Yet Rated”
Tony Hardmon – “Detropia,” “Semper Fi: Always Faithful”
Leonard Retel Helmrich – “Position among the Stars,” “Shape of the Moon”
Pirjo Honkasalo – “The 3 Rooms of Melancholia,” “Atman”
Judy Irving – “Pelican Dreams,” “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill”
Robert Kenner – “Merchants of Doubt,” “Food, Inc.”
Marc Levin – “Mr. Untouchable,” “The Last Party”
Jesse Moss – “The Overnighters,” “Full Battle Rattle”
Pratibha Parmar – “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth,” “A Place of Rage”
Paula DuPre’ Pesmen – “Keep On Keepin’ On,” “The Cove”
Gordon Quinn – “Life Itself,” “Hoop Dreams”
Kim Roberts – “Waiting for ‘Superman’,” “Lost Boys of Sudan”
Richard Rowley – “Dirty Wars,” “The Fourth World War”
João Moreira Salles – “Santiago,” “Entreatos (Intermissions)”
Ondi Timoner – “We Live in Public,” “Dig!”

Executives
Carolyn Blackwood
Robbie Brenner
Lia Buman
Steve Burke
David Fenkel
Mellody Hobson
Brian Keane
Steven Paul O’Dell
Jim Orr
Mark Rachesky
Ted Sarandos
Jeff Shell

Film Editors
Craig Alpert – “Pitch Perfect 2,” “Pineapple Express”
Mick Audsley – “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” “Dirty Pretty Things”
Pablo Barbieri – “Wild Tales,” “La Antena (The Aerial)”
Nadia Ben Rachid – “Timbuktu,” “Bamako”
Kristina Boden – “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,” “Cake”
Mathilde Bonnefoy* – “CitizenFour,” “Run Lola Run”
Julian Clarke – “Chappie,” “District 9”
Douglas Crise – “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “Babel”
Tom Cross – “Whiplash,” “Any Day Now”
Jinx Godfrey – “The Theory of Everything,” “Man on Wire”
Robert Grahamjones – “Brave,” “Ratatouille”
Masahiro Hirakubo – “Virunga,” “The Duchess”
Jarosław Kamiński – “Ida,” “Aftermath (Pokłosie)”
William Kerr – “Bridesmaids,” “I Love You, Man”
Nico Leunen – “Lost River,” “The Broken Circle Breakdown”
Mike McCusker – “Get On Up,” “3:10 to Yuma”
Tim Mertens – “Big Hero 6,” “Wreck-It Ralph”
Barney Pilling – “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “An Education”
David Rennie – “22 Jump Street,” “Office Space”
Gary D. Roach – “American Sniper,” “Prisoners”
Michael L. Sale – “We’re the Millers,” “Bridesmaids”
Stephen Schaffer – “Cars 2,” “WALL-E”
Job ter Burg – “Borgman,” “Winter in Wartime”
Peter Teschner – “St. Vincent,” “Horrible Bosses”
Tara Timpone – “Friends with Kids,” “Bad Teacher”

Makeup Artists and Hairstylists
Frida S. Aradottir – “August: Osage County,” “A Serious Man”
Victoria Down – “Big Eyes,” “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
Frances Hannon – “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “The King’s Speech”
Todd Kleitsch – “Run All Night,” “Black Swan”
Dennis Liddiard – “Foxcatcher,” “Jobs”
Jerry Popolis – “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “Noah”
Janine Rath-Thompson – “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “Bridesmaids”
Johnny Villanueva – “The Gambler,” “The Fighter”
David White – “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “La Vie en Rose”
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou – “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “An Education”

Members-at-Large
Andy Armstrong
Wayne Billheimer
Kevin Brownlow
Simon Crane
Debbie Denise
Jeff Habberstad
Andy Hendrickson
Elissa M. Rashkin Loparco
Guido Quaroni
Nicole Scalise
Steven J. Scott
Leon D. Silverman
Gregg Smrz
Lynda Ellenshaw Thompson
Steve Venezia

Music
Tyler Bates – “John Wick,” “Guardians of the Galaxy”
Alex Gibson – “Interstellar,” “The Dark Knight”
Jonny Greenwood – “Inherent Vice,” “The Master”
Dave Grusin – “Skating to New York,” “The Firm”
Alex Heffes – “Love and Honor,” “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”
Lisa Jaime – “Annie,” “Rock of Ages”
Jóhann Jóhannsson – “The Theory of Everything,” “Prisoners”
Laura Karpman – “States of Grace,” “Black Nativity”
Christopher Lennertz – “The Wedding Ringer,” “Horrible Bosses”
Lonnie Lynn – “Selma,” “Freedom Writers”
Chris McGeary – “Jersey Boys,” “RoboCop”
Sergio Mendes – “Rio 2,” “Rio”
Daniel Pinder – “Big Hero 6,” “Captain Phillips”
Trent Reznor – “Gone Girl,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Atticus Ross – “Love & Mercy,” “The Social Network”
John Stephens – “Selma,” “Django Unchained”
Marc Streitenfeld – “Poltergeist,” “Prometheus”
Erica Weis – “Spy,” “The Heat”
Gary Yershon – “Mr. Turner,” “Another Year”

Producers
Caroline Baron – “Capote,” “Monsoon Wedding”
Effie T. Brown – “Dear White People,” “Real Women Have Curves”
Terence Chang – “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,” “Face/Off”
Wyck Godfrey – “The Fault in Our Stars,” “Twilight”
Jeremy Kleiner – “Selma,” “12 Years a Slave”
Pamela Koffler – “Still Alice,” “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
Gina Kwon – “Camp X-Ray,” “Me and You and Everyone We Know”
Dan Lin – “The Lego Movie,” “Sherlock Holmes”
Eric Newman – “RoboCop,” “Children of Men”
Bruna Papandrea – “Wild,” “All Good Things”
Lydia Dean Pilcher – “Cutie and the Boxer,” “The Darjeeling Limited”
Rebecca Yeldham – “On the Road,” “The Kite Runner”

Public Relations
Jennifer Allen
Asad Ayaz
Dawn Baillie
Andrew Bernstein
Liz Biber
Mara Buxbaum
Lee Ginsberg
R. Jeff Hill
Michelle Hooper
Chris Libby
Susan Norget
Lewis Oberlander
Gordon Paddison
Elias Plishner
David Pollick
Weiman Seid
LeeAnne Stables
Ryan Stankevich
Bonnie Voland

Short Films and Feature Animation
Alan Barillaro – “Brave,” “WALL-E”
Kristine Belson – “The Croods,” “How to Train Your Dragon”
Darlie Brewster – “Curious George,” “The Prince of Egypt”
Roy Conli – “Big Hero 6,” “Tangled”
Ronnie Del Carmen – “Up,” “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron”
Paul A. Felix – “Big Hero 6,” “Lilo & Stitch”
Michael Fukushima – “Me and My Moulton,” “Dimanche/Sunday”
Don Hall – “Big Hero 6,” “Winnie the Pooh”
Talkhon Hamzavi – “Parvaneh,” “Taub”
Hu Wei – “Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak),” “Le Propriétaire”
Jin Kim – “Big Hero 6,” “Bolt”
Mat Kirkby – “The Phone Call,” “Hard to Swallow”
David Kneupper – “Alex and Sylvia,” “The Civil War in 4 Minutes”
Michael Lennox – “Boogaloo and Graham,” “The Back of Beyond”
Fabio Lignini – “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “Puss in Boots”
James Lucas – “The Phone Call”
Patrick Osborne – “Feast,” “Paperman”
Jerome Ranft – “Toy Story 3,” “Ratatouille”
Jim Reardon – “Wreck-It Ralph,” “WALL-E”
Kristina Reed – “Feast,” “Paperman”
Jason Reisig – “Home,” “Shrek Forever After”
Nicolas Schmerkin – “Habana,” “Logorama”
Anthony Stacchi – “The Boxtrolls,” “Open Season”
Isao Takahata – “The Tale of the Princess Kaguya,” “Grave of the Fireflies”
Michael Thurmeier – “Ice Age: Continental Drift,” “No Time for Nuts”
Marlon West – “Frozen,” “The Princess and the Frog”

