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Oscars: Outpick the expert

Predict the winners of the 87th Academy Awards. If you beat Voice film critic Joe O'Shansky's ballot, you could win dinner and a movie on us.




Want to make the Oscars more interesting this year? Here's how: Predict a winner in each category. If you correctly choose more winners than our film critic, Joe O'Shansky, you'll be entered to win 6 free passes at Circle Cinema and a $50 McNellie's Group gift card.

Cast your ballot here

See Joe's picks here:

Best Picture
Birdman

Best Director
Richard Linklater

Best Actor
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)

Best Actress
Julianne Moore (Still Alice)

Best Supporting Actor
J.K. Simmons

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette

Best Original Screenplay
Dan Futterman, E. Max Frye (Foxcatcher)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)

Best Documentary
Citizenfour

Best Animated Feature
How to Train Your Dragon 2

Best Cinematography
Birdman (Emmanuel Lubezki)

Best Costume Design
Into the Woods (Colleen Atwood)

Best Documentary Short
The Reaper (Gabriel Serra Arguello)

Best Film Editing
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Barney Pilling)

Best Foreign Language Feature
Ida (Poland)

Best Make Up and Hair Styling
Guardians of the Galaxy (Elizabeth Yanni-Georgiou and David White)

Best Original Score
Interstellar (Hans Zimmer)

Best Original Song
“Everything is Awesome” (The LEGO Movie), Music and lyric—Shawn Patterson

Best Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock)

Best Animated Short
Feast (Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed)

Best Live Action Short
The Phone Call (Matt Kirkby and James Lucas)

Best Sound Editing
The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies (Brent Burge and Jason Canovas)

Best Sound Mixing
Whiplash (Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley)

Best Visual Effects 
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Erik Winquist