Happy Oscars Eve! Time for the obligatory predictions, it’s currently about 24 hours away until the 96th Oscar winners are announced.
Just like last year, I have actually managed to see nine out of the ten nominees. The one I haven’t seen is Killers of the Flower Moon (it’s nearly 3.5 hours long!) but hey, that’s not going to stop me from making predictions. The SHOULD WIN category is the one I’m rooting for this year, and as a reminder, you can head over to this post to see the full nominees.
I feel like this year the major nominees are a bit easier to predict. While Barbie won the Barbenheimer box office receipt, Oppenheimer is poised to sweep the Oscars with at least seven wins. Christopher Nolan has been nominated in the Oscars’ Best Director category twice previously, I think it’s safe to say this will be his year to win.
So I’m only listing the WHO WILL/SHOULD WIN picks in 18 categories below, but I did fill out the complete Oscar ballot in this PDF »
1. Best Picture
WHO WILL WIN: Oppenheimer
WHO SHOULD WIN: Oppenheimer
2. Best Director
WHO WILL WIN: Christopher Nolan
WHO SHOULD WIN: Christopher Nolan
3. Best Lead Actor
WHO WILL WIN: Cillian Murphy
WHO SHOULD WIN: Cillian Murphy
4. Best Lead Actress
WHO WILL WIN: Lily Gladstone
WHO SHOULD WIN: Emma Stone
5. Best Supporting Actor
WHO WILL WIN: Robert Downey Jr
WHO SHOULD WIN: Sterling K. Brown
6. Best Supporting Actress
WHO WILL WIN: Da’Vine Joy Randolph
WHO SHOULD WIN: Da’Vine Joy Randolph
7. Best Adapted Screenplay
WHO WILL WIN: American Fiction, Cord Jefferson
WHO SHOULD WIN: American Fiction, Cord Jefferson
8. Best Original Screenplay
WHO WILL WIN: Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
WHO SHOULD WIN: Past Lives, Celine Song
9. Best Cinematography
WHO WILL WIN: Oppenheimer – Hoyte van Hoytema
WHO SHOULD WIN: Oppenheimer– Hoyte van Hoytema
10. Best Film Editing
WHO WILL WIN: Oppenheimer– Jennifer Lame
WHO SHOULD WIN: Oppenheimer– Jennifer Lame
11. Best International Feature Film
WHO WILL WIN: The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer
WHO SHOULD WIN: The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer
12. Best Original Score
WHO WILL WIN: Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson
WHO SHOULD WIN: Oppenheimer– Ludwig Göransson
13. Best Original Song
WHO WILL WIN: What Was I Made For? – Barbie
WHO SHOULD WIN: What Was I Made For? – Barbie
14. Best Production Design
WHO WILL WIN: Barbie
WHO SHOULD WIN: Poor Things
15. Best Visual Effects
WHO WILL WIN: Godzilla Minus One
WHO SHOULD WIN: The Creator
16. Best Animated Feature Film
WHO WILL WIN: The Boy and the Heron
WHO SHOULD WIN: The Boy and the Heron
17. Best Costume Design
WHO WILL WIN: Poor Things – Holly Waddington
WHO SHOULD WIN: Poor Things – Holly Waddington
18. Best Makeup and Hairstyling
WHO WILL WIN: Maestro
WHO SHOULD WIN: Poor Things
The 96th Academy Awards gets an early start this year.
The 96th Oscars will air on Sunday, March 10 on ABC in the U.S. starting at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, following a half-hour ABC preshow that starts at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT.
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Happy Oscars! Poor Things is cleaning up! Deservingly💃🏻
Yassss!!! Stay tuned for my recap tomorrow morning but super happy for all the wins for Poor Things!
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Just posted my recap/highlights, still high on Gosling’s potent #kenergy!!
I agree with a lot of your picks. I wouldn’t ignore Killers of the Flower Moon. Yes, it’s long but it’s worth it.
Oh I don’t ignore Scorsese’s film, I’m just not all that interested in it. Haven’t even seen the Irishman either.
Great predictions! I’m not sure whether I’m the only one but I am a little exhausted by how predictable the Oscars have become. At this point, it seems like a foregone conclusion that Oppenheimer is going to win Best Picture. I loved the movie but do feel it taking attention away from smaller far more deserving movies this year (ex. “Past Lives”). My review of Nolan’s masterpiece:
I only saw a couple of films that got nominated but I’d very surprised if Oppenheimer somehow got shutout or didn’t win a single award.
I hear ya Huilahi, in a perfect world I would LOVE for Past Lives to win of course, but I do think Oppenheimer is an excellent film that deserve to win. To be honest, I think it’s a much better film than the one that won last year which is an indie.
Yeah, it’s unlikely Oppenheimer will get shutout, I think Nolan is due for an Oscar by now.