The 4th Annual Awards Psychic Awards: Nominees

I have taken a few days off to a) enjoy the holidays, and b) because there really wasn't much news to report. I hope that you and your families enjoyed the week, and that you have gotten some much needed rest because the Oscar season is about to explode with SAG, the Globes, and guild nominations. One of my new favorite traditions this time of year is the annual announcement of my favorite films and performances of the year. Yes guys, it is time for the 4th (is it the 4th already?) Annual Awards Psychic Awards. Tonight, enjoy this year's nominees, and on New Year's Eve, I will announce my winners for the year, as well as my top ten films (twenty actually). For the record, there are between 5-7 nominees per category, and the category placements were based solely on where I think they belong.

Best Picture – Drama
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Fruitvale Station
Mud
The Spectacular Now
Short Term 12
12 Years a Slave

Best Picture – Comedy/Musical
American Hustle
Enough Said
Frances Ha
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Picture – Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Iron Man 3
Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Picture – Animated
The Croods
Ernest and Celestine
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises

Best Actor – Drama
Chiwetel Ejiofor “12 Years a Slave”
Tom Hanks “Captain Phillips”
Michael B. Jordan “Fruitvale Station”
Matthew McConaughey “Dallas Buyers Club”
Tye Sheridan “Mud”
Miles Teller “The Spectacular Now”
Forest Whitaker “Lee Daniel’s The Butler”

Best Actress – Drama
Cate Blanchett “Blue Jasmine”
Sandra Bullock “Gravity”
Julie Delpy “Before Midnight”
Brie Larson “Short Term 12”
Emma Thompson “Saving Mr. Banks”
Shailene Woodley “The Spectacular Now”

Best Actor – Comedy/Musical
Christian Bale “American Hustle”
Bruce Dern “Nebraska”
Leonardo Dicaprio “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Oscar Isaac “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Joaquin Phoenix “Her”

Best Actress – Comedy/Musical
Amy Adams “American Hustle”
Lake Bell “In a World…”
Greta Gerwig “Frances Ha”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus “Enough Said”
Melissa McCarthy “The Heat”
Julia Roberts “August: Osage County”

Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron “Gravity”
Nicole Holofcener “Enough Said”
Richard Linklater “Before Midnight”
Steve McQueen “12 Years a Slave”
Jeff Nichols “Mud”
Alexander Payne “Nebraska”
David O. Russell “American Hustle”

Best Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi “Captain Phillips”
Bradley Cooper “American Hustle”
Michael Fassbender “12 Years a Slave”
Will Forte “Nebraska”
James Gandolfini “Enough Said”
Jared Leto “Dallas Buyers Club”
Matthew McConaughey “Mud/The Wolf of Wall Street"

Best Supporting Actress
Allison Janey “Struck By Lightning” and “The Way, Way Back”
Jennifer Lawrence “American Hustle”
Lupita Nyong’o “12 Years a Slave”
Sarah Paulson “12 Years a Slave”
Octavia Spencer “Fruitvale Station”
June Squibb “Nebraska”
Oprah Winfrey “Lee Daniel’s The Butler”

Best Ensemble
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Enough Said
Mud
Nebraska
Prisoners
12 Years a Slave

Best Voice-Over Performance
Kristen Bell “Frozen”
Nicholas Cage “The Croods”
Billy Crystal “Monsters University”
Josh Gad “Frozen”
John Goodman “Monsters University”
Scarlett Johansson “Her”

Best Adapted Screenplay
Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy “Before Midnight”
Billy Ray “Captain Phillips”
Scott Neusadter and Michael B. Weber “The Spectacular Now”
John Ridley “12 Years a Slave”
Terence Winter “The Wolf of Wall Street”

Best Original Screenplay
David O. Russell and Eric Singer “American Hustle”
Woody Allen “Blue Jasmine”
Nicole Holofcener “Enough Said”
Alfonso Cuaron and Jonas Cuaron “Gravity”
Joel and Ethan Coen “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Jeff Nichols “Mud”
Bob Nelson “Nebraska”

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki “Gravity”
Bruno Delbonnel “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Phedon Papamichael “Nebraska”
Roger Deakins “Prisoners”
Anthony Dod Mantle “Rush” 
Sean Bobbitt “12 Years a Slave”

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

Worst Film of the Year
After Earth
Grown Ups 2
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
The Lone Ranger
Movie 43