Monday, January 23, 2023

MTFB's Final Oscar Nomination Predictions / Predictions from the Experts / What Say You?

FINAL OSCAR NOMINATION PREDICTIONS 

Hello all.  Here are my final Oscar nomination predictions.  The announcement comes tomorrow morning and MTFB will have a Special Edition tomorrow to review the noms and set the table for the run to the Oscar ceremony on March 12th.

A couple of notes:  My success rate historically is 75%-80%.  In categories where I don't get all five (10 in Best Picture) correct, the 6th ranked contender is a nominee about 75% of the time. 

As always TFF films/performers are in Bold.

Here we go...

BEST PICTURE




1) Everything Everywhere All at Once 
2) The Banshees of Inisherin
3) The Fabelmans 
4) Top Gun: Maverick
5) TAR
6) Elvis 
7) Avatar: The Way of Water
8) All Quiet on the Western Front
9) The Whale
10) Women Talking 

11) Triangle of Sadness  
12) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Other possibilities: Aftersun, Living, GDT's Pinocchio, The Woman King, RRR, Babylon


BEST DIRECTION




1) Steven Spielberg/The Fabelmans 
2) The Daniels/Everything Everywhere All at Once 
3) Todd Field/TAR
4) Martin McDonagh/The Banshees of Inisherin 
5) Edward Berger/All Quiet on the Western Front

6) Joseph Kosinski/Top Gun: Maverick
7) Baz Luhrman/Elvis

Other possibilities: James Cameron/Avatar, Sarah Polley/Women Talking, Ruben Ortlund/Triangle of Sadness


BEST ACTRESS




1) Cate Blanchett/TAR 
2) Michelle Yeoh/Everything Everywhere All at Once
3) Danielle Deadwyler/Till
4) Ana de Armas/Blonde
5) Viola Davis/The Woman King (5)

6) Michelle Williams/The Fabelmans
7) Margot Robbie/Babylon 

Other possibilities: Olivia Colman/Empire of Light, Andrea Riseborough/To Leslie, Emma Thompson/GoodLuck to You Leo Grande



BEST ACTOR




1) Brendan Fraser/The Whale 
2) Austin Butler/Elvis 
3) Colin Ferrell/The Banshees of Inisherin 
4) Bill Nighy/Living 
5) Paul Mescal/Aftersun 

6) Tom Cruise/Top Gun: Maverick (5)
7) Tom Hanks/A Man Called Otto

Other possibilities: Adam Sandler/Hustle, Gabriel LaBelle/The Fabelmans, Hugh Jackman/The Son


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1) Angela Bassett/Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 
2) Kerry Condon/The Banshees of Inisherin 
3) Jamie Lee Curtis/Everything Everywhere All at Once 
4) Hong Chau/The Whale
5) Stephanie Hsu/Everything Everywhere All at Once 

6) Dolly DeLeon/Triangle of Sadness 
7) Michelle Williams/The Fabelmans

Other possibilities: Janelle Monae/Glass Onion,  Jesse Buckley/Women Talking, Carey Mulligan/She Said



BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR



1) Ke Huy Quan/Everything Everywhere All at Once 
2) Brendan Gleeson/The Banshees of Inisherin 
3) Barry Keoghan/The Banshees of Inisherin 
4) Paul Dano/The Fabelmans 
5) Eddie Redmayne/The Good Nurse

6) Judd Hirsch/The Fabelmans
7) Brad Pitt/Babylon 


Other possibilities: Ben Whishaw/Women Talking, Bryan Tyree Henry/Causeway


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY




1) Women Talking 
2) Living 
3) All Quiet on the Western Front 
4) The Whale
5) Glass Onion


6) She Said
7) Top Gun: Maverick 

Other possibilities: White Noise, GDT's Pinocchio, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On



BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY




1) The Banshees of Inisherin 
2) Everything Everywhere All at Once 
3) TAR 
4)The Fabelmans
5) Triangle of Sadness (5)

6) Aftersun
7) Elvis

Other possibilities: Babylon, Nope, The Menu



BEST ANIMATED FEATURE




1) GDT's Pinocchio 
2) Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 
3) Turning Red 
4) Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 
5) Wendall and Wild 

6) Lightyear 
7) Strange World 

Other possibilities: Inu-Oh, Minons: The Rise of Gru


BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE




1) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 
2) All That Breathes 
3) Fire of Love 
4) Descendant 
5) Navalny 

6) The Territory 
7) Retrograde 

Other possibilities: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, Bad Axe, Last Flight Home


BEST  INTERNATIONAL FEATURE




1) All Quiet on the Western Front 
2) Close 
3) Decision to Leave 
4) Argentina 1985 
5 Eo 

6) Saint Omer 
7) Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths 

Other possibilities:  Holy Spider, Return to Seoul, The Quiet Girl


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY




1) Top Gun: Maverick 
2) Avatar: The Way of Water
3) The Fabelmans 
4) Empire of Light 
5) All Quiet on the Western Front 

6) Babylon 
7) TAR 

Other possibilities: Elvis, The Batman, Bardo, Everything Everywhere All at Once


BEST FILM EDITING




1) Top Gun: Maverick 
2) Everything Everywhere All at Once 
3) The Fabelmans 
4) Elvis 
5) Avatar: The Way of Water 

