April 21, 2021

The Oscars - what should win, what will win

Every year people with an interest in cinema say they don't care about the Oscars but every year we keep one eye on it all the same. Just so we can complain when the films we loved don't get awarded of course.

Below are some of the categories and in brackets are what I think will win and should win on this coming Sunday night. Last year i got the vast majority of my picks wrong. Lets see can I do worse this year.

Best Actress

Viola Davis – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Will win/Should win)

Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman 

Frances McDormand – Nomadland 

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman 

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (Should win)

Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 

Anthony Hopkins – The Father  (Will win)

Gary Oldman – Mank 

Steven Yeun – Minari 

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 

Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy 

Olivia Colman – The Father 

Amanda Seyfried – Mank 

Youn Yuh-jung – Minari (Should win/Will win)

Best Supporting Actor

Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah (Will win)

Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami... 

Paul Raci – Sound of Metal 

Lakeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah (Should win)

Best Director

Thomas Vinterberg – Another Round (Should win)

David Fincher – Mank

Lee Isaac Chung – Minari

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (Will win)

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman

Best Costume Design

Emma. – Alexandra Byrne

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Ann Roth

Mank – Trish Summerville (Will win)

Mulan – Bina Daigeler (Should win)

Pinocchio – Massimo Cantini Parrini

Best Cinematography

Judas and the Black Messiah – Sean Bobbitt

Mank – Erik Messerschmidt (Will win)

News of the World – Dariusz Wolski

Nomadland – Joshua James Richards (Should win)

The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Phedon Papamichael

Best Original Screenplay

Judas and the Black Messiah

Minari (Should win)

Promising Young Woman (Will win)

Sound of Metal 

The Trial of the Chicago 7 

Best Sound

Greyhound

Mank 

News of the World 

Soul 

Sound of Metal (Should win/Will Win)

Best Production Design

The Father 

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 

Mank (Will win)

News of the World (Should win)

Tenet 

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Emma. – Laura Allen, Marese Langan and Claudia Stolze (Should win)

Hillbilly Elegy – Patricia Dehaney, Eryn Krueger Mekash and Matthew W. Mungle

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson

Mank – Colleen LaBaff, Kimberley Spiteri and Gigi Williams (Will win)

Pinocchio – Dalia Colli, Mark Coulier and Francesco Pegoretti

Best Editing

The Father – Yorgos Lamprinos (Should win/Will win)

Nomadland – Chloé Zhao

Promising Young Woman – Frédéric Thoraval

Sound of Metal – Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Alan Baumgarten

Best Adapted Screenplay

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 

The Father 

Nomadland

One Night in Miami... (Will win/Should win)

The White Tiger 

Best Special Effects

Love and Monsters (Should win)

The Midnight Sky 

Mulan (Will win)

The One and Only Ivan 

Tenet 

Best Animated Film

Onward 

Over the Moon 

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon 

Soul (Will win)

Wolfwalkers (Should win)

Best Foreign Film

Another Round (Denmark) (Will win)

Better Days (Hong Kong) 

Collective (Romania) 

The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia) 

Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Should win)

Best Film

Judas And The Black Messiah (Should win)

The Father (Will win)

Minari

Nomadland

Sound Of Metal

Mank

Promising Young Woman

The Trial Of The Chicago 7


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