Sound
Ray Beckett – “Zero Dark Thirty,” “The Hurt Locker”
Odin Benitez – “Frozen,” “Silver Linings Playbook”
Ron Bochar – “Mortdecai,” “Moneyball”
Jason Canovas – “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” “World War Z”
Thomas Curley – “Whiplash,” “The Spectacular Now”
Michael Dressel – “American Sniper,” “Interstellar”
Mary H. Ellis – “Vacation,” “Prisoners”
Stephanie Flack – “Jupiter Ascending,” “Ender’s Game”
Martín Hernández – “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “Biutiful”
Dean Humphreys – “Taken 3,” “The Pianist”
William Johnston – Vice President of Engineering, Formosa Group
Shawn Jones – “Iron Man 3,” “Drive”
Daniel Laurie – “Inside Out,” “Big Hero 6”
David Lee – “Unbroken,” “The Matrix”
Craig Mann – “Dope,” “Whiplash”
Kyrsten Mate – “Tomorrowland,” “Guardians of the Galaxy”
Shannon J. Mills – “Inside Out,” “Big Hero 6”
Bryan K. Pennington – “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” “Promised Land”
Juan P. Peralta – “Tomorrowland,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
John Ross – “Danny Collins,” “American Hustle”
Peter Staubli – “San Andreas,” “Skyfall”
Mark Taylor – “Edge of Tomorrow,” “Captain Phillips”
Addison Teague – “Big Hero 6,” “The Amazing Spider-Man”
Jon Title – “San Andreas,” “The Divergent Series: Insurgent”
Thomas Varga – “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “The Immigrant”
Ben Wilkins – “Whiplash,” “Star Trek”

Visual Effects
Nicolas Aithadi – “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “X-Men: First Class”
Daniel Barrett – “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”
Stephane Ceretti – “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Cloud Atlas”
Paul Corbould – “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Guardians of the Galaxy”
Tim Crosbie – “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “The Wolverine”
Dan DeLeeuw – “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Iron Man 3”
Sean Faden – “Fast & Furious 6,” “Let Me In”
Joe Farrell – “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Hereafter”
Scott R. Fisher – “Interstellar,” “The Dark Knight Rises”
Chris Harvey – “Chappie,” “Fast & Furious 6”
Alex Jaeger – “Tomorrowland,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Matt Kutcher – “Focus,” “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”
Andrew Lockley – “Interstellar,” “Inception”
Gray Marshall – “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Captain America: The First Avenger”
Carl Miller – “Jurassic World,” “Elysium”
David Nakabayashi – “Tomorrowland,” “Avatar”
Rocco Passionino – “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Spider-Man 2”
Lou Pecora – “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
Cary Phillips – “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
Ellen Poon – “Frozen,” “Inception”
Edwin Rivera – “22 Jump Street,” “Moneyball”
Cameron Waldbauer – “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “Elysium”
Erik Winquist – “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” “Avatar”

Writers
Armando Bo – “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “Biutiful”
Damien Chazelle* – “Whiplash,” “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench”
Álex de la Iglesia – “El Crimen Perfecto,” “The Day of the Beast”
Rick Famuyiwa – “Dope,” “The Wood”
Maya Forbes – “Infinitely Polar Bear,” “Monsters vs Aliens”
E. Max Frye – “Foxcatcher,” “Something Wild”
Nicolás Giacobone – “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “Biutiful”
Dan Gilroy – “Nightcrawler,” “The Bourne Legacy”
Jorge Guerricaechevarría – “Cell 211,” “The Day of the Beast”
Rita Hsiao – “Toy Story 2,” “Mulan”
Simon Kinberg – “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “Sherlock Holmes”
Malcolm D. Lee* – “The Best Man Holiday,” “The Best Man”
Christopher Markus – “Thor: The Dark World,” “Captain America: The First Avenger”
Stephen McFeely – “Thor: The Dark World,” “Captain America: The First Avenger”
Graham Moore – “The Imitation Game”
Paweł Pawlikowski* – “Ida,” “My Summer of Love”
Abderrahmane Sissako* – “Timbuktu,” “Bamako”
Damián Szifron* – “Wild Tales,” “On Probation”
Kessen Tall – “Timbuktu”
Tyger Williams – “The Perfect Guy,” “Menace II Society”
Andrey Zvyagintsev* – “Leviathan,” “Elena”

Associates
Victoria Belfrage
Josh Braun
Wayne Fitterman
Sharon Jackson
Patricia Keighley
Cliff Roberts
Elyse Scherz
James Toth
Bart Walker


Check out the full list of identified Academy members at The Academy Members Project!
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87th Oscar Original Screenplay Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (6/3/2014)

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The writers branch of the Academy has flirted with Mike Leigh several times, so I’m wondering if Mr. Turner might finally be enough for the full membership to turn his nomination into a win.

My long list of fifty seems a little bit Cannes-heavy at the moment, so perhaps I’ll take a look back at the Sundance entries when I update this next. For now, however, I’ll live with it since so many of the blockbusters that are filling up theaters in the United States are remakes and sequels.

A quick note that Foxcatcher, Whiplash and The Imitation Game will show up on my adapted screenplay predictions later this week, so that’s why they’re not included here. Enjoy!

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1. Mike Leigh for Mr. Turner (Predicted Winner)
2. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Nicolas Giacobone for Birdman
3. Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski for Big Eyes
4. Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan for Interstellar
5. Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness for The Grand Budapest Hotel

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Alternates:
6. Richard Linklater for Boyhood
7. J.C. Chandor for A Most Violent Year
8. Woody Allen for Magic In The Moonlight
9. Cameron Crowe for Untitled Cameron Crowe Project (aka Deep Tiki)
10. David Ayer for Fury
11. Ned Benson for The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby
12. Oleg Negin and Andrey Zvyagintsev for Leviathan
13. Bill Dubuque and Nick Schenk for The Judge
14. Abi Morgan for Suffragette
15. Bruce Wagner for Maps To The Stars
16. Steven Knight, Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson for Pawn Sacrifice
17. Steven Baigelmen, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth for Get On Up
18. Theodore Melfi for St. Vincent De Van Nuys
19. Noah Baumbach for While We’re Young
20. Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias for Love Is Strange
21. Anthony McCarten for Theory Of Everything
22. James Gray and Ric Menello for The Immigrant
23. Thomas McCarthy and Paul Sado for The Cobbler
24. Olivier Assayas for Clouds Of Sils Maria
25. Oren Moverman for Love & Mercy

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26. John Carney for Begin Again
27. John Hodge for Untitled Lance Armstrong Biopic
28. Werner Herzog for Queen Of The Desert
29. Xavier Dolan for Mommy
30. Ebru Ceylan and Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Winter Sleep
31. William Monahan for Mojave
32. Joel Edgerton and David Michod for The Rover
33. Mark Heyman and Craig Johnson for The Skeleton Twins
34. Alison Deegan for A Little Chaos
35. Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler
36. Anna Pavignano and Michael Radford for Elsa & Fred
37. Stephen Beresford for Pride
38. Ramin Bahrani, Amir Naderi and Bahareh Azimi for 99 Homes
39. Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller for The Lego Movie
40. Ryan Gosling for Lost River
41. Paul Logan for Manglehorn
42. Arash Amel for Grace Of Monaco
43. Keri Pearson and Timothy J. Sexton for Cesar Chavez
44. Margaret Nagle for The Good Lie
45. John Michael McDonagh for Calvary
46. Thomas Bidegain and Bertrand Bonello for Saint Laurent
47. Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond for Night Moves
48. Alice Rohrwacher for The Wonders (La Meraviglie)
49. Jean-Luc Godard for Goodbye to Language
50. Seth McFarlane, Alex Sulkin and Wellesley Wild for A Million Ways To Die In The West
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87th Oscar Adapted Screenplay Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (6/5/2014)

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Hollywood loves its adaptations. And while selling a known quantity to audiences may feel like an easy task, the work of adapting a story to a new medium can be quite difficult.

I left most (though not all) of the comic book, young adult and children’s films off my long list this round, focusing instead on adult dramas or cross-over possibilities that typically attract the Academy’s attention. But feel free to yell at me in the comments if you really think that the X-Men, Captain America, The Hunger Games or 22 Jump Street are going to get a campaign from their studios outside of the technical and craft categories.

