2014 Oscar Picks

Key.
Who I want to win
Who will win
Who I want to win will also be the one to win 

I was unable to see all the shorts or foreign language so I left those out. I'll edit this post if I manage to see them before Sunday.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling 
The Lone Ranger
Jackass Presents: Badgrandpa
Dallas Buyers Club

Best Production Design 
12 Years a Slave
The Great Gatsby
American Hustle
Gravity
Her

Best Visual Effects
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Star Trek Into Darkness
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger

Best Sound Mixing
Gravity
Captain Phillips
Lone Survivor
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Sound Editing
Gravity
All is Lost
Captain Phillips
Lone Survivor
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Documentary Feature
The Act of Killing
20 Feet From Stardom
The Square
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars

Best Film Editing
Gravity
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
American Hustle
Dallas Buyers Club

Best Music Original Score
Gravity
Philomena
The Book Theif
Saving Mr. Banks
Her

Best Music Original Song
Frozen "Let it Go"
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom "Ordinary Love"
Her "The Moon Song"
Despicable Me 2 "Happy"

Best Animated Feature
The Wind Rises
Frozen 
Despicable me 2
Ernest & Celestine
The Croods

Best Costume Design
The Great Gatsby
12 Years a Slave
The Grandmaster
American Hustle
The Invisible Women

Best Cinematography
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners
The Grandmaster

Best Adapted Screen Play 
12 Years a Slave
Before Midnight
The Wolf of Wall Street
Captain Phillips
Philomena

Best Original Screen Play
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Her
Nebraska
Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Lawrence- American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o- 12 Years a Slave
June Squibb- Nebraska
Julia Roberts- August: Osage County
Sally Hawkins- Blue Jasmine

Best Supporting Actor 
Barkhad Abdi- Captain Phillips 
Bradley Cooper- American Hustle
Jonah Hill- The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto- Dallas Buyer Club
Michael Fassbender-  12 Years a Slave

Best Lead Actress
Amy Adams- American Hustle
Cate Blanchett- Blue Jasmine
Judi Dench- Philomena
Sandra Bullock- Gravity
Meryl Streep August: Osage County

Best Lead Actor
Bruce Dern- Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor- 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey- Dallas Buyers Club
Leonardo DiCaprio- The Wolf of Wall Street
Christian Bale- American Hustle

Best Director 
Steve Mcqueen- 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell- American Hustle
Alfonso Cuaron- Gravity
Alexander Pain- Nebraska
Martin Scorsese- The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Picture 
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
Captain Phillips
Her
American Hustle
Gravity
Dallas Buyers Club
Nebraska
Philomena

The 86th Academy Awards air Sunday on ABC 7e/4p

The Lego Movie: Review

The Lego Movie

Director: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

Stars: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell. Elizabeth Banks, Morgan Freeman, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson

Genre: Adventure, Comedy

Emmet Brickowoski (Chris Pratt) an ordinary Lego construction worker who only abides by what the directions of life tell him what to do. How he got dressed, eat, what to watch on TV and what to listen to on the radio. After a long work day Emmet falls into a hole on his construction site that tosses him in to a whirlwind of trouble with the Lego Government. Which in turns transforms him to be an unlikely hero with a group of rebels Wildstyle (Elizabeth Banks) Batman (Will Arnett) and Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman). The group of five must find away to stop President Business (Will Ferrell) in his plan to destroy the Lego universe with the mighty power of the "Kragle". The group of five must travel through a slew of the best Lego universes to try and escape President Business's right hand man appropriately named Bad Cop (Liam Neeson). Before they take down President Business Emmet must  learn to believe in him self. That he can over come the need to follow what the directions tell him to do. This movie is about believing in your self and that anything you set your mind to is possible.

The Lego Movie is great fun for the whole family. I honestly did not think that I would be laughing this much at this movie. The story was solid. Easy enough for little children to understand while being entertaining enough for the older audience. The Lego Movie has a star studded cast clearly, with enough cameos to fill a yearbook. All the way from Jonah Hill to Shaquille O'Neal. Even Simpsons character Milhouse has a cameo in it (voice not included however). There is a point at the end of the film where with out spoiling to much but you sorta get taking out of the movie vibe and it goes into something weird and makes you feel a little less for the characters.

7/10