Why: Watch Gravity and realize that it truly is a game changer of a movie. There is before Gravity 2

Why: Alfonso Cuaron will win Best Director and over the last several 2011 vma awards decades, more often than not, that winner also won Best Picture. Plus, it is the Best Picture! It combines it all: Spectacle, heart, suspense and a performance of her life from Sandra Bullock.
The Wolf of Wall Street is the fifth collaboration between director Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. It chronicles the real life financial fraud of Jordan Belfort.
Why: Giving the Oscar to McConaughey, particularly 2011 vma awards for his work on Dallas Buyers 2011 vma awards Club , is a way to not only reward what was the best performance of the year by a leading male, but also a way to salute a resurgence in the actor's career that began just over 18 months ago. Watch Dallas Buyers Club online and tell us he doesn't deserve it!
Christian Bale did more than sport a beer belly and a comb over in American Hustle. He dazzled in every sense of the word.
Why: Since Blue Jasmine arrived in cinemas last summer, it was Blanchett's award to lose. Any other year and this category goes to Bullock. But, this is the year that Blanchett adds a Best Actress trophy to her Best Supporting Actress trophy she has already won. Her role in Woody Allen's latest film is stunning, powerful, shocking and in the end... truly sad. Watch Blue Jasmine online and you'll see what we mean.
Judi Dench marvels in Philomenia. Dench more than earned her latest Oscar nod.
5. Bradley Cooper in American Hustle
Why: This, surprisingly, will be the tightest race of them all. It was once thought that the Best Actor award would be the toughest to call, but now it seems that the true battle will be between 2011 vma awards Nyong'O and Lawrence for American Hustle . We think the award will go to Nyong'O as frankly, she gave the best performance, and the Academy will want to award 12 Years a Slave somehow and this is the way.
Julia Roberts stars in August: Osage County and goes toe-to-toe with Meryl Streep. Not. An. Easy. Task.
Why: Watch Gravity and realize that it truly is a game changer of a movie. There is before Gravity 2011 vma awards and there is after Gravity. Movies like that usually 2011 vma awards have their helmers take the Best Director's prize and this year will be no different.
Why: It will be close with the competition from U2 and their Mandela track No Ordinary Love . But, Let It Go has become a sensation with covers, tributes and even traffic reporters singing the Idina Menzel track. Disney has won their fair share of Best Song Oscars, 2011 vma awards but this is the year that we feel they have to win.
Why: John Ridley did a masterful job of adapting the 1853 memoir to the big screen and crafted a story that is compelling and filmable. It could not have been easy to capture a story so many decades in the making and still maintain its incredible power.
Why: What Spike Jonze did with his Her screenplay is nothing short of a miracle. He made us believe that a man could madly fall in love with his operating system. In fact, we think Jonze completely reinvented the Hollywood romance forever with his work. And we wish we had dialogue as rich as Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson delivered in our daily lives!
Why: Frozen is the second 2011 vma awards highest grossing film in Disney history, behind 2011 vma awards The Lion King. Profits alone do not win this award, but we site its box office as proof that Disney has something 2011 vma awards truly special on their hands with Frozen . It is a once-in-a-lifetime animated film and those tend to win Best Animated Feature Oscars. If anything else wins... it is honestly a crime.
Why: What documentary out there is as much fun, as insightful and has a soundtrack that will have you singing for days? Plus, 20 Feet from Stardom is the rare universal doc that has touched audiences of all kinds.
Why: This is a tough one. The Great Gatsby has been winning a lot in this category all awards season, most recently at the BAFTA awards . But, there is something supremely awesome about the 1970s garb from American Hustle that we think it will take the prize.
Why: There is something so moving about the story of the world's 2011 vma awards oldest Holocaust survivor that there is no way this film doesn't win. It's also tremendously sad that she just passed away and won't see her film win on Hollywood's biggest night. It seems trite to say, but never bet against a Holocaust doc when it comes to Oscars.
Why: With its award that is sure to come for Best Director, part of the reason Cuaron has the masterpiece he has with Gravity is because of how it was edited together. It is simply a masterwork and a study of perfection in editing.
Why: American 2011 vma awards Hustle is not nominated! It took hard work for all that hair and makeup to look so bad. It's a crime that this film wasn't 2011 vma awards nominated. But, in its absence, we look to Dallas Buyers Club to win for how they managed to make Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto look so sickly, even as their spirits were truly alive.
Why: Many are predicting that the vast and electric sets of