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1. E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman for Foxcatcher (Predicted Winner)
2. Paul Thomas Anderson for Inherent Vice
3. Gillian Flynn for Gone Girl
4. Graham Moore for The Imitation Game
5. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, William Nicholson and Richard LaGravenese for Unbroken

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Alternates:
6. Nick Hornby for Wild
7. Kieran Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Oliver and Miles Hood Swarthout for The Homesman
8. Damien Chazelle for Whiplash
9. Matt Charman and Saul Dibb for Suite Francaise
10. Richard Curtis and Felipe Braga for Trash
11. Jon Stewart for Rosewater
12. Phyllis Nagy for Carol
13. Jacob Koskoff, Todd Louiso and Michael Lesslie for Macbeth
14. Jason Dean Hall for American Sniper
15. James Lapine for Into The Woods
16. Peter Landesman for Kill The Messenger
17. Jason Reitman and Erin Cressida for Men Women & Children
18. Michel Hazanavicius for The Search
19. Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Guillermo del Toro for The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
20. Bill Collage, Adam Cooper and Steven Zaillian for Exodus: Gods And Kings
21. Liv Ullman for Miss Julie
22. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for The Fault In Our Stars
23. Irena Brignull and Adam Pava for The Boxtrolls
24. Andrew Bovell for A Most Wanted Man
25. Richard Price for Child 44

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26. David Kajganich for True Story
27. Frank Cottrell Boyce and Andy Patterson for The Railway Man
28. George Clooney and Grant Heslov for The Monuments Men
29. Chris Kyle for Serena
30. Steven Knight for The Hundred Foot Journey
31. Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Mark Bomback for Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
32. Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice for Jersey Boys
33. Gilles Paquet-Brenner for Dark Places
34. Hossein Amini for The Two Faces Of January
35. Ari Folman for The Congress
36. Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel for Noah
37. Aline Brosh McKenna, Will Gluck and Emma Thompson for Annie
38. Donald Margulies for The End Of The Tour
39. Dennis Lehane for The Drop
40. Walter Campbell and Jonathan Glazer for Under The Skin
41. Linda Woolverton for Maleficent
42. James Gunn and Nicole Perlman for Guardians Of The Galaxy
43. Topper Lilien and Amy Albany for Low Down
44. Richard LaGravenese for The Last 5 Years
45. Gregg Araki for White Bird In A Blizzard
46. John Slattery and Alex Metcalf for God’s Pocket
47. Richard Ayoade and Avi Korine for The Double
48. Joon-ho Bong and Kelly Masterson for Snowpiercer
49. Dean DeBlois for How To Train Your Dragon 2
50. Biyi Bandele for Half Of A Yellow Sun

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The Academy Members Project Tops 4150 Oscar Voters!

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Big news for The Academy Members Project, as we cross the 4,150 threshold!

With our goal of identifying and celebrating as many Oscar voters as possible, we’ve currently found 4,152 current members (over 61% of the full AMPAS membership), as well as over 3,400 historical members.

We’ve added 32 names of Oscar voters just in the past month, and over 150 since January of this year!

Here are the additions that our research discovered this month: Sara Risher, Boyd Shermis, Jennifer Shull, Marshall Backlar, Paul Lichtman, Dan Rosen, Terry Hamlisch Liebling, Bruce Bisenz, Elliot Lurie, Terence Marsh, Irmin Roberts, Michael Gruskoff, Matthew W. Mungle, Joseph Musso, Mat Beck, Alan Raymond, Gary Mehlman, Mary Elizabeth Vogt, Peter Heller, Deborah Hoffmann, Larry Mortorff, Bruce Black, Nella Walker, Lionel Atwill, Dudley Digges, Harold Shumate, David Andrews, Stephen Rosenbaum, George J. Krieger, Zoli Vidor, Lee Majors, Phil Tippett, Gary Adelson, Richard H. Frank, Robby Benson, Mitzi Gaynor, Jim Carrey, Stanley Rubin, Ron Hamady, Steve Inwood, and Desi Arnaz.

You can check out all the Oscar voters we’ve identified HERE, and don’t forget about us later this month when the Academy announces their new invitees!

87th Oscar Best Director Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (6/8/2014)

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I’ve been slow to post predictions for the directors race for one reason: Angelina Jolie. The historical record shows that when actors take a turn behind the director’s chair, one of two things happen: Either they are shut out by the directors branch on nomination morning like Ben Affleck and Barbra Streisand, or the full Academy turns their nomination into an undeniable win like Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson.

So I’ve spent more time than is healthy in June trying to decide whether Jolie’s directing on “Unbroken” should be placed in the number one slot or the number six slot, without, to be honest, much consideration that she might land at number two through five. In the end, I’ve decided to predict her as the winner -- at least until we get some proof that the other contenders are as strong as they appear to be.

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1. Angelina Jolie for Unbroken (Predicted Winner)
2. Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher
3. Paul Thomas Anderson for Inherent Vice
4. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Birdman
5. Tim Burton for Big Eyes

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Alternates:
6. David Fincher for Gone Girl
7. J.C. Chandor for A Most Violent Year
8. Christopher Nolan for Interstellar
9. Mike Leigh for Mr. Turner
10. Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel
11. Stephen Daldry for Trash
12. Richard Linklater for Boyhood
13. Jean-Marc Vallee for Wild
14. Rob Marshall for Into The Woods
15. Clint Eastwood for American Sniper
16. David Ayer for Fury
17. Saul Dibb for Suite Francaise
18. Ridley Scott for Exodus: Gods And Kings
19. Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game
20. Jason Reitman for Men Women And Children
21. Tommy Lee Jones for The Homesman
22. Michael Cuesta for Kill The Messenger
23. Jon Stewart for Rosewater
24. Ned Benson for The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby
25. Woody Allen for Magic In The Moonlight

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26. Todd Haynes for Carol
27. Thomas McCarthy for The Cobbler
28. Edward Zwick for Pawn Sacrifice
29. Clint Eastwood for Jersey Boys
30. Tate Taylor for Get On Up
31. Werner Herzog for Queen Of The Desert
32. Cameron Crowe for Untitled Cameron Crowe Project (aka Deep Tiki)
33. David Dobkin for The Judge
34. David Cronenberg for Maps To The Stars
35. Michel Hazanavicius for The Search
36. Daniel Espinosa for Child 44
37. James Gray for The Immigrant
38. Sarah Gavron for Suffragette
39. Damien Chazelle for Whiplash
40. James Marsh for Theory Of Everything
41. Justin Kurzin for Macbeth
42. Peter Jackson for The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
43. Jonathan Teplitzky for The Railway Man
44. Ramin Bahrani for 99 Homes
45. George Clooney for The Monuments Men
46. Liv Ullman for Miss Julie
47. Alice Rohrwacher for The Wonders
48. Diego Luna for Cesar Chavez
49. Susanne Bier for Serena
50. Darren Aronofsky for Noah

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87th Oscar Cinematography Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (6/13/2014)

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The cinematography race seems to be heating up, with trailers starting to come out for at least some of the players. I think it’s still early enough to stick with known names and best picture contenders for the top of the list, but I did allow myself some room in the bottom half for high-quality foreign and arthouse films that could surprise.

For now, I’m betting on Interstellar to win. I suppose that it’s always possible that Academy members will feel that it’s too similar to last year’s winner, Gravity, and go for something more firmly grounded on this planet instead, but my hunch is that they recognize that the future of box office films lies in cinematography that mixes with its visual effects, and reward the film that breaks new ground in that dimension just as they have done for the past five years.

