My 93rd Academy Awards Predictions!

Yep, the “Pandemic Oscars” will go on! Below are my predictions for the 93rd Academy Awards! The ones that I think SHOULD win will be in RED, the ones that I think WILL win will be in BLUE, and if they’re both the same, they will be both RED AND BLUE. I have left my picks for Best Animated Feature, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Picture for the end. Let me know your thoughts!

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
News of the World
Nomadland
The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Emma
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Mulan
Pinocchio

BEST DIRECTOR:

Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)
David Fincher (Mank)
Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

Collective
Crip Camp
The Mole Agent
My Octopus Teacher
Time

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:

Colette
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Do Not Split
Hunger Ward
A Love Song for Latasha

BEST FILM EDITING:

The Father
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM:

Another Round (Denmark)
Better Days (Hong Kong)
Collective (Romania)
The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia)
Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING:

Emma
Hillbilly Elegy
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
Pinocchio

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Da 5 Bloods
Mank
Minari
News of the World
Soul

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

Fight for You (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Hear My Voice (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Husavik (Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga)
Io sì (Seen) (The Life Ahead)
Speak Now (One Night in Miami)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:

The Father
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Mank
News of the World
Tenet

BEST ANIMATED SHORT:

Burrow
Genius Loci
If Anything Happens I Love You
Opera
Yes-People

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT:

Feeling Through
The Letter Room
The Present
Two Distant Strangers
White Eye

BEST SOUND:

Greyhound
Mank
News of the World
Soul
Sound of Metal

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Love and Monsters
The Midnight Sky
Mulan
The One and Only Ivan
Tenet

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The Father
Nomadland
One Night in Miami
The White Tiger

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Judas and the Black Messiah
Minari
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

And now for the top 6 awards:

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:

Onward
Over the Moon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul
Wolfwalkers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Leslie Odom, Jr. (One Night in Miami)
Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)
Lakeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan)
Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy)
Olivia Colman (The Father)
Amanda Seyfriend (Mank)
Youn Yuh-jung (Minari)

BEST ACTOR:

Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
Gary Oldman (Mank)
Steven Yeun (Minari)

BEST ACTRESS:

Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)
Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)
Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)

BEST PICTURE:

The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7