Oscar 2015 Predictions: The Categories You Actually Care About

The Oscars are Sunday! Wednesday, to help you out with your pool, Tim Grierson made predictions in all the technical categories; yesterday, Drew Magary yelled a lot. Today, we both unveil our picks for the eight major categories: you know, the ones you actually care about. Let's get to it.
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Grierson: Harvey Weinstein, the king of the shameless Oscar campaign, has been pushing hard for his company's The Imitation Game with ads that declare, "Honor the Man. Honor the Film." He means the movie's real-life subject, Alan Turing, but I'm betting the onl…