Since the Oscar nominees were announced yesterday, I thought I'd share my first guesses at who will win. I was 74% (78/105) correct on my nominee predictions, but I'm hoping to do better with my winner predictions. Check them out below, or here. (I'll do the shorts later.)
(winners = *)
BEST PICTURE:
Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog*
West Side Story
BEST DIRECTOR:
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog*
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story
BEST ACTOR:
Javier Bardem, Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, tick, tick…Boom!
Will Smith, King Richard*
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth
BEST ACTRESS:
Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter*
Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart, Spencer
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
J.K. Simmons, Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog*
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story*
Judi Dench, Belfast
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog*
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Belfast*
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
The Worst Person in the World
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Dune
Nightmare Alley*
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Dune*
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
Nightmare Alley*
West Side Story
BEST FILM EDITING:
Don’t Look Up
Dune*
King Richard
The Power of the Dog
tick, tick…Boom!
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Don't Look Up
Dune
Encanto
Parallel Mothers
The Power of the Dog*
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
“Be Alive” from King Richard
“Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto
“Down to Joy” from Belfast
“No Time to Die” from No Time to Die*
“Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING:
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune*
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
BEST SOUND:
Belfast
Dune*
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Dune*
Free Guy
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Encanto*
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM:
Drive My Car*
Flee
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
The Worst Person in the World
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM:
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul*
Writing with Fire
