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Tony’s last minute Oscar predictions!

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave

Gravity

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Nebraska

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Dallas Buyers Club

The Wolf of Wall Street

I would swoon if-

Fruitvale Station, Before Midnight, or Short Term 12 got nominated

Best Actor

Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Bruce Dern, Nebraska

Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips

Robert Redford, All Is Lost

I would swoon if-

Oscar Isaac snuck in there for Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock, Gravity

Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks

Judi Dench, Philomena

Amy Adams, American Hustle

I would swoon if-

Julia Louis-Dreyfus was included for her lovely work in Enough Said

Best Supporting Actor

Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips

Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave

James Gandolfini, Enough Said

Daniel Bruhl, Rush

I would swoon if-

Tom Hanks got doubly recognized for both Captain Phillips AND Saving Mr. Banks

Best Supporting Actress

Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave

Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

June Squibb, Nebraska

Julia Roberts, August: Osage County

Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine

I would swoon if-

Octavia Spencer or Melonie Diaz were nominated for Fruitvale Station

Best Director

Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave

David O. Russell, American Hustle

Spike Jonze, Her

Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips

I would swoon if-

Ryan Coogler's impressive debut Fruitvale Station got some Benh Zeitlin Beats of the Southern Wild lovin like last year

Best Original Screenplay

Spike Jonze, Her

Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell, American Hustle

Woody Allen, Blue Jasmine

Bob Nelson, Nebraska

Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis

I would swoon if-

Nicole Holofcener’s romantic yet restrained Enough Said made the cut

Best Adapted Screenplay

John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave

Richard Linklater & Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy, Before Midnight

Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, Philomena

Billy Ray, Captain Phillips

Tracy Letts, August: Osage County

I would swoon if-

I have little stock in this category this year, so happy with whatevs

Roundoff Back Handspring into Youngblood's Sloan-Commissions with SILVER

First performed in June 2013 at Youngblood's Bloodworks reading series, now advancing to the National level:

                                       SILVER

                              Tonight! January 7 at 7pm

After the Beijing Olympics, gymnast Felicia Biancardi refuses to accept her team's second place finish, claiming the gold-winning Chinese athletes lied about their ages. Felicia goes on an obsessive quest to use science to prove the truth and disqualify her opponents, but finds herself up against the limits of what science can prove. A comedy about failure on the world's greatest stage.                    

SILVER 

by Emily Chadick Weiss

directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel

starring Nicole Lowrance, Lucy DeVito, Stephanie Wright Thompson, Eugene Oh, Diana Oh, Annie Q, Zhu Yi, Victor Slezak, Leslie Ayvazian and Andrew Garman

The Sloan-commissioned First Light Festival at The Ensemble Studio Theatre

549 W 52nd St between 10th and 11th Ave 6th Fl 

Reserve TICKETS HERE

Let's triple-twist flip into 2014.

More Youngblood in the EST/Sloan First Light Festival:

Old Four Legs by Clare Barron on Jan 13th at 7pm 

Wonks (A Travesty) by Willie Orbison on Jan 14 at 7pm