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2 F O X S E A R C H L I G H T, M O N G R E L M E D I A , P A R A M O U N T P I C T U R E S , E O N E F I L M S , T H E W E I N S T E I N C O M P A N Y TV WEEK 65 virtually a shoo-in for Best Picture after winning at the Golden Globes and the Critics' Choice Awards. As the single mother who overcomes a decade of obstacles — ranging from financial stress to domestic abuse — Arquette's win for Supporting Actress is all but guaranteed. The Grand Budapest Hotel That The Grand Budapest Hotel nabbed the award for Best Comedy or Musical at the Globes should perhaps not have been a surprise, because the stylized whodunit starring Ralph Fiennes as a hotel concierge who is accused of murder, is Wes Anderson at his best. But the Oscars may prove an uphill climb for the quirky film and its director. The Imitation Game Benedict Cumberbatch portrays mathematician and war hero Alan Turing, who is credited with cracking the so-called unbreakable codes of Germany's Second World War Enigma machine. The real struggle for Turing, however, came post-war when he was arrested on charges of "gross indecency" and convicted for being homosexual. The powerful film is nominated in every major category, including Morten Tyldum for directing, and Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley for acting. Selma In the first Hollywood production that puts Dr. Martin Luther King front and centre, David Oyelowo portrays the civil rights leader during the tumultuous three-month period in 1965 when he led a campaign, in the face of extreme violence, to secure equal voting rights. Director Ava DuVernay tells the story of how a movement prompted change that forever altered history. The Theory of Everything For his portrayal of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne should have the trophy for Best Actor in the bag. Redmayne and his Oscar- nominated co-star Felicity Jones (as Hawking's first wife, Jane Wilde) depict the couple's struggle through the progression of Hawking's debilitating illness and skyrocketing research career in a movie that likely has prompted more tissue sales than any other Best Pic candidate this year. Whiplash A promising 19-year-old jazz drummer (Miles Teller) at a cutthroat Manhattan music conservatory gets a real taste of the price of success when he is picked to join the school band led by a sadistic music instructor. J.K. Simmons' portrayal of every student's living nightmare will likely nab him his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Supporting Actress is all but guaranteed. The Imitation Game Selma Whiplash The Grand Budapest Hotel Birdman The Theory of Everything