Dallas Buyers Club Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa The Lone Ranger Another category that even many hardcore cinephiles probably don't care much about, makeup and hairstyling can nevertheless have a fairly substantial subconscious effect on the viewer as to why something feels right and why some scenes just don't seem to jive. When it comes to picking who will win the Oscar in this category, it's usually a good strategy to pick whichever movie lays on the makeup most thickly, but that formula doesn't quite hold this year. Using the aforementioned criteria, the winner would probably be The Lone Ranger, but the film was such a monumental flop and received such a gluttony of poor reviews that it's unlikely Academy members will want to reward it with any Oscars. The film that probably should take home the award, as it was the makeup that was most thoroughly tested by the public in real world situations, is Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, but puts the Academy in the conundrum of saying they gave a Jackass movie an Academy Award, something their likely reticent to do. This leaves us with the final nominee, Dallas Buyers Club, which is obviously the most admired of the three movies as a movie among the Academy. With a reported budget of only $250 for makeup, most of the affect of the two characters in the movie with drastic physical conditions was due to actual extreme weight loss on the part of actors Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto, although what makeup was used was artfully applied. In what many even in the Academy are likely to view as a relatively insignificant category though, I suspect they will just vote for the film they like most: Dallas Buyers Club. Will Win: Dallas Buyers ClubCould Win: Jackass Presents: Bad GrandpaShould Win: Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
A film fanatic at a very young age, starting with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies and gradually moving up to more sophisticated fare, at around the age of ten he became inexplicably obsessed with all things Oscar. With the incredibly trivial power of being able to chronologically name every Best Picture winner from memory, his lifelong goal is to see every Oscar nominated film, in every major category, in the history of the Academy Awards.
