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It’s that time again! Every year in late January, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences releases the Oscar nominations, with SNL’s Bowen Yang and Bottoms’ Rachel Sennott set to host the announcements. By the time I’ve begun writing this article, nominations are a mere twenty hours away, and who would I be if I didn’t give my personal opinion and predictions on the matter? Without including the many more obscure categories, here is how I (and many film experts) feel it’s going to go… 

 

     Best Picture: Emilia Pérez, Wicked, Anora, The Brutalist*, Conclave

     Best Leading Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Adrien Brody*, Colman Domingo, Ralph Fiennes, Daniel Craig

     Best Leading Actress: Demi Moore, Mikey Madison, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Fernanda Torres, Cynthia Erivo

     Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton, Guy Pearce, Clarence Maclin, Kieran Culkin, Yura Borisov 

     Best Supporting Actress: Ariana Grande, Jamie Lee Curtis, Monica Barbaro, Isabella Rossellini, Zoe Saldaña

     Best Director: Jacques Audiard, Edward Berger, Sean Baker, Brady Corbet, Payal Kapadia

     Best Score: Emilia Pérez, The Wild Robot, Challengers, The Brutalist, Conclave

     Best Screenplay (original or adapted): Sing Sing, All We Imagine As Light, Anora, The Substance, A Great Unknown

 

*The Brutalist has been met with controversy in recent days as it has been revealed that the film editors used artificial intelligence to create some backgrounds in the film, as well as to enhance lead actor Adrien Brody’s Hungarian accent, so this could affect both the film and Brody’s chances at nomination.

 

The results are in…

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     Best Picture: Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Pérez, I’m Still Here, Nickel Boys, The Substance, Wicked

     Best Leading Actor:  Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Colman Domingo, Ralph Fiennes, Sebastian Stan

     Best Leading Actress: Cynthia Erivo, Karla Sofía Gascón, Mikey Madison, Demi Moore, Fernanda Torres

     Best Supporting Actor: Yura Borisov, Kieran Culkin, Edward Norton, Guy Pearce, Jeremy Strong

     Best Supporting Actress: Monica Barbaro, Ariana Grande, Felicity Jones, Isabella Rossellini, Zoe Saldaña

     Best Director: Sean Baker, Brady Corbet, James Mangold, Jacques Audiard, Coralie Fargeat

     Best Score: The Brutalist, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, Wicked, The Substance

     Best Screenplay (original or adapted): A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Sing Sing, Emilia Pérez, Anora