My Oscar Picks (and nominations)

While I consider myself a movie buff, it seems every year at Oscar time the movies nominated are all ones I haven’t seen. It’s rather obvious that my tastes in films greatly differs from that of the esteemed Academy. Seriously, would the average movie-goer pick to see “We’re the Millers” or “Philomena?” I’ve never heard of “Philomena” either, but it’s nominated for Best Picture.
For my Oscar predictions I decided to judge on only the movies I’ve seen this year, which I think would also make for a more entertaining telecast.

Best Actor: Adam Sandler - Grown Ups 2
                  Steve Carrell-  The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
                  Will Ferrell- Anchorman 2
                  James Franco - This is the End
                  Johnny Knoxville- Bad Grandpa

    The Winner: Johnny Knoxville (Bad Grandpa) - His portrayal of an elderly gentleman, more like a dirty old fart deserves recognition. He was playing someone at least twice his age, with much emotional range. In what other movie will you see someone’s explosive gas leave a splattering of fecal matter on the wall of a restaurant?  I bet Matthew McConaughey doesn’t do anything like that in “Dallas Buyers Club.”

Best Actress: Jennifer Aniston - We’re The Millers
No contest, the strip tease scene in the warehouse is worthy of the Oscar all on its own, but she’s good in the rest of the movie too. Sorry, Meryl Streep, better luck next year.

Best Supporting Actor: Zach Galifanakis- Hangover III
                                    Danny McBride - This is the End
                                    Woody Harrelson - Now You See Me
                                     Nick Offerman- We’re the Millers
                                     Steve Carrell - Anchorman 2

The Winner: A tough race, but the edge goes to Nick Offerman in “We’re the Millers” based on the Joe Morgan reference and for his work on “Parks and Recreation.”

Best Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy - The Heat
                                       Kate Winslet - Movie 43
                                       Sandra Bullock- The Heat
                                       Allison Janney:  The Way, Way Back
                                       Anna Faris-  Movie 43

The Winner: A little seen movie, but a good one and Allison Janney is hilarious in it, especially when talking about her lazy eyed son.

Best Director: Who really cares? Other than Spieldberg, Scorcese or Woody Allen…name me a director. No cheating.

Best Picture: Hangover III
                    We’re the Miller’s
                     Bad Grandpa
                     Movie 43
                     Anchorman 2
The Winner is: It’s a tight race between “Bad Grandpa” and “We’re the Miller’s” as they both had me in near tears from laughing; but since it had more of a plot (and that’s pretty important) I’ll crown “We’re the Millers.”