In just over twenty-four hours' time, millions of film fans will be glued to their televisions as the Oscar winners for 2015 are announced.
Eddie Redmayne
The Best Actor category is one of the most exciting as there have been a whole host of terrific performances over the last twelve months. However, it is Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything), Bradley Cooper (American Sniper), Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game), Michael Keaton (Birdman) and Steve Carell (Foxcatcher) who are all set to battle it out for this major prize.
While Eddie Redmayne has been the toast of the award's circuit in recent weeks, Michael Keaton could well win over Academy voters to scoop the big one. There is no doubt, the 2015 Best Actor Oscar race is down to these two fine performances.
- Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything
Eddie Redmayne is an actor who has been on the rise for several years, but his performance in The Theory of Everything really has sent his star rocketing over the last few months.
The Theory of Everything sees Redmayne take on the role of Stephen Hawking during his university days. It chronicles his relationship with wife Jane Hawking - who he met at Cambridge University - and his motor neuron disease diagnosis.
The movie is based on the book Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane, and sees James Marsh back in the director's chair - this is the first time that Redmayne has worked with the filmmaker.
Redmayne has received acclaim for his central performance ever since the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September and the awards have been rolling in.
Redmayne has already won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Bafta for his performance, and he is the favourite ahead of the ceremony tomorrow night.
This marks the first Oscar nomination for Redmayne - and we all know how much the Academy loves a biopic performance.
- Michael Keaton - Birdman
Michael Keaton is an actor who has already enjoyed an acting career that has spanned four decades, and yet this Best Actor Oscar nomination is his first.
Keaton is an actor who has had a quite few years, but Birdman looks set to be the film and the performance that could well resurrect the actor's slowing career.
Birdman saw Keaton team up with director Alejandro González Iñárritu to play a washed up actor who is looking to give his career a major boost by appearing in a Broadway play.
Birdman has been one of the most acclaimed movies of the year, and Keaton's central performance has been winning over critics left, right, and centre. The movie and Keaton were Oscar favourites before Xmas, but the actor has now had as much awards success as was predicted.
He won the Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Golden Globe and won Best Actor at Gotham Independent Spirit Awards and Critics' Choice Movie Awards. However, Keaton lost out to Redmayne at the Baftas and the Screen Actors Guild Awards - however, the Birdman cast did go on to win Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Hollywood really does love a comeback story, and this could result in triumph tomorrow night. Redmayne has a whole career of Oscar opportunities ahead of him; Keaton may not get another chance.
The winner: I think that Eddie Redmayne is going to triumph.