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1. Hoyte Van Hoytema for Interstellar (Predicted Winner)
2. Roger Deakins for Unbroken
3. Jeff Cronenweth for Gone Girl
4. Dick Pope for Mr. Turner
5. Emmanuel Lubezki for Birdman

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Alternates:
6. Robert Elswit for Inherent Vice
7. Greig Fraser for Foxcatcher
8. Bruno Delbonnel for Big Eyes
9. Dion Beebe for Into The Woods
10. Rodrigo Prieto for The Homesman
11. Roman Vasyanov for Fury
12. Bradford Young for A Most Violent Year
13. Robert Yeoman for The Grand Budapest Hotel
14. Dariusz Wolski for Exodus: Gods And Kings
15. Andrew Lesnie for The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
16. Darius Khondji for The Immigrant
17. Seamus McGarvey for Godzilla
18. Sean Bobbitt for Kill The Messenger
19. Matthew Libatique for Noah
20. Darius Khondji for Magic In The Moonlight
21. Peter Zeitlinger for Queen Of The Desert
22. Stephen Goldblatt for Get On Up
23. Dean Semler for Maleficent
24. Eric Gautier for Grace Of Monaco
25. Eduard Grau for Suite Francaise

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26. Phedon Papamichael for The Monuments Men
27. Janusz Kaminski for The Judge
28. Christopher Blauvelt for Low Down
29. Garry Phillips for The Railway Man
30. Haris Zambarloukos for Locke
31. Oscar Faura for The Imitation Game
32. Adriano Goldman for Trash
33. Mikhail Krichman for Miss Julie
34. Lee Daniel and Shane Kelly for Boyhood
35. Benoit Debie for Every Thing Will Be Fine
36. Yorick Le Saux for Clouds Of Sils Maria
37. Gokhan Tiryaki for Winter Sleep
38. Michael Seresin for Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
39. Josee Deshaies for Saint Laurent
40. Morten Soborg for Serena
41. Christopher Young for The Monkey King
42. Yutaka Yamazaki for Still The Water
43. Andre Turpin for Mommy
44. Mikhail Krichman for Leviafan
45. Christopher Blauvelt for The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby
46. Tom Stern for American Sniper
47. Zhao Xiaoding for Coming Home
48. Tom Stern for Jersey Boys
49. Helene Louvart for The Wonders
50. Fabrice Aragno for Farewell To Language

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87th Oscar Film Editing Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (6/15/2014)

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Best picture contenders usually make a strong showing in the film editing category, and they dominate the top part of today’s list. But occasionally this branch will surprise us with a fast-paced action flick, so I like to sprinkle a few of them into my predictions as well. Did I sprinkle too much? Probably. Especially given that there’s already an Oscar-ready science fiction film in the top five. But it’s fun to think about the possibilities at this stage.

Note that some of these films haven’t named their film editor yet (at least where I could find), and so I’ve guessed a few based upon their consistent work with a given director, and listed some others as TBA.

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1. Lee Smith for Interstellar (Predicted Winner)
2. Tim Squyres for Unbroken
3. Kirk Baxter for Gone Girl
4. Jay Cassidy, Stuart Levy and Conor O’Neill for Foxcatcher
5. Leslie Jones for Inherent Vice

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Alternates:
6. Wyatt Smith for Into The Woods
7. William Goldenberg for The Imitation Game
8. Douglas Crise for Birdman
9. JC Bond for Big Eyes
10. TBA for Fury
11. Ron Patane for A Most Violent Year
12. Justine Wright for Locke
13. Jabez Olssen for The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
14. Billy Rich for Exodus: Gods And Kings
15. Sandra Adair for Boyhood
16. Jay Rabinowitz for Rosewater
17. TBA for Wild
18. Bob Ducsay for Godzilla
19. Jon Gregory for Mr. Turner
20. William Hoy and Stan Salfas for Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
21. Joel Cox and Gary Roach for Jersey Boys
22. Joe Bini for Queen Of The Desert
23. Roger Barton, William Goldenberg and Paul Rubell for Transformers: Age Of Extinction
24. James Herbert for Edge Of Tomorrow
25. Julien Rey for Lucy

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26. Elliot Graham for Trash
27. Alisa Lepselter for Magic In The Moonlight
28. Pietro Scalia for The Amazing Spider-Man 2
29. Robert Rodriguez for Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
30. Jenny Golden and Karen Sim for Watchers In The Sky
31. Andrew Weisblum for Noah
32. John Axelrad and Kayla Emter for The Immigrant
33. Tom Cross for Whiplash
34. Peter Sciberras for The Rover
35. Joel Cox and Gary Roach for American Sniper
36. Xavier Dolan for Mommy
37. Steven M. Choe and Changju Kim for Snowpiercer
38. Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt for Captain America: The Winter Soldier
39. Jonathan Amos for 20,000 Days On Earth
40. Chris Dickens for Suite Francaise
41. Michael McCusker for Get On Up
42. Roberto Silvi for The Homesman
43. Barney Pilling for The Grand Budapest Hotel
44. Stephen Mirrione for The Monuments Men
45. Ronald Sanders for Maps To The Stars
46. Kristina Boden for The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby
47. Brian A. Kates for Kill The Messenger
48. Claire Simpson for A Most Wanted Man
49. Fred Raskin, Hughes Winborne and Craig Wood for Guardians Of The Galaxy
50. Alexandre de Franceschi for Tracks

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87th Oscar Visual Effects Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (6/18/2014)

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If you’re looking for an Oscar category that features films that the general public has heard of this far out, then Visual Effects is the place to go. There are plenty of superheroes and space odysseys vying for contention, but the winner will usually be the film that also has a chance at a best picture nod. This year, that film is Interstellar.

In addition to the obvious effects-driven blockbusters, I’ve included some films further down my long list that may seem baffling at first look. But remember that the visual effects branch is one which asks for technical information from the studios and visual effects artists, and then holds a “bakeoff” allowing them to explain how they did their work and giving them a chance to demonstrate technical breakthroughs and new applications of their craft. So even things that aren’t immediately evident as effects to the general public, such as the bookcases in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy a few year back, get to make their case to the appropriate voting committees.

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1. Interstellar (Predicted Winner)
2. The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
3. Godzilla
4. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
5. Guardians Of The Galaxy

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Alternates:
6. Transformers: Age Of Extinction
7. Exodus: Gods And Kings
8. Noah
9. Maleficent
10. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
11. X-Men: Days Of Future Past
12. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
13. Edge Of Tomorrow
14. Unbroken
15. Mr. Turner
16. Snowpiercer
17. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
18. 300: Rise Of An Empire
19. RoboCop
20. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
21. Into The Woods
22. The Monkey King
23. Paddington
24. Lucy
25. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For

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26. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
27. Under The Skin
28. Hercules
29. Earth To Echo
30. Fury
31. Pompeii
32. Stalingrad
33. Transcendence
34. Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb
35. The Maze Runner
36. Queen Of The Desert
37. The Monuments Men
38. The Giver
39. Birdman
40. Dracula Untold
41. After The Dark (aka The Philosophers)
42. Inherent Vice
43. Non-Stop
44. Gone Girl
45. Into The Storm
46. The Legend Of Hercules
47. The Grand Budapest Hotel
48. Kingsman: The Secret Service
49. The Expendables 3
50. Divergent

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Academy Invites 271 New Members!

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their new invitations today, and we here at The Academy Members Project couldn’t be more excited!

Check out the names of the 271 new invitees below, and then make sure to check out the 4,201 existing members that we’ve previously identified here.

The 2014 invitees are:

Actors
Barkhad Abdi – “Captain Phillips”
Clancy Brown – “The Hurricane,” “The Shawshank Redeption”
Paul Dano – “12 Years a Slave,” “Prisoners”
Michael Fassbender – “12 Years a Slave,” “Shame”
Ben Foster – “Lone Survivor,” “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
Beth Grant – “The Artist,” “No Country for Old Men”
Clark Gregg – “Much Ado about Nothing,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Sally Hawkins – “Blue Jasmine,” “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Josh Hutcherson – “The Hunger Games,” “The Kids Are All Right”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – “Enough Said,” “Planes”
Kelly Macdonald – “Brave,” “No Country for Old Men”
Mads Mikkelsen – “The Hunt,” “Casino Royale”
Joel McKinnon Miller – “Super 8,” “The Truman Show”
Cillian Murphy – “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Inception”
Lupita Nyong'o – “Non-Stop,” “12 Years a Slave”
Rob Riggle – “21 Jump Street,” “The Hangover”
Chris Rock – “Grown Ups 2,” “Madagascar”
June Squibb – “Nebraska,” “About Schmidt”
Jason Statham – “Parker,” “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”
David Strathairn – “Lincoln,” “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

