Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Actor (Matthew McConaughey), Best Actress (Jessica Chastain), Best Supporting Actor (Casey Affleck), Best Supporting Actor (Michael Caine), Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway), Best Original Screenplay (Christopher and Jonathan Nolan), Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Score, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects Among passionate film fans, Interstellar is one of the most anticipated films of 2014. Director Christopher Nolan has become a sacred God among many movie fanatics, and given this level of mass anticipation, many Oscar prognosticators are already declaring Interstellar a major player in the 2015 Best Picture race. Christopher Nolan's track record with the Academy though has been lukewarm at best. Nolan, along with his brother Jonathan, received a nomination early on in his career for writing the screenplay for Memento. Nolan's next two films could only land a few technical nominations, but the lover-hate relationship between Nolan and the Oscars really came to a head in 2009 when The Dark Knight failed to receive a nomination for Best Picture. The furor over its exclusion pretty much solely led to the expansion of the Best Picture field by the Academy, of which Nolan was a beneficiary of in 2010 when his high-concept dream film, Inception, landed a Best Picture nomination. Even so, Nolan himself has yet to receive a Best Director nomination, and I'm still a bit leery on Interstellar's chances. However, the film is stacked with an all-star cast that includes current Best Actor champion, Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Ellen Burstyn, and a reported cameo from Matt Damon, and while the film's plot is still a guarded secret (something to do with wormholes), if Interstellar receives large enough box office returns, I expect the Academy will follow suit with a Best Picture nomination.
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.
