Awards

June 18, 2024

Awards Update: Post-Cannes Realignment

Two of the Big Five film festivals have concluded for the year

May 11, 2024

Awards Update: Chucking At The Wall And Seeing What Sticks

The puzzle pieces are completely scattered, leaving their final configuration up to anyone’s imagination

March 11, 2024

96th Academy Awards Recap

All in all, this awards season ended with some predictable victors, but it also gave us enough surprises to be entertaining.

Oscar Predictions

Last Updated: 06/18/2024 Next Update: 08/20/2024


1			Dune: Part Two
2			Blitz
3			Conclave
4			Sing Sing
5			The Nickel Boys
6			Anora
7			Queer
8			Joker: Folie à Deux
9			Hard Truths
10			The Piano Lesson

Best Picture


1			Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two)
2			Steve McQueen (Blitz)
3			Edward Berger (Conclave)
4			Mike Leigh (Hard Truths)
5			Sean Baker (Anora)

Best Director


1			Blitz
2			Hard Truths
3			Anora
4			A Real Pain
5			Kinds of Kindness

Best Original Screenplay


1			Conclave
2			Sing Sing
3			Queer
4			The Nickel Boys
5			Dune: Part Two

Best Adapted Screenplay


1			Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)
2			Daniel Craig (Queer)
3			Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)
4			Ed Harris (Long Day's Journey Into Night)
5			Joaquin Phoenix (Joker: Folie à Deux)

Best Lead Actor


1			Saoirse Ronan (Blitz)
2			Angelina Jolie (Maria)
3			Jessica Lange (Long Day's Journey Into Night)
4			Tilda Swinton (The Room Next Door)
5			Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths)

Best Lead Actress


1			Samuel L. Jackson (The Piano Lesson)
2			John Lithgow (Conclave)
3			Stephen Graham (Blitz)
4			Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing)
5			Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)

Best Supporting Actor


1			Isabella Rossellini (Conclave)
2			Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (The Nickel Boys)
3			Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson)
4			Julianne Moore (The Room Next Door)
5			Toni Collette (Juror No. 2)

Best Supporting Actress


1			Dune: Part Two
2			Blitz
3			Joker: Folie à Deux
4			Maria
5			Parthenope

Best Cinematography


1			Dune: Part Two
2			Blitz
3			Conclave
4			Sing Sing
5			Queer

Best Film Editing


1			Dune: Part Two
2			Conclave
3			Challengers
4			The End
5			Maria

Best Original Score


1			TBA
2			TBA
3			TBA
4			TBA
5			TBA

Best Original Song


1			Dune: Part Two
2			Twisters
3			Joker: Folie à Deux
4			Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
5			Blitz

Best Sound


1			Dune: Part Two
2			Blitz
3			Joker: Folie à Deux
4			Gladiator II
5			Conclave

Best Production Design


1			Dune: Part Two
2			Blitz
3			Joker: Folie à Deux
4			Nosferatu
5			Wicked

Best Costume Design


1			Dune: Part Two
2			Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
3			Maria
4			Joker: Folie à Deux
5			Nosferatu

Best Makeup & Hairstyling


1			Dune: Part Two
2			Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
3			Twisters
4			Gladiator II
5			Mufasa: The Lion King

Best Visual Effects


1			Inside Out 2
2			Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
3			The Wild Robot
4			The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
5			Moana 2

Best Animated Feature


1			TBA
2			TBA
3			TBA
4			TBA
5			TBA

Best International Feature


1			TBA
2			TBA
3			TBA
4			TBA
5			TBA

Best Documentary Feature


1			Dune: Part Two (11)
2			Blitz (10)
3			Conclave (9)
4			Joker: Folie à Deux (5)
5			Sing Sing (5)
6			Maria (4)
7			Hard Truths (4)
8			Anora (3)
9			The Nickel Boys (3)
10			Queer (3)