Pre­dic­tions by Paul Stathakis | Feb­ru­ary 22, 2015: My pre­dic­tion score was 11 on 16 or 69%. Best Pic­ture “Amer­i­can Sniper” “Bird­man or (The Unex­pect­ed Virtue of Igno­rance)” “Boy­hood” “The Grand Budapest Hotel” “The Imi­ta­tion Game” “Sel­ma” “The The­o­ry of Every­thing” “Whiplash” And the win­ner was… “Bird­man or (The Unex­pect­ed Virtue of Igno­rance)” Best Direc­tor “Bird­man or (The Unex­pect­ed Virtue of Igno­rance)” Ale­jan­dro G. Iñár­ritu “Boy­hood” Richard Linklater… 

Selec­tions by Paul Stathakis | March 1, 2014 A year of intense deter­mi­na­tion. A year of scams. A year of brav­ery. A year of slav­ery. A year of racial prej­u­dice. A year of argu­ing in the name of love. A year of youth mis­un­der­stood. A year of apoc­a­lyp­tic pro­por­tions. A year of fan­ta­sy. A year of a father, a son, and their spe­cial jour­ney. A year that would…