Excited
for the Oscars! Below are my predicted
winners (★), my personal
favorites among the nominees (♥), and the ones
that should have been nominated, in my opinion.
BEST
PICTURE
Ford
v Ferrari
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Joker
Little Women
Marriage Story
★ 1917
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
♥ Parasite
Should
have been nominated: The Farewell; Just Mercy; The Last Black Man in San
Francisco; Pain & Glory
ACTRESS
IN A LEADING ROLE
Cynthia
Erivo – Harriet
Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story
♥ Saoirse
Ronan – Little Women
Charlize Theron – Bombshell
★ Renée Zellweger – Judy
Should
have been nominated: Mary Kay Place - Diane
ACTOR
IN A LEADING ROLE
Antonio
Banderas – Pain and Glory
Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Adam Driver – Marriage Story
★ ♥ Joaquin Phoenix – Joker
Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes
Should
have been nominated: Taron Egerton - Rocketman
ACTRESS
IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
♥ Kathy
Bates – Richard Jewell
★ Laura Dern – Marriage Story
Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit
Florence Pugh – Little Women
Margot Robbie – Bