He's a writer for the Hollywood Reporter who will be doing an updated weekly column as the Oscar race pans out over the coming months.

BEST PICTURE

Frontrunners
Interstellar (Paramount)
Unbroken (Universal)
Boyhood (IFC Films)
The Imitation Game (The Weinstein Co.)
The Theory of Everything (Focus Features)
American Sniper (Warner Bros.)
Birdman (Fox Searchlight)
Whiplash (Sony Pictures Classic)
Foxcatcher (Sony Pictures Classic)
Into the Woods (Disney)

Major Threats
Gone Girl (20th Century Fox)
Selma (Paramount)
Wild (Fox Searchlight)
Mr. Turner (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Fox Searchlight)
A Most Violent Year (A24)

BEST DIRECTOR

Frontrunners
Christopher Nolan (Interstellar)
Angelina Jolie (Unbroken)
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
Alejandro G. Inarritu (Birdman)
Clint Eastwood (American Sniper)

Major Threats
Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)
James Marsh (The Theory of Everything)
Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher)
Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)
David Fincher (Gone Girl)

BEST ACTOR

Frontrunners
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Bradley Cooper (American Sniper)
Jack O'Connell (Unbroken)

Major Threats
Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar)
Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)
David Oyelowo (Selma)
Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner)
Miles Teller (Whiplash)
Ben Affleck (Gone Girl)
Chadwick Boseman (Get On Up)

BEST ACTRESS

Frontrunners
Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
Reese Witherspoon (Wild)
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Shailene Woodley (The Fault in Our Stars)

Major Threats
Amy Adams (Big Eyes)
Hilary Swank (The Homesman)
Emily Blunt (Into the Woods)
Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year)
Anne Hathaway (Interstellar) *NEW*

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Frontrunners
Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)
J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
Edward Norton (Birdman)
Josh Brolin (Inherent Vice)

Major Threats
Takamasa Ishihara (Unbroken)
Tom Wilkinson (Selma)
Robert Duvall (The Judge)
Andy Serkis (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

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

Major Threats
Jessica Chastain (Interstellar)
Julianne Moore (Maps to the Stars)
Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice)
Carmen Ejogo (Selma)

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