Brendan Loy's Oscar Pool

Make your picks in the 11th annual Living Room Times Oscar Pool, and compete for Eternal Glory!

Then, go to brendanloy.tumblr.com Sunday night for SNARKNADO 2015, my wife's & my annual Live-Blog / Live-Chat / Live-Snark. It's fun! It's silly! It's snarky! And we'll reveal live Oscar Pool results with each award.

More details on the pool, including the scoring system, can be found here.

When entering the pool, contestants are urged to use either their full name, a Twitter handle, or some other readily recognizable partial name or nickname/pseudonym. After all, what’s the point of “bragging rights” — never mind “eternal glory” — if we don’t know who you are?

Good luck!

And the nominees are ...

Best Picture

American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
The Imitation Game
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash

Best Director

Richard Linklater for Boyhood
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman
Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game

Best Actor

Steve Carell for Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch for The Imitation Game
Bradley Cooper for American Sniper
Michael Keaton for Birdman
Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything

Best Actress

Marion Cotillard for Two Days, One Night
Felicity Jones for The Theory of Everything
Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl
Julianne Moore for Still Alice
Reese Witherspoon for Wild

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Duvall for The Judge
Ethan Hawke for Boyhood
Edward Norton for Birdman
Mark Ruffalo for Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons for Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette for Boyhood
Laura Dern for Wild
Keira Knightley for The Imitation Game
Emma Stone for Birdman
Meryl Streep for Into the Woods

Best Original Screenplay

Boyhood: Richard Linklater
Birdman: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo
Foxcatcher: E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler: Dan Gilroy

Best Adapted Screenplay

American Sniper: Jason Hall
Inherent Vice: Paul Thomas Anderson
The Imitation Game: Graham Moore
The Theory of Everything: Anthony McCarten
Whiplash: Damien Chazelle

Best Animated Feature Film

The Boxtrolls
Big Hero 6
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

Best Foreign Language Film

Tangerines: Zaza Urushadze
Ida: Pawel Pawlikowski
Leviathan: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Wild Tales: Damián Szifrón
Timbuktu: Abderrahmane Sissako

Cinematography

Birdman: Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Robert D. Yeoman
Ida: Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski
Mr. Turner: Dick Pope
Unbroken: Roger Deakins

Editing

Boyhood: Sandra Adair
The Imitation Game: William Goldenberg
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Barney Pilling
Whiplash: Tom Cross
American Sniper: Joel Cox, Gary Roach

Production Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel: Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock
The Imitation Game: Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
Interstellar: Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
Into the Woods: Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock
Mr. Turner: Suzie Davies, Charlotte Watts

Costume Design

The Grand Budapest Hotel: Milena Canonero
Inherent Vice: Mark Bridges
Into the Woods: Colleen Atwood
Maleficent: Anna B. Sheppard
Mr. Turner: Jacqueline Durran

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Foxcatcher: Bill Corso, Dennis Liddiard
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier
Guardians of the Galaxy: Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, David White

Original Score

The Imitation Game: Alexandre Desplat
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar: Hans Zimmer
The Theory of Everything: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Mr. Turner: Gary Yershon

Original Song

Selma: Common, John Legend (Glory)
Begin Again: Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois (Lost Stars)
The Lego Movie: Shawn Patterson (Everything is Awesome)
Beyond the Lights: Diane Warren (Grateful)
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me: Glen Campbell, Julian Raymond (I'm Not Going to Miss You

Best Sound Mixing

American Sniper: John T. Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Walt Martin
Birdman: Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Thomas Varga
Interstellar: Gary Rizzo, Gregg Landaker, Mark Weingarten
Unbroken: Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, David Lee
Whiplash: Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley

Best Sound Editing

American Sniper: Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
Birdman: Aaron Glascock, Martín Hernández
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: Brent Burge, Jason Canovas
Interstellar: Richard King
Unbroken: Becky Sullivan, Andrew DeCristofaro

Best Visual Effects

Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Dan Deleeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill, Daniel Sudick
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Erik Winquist
Guardians of the Galaxy: Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould
Interstellar: Paul J. Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Scott R. Fisher
X-Men: Days of Future Past: Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie, Cameron Waldbauer

Best Documentary Feature

Citizenfour: Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky
Finding Vivian Maier: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Last Days in Vietnam: Rory Kennedy, Keven McAlester
The Salt of the Earth: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, David Rosier
Virunga: Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara

Best Documentary Short

Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1: Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Dana Perry
Joanna: Aneta Kopacz
Our Curse: Tomasz Sliwinski, Maciej Slesicki
The Reaper: Gabriel Serra
White Earth: Christian Jensen

Best Animated Short

The Bigger Picture: Daisy Jacobs, Chris Hees
The Dam Keeper: Robert Kondo, Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi
Feast: Patrick Osborne, Kristina Reed
Me and My Moulton: Torill Kove
A Single Life: Joris Oprins

Best Live Action Short

Aya: Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis
Boogaloo and Graham: Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney
Butter Lamp: Wei Hu, Julien Féret
Parvaneh: Talkhon Hamzavi, Stefan Eichenberger
The Phone Call: Mat Kirkby, James Lucas

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