Casting Directors
Douglas Aibel – “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “The Immigrant”
Simone Bär – “The Monuments Men,” “The Book Thief”
Kerry Barden – “August: Osage County,” “Dallas Buyers Club”
Nikki Barrett – “The Railway Man,” “The Great Gatsby”
Mark Bennett – “Drinking Buddies,” “Zero Dark Thirty”
Risa Bramon Garcia – “Speed,” “Wall Street”
Michelle Guish – “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” “Nanny McPhee”
Billy Hopkins – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” “Disconnect”
Ros Hubbard – “Romeo & Juliet,” “The Mummy”
Allison Jones – “The Way, Way Back,” “The Heat”
Christine King – “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” “Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith”
Beatrice Kruger – “To Rome with Love,” “The American”
Marci Liroff – “Mean Girls,” “Pretty in Pink”
Debbie McWilliams – “Skyfall,” “Quantum of Solace”
Joseph Middleton – “TheTwilight Saga: New Moon,” “Legally Blonde”
Robi Reed – “For Colored Girls,” “Do the Right Thing”
Kevin Reher – “Monsters University,” “Finding Nemo”
Paul Schnee – “August: Osage County,” “Dallas Buyers Club”
Gail Stevens – “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Slumdog Millionaire”
Lucinda Syson – “Gravity,” “Fast and & Furious 6”
Fiona Weir – “J. Edgar,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
Ronnie Yeskel – “The Sessions,” “Atlas Shrugged Part 1”

Cinematographers
Sean Bobbitt – “12 Years a Slave,” “The Place beyond the Pines”
Philippe Le Sourd – “The Grandmaster,” “Seven Pounds”
James Neihouse – “Hubble 3D,” “Nascar: The IMAX Experience”
Masanobu Takayanagi – “Out of the Furnace,” “Silver Linings Playbook”
Bradford Young – “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” “Pariah”

Costume Designers
William Chang Suk Ping – “The Grandmaster,” “In the Mood for Love”
Pascaline Chavanne – “Renoir,” “Augustine”
Daniela Ciancio – “The Great Beauty,” “Il Divo”
Frank L. Fleming – “Draft Day,” “Monster’s Ball”
Maurizio Millenotti – “Hamlet,” “Otello”
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor – “Great Expectations,” “Good Will Hunting”
Karyn Wagner – “Lovelace,” “The Green Mile”

Designers
William Arnold – “Lovelace,” “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”
K.K. Barrett – “Her,” “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Susan Benjamin – “Saving Mr. Banks,” “The Blind Side”
Bill Boes – “The Smurfs 2,” “Fantastic Four”
Tony Fanning – “Contraband,” “War of the Worlds”
Robert Greenfield – “Priest,” “Almost Famous”
Marcia Hinds – “I Spy,” “The Public Eye”
Sonja Brisbane Klaus – “Prometheus,” “Robin Hood”
David S. Lazan – “Flight,” “American Beauty”
Diane Lederman – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” “Tower Heist”
Heather Loeffler – “American Hustle,” “Silver Linings Playbook”
Christa Munro – “Jack Reacher,” “Erin Brockovich”
Andy Nicholson – “Gravity,” “The Host”
Adam Stockhausen – “12 Years a Slave,” “Moonrise Kingdom”

Directors
Hany Abu-Assad – “Omar,” “Paradise Now”
Jay Duplass – “Jeff, Who Lives at Home,” “Cyrus”
Mark Duplass – “Jeff, Who Lives at Home,” “Cyrus”
David Gordon Green – “Joe,” “Pineapple Express”
Gavin O’Connor – “Warrior,” “Miracle”
Gina Prince-Bythewood – “The Secret Life of Bees,” “Love and Basketball”
Paolo Sorrentino – “The Great Beauty,” “This Must Be the Place”
Jean-Marc Vallée – “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Young Victoria”
Felix van Groeningen – “The Broken Circle Breakdown,” “The Misfortunates”
Denis Villeneuve – “Prisoners,” “Incendies”
Thomas Vinterberg – “The Hunt,” “The Celebration”

Documentary
Malcolm Clarke – “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life,” “Prisoner of Paradise”
Dan Cogan – “How to Survive a Plague,” “The Queen of Versailles”
Kief Davidson – “Open Heart,” “Kassim the Dream”
Dan Geller – “The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden,” “Ballets Russes”
Dayna Goldfine – “The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden,” “Ballets Russes”
Julie Goldman – “God Loves Uganda,” “Gideon’s Army”
Sam Green – “Utopia in Four Movements,” “The Weather Underground”
Gary Hustwit – “Urbanized,” “Helvetica”
Eugene Jarecki – “The House I Live In,” “Why We Fight”
Brian Johnson – “Anita,” “Buena Vista Social Club”
Ross Kauffman – “E-Team,” “Born into Brothels”
Morgan Neville – “20 Feet from Stardom,” “Troubadours”
Matthew J. O'Neill – “Redemption,” “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province”
Rithy Panh – “The Missing Picture,” “S-21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine”
Lucy Massie Phenix – “Regret to Inform,” “Word Is Out”
Enat Sidi – “Detropia,” “Jesus Camp”
Molly Thompson – “The Unknown Known,” “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer”
Cynthia Wade – “Mondays at Racine,” “Freeheld”

Executives
Adrian Alperovich
Sean Bailey
Len Blavatnik
Nicholas Carpou
Nancy Carson
Charles S. Cohen
Jason Constantine
Peter Cramer
William Kyle Davies
Christopher Floyd
David Garrett
David Hollis
Tomas Jegeus
Michelle Raimo Kouyate
Anthony James Marcoly
Hiroyasu Matsuoka
Kim Roth
John Sloss

Film Editors
Alan Baumgarten – “American Hustle,” “Gangster Squad”
Alan Edward Bell – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “The Amazing Spider-Man”
Dorian Harris – “The Magic of Belle Isle,” “The Mod Squad”
Sabrina Plisco – “The Smurfs 2,” “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”
Tatiana S. Riegel – “Million Dollar Arm,” “The Way, Way Back”
Julie Rogers – “Wreck-It Ralph,” “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl”
Mark Sanger – “Gravity”
Joan Sobel – “Admission,” “A Single Man”
Crispin Struthers – “American Hustle,” “Silver Linings Playbook”
Tracey Wadmore-Smith – “About Last Night,” “Death at a Funeral”
Joe Walker – “12 Years a Slave,” “Shame”
John Wilson – “The Book Thief,” “Billy Elliot”

Makeup Artists and Hairstylists
Vivian Baker – “Oz The Great and Powerful,” “Conviction”
Adruitha Lee – “Dallas Buyers Club,” “12 Years a Slave”
Robin Mathews – “Dallas Buyers Club,” “The Runaways”
Anne Morgan – “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,” “A Little Bit of Heaven”
Gloria Pasqua-Casny – “The Lone Ranger,” “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”

Members-at-Large
Peter Becker
Jeff Dashnaw
Kenneth L. Halsband
Jody Levin
Tom MacDougall
Chuck Picerni, Jr.
Spiro Razatos
Mic Rodgers
Kevin J. Yeaman

Music
Kristen Anderson-Lopez – “Frozen,” “Winnie the Pooh”
Stanley Clarke – “The Best Man Holiday,” “Boyz N the Hood”
Earl Ghaffari – “Frozen,” “Wreck-It Ralph”
Steve Jablonsky – “Lone Survivor,” “Ender’s Game”
Robert Lopez – “Frozen,” “Winnie the Pooh”
Steven Price – “Gravity,” “The World’s End”
Tony Renis – “Hidden Moon,” “Quest for Camelot”
Angie Rubin – “Pitch Perfect,” “Sex and the City”
Buck Sanders – “Warm Bodies,” “The Hurt Locker”
Charles Strouse – “All Dogs Go to Heaven,” “Annie”
Eddie Vedder – “Eat Pray Love,” “Into the Wild”
Pharrell Williams – “Despicable Me 2,” “Fast & Furious”

Producers
Jason Blumenthal – “Hope Springs,” “Seven Pounds”
Dana Brunetti – “Captain Phillips,” “The Social Network”
Megan Ellison – “American Hustle,” “Her”
Sean Furst – “Daybreakers,” “The Cooler”
Nicola Giuliano – “The Great Beauty,” “This Must Be the Place”
Preston Holmes – “Waist Deep,” “Tupac: Resurrection”
Lynette M. Howell – “The Place beyond the Pines,” “Blue Valentine”
Anthony Katagas – “12 Years a Slave,” “Killing Them Softly”
Alix Madigan – “Girl Most Likely,” “Winter’s Bone”
Paul Mezey – “The Girl,” “Maria Full of Grace”
Stephen Nemeth – “The Sessions,” “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”
Tracey Seaward – “Philomena,” “The Queen”
John H. Williams – “Space Chimps,” “Shrek 2”

