Oscar predictions: Best Actor and Best Actress.

Keaton or Redmayne? Moore or ... Just Kidding, Definitely Moore. Make Your Oscar Predictions!

Keaton or Redmayne? Moore or ... Just Kidding, Definitely Moore. Make Your Oscar Predictions!

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Feb. 19 2015 12:39 PM

Slate’s Oscar Predictions: Best Actor and Best Actress

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Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything, Julianne Moore in Still Alice, Michael Keaton in Birdman, Reese Witherspoon in Wild.

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos courtesy Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, Fox Searchlight Pictures (2)

Between now and Oscar night, Feb. 22, Slate’s Dan Kois and Aisha Harris will be predicting the winners in every category. But if you’d rather trust the wisdom of the crowds than the so-called experts, Slate’s got you covered: Make your own predictions in our ranking widget, and when you click “cast your vote” (or share the list), we’ll count your predictions as part of our all-Slate-reader ballot.

Today: The big acting awards, Best Actress and Best Actor. Can Michael Keaton beat Eddie Redmayne? Can anyone beat Julianne Moore? Cast your votes below!

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Correction, Feb. 19, 2015: Due to a production error, Aisha Harris’ Best Actor predictions misstated that Sean Connery won an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a real-life figure in the past 10 years. It was Sean Penn.

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Aisha Harris is a Slate culture writer and host of the Slate podcast Represent.

Dan Kois edits and writes for Slate’s human interest and culture departments. He’s the co-author, with Isaac Butler, of The World Only Spins Forward, a history of Angels in America, and is writing a book called How to Be a Family.