And the Oscar goes to…Boyhood! The movie that is predicted to take home the Best Picture Oscar, rightfully so, does have some stiff competition but will most likely take home the big prize. A film that chronicles 12 years of Mason Jr.’s (Ellar Coltrane) life, shows the events that occur in life and how brief and special they can be. The amount of effort that went into this film is tremendous as it follows Coltrane as he grows up from a young boy to an adult. Coltrane does a great job as a growing boy (kind of makes sense since he was playing himself), Patricia Arquette does fantastic as his mother and will probably win an Oscar for her work, and Ethan Hawke who does great like most of the other movies he is in. Richard Linklater who came up with the premise for this film and directed it should win for his directing.
The film has gone back and forth with Birdman on who will win the Best Picture award. Both films have won multiple awards and have the potential to go home with the trophy. This is one of the closest races in recent memory and will be the topic of conversation for years to come.
Reasons it wins:
Richard Linklater, who is the favorite to win director, will carry the film to the Oscar.
It simply gets the award that many people think it deserves.
It overcomes the hurdle that Birdman has placed for it (which again could occur).
Reasons it loses:
Birdman lives up to the hype that it is getting from all the other award shows and overcomes the earlirt struggles that it had.
Linklater doesn’t win the directing Oscar and this leads to a Birdman victory.
Possible Outcome:
Most likely, it does take home the Best Picture Oscar but even experts don’t even know who is going to win. If it doesn’t win that it still will win the Best Supporting Actress with Arquette, Director and maybe Best Film Editing. The worst possible night that Boyhood could have would be losing everything but Best Supporting Actress.