Public Relations
Larry Angrisani
Nancy Bannister
Christine Batista
Karen Hermelin
Marisa McGrath Liston
David Magdael
Steven Raphael
Bettina R. Sherick
Dani Weinstein

Short Films and Feature Animation
Didier Brunner – “Ernest & Celestine,” “The Triplets of Belleville”
Scott Clark – “Monsters University,” “Up”
Pierre Coffin – “Despicable Me 2,” “Despicable Me”
Esteban Crespo – “Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me),” “Lala”
Peter Del Vecho – “Frozen,” “The Princess and the Frog”
Kirk DeMicco – “The Croods,” “Space Chimps”
Doug Frankel – “Brave,” “WALL-E”
Mark Gill – “The Voorman Problem,” “Full Time”
David A. S. James – “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” “Megamind”
Fabrice Joubert – “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax,” “French Roast”
Jean-Claude Kalache – “Up,” “Cars”
Jason Katz – “Toy Story 3,” “Finding Nemo”
Jennifer Lee – “Frozen,” “Wreck-It Ralph”
Baldwin Li – “The Voorman Problem,” “Full Time”
Nathan Loofbourrow – “Puss in Boots,” “How to Train Your Dragon”
Lauren MacMullan – “Get a Horse!,” “Wreck-It Ralph”
Tom McGrath –  “Megamind,” “Madagascar”
Dorothy McKim – “Get a Horse!,” “Meet the Robinsons”
Hayao Miyazaki – “The Wind Rises,” “Spirited Away”
Ricky Nierva – “Monsters University,” “Up”
Chris Renaud – “Despicable Me 2,” “Despicable Me”
Benjamin Renner – “Ernest & Celestine,” “A Mouse’s Tale (La Queue de la Souris)”
Michael Rose – “Chico & Rita,” “The Gruffalo”
Toshio Suzuki – “The Wind Rises,” “Howl’s Moving Castle”
Selma Vilhunen – “Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitta? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?),” “The Crossroads”  
Anders Walter – “Helium,” “9 Meter”
Laurent Witz – “Mr. Hublot,” “Renart the Fox”

Sound
Niv Adiri – “Gravity,” “The Book Thief”
Christopher Benstead – “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” “Gravity”
Steve Boeddeker – “All Is Lost,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
Beau Borders – “Million Dollar Arm,” “Lone Survivor”
David Brownlow – “Lone Survivor,” “The Book of Eli”
Chris Burdon – “Captain Phillips,” “Philomena”
Brent Burge – “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
André Fenley – “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “All Is Lost”
Glenn Freemantle – “Gravity,” “Slumdog Millionaire”
Greg Hedgepath – “Frozen,” “The Incredible Hulk”
Craig Henighan – “Noah,” “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
Tony Johnson – “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” “Avatar”
Laurent M. Kossayan – “Red Riding Hood,” “Public Enemies”
Thomas L. Lalley – “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” “Star Trek Into Darkness”
Ai-Ling Lee – “Godzilla,” “300: Rise of an Empire”
Stephen Morris – “Monsters University,” “Fruitvale Station”
Jeremy Peirson – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “Looper”
Mike Prestwood Smith – “Divergent,” “Captain Phillips”
Alan Rankin – “Iron Man 3,” “Star Trek”
Oliver Tarney – “Captain Phillips,” “Philomena”
Chris Ward – “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”

Visual Effects
Gary Brozenich – “The Lone Ranger,” “Wrath of the Titans”
Everett Burrell – “Grudge Match,” “Pan’s Labyrinth”
Marc Chu – “Noah,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
David Fletcher – “Sabotage,” “Prisoners”
Swen Gillberg – “Ender’s Game,” “Jack the Giant Slayer”
Paul Graff – “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Identity Thief”
Alex Henning – “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “Hugo”
Evan Jacobs – “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Olympus Has Fallen”
Chris Lawrence – “Edge of Tomorrow,” “Gravity”
Eric Leven – “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2,” “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1”
Steven Messing – “Godzilla,” “Oz The Great and Powerful”
Ben Matthew Morris – “Lincoln,” “The Golden Compass”
Jake Morrison – “Thor: The Dark World,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Eric Reynolds – “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”
David Shirk – “Gravity,” “Elysium”
Patrick Tubach – “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Bruno Van Zeebroeck – “Lone Survivor,” “Public Enemies”
Tim Webber – “Gravity,” “The Dark Knight”
Harold Weed – “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” “Star Trek”

Writers
Chantal Akerman – “A Couch in New York,” “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”
Olivier Assayas – “Summer Hours,” “Irma Vep”
Craig Borten – “Dallas Buyers Club”
Scott Z. Burns – “Side Effects,” “Contagion”
Jean-Claude Carrière – “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie”
Steve Coogan – “Philomena,” “The Parole Officer”
Claire Denis – “White Material,” “Beau Travail”
Larry Gross – “We Don’t Live Here Anymore,” “48 Hrs.”
Mathieu Kassovitz – “Babylon A.D.,” “Hate (La Haine)”
Diane Kurys – “For a Woman,” “Entre Nous”
Bob Nelson – “Nebraska”
Scott Neustadter – “The Spectacular Now,” “(500) Days of Summer”
Jeff Pope – “Philomena,” “Pierrepoint – The Last Hangman”
John Ridley – “12 Years a Slave,” “Undercover Brother”
Paul Rudnick – “In & Out,” ”Jeffrey”
Eric Warren Singer – “American Hustle,” ”The International”
Melisa Wallack – “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Mirror Mirror”
Michael H. Weber – “The Spectacular Now,” “(500) Days of Summer”
Terence Winter – “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Get Rich or Die Tryin'”

Associates
Matt Del Piano
Joe Funicello
Robert Hohman
Paul Christopher Hook
David Kramer
Joel Lubin
David Pringle
Melanie Ramsayer
Beth Swofford
Meredith Wechter

Check out the full list of identified Academy members at The Academy Members Project!
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87th Oscar Production Design Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (7/22/2014)

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For the first time this year, in addition to rewarding the production designer and set decorator, the Academy will allow a digital designer to be recognized “when the environment of a film is substantially composed of animation and digital artistry.” It’s a welcome change to keep up with the times, but one that I don’t think will substantially alter the films that are nominated, only the nominees who are given credit for them.

An early fan favorite in this category seems to be The Grand Budapest Hotel, and while I have no doubt that critics will try to push the film in their precursor awards, I’ve left it just outside my top five for now. My sense is that designers may feel like Wes Anderson gets a little too “cute” with their craft, almost turning it into a gimmick, and that they’d prefer to vote for something a bit more substantial.

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1. Into The Woods (Predicted Winner)
2. Exodus: Gods And Kings
3. Interstellar
4. Mr. Turner
5. Big Eyes

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Alternates:
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. The Hobbit: The Battles Of The Five Armies
8. Selma
9. Inherent Vice
10. Unbroken
11. Suite Francaise
12. Fury
13.. The Imitation Game
14. Macbeth
15. Get On Up
16. Grace Of Monaco
17. Magic In The Moonlight
18. Belle
19. Snowpiercer
20. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
21. Maleficent
22. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
23. The Monuments Men
24. Suffragette
25. 300: Rise Of An Empire

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26. Queen Of The Desert
27. Dracula Untold
28. The Monkey King
29. Foxcatcher
30. Noah
31. A Most Violent Year
32. Theory Of Everything
33. Only Lovers Left Alive
34. Slow West
35. The Homesman
36. The Hundred Foot Journey
37. Godzilla
38. The Two Faces Of January
39. Pawn Sacrifice
40. Serena
41. The Immigrant
42. Jersey Boys
43. Miss Julie
44. The Giver
45. Guardians Of The Galaxy
46. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
47. Birdman
48. Gone Girl
49. The Railway Man
50. X-Men: Days Of Future Past

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87th Oscar Animated Feature Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (7/29/2014)

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The detail work on the trailer for Laika’s The Boxtrolls looks amazing and it could easily end up winning, but Disney’s Big Hero 6 could also turn out to be a big hit, and the simple fact that so many members of the animation branch work for Disney gives them an advantage at this early stage. I’ve also got my eyes on fan favorite The Lego Movie and several independent and foreign contenders, some of which are still negotiating release dates and distribution.

