{"id":19673,"date":"2015-02-18T02:16:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T10:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=19673"},"modified":"2015-02-18T02:16:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T10:16:35","slug":"oscar-chatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/oscar-chatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Chatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/osca2015.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. &#8212; Pictured are street closures in Hollywood this week. Between the streets are pictures of 3 Oscar picks for Best Movie (left), Best Actress (middle) and Best Actor (right). See predicted winners below!\u00a0Surrounding the Dolby Theatre\u00a0where the\u00a0Academy Awards take place this Sunday street closures are creating a mess for commuters. Some roads have been closed for\u00a0a whopping 10 days! Celebrities, producers, costume designers, composers and other talents make their grand appearances on the Red Carpet at\u00a0the 87th Academy Awards televised show Feb. 22, 2015. Whose going to win? Here are some educated guesses from a &#8220;variety&#8221; of sources:<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEST PICTURE &#8211; Birdman<\/strong>. The public knows\u00a0Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton) as Birdman, the superhero he once played in a series of films. He\u00a0hopes to reestablish himself as a serious actor by mounting his own dramatic production on Broadway\u00a0but his\u00a0self-doubt and\u00a0a high-profile, egotistical movie star in his cast hinder the project.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Birdman &#8212; \u00a0It&#8217;s going to be a close call, but VARIETY picks Birdman<\/li>\n<li>Birdman &#8212; Scott Feinberg of THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER picks Birdman<\/li>\n<li>Birdman &#8212; Clayton Davis of AWARDS CIRCUIT chooses this film<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BEST ACTOR &#8211; Eddie Redmayne<\/strong>. Plays Stephen Hawking,\u00a0a brilliant young cosmologist who learns that he is suffering from a progressive motor neuron disease.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything, says HOLLYWOOD REPORTER&#8217;s Scott Feinberg<\/li>\n<li>Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything, says\u00a0Clayton Davis of AWARDS CIRCUIT<\/li>\n<li>Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything, chosen by VARIETY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BEST ACTRESS &#8211; Julianne Moore<\/strong>. Plays a college professor\u00a0who copes with early-onset Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Julianne Moore in Still Alice is\u00a0HOLLYWOOD REPORTER&#8217;s\u00a0Scott Feinberg top choice<\/li>\n<li>Julianne Moore in Still Alice, says\u00a0Clayton Davis of AWARDS CIRCUIT<\/li>\n<li>Julianne Moore has it for sure in Still Alice, according to VARIETY&#8217;S experts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. &#8212; Pictured are street closures in Hollywood this week. Between the streets are pictures of 3 Oscar picks for Best Movie (left), Best Actress (middle) and Best Actor (right). See predicted winners below!\u00a0Surrounding the Dolby Theatre\u00a0where the\u00a0Academy Awards take place this Sunday street closures are creating a mess for commuters. Some roads have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}