6) The Banshees of Inisherin
7) TAR 

Other possibilities: All Quiet on the Western Front, The Woman King


BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1) Elvis 
2) Avatar: The Way of Water 
3) Babylon 
4) The Fabelmans 
5) All Quiet on the Western Front

6) Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 
7) Everything Everywhere All at Once 

Other possibilities: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, GDT's Pinocchio, The Banshees of Inisherin


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE




1) The Fabelmans 
2) Babylon 
3) Women Talking 
4) Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio 
5) The Banshees of Inisherin 

6) The Woman King (6)
7) Avatar: The Way of Water (7)

Other possibilities: All Quiet on the Western Front, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Nope



BEST ORIGINAL SONG

1) Naatu Naatu/RRR 
2) Lift Me Up/Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 
3) Hold My Hand/Top Gun: Maverick 
4) Ciao Papa/Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
5) Applause/Tell It Like a Woman 
 
6) New Body Rhumba/White Noise 
7) Carolina/Where the Crawdads Sing 

Other possibilities: Good Afternoon/Spirited, Stand Up/Till, Til Your Home/A man Called Otto




BEST SOUND


1) Top Gun: Maverick 
2) Avatar: The Way of Water 
3) Elvis 
4) All Quiet on the Western Front 
5) Everything Everywhere All at Once

6) Babylon 
7) The Batman

Other possibilities: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, GDT's Pinocchio, Moonage Daydream


MAKEUP/HAIR

1) Elvis 
2) The Whale 
3) The Batman 
4) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 
5) All Quiet on the Western Front

6) Babylon
7) Blonde 

Other possibilities: Amsterdam, Emancipation, Crimes of the Future


COSTUME




1) Elvis 
2) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 
3) Babylon 
4) Living 
5) The Woman King 

6) The Fabelmans 
7) Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris 

Other possibilities: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Don't Worry Darling, The Banshees of Inisherin


VISUAL EFFECTS

1) Avatar: The Way of Water 
2) Top Gun: Maverick 
3) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 
4) The Batman 
5) All Quiet on the Western Front 

6) Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 
7) Nope 

Other possibilities: Fantastic Beasts, Jurassic World Dominion, Thirteen Lives


ANIMATED SHORT

1) The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
2) New Moon
3) An Ostrich told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It
4) The Flying Sailor
5) Ice Merchants

6) Save Ralph
7) More Than I Want to Remember

Other possibilities: It's Nice in Here, Steakhouse, The Garbage Man


DOCUMENTARY SHORT

1) Nuisance Bear
2) The Elephant Whisperers
3) 38 at the Garden
4) How Do You Measure a Year
5) The Flagmakers

6) The Martha Mitchell Effect
7) Haulot

Other possibilities: Anastasia, Angola Do You Hear Us, Stranger at the Gate, As Far as They Can Run


LIVE ACTION SHORT

1) An Irish Goodbye
2) The Red Suitcase
3) Le Pupille
4) Almost Home
5) Warsha

6) Ivalu
7) All in Favor

Other possibilities: Nakam, The Treatment, Sideral, Lone Wolf

All told, I am predicting 16 nominations for nine Telluride films to be announced tomorrow morning:

TAR (4 nominations with 2 more possibilities) Noms: Best Picture, Direction/Field, Actress/Blanchett and Original Screenplay.  Possibles: Cinematography and Editing.

Women Talking (3 nominations with 3 more possibilities) Noms: Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Score.  Possibles: Direction/Polley, Supporting Actress/Buckley and Supporting Actor/Whishaw.

Living (3 nominations) Best Actor/Nighy, Adpated Screenplay and Costumes.

Aftersun (1 nomination and 2 more possibilities) Nom: Best Actor/Mescal.  Possibles: Best Picture and Original Screenplay

Empire of Light (1 nomination and 1 possibility) Nom: Best Cinematography.  Possible: Best Actress/Colman

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (1 nomination and 1 possibility) Nom: Best Animated Feature.  Possible: Adapted Screenplay

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (1 nomination) Best Documentary

Close (1 nomination) Best International Film

Le Pupille (1 nomination) Best Live Action Short

Other "outside shots":

Retrograde, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song and Last Flight Home for Best Documentary

Bardo and Holy Spider for Best International Film.  Bardo also has a shot in Cinematography.

Anastasia and Angola Do You Hear Us: Voices from a Plantation Prison in Best Documentary Short

Sideral in Best Live Action Short.

From an overall perspective I am  predicting that Everything Everywhere All at Once and All Quiet on the Western Front will co-lead the field with nine nominations apiece.

The Banshees of Inisherin and The Fabelmans will each have eight nominations.
Elvis will have seven.
Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick will have six each.
The Whale and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will each have five.

We'll see what happens tomorrow.


PREDICTIONS FROM THE EXPERTS

Here I have linked to Oscar predictions from some of the best in the business.  See what they have to say.












WHAT SAY YOU?

Who/what do YOU think will be nominated tomorrow morning?  Who/what do YOU want to hear when the nominees are read?  Drop me a comment, email, or Tweet.

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