The 86th Annual Academy Award Predictions!!

The Academy Awards are coming up this weekend and all movie fanatics are very pumped! Sunday March 2nd is going to very a big day. We have a very excellent host this year, Ellen Degeneres. This will be the 2nd Ellen hosts the Oscars and she does it very well. She is very familiar with being a host with her own talk show which will be going into it's 12th season. As I always like to do is make my predictions for the major categories. Here are the MovieNightNow predictions for the 86th Annual Academy Awards...

Best Pictures:

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

Prediction: 12 Years a Slave

Best Actor in a Lead Role:

- Christian Bale (American Hustle)
- Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
- Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
- Chiwetel Ejiofer (12 Years a Slave)
- Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Prediction: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)

Best Actress in a Lead Role:

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

Predictions: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

- Barkhad Abdi (Captain Philips)
- Bradley Cooper (American Hustle
- Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
- Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
- Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)

Predictions: Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

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

Predictions: Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)

Best Animated Feature:

- The Croods
- Despicable Me 2
- Ernest & Celestine
- Frozen
- The Wind Rises

Predictions: Frozen

Best Director:

- David O. Russel (American Hustle)
- Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
- Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
- Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)
- Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)

Predictions: Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)

There are my predictions for the more major categories of The 86th Annual Academy Awards. I hope for the best and may the best movie win. I enjoy these awards very much and I always like to guess who will win. I wonder how I will do this year!