Indiewire will provide updates of our predictions for the 87th Academy Award nominations through January 2015, when the nominations are announced. Here are our early predictions for the Best Animated Feature, which will not have a Pixar film in contention for the first time in a long while. In the wake of that, it seems like so far this is "The LEGO Movie"'s to lose, though there's a couple major contenders we've yet to see (namely "Big Hero 6" and "The Book of Life").