It’s that time of year again: Oscars time!  Jimmy Kimmel will be hosting the ceremony for the fourth time. After my abysmal score last year, I’m hoping I do better this year!

Here are my predictions for the 96th 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:

El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST DIRECTOR:

Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall)
Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)
Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

Bobi Wine: The People’s President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:

The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island in Between
The Last Repair Shop
Nai Nai & Wai Po

BEST FILM EDITING:

Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM:

Io capitano (Italy)
Perfect Days (Japan)
Society of the Snow (Spain)
The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany)
The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING:

Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

The Fire Inside (Flamin’ Hot)
I’m Just Ken (Barbie)
It Never Went Away (American Symphony)
Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People) (Killers of the Flower Moon)
What Was I Made For? (Barbie)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:

Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST ANIMATED SHORT:

Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT:

The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

BEST SOUND:

The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives

And now for the top 6 awards:

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:

The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction)
Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)
Ryan Gosling (Barbie)
Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)
Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)
America Ferrera (Barbie)
Jodie Foster (Nyad)
Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

BEST ACTOR:

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

BEST ACTRESS:

Annette Bening (Nyad)
Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall)
Carey Mulligan (Maestro)
Emma Stone (Poor Things)

BEST PICTURE:

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