With less than 20 films making the submission list each year, the bottom half of my list is mostly a community service for animation fans to let you know what’s out there. It always seems a shame to me that more of them don’t get qualifying runs - to say nothing of full theatrical releases - but at least I’m doing my part to draw your attention to them.

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1. Don Hall and Chris Williams for Big Hero 6 (Predicted Winner)
2. Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi for The Boxtrolls
3. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller for The Lego Movie
4. Isao Takahata for The Tale Of Princess Kaguya
5. Dean DeBlois for How To Train Your Dragon 2

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Alternates:
6. Jorge R. Gutierrez for Book Of Life
7. Tomm Moore for Song Of The Sea
8. Ale Abreu for The Boy And The World (O Menino E O Mundo)
9. Rob Minkoff for Mr. Peabody & Sherman
10. Carlos Saldanha for Rio 2
11. Juan Jose Campanella for Underdogs (aka Metegol/Foosball)
12. Bill Plympton for Cheatin’ (aka Les Amants Electriques)
13. Stephane Berla and Mathias Malzieu for Jack And The Cuckoo-Clock Heart
14. Alessandro Rak for L’Arte Della Felicita (The Art Of Happiness)
15. Mizuho Nishikubo for Giovanni’s Island
16. Helene Giraud and Thomas Szabo for Minuscule: Valley Of The Lost Ants
17. Eric Darnell and Simon J. Smith for Penguins Of Madagascar
18. Roberts Gannaway for Planes: Fire & Rescue
19. Peter Lepeniotis for The Nut Job
20. Reinhard Klooss for Tarzan 3D
21. Benoit Chieux and Jacques-Remy Girerd for Tante Hilda!
22.  Yasuhiro Yoshiura for Patema Inverted
23. Will Finn and Dan St. Pierre for Legends Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return
24. Marc Boreal and Thibaut Chatel for My Mummy Is In America And She Met Buffalo Bill
25. Ding Liang and Fuyuan Liu for Boonie Bears To The Rescue!

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26. Boris Aljinovic and Harald Siepermann for The 7th Dwarf (Der 7bte Zwerg)
27. Kenneth Kainz for Otto The Rhino
28. Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting for Last Hijack
29. Eduardo Calvet for Luz, Anima, Acao (aka Between Frames: The Art of Brazilian Animation)
30. Carlos Pimentel and Nathan Sifuentes for Seleccion Canina (aka Canine Team)
31. Jan Balej for Little From The Fish Shop (Mala Z Rybarny)
32. Hiromasa Yonebayashi for When Marnie Was There
33. Ricardo Arnaiz and Mike Kunkel for El American: The Movie
34. Peggy Holmes for The Pirate Fairy
35. Mike Disa for Postman Pat: The Movie
36. Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver for Asphalt Watches
37. Mait Laas for Lisa Limone And Maroc Orange, A Rapid Love Story
38. Gioia Smid for Pim & Pom: Het Grote Avontuur
39. Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie for Aya Of Yop City
40. Makoto Shinkai for Garden of Words
41. Multiple Directors for Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet
42. Sheila Sofian for Truth Has Fallen
43. Thomas Bodenstein for Knight Rusty
44. Esben Toft Jacobsen for Beyond Beyond
45. Jeremy Degruson and Ben Stassen for The House Of Magic
46. Manuel Sicilia for Justin And The Knights Of Valour
47. Zoltan Mikosy for Manieggs: Revenge Of The Hard Egg
48. Alfredo Soderguit for Anina
49. Frank Gladstone for The Hero Of Color City
50. Barrett Esposito for Henry & Me

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87th Oscar Costume Design Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (8/17/2014)

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The costume designers usually draw one or two nominations from among the best picture contenders, and then spread the wealth with their remaining picks. For now, I’m going with Into The Woods for the win, since the play was nominated for the Tony awards twice in this category.

There are also several historical costume dramas that are still seeking distribution dates. It’s early enough that they could still get a qualifying run and do fine with this branch of the Academy which really focuses on craftsmanship, but with each day that passes the chances become just a little bit more difficult.

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1. Into The Woods (Predicted Winner)
2. Exodus: Gods And Kings
3. Mr. Turner
4. Big Eyes
5. Maleficent

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Alternates:
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. Inherent Vice
8. Selma
9. Noah
10. Unbroken
11. Grace Of Monaco
12. Theory Of Everything
13. Fury
14. Suite Francaise
15. Get On Up
16. The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies
17. The Two Faces Of January
18. Belle
19. The Homesman
20. Macbeth
21. The Imitation Game
22. The Monuments Men
23. Miss Julie
24. Queen Of The Desert
25. A Most Violent Year

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26. Pawn Sacrifice
27. The Hundred Foot Journey
28. Magic In The Moonlight
29. Saint Laurent
30. Suffragette
31. The Immigrant
32. Jimmy’s Hall
33. Sin City: A Dame To Die For
34. The Monkey King
35. Winter’s Tale
36. X-Men: Days Of Future Past
37. Foxcatcher
38. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
39. Jersey Boys
40. Birdman
41. Effie Gray
42. In Secret
43. Dracula Untold
44. A Little Chaos
45. Snowpiercer
46. Guardians Of The Galaxy
47. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
48. The Giver
49. Serena
50. The Railway Man

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The Academy Members Project: Join The Search!

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Updated 8/18/2015

Pictured: We would love it if Professor Xavier could set Cerebro to “find all the Oscar voters”, but until he does we’re just as happy to have you join our team of non-mutant researchers!

This page provides advice and etiquette for those who want to help us build The Academy Members Project. You’ll find sections below with tips for Academy members (and their friends, family and agents), journalists and bloggers, public sightings and film festival attendees, archival researchers, internet sources for those working from home, and how you can sign up for our monthly newsletter.

Of course, the first step in beginning research is to see if your artist is already on the Members Pages, the Non-Members Pages or on our WISH LIST of artists that we are actively searching for. In all cases, you can report your findings and ask questions by emailing me at nevertooearlymoviepredictions@gmail.com .


For Academy Members (and their friends, family and agents)

If you are an academy member - or an agent, family member or personal friend of a current or former academy member - we want to make it as easy as possible for you to come forward. Simply send an email to nevertooearlymoviepredictions@gmail.com and we will work with you to make sure that you are included and that your work is represented to your satisfaction.

Note that we do not publish addresses, phone numbers or emails on our site. Our goal is to celebrate your accomplishments and educate the public, not invade your privacy or replace the work of professional awards consultants.


General Tips for Researchers

Because Academy membership is by invitation, the only guaranteed method of finding members is to find a document or interview where they actually *say* that they are members. As our Non-Members page shows, simply being famous, attending an academy event, or even being nominated or winning an Oscar does not *prove* that someone is a member.

Nevertheless, we have to start somewhere, and looking up your own favorite artists is a fun way to begin. Sometimes all it takes is a google search. We’ve also had some success by picking our favorite movies - particularly if it is a classic or is highly acclaimed - and then researching all the top people who helped make it - including actors and directors, of course, but also producers, cinematographers, film editors, sound engineers, etc. The logic here is that if a film is well-loved enough, then many members of the team may have shared in that success.

An LA Times article from 2012 claimed that about a third of the Academy was made up of former Oscar winners and nominees, so another good place to start is with lists of nominees and winners from each category (Wikipedia can help you find them). You can also expand your research to include the casts and top crew members of films that have been nominated for Best Picture, or for the truly ambitious, every film ever nominated for an Oscar in any category.

People who have won or been nominated for other awards, such as Emmy’s, Tony’s, Golden Globes, or various guild awards can also be part of our search. Even if they are better known for their television or broadway roles, that popularity is *sometimes* enough to get them invited for less famous film appearances as well.

Studio histories are also a great place to begin searching. Executives, producers, and public relations specialists all have their own branches in the Academy. They may not be well known to the public, but their presence is felt every time you see the words Disney, Warner Bros., MGM, Paramount, Sony, Miramax, New Line, Buena Vista, 20th Century Fox, Pixar, Columbia TriStar, United Artists, RKO, Focus, Lions Gate, DreamWorks, Lucas or Universal Pictures. In addition to the top brass, some studio histories can give us hints about career veterans in other branches -- the character actor who worked for years under contract, the production manager who would have won a dozen Oscars if only there was such a category, the animator who specialized in character design or storyboards.

