How to win your Oscars pool
Guardian film reviewer
Tom Shone helps you pick this year's Academy Award winners
Oscars 2014: how to be just cynical enough to pick the winners
Never count Harvey out, the ‘morning after’ rule, the ‘most, not best’ theory and all the reasons your Oscar picks could be wrong
Oscars 2014: is any director strong enough to unite the Academy?
In our era of half-strength best picture winners, we’re torn between indie aesthetics, powerful stories and high-tech bombast
Oscar favourites: even Leonardo wilts beside renaissance man McConaughey
Tom Shone: Dallas Buyers Club offers up the latest in an extraordinary run of performances from a man once stuck in romcom purgatory. Best actor has to be his
Oscar favourites: could Woody Allen's troubles make Cate Blanchett blue?
Tom Shone: In short, I don’t think so. Her performance in Blue Jasmine is as strong as the Academy will be shy of shifting the prize to Amy Adams
Oscar favourites: the stories at stake for Leto, Lawrence and Lupita Nyong'o
Best supporting actor, actress and documentary boil down to face-offs between great stories on- and off-camera
