Here comes the time for my long-lasting tradition of posting this year’s opinion based Oscar-predictions. And this time it comes with a bonus list of “to watch” and “don’t watch” movies selected from the nominees.

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Best Picture

Winner: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole

• American Sniper – Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper and Peter Morgan
• Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven M. Rales and Jeremy Dawson
• The Imitation Game – Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky and Teddy Schwarzman
• Selma – Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner
• The Theory of Everything – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce and Anthony McCarten
• Whiplash – Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook and David Lancaster

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Best Director

Winner: Richard Linklater – Boyhood

• Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher
• Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

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Best Actor

Winner: Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything as Stephen Hawking

• Steve Carell – Foxcatcher as John Eleuthère du Pont
• Bradley Cooper – American Sniper as Chris Kyle
• Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game as Alan Turing
• Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Riggan Thomson

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Best Actress

Winner: Julianne Moore – Still Alice as Dr. Alice Howland

• Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Bya
• Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything as Jane Wilde Hawking
• Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl as Amy Elliott-Dunne
• Reese Witherspoon – Wild as Cheryl Strayed

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Best Supporting Actor

Winner: J. K. Simmons – Whiplash as Terence Fletcher

• Robert Duvall – The Judge as Judge Joseph Palmer
• Ethan Hawke – Boyhood as Mason Evans, Sr.
• Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Mike Shiner
• Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher as Dave Schultz

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Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Emma Stone – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as Sam Thomson

• Patricia Arquette – Boyhood as Olivia Evans
• Laura Dern – Wild as Barbara “Bobbi” Grey
• Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game as Joan Clarke
• Meryl Streep – Into the Woods as The Witch

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Best Original Screenplay

Winner: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo

• Boyhood – Richard Linklater
• Foxcatcher – E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
• Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

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Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner: Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson from Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

• American Sniper – Jason Dean Hall from American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice
• The Imitation Game – Graham Moore from Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
• The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten from Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking
• Whiplash – Damien Chazelle from his short film of the same name

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Best Animated Feature Film

Winner: Song of the Sea – Tomm Moore and Paul Young

• Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
• The Boxtrolls – Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable and Travis Knight
• How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Dean DeBlois and Bonnie Arnold
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya – Isao Takahata and Yoshiaki Nishimura

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Best Foreign Language Film

Winner: Ida (Poland) in Polish – Paweł Pawlikowski

• Leviathan (Russia) in Russian – Andrey Zvyagintsev
• Tangerines (Estonia) in Estonian – Zaza Urushadze
• Timbuktu (Mauritania) in French – Abderrahmane Sissako
• Wild Tales (Argentina) in Spanish – Damián Szifrón

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Best Documentary – Feature

Winner:Citizenfour – Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutsky

Finding Vivian Maier – John Maloof and Charlie Siskel

Last Days in Vietnam – Rory Kennedy and Keven McAlester

The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado and David Rosier

Virunga – Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara

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Best Documentary – Short Subject

Winner: Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 – Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry

• Joanna – Aneta Kopacz
• Our Curse – Tomasz Śliwiński and Maciej Ślesicki
• The Reaper (La Parka) – Gabriel Serra Arguello
• White Earth – J. Christian Jensen

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Best Live Action Short Film

Winner: Aya – Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis

• Boogaloo and Graham – Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
• Butter Lamp (La Lampe au beurre de yak) – Hu Wei and Julien Féret
• Parvaneh – Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
• The Phone Call – Mat Kirkby and James Lucas

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Best Animated Short Film

Winner: Feast – Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed

• The Bigger Picture – Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
• The Dam Keeper – Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi
• A Single Life – Joris Oprins
• Me and My Moulton – Torill Kove

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Best Original Score

Winner: The Theory of Everything – Jóhann Jóhannsson

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Alexandre Desplat
• The Imitation Game – Alexandre Desplat
• Interstellar – Hans Zimmer
• Mr. Turner – Gary Yershon

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Best Original Song

Winner: “Everything Is Awesome” from The Lego Movie – Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson

• “Glory” from Selma – Music and Lyric by John Legend and Common
• “Grateful” from Beyond the Lights – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
• “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me – Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
• “Lost Stars” from Begin Again – Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

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Best Sound Editing

Winner: Interstellar – Richard King

• American Sniper – Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Martin Hernández and Aaron Glascock
• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Brent Burge and Jason Canovas
• Unbroken – Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro

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Best Sound Mixing

Winner: Whiplash – Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley

• American Sniper – John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Walt Martin
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and Thomas Varga
• Interstellar – Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten
• Unbroken – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño and David Lee

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Best Production Design

Winner: Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
• The Imitation Game – Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration)
• Interstellar – Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration)
• Mr. Turner – Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)

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Best Cinematography

Winner: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Emmanuel Lubezki

• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
• Ida – Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski
• Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
• Unbroken – Roger Deakins

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Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Winner: Guardians of the Galaxy – Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and David White

• Foxcatcher – Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard
• The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier

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Best Costume Design

Winner: Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero

Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges

Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard

Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran

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Best Film Editing

Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel – Barney Pilling

• American Sniper – Joel Cox and Gary D. Roach
• Boyhood – Sandra Adair
• The Imitation Game – William Goldenberg
• Whiplash – Tom Cross

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Best Visual Effects

Winner: Interstellar – Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
• Guardians of the Galaxy – Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
• X-Men: Days of Future Past – Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer

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To watch

• Into the Woods
• Birdman
• Boyhood
• Interstellar
• Whiplash
• Nightcrawler
• Song of the Sea
• Maleficent
• Gone Girl
• Inherent Vice
• The Lego Movie
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Feast
• The Theory of Everything
• Big Hero 6
• The Bigger Picture
• A Single Life
• How to Train Your Dragon 2
• Boxtrolls

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Don’t watch

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

American Sniper

The Judge

Foxcatcher