Don’t assume that you have to be a journalist, critic, artist or agent to participate (although you are welcomed too!), or that you have to live in Hollywood or be an industry insider. In addition to the internet and books, many hometown newspapers and regional television stations run human interest pieces about local Oscar voters, including lesser known members that are the hardest to find.

Most importantly, remember to email your findings to nevertooearlymoviepredictions@gmail.com so that we can add them to our list. Even if you don’t find absolute written proof, it may still be enough to have us add them in italics, or add them to the wish list, or to the non-members page. If nothing else, it will put them on our radar for future study.


For Journalists and Bloggers

If you are a journalist or a film blogger, the best way that you can help our project is to include questions about a filmmaker’s membership as a standard part of your interviews - not just for actor and directors, but also studio executives, publicists and all the branches of “arts and sciences” that make up the academy.

Note that it is generally considered impolite to ask a member to reveal which film or performance they are voting for (and it’s against the academy’s rule for them to tell you). But it is perfectly acceptable to ask if they are a member, how long they’ve been a member, what they think of the academy’s voting process, how they think the awards have changed, etc. Also be aware that the Academy has many other programs outside of the Oscars - from their museum and library to student awards and outreach programs - and that some members may be more open to talking about their work with those programs.

Once you’ve posted your article, audio recording or video, send us the information and we’ll happily link to it. We accept both “on the record” statements from quoted interviews as well as information gained “on background”, but ask that you do actually confirm membership rather than just assuming it. (A quick look at our Non-Members page shows the perils of making such an assumption, even for the most famous of Oscar winners).

Besides interviews, there are any number of press kits, artist biographies and news reports that studios and film festivals put out intending them to be public, so don’t hold back on us!


For Public Sightings and Film Festival Attendees

If you run into someone famous at a film festival, a Q&A following a movie screening, a dinner party or just out in public, the most important thing is to be polite. We don’t want to become known as that rude group who chases down celebrities on the street or interrupts their romantic Valentine’s day dinner. They already get enough of that abuse from the paparazzi. But if the timing seems right, and the setting seems appropriate, then we’d love for you to pop the question: Are you an Academy member?

If it’s a film festival or screening where the panel of speakers is announced ahead of time, you may want to check to see if they’re already confirmed, or even write to me to find out if there have been any leads.

Note: The Turner Classic Film Festival and the TCM Cruises seem like unique settings where veteran artists (and presumed academy members) mingle relatively freely with movie fans and film bloggers. If anyone is attending one of these events, I’d love to consult with you before you go!


For Archival Researchers

The Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library is an invaluable resource for those who can make it to Beverly Hills, and we presume that the Academy Museum will be as well when it opens in 2017. Other public, private and collegiate libraries and museums probably have resources hidden away as well, particularly in cities that have played a large or historic role in the film industry. For example, UCLA’s Performing Arts Special Collection reportedly has a membership list from January 1, 1956 which we haven’t seen yet. (Box 249 of the Herschel Burke Gilbert Collection).

Many print newspapers and magazines have picked up stories about academy members over the years. Sometimes they appear as awards coverage or articles about academy programs, and other times they appear in human interest stories, biographical information, paid advertisements and obituaries. Sources that we’ve had success with (and where we think there is still more to find) include: Variety and Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and many of the magazines and newsletters published by film industry guilds.

Sections of the multi-volumed “Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television” have appeared online (sadly, often disappearing later), but we haven’t yet been able to go through the entire set of volumes. The series contains biographies, many of which include a list of organizations to which the artist belongs. Print copies may be available in some libraries.

Celebrity biographies, studio histories and books about the film industry might also give insights.


Internet Sources for those researching from Home

In addition to their physical building in Beverly Hills, the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library has posted over 5,000 items in their digital collection, including membership newsletters and publications from the Academy itself. We are slowly reading through these documents, and could use your help!

Of course, most people will want to start with their favorite stars, so feel free to type their name into google and see if you get anything! We’ve had some minor success searching IMDB (usually on the biography or resume pages), as well as Wikipedia and LinkedIn, but more often it is an artist’s personal website or resume that holds the key.

We also need help monitoring social media sites like twitter, facebook and instagram, particularly during the months of December through February, when some academy members will post that they are watching screeners or that they have just voted. (That’s obviously the period when most members of the general public tune in too, which means that there’s a lot of noise to sort through, and a lot of false leads that can eat up our time and sometimes cause us to miss legitimate sources).

There are many, many websites dedicated to the film industry and the awards race. As movie fans and Oscar lovers, we all read widely and hope that you’ll send in anything you stumble across. We’re also looking for people who will search through the archives of these sites for information that may have been published before this project began.


Building Our List of Member Credits

As curator of The Academy Members Project, my first priority is always to get new names added to our list. But a list of just names doesn’t really help the general public to understand who makes up the academy: They’ll recognize Brad Pitt, but won’t realize that a particular visual effects artist has actually worked on all of their favorite films. So we’re slowly beginning the process of transforming our list of names into something more substantial and meaningful.

If you go to the list of names that begin with A, the first several entries reveal the pattern that we’d eventually like to follow for the whole list. It goes like this:
  • Name, along with any alternate names that we should be aware of. (For example, Marvin Lee Aday is more commonly known by his stage name Meat Loaf).
  • Branch of the Academy to which they belong (when known).
  • A note on whether they are an Oscar Winner, Oscar Nominee, and/or have served on the Academy’s Board Of Governors.
  • Film Credits or Claim To Fame - In most cases these will be the films that they’ve worked on and can be found on IMDB, but for executives, public relations, at-large or associate members, a job title or other accomplishment may be more appropriate. We try to list films that they won an Oscar for first, followed by those that they were nominated for, and then a representative mix of critically acclaimed films (BAFTA, Golden Globe, Guild awards) and popular films (box office hits). We can’t list every film they’ve worked on, but try to pick titles that will be easily recognizable to fans of different ages and genres whenever possible. We generally don’t include TV credits unless it really is the role that they’re most famous for and that is most recognizable to the public. Since our goal is to identify and celebrate Academy members, we try to pick credits that make them look good, and leave the flops for another day.
  • Sources - These are links and citations that show that the person is actually a member. They are are our “proof” that the artist belongs to the club.
  • Learn More Links - These are links to IMDB, Wikipedia, the artist’s personal page or other places where readers can learn about this person. They may or may not take note of the the individual’s academy membership.


Sign Up for our Monthly Newsletter

While the pages of this website are updated as often as possible, I also send a newsletter via email to our contributors letting them know about new names and new confirmations that we’ve recently added. The newsletter is typically published once a month, but sometimes I’ll add an extra edition just prior to the nominations or the Oscar ceremony if we’ve added a lot of new names.

If you would like to receive the newsletter, simply send an email to nevertooearlymoviepredictions@gmail.com asking to be added to the newsletter’s email list. Note that my intention is for this to be a service for those who are contributing to the project, so we hope that you will be actively searching for names and/or helping us to build the credits if you join the list.




Know of an Academy member that we have missed? Think we have included someone who shouldn’t be here? The Academy Members Project is a work in progress, and welcomes your input! Additions, suggestions, corrections and verifications may be submitted in the comments section, or by emailing nevertooearlymoviepredictions@gmail.com.
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The Academy Members Project Has Now Identified 5500 Oscar Voters!

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As awards season heats up, I’m proud to announce that we have now identified the names of 5,500 Oscar voters! That’s over 76% of the Academy!

From the very beginning, our goal has been to identify and celebrate the artists who make up this prestigious club. We get a rush of excitement every time we find a new name, but we have to admit that surpassing big round numbers like 5,500 brings a special thrill.

In addition to the 5,500 current members, we have found 4,650 historical members, and 2,350 filmmakers who have not been admitted to the academy (yet!).

I want to thank everyone who has helped with the research, or even just smiled supportively over the years. Reading through archival materials and hunting down news articles can be lonely work, but your encouragement helps immensely. There are still lots of names left to find, but the days when people can claim that they have “no idea” who makes up the academy are dwindling fast.

You can check out all the names using the index below, or learn how you can join the search to help us get to 6,000!

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In Honor of Their First Oscar Ballot….

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I posted some publicity images on twitter, facebook and tumblryesterday, in honor of some of the new Academy members who received an Oscar ballot for the first time. I hope to do some more as the season progresses to help raise awareness about The Academy Members Project.

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