A_COL's Academy Award Predictions .... and the Oscar goes to:

THE PUBLIC HAS ALREADY VOTED WITH THEIR WALLETS!

I truly appreciate the critics picking best movie of the year and winners in all the other categories but in the ONLY category that really counts – MONEY MADE - appears Gravity wins hands down and by a wide margin bettering the next nearest competitor, Wolf of Wall Street, by over two to one.

When it comes to picking movies, I normally "trust the mob" so here is how the movie going and paying public ranked this year’s movies:

Rank, Movie, Box Receipts
1 Gravity $972M
2 Wolf of Wall Street $450M
3 American Hustle $360M
4 Captain Phillips $324M
5 12 Years a Slave $117M
6 Philomena $114M
7 Dallas Buyers Club $54M
8 Her $32M
9 Nebraska $16M

No contest; ….and the winner is, bank statement Please: GRAVITY