My Final Oscar Predictions

Hello true believers and welcome to that annual thing of things - my Oscar Predictions! Last year i set a personal record by correctly guessing 22 out of 23. i missed Animated Short dammit!! This year i am not that confident since there are more than the usual up in the air races. Anyhoo, here are my predictions. And awaaaaaay we go....

Best Picture

Predicted Winner: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Possible Spoiler: The Banshees of Inisherin

If I had a Vote: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Should've been Nominated: Pearl and/or Nope

Best Director

Predicted Winner: Daniels for EEAAO

Possible Spoiler: Steven Spielberg perhaps

If I had a Vote: Osterlund, just to throw everything off

Should've been Nominated: Ti West and/or Jordan Peele

Best Actress

Predicted Winner: Michelle Yeoh in EEAAO

Possible Spoiler: Cate Blanchett (who was the frontrunner all season long)

If I had a Vote: Cate Blanchett in Tar

Should've been Nominated: Mia Goth in Pearl

Best Actor

Predicted Winner: Austin Butler in Elvis

Possible Spoiler: Fraser or Farrell (a 3-way race really)

If I had a Vote: Fraser or Farrell

Should've been Nominated: Daniel Kaluuya in Nope

Best Supporting Actress

Predicted Winner: Jamie Lee Curtis in EEAAO

Possible Spoiler: Kerry Condon or Angela Bassett

If I had a Vote: Kerry Condon

Should've been Nominated: Keke Palmer in Nope

Best Supporting Actor

Predicted Winner: Ke Huy Quan in EEAAO

Possible Spoiler: Ke Huy Quan in EEAAO

If I had a Vote: Ke Huy Quan in EEAAO

Should've been Nominated: Ke Hu...er, i mean Brad Pitt in Babylon

Best Original Screenplay

Predicted Winner: The Banshees of Inisherin

Possible Spoiler: EEAAO (this could really go either way)

If I had a Vote: The Banshees of Inisherin

Should've been Nominated: Charlotte Wells for Aftersun

Best Adapted Screenplay

Predicted Winner: Sarah Polly for Women Talking

Possible Spoiler: All Quiet on the Western Front

If I had a Vote: Sarah Polly

Should've been Nominated: The Quiet Girl or The Whale

Best International Film

Predicted Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front

Possible Spoiler: EO (maybe?)

If I had a Vote: EO

Should've been Nominated: Decision to Leave

Best Animated Film

Predicted Winner: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Possible Spoiler: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

If I had a Vote: Guillermo's Pinocchio

Should've been Nominated: Richard Linklater's Apollo 10 1/2

Best Documentary Feature

Predicted Winner: Navalny

Possible Spoiler: Fire of Love

If I had a Vote: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Should've been Nominated: The Pez Outlaw!!!

Best Cinematography

Predicted Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front

Possible Spoiler: Elvis

If I had a Vote: Bardo, Falso Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Should've been Nominated: Nope

Best Production Design

Predicted Winner: Babylon

Possible Spoiler: Elvis

If I had a Vote: Babylon

Should've been Nominated: Nope

Best Film Editing

Predicted Winner: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Possible Spoiler: Top Gun (but doubtful)

If I had a Vote: EEAAO

Should've been Nominated: Babylon

Best Costume Design

Predicted Winner: Elvis

Possible Spoiler: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

If I had a Vote: Elvis

Should've been Nominated: Amsterdam or Pearl

Best Hair & Make-Up

Predicted Winner: Elvis

Possible Spoiler: The Whale

If I had a Vote: Elvis

Should've been Nominated: EEAAO!!!

Best Sound

Predicted Winner: Top Gun Maverick

Possible Spoiler: Elvis

If I had a Vote: The Batman

Should've been Nominated: Nope

Best Original Score

Predicted Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front

Possible Spoiler: The Fabelmans

If I had a Vote: Babylon

Should've been Nominated: Pearl

Best Original Song

Predicted Winner: Naatu Naatu

Possible Spoiler: Lift Me Up (maybe")

If I had a Vote: Naatu Naatu

Should've been Nominated: Any other song from RRR

Best Visual Effects

Predicted Winner: Avatar: The Way of Water

Possible Spoiler: Black Panther or The Batman

If I had a Vote: Avatar: The Way of Water

Should've been Nominated: Dr, Strange maybe

 

Best Animated Short

Predicted Winner: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, & the Horse

Possible Spoiler: My Year of Dicks (just to hear them announce it)

Best Live Action Short

Predicted Winner: Le Pupille

Possible Spoiler: An Irish Goodbye

Best Documentary Short

Predicted Winner: Stranger at the Gate

Possible Spoiler: The Elephant Whisperers

That's it gang! See ya 'round the web! ...and At The Movies!!