2024 Oscar Nominations are less than 24 hours away – My Final Predictions

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Happy Oscar Nominations Eve, everyone! I don’t usually predict the nominations, but I feel like this year I have a slightly better idea as to which movies and which actors might get nominated. Some are guaranteed, and of course, there are plenty that are wild cards. I mean, that’s part of the fun of making predictions, right? Now, I haven’t even gotten around to posting my Top 10 of the year, though I have drafted a pretty final list of which movies would make the cut, so I’ll post that later this weekend.

Now, the Academy Awards allows 10 movies to be nominated for Best Picture. That doesn’t mean there WILL be 10 films nominated, surely it’ll be between 5-10, but I’ll still predict that there will be 10 nominees anyway, so without further ado, here are my predictions in most categories:

Best Picture

(in the order of most likely to be nominated)

  • Oppenheimer
  • Poor Things
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Barbie
  • The Holdovers
  • American Fiction
  • Anatomy of a Fall
  • Maestro
  • Past Lives
  • The Zone of Interest

These 10 are basically the same list of films that were nominated by the Producers Guild of America.

Possible surprise nominees: AIR, All Of Us Strangers

Best Director

  • Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
  • Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)
  • Greta Gerwig (Barbie)
  • Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)
  • Alexander Payne (The Holdovers)

Possible surprise nominees: Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest), Celine Song (Past Lives)

Best Actress

  • Emma Stone (Poor Things)
  • Carey Mulligan (Maestro)
  • Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)
  • Greta Lee (Past Lives)
  • Margot Robbie (Barbie)

Possible surprise nominees: Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall, Annette Bening, NYAD

Best Actor

  • Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)
  • Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)
  • Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)
  • Colman Domingo (Rustin)
  • Bradley Cooper (Maestro)

Possible surprise nominees: Andrew Scott (All Of Us Strangers), Leonardo DiCaprio (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Best Supporting Actress

  • Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)
  • Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)
  • Julianne Moore (May December)
  • Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)
  • Jodie Foster (Nyad)

Possible surprise nominees: Penélope Cruz (Ferrari), Rosamund Pike (Saltburn)

Best Supporting Actor

  • Willem Dafoe (Poor Things)
  • Robert Downey Jr., (Oppenheimer)
  • Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon)
  • Ryan Gosling (Barbie)
  • Charles Melton (May December)

Possible surprise nominees: Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things), Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction)

Best Original Screenplay

  • Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
  • The Holdovers – David Hemingson
  • Past Lives – Celine Song
  • May December – Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik
  • Maestro – Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer

Possible surprise nominees: Saltburn – Emerald Fennell, AIR – Alex Convery

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • American Fiction – Cord Jefferson
  • Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan
  • Poor Things – Tony McNamara
  • Killers of the Flower Moon – Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese
  • Barbie – Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach

Possible surprise nominees: The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer, All of Us Strangers – Andrew Haigh

Best Animated Feature

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  • The Boy and the Heron
  • Elemental
  • Nimona
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Possible surprise nominees: Robot Dreams, Suzume

Best Cinematography

  • Oppenheimer – Hoyte van Hoytema
  • Maestro – Matthew Libatique
  • Poor Things – Robby Ryan
  • Killers of the Flower Moon – Rodrigo Prieto
  • Saltburn – Linus Sandgren

Possible surprise nominees: The Zone of Interest – Lukasz Zal, The Color Purple – Dan Laustsen

Best Costume Design

  • Barbie
  • Oppenheimer 
  • Poor Things
  • The Color Purple
  • Killers of the Flower Moon

Possible surprise nominees: Napoleon, Wonka

Best Production Design

  • Poor Things
  • Barbie
  • Oppenheimer 
  • The Color Purple
  • Killers of the Flower Moon

Possible surprise nominees: The Zone of Interest, Wonka

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

  • Maestro
  • Poor Things
  • Oppenheimer
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Golda

Possible surprise nominees: Society of the Snow, Napoleon

Best Sound

  • Oppenheimer
  • Maestro
  • Poor Things
  • Ferrari
  • The Zone of Interest

Possible surprise nominees: Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Original Score

  • Oppenheimer
  • Poor Things
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  • The Zone of Interest
  • Killers of the Flower Moon

Possible surprise nominees: The Boy and the Heron, Elemental

Best Original Song

  • I’m Just Ken – Barbie
  • What Was I Made For? – Barbie
  • Road to Freedom – Rustin
  • It Never Went Away – American Symphony
  • The Fire Inside – Flamin’ Hot

Possible surprise nominees: Keep It Movin’ – The Color Purple, Can’t Catch Me Now – The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Best Visual Effects

  • The Creator
  • Godzilla Minus One
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  • Society of the Snow

Possible surprise nominees: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Poor Things

Best Editing

  • Poor Things
  • Anatomy of a Fall
  • Barbie
  • Killers of the Flower Moon,
  • Oppenheimer

Possible surprise nominees: The Holdovers, Ferrari

Best Foreign Language Film

  • The Zone of Interest
  • The Taste of Things
  • Society of the Snow
  • Fallen Leaves
  • Perfect Days

Possible surprise nominees: The Teachers’ Lounge, Tótem

I’m rooting for Cillian Murphy, Emma Stone, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Jeffrey Wright, Celine Song, Greta Lee, and Andrew Scott to nab nominations!! Oh and for Sandra Hüller for either the Lead (Anatomy of a Fall) or Supporting (The Zone of Interest) category… maybe even both, she’s THAT good!

So what are YOUR predictions and who are you rooting for?

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4 thoughts on “2024 Oscar Nominations are less than 24 hours away – My Final Predictions”

  1. I have a bad feeling that The Sound of Freedom might get an Oscar nod for Best Picture because of its box office success. I really hope that doesn’t happen and I’m also hoping that Diane Warren doesn’t get nominated.

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    1. Oh I very much doubt Sound of Freedom would get nominated. Haven’t seen the film but it doesn’t seem like the kind of movie that Academy voters would go for. As for Diane Warren, well she’s been nominated a bunch of times before, so there’s a chance she’d get in again. I haven’t even heard of the song she made nor even know what movie it’s for, ahah.

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  2. Ted Saydalavong's avatar Ted Saydalavong

    As usual, I somehow thought the Oscars already happened. Lol! But it’s always fun reading your predictions even though I only saw some of the films that will get nominated. I guess my predictions are Nolan will finally get an Oscar for directing and Oppenheimer will win best picture. I don’t see any other films can upset it since it was a huge box office hit and got rave reviews.

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    1. Yeah Nolan’s directorial win seems to be a lock at this point, the only one that might take it away from him would be Yorgos. If Greta had been nominated as well, there’s a likelihood she might get it but unfortunately she’s snubbed!

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