Ranking the 86th Oscar Nominees

12 Years a Slave could win Best Picture, but what votes would it get from me?

This year I've managed to see most of the major Oscar-nominated films, except for several in the animated, documentary, foreign and short categories. Since the ceremony is tomorrow, I thought I'd share my rankings of most categories. These are my personal preferences, but my final predictions can be found here.

EDIT: These are NOT my predictions. Rather, they're my best-to-worst rankings of the nominees in most categories.

Best Picture:

1. Gravity
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Her
4. 12 Years a Slave
5. Captain Phillips
6. Philomena
7. Nebraska
8. American Hustle
9. Dallas Buyers Club

Best Director:

1. Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
2. Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
4. Alexander Payne, Nebraska
5. David O. Russell, American Hustle

Best Actor:

1. Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
2. Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
3. Bruce Dern, Nebraska
4. Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
5. Christian Bale, American Hustle

Best Actress:

1. Sandra Bullock, Gravity
2. Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
3. Judi Dench, Philomena
4. Amy Adams, American Hustle
5. Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
2. Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
4. Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
5. Bradley Cooper, American Hustle

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
2. Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
3. Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
4. Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
5. June Squibb, Nebraska

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1. Before Midnight
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Captain Phillips
4. Philomena
5. 12 Years a Slave

Best Original Screenplay:

1. Her
2. Blue Jasmine
3. Nebraska
4. American Hustle
5. Dallas Buyers Club

Best Production Design:

1. Her
2. The Great Gatsby
3. Gravity
4. American Hustle
5. 12 Years a Slave

Best Cinematography:

1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. The Grandmaster
3. Prisoners
4. Gravity
5. Nebraska

Best Costume Design:

1. The Great Gatsby
2. The Grandmaster
3. American Hustle
4. 12 Years a Slave
5. The Invisible Woman (Not seen)

Best Film Editing:

1. Captain Phillips
2. Gravity
3. 12 Years a Slave
4. American Hustle
5. Dallas Buyers Club

Best Original Score:

1. Gravity
2. Her
3. Philomena
4. The Book Thief
5. Saving Mr. Banks

Best Original Song:

1. "Let It Go" from Frozen
2. "The Moon Song" from Her
3. "Happy" from Despicable Me 2 (Not seen)
4. "Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Not seen)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

1. The Lone Ranger
2. Dallas Buyers Club
3. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

Best Sound Mixing:

1. Gravity
2. Captain Phillips
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
4. Lone Survivor
5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Sound Editing:

1. Gravity
2. All is Lost
3. Captain Phillips
4. Lone Survivor
5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Best Visual Effects:

1. Gravity
2. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
3. Star Trek Into Darkness
4. The Lone Ranger
5. Iron Man 3

Best Animated Feature Film:

Frozen
(Not seen any of the other nominees.)

Best Documentary Feature Film:

The Act of Killing
(Not seen any of the other nominees.)

Best Foreign Language Film:

The Hunt
(Not seen any of the other nominees.)

Best Animated Short Film:

Get a Horse!
(Not seen any of the other nominees.)

Best Live Action Short Film:
Not seen any of the nominees.

Best Documentary Short Film:
Not seen any of the nominees.

Enjoy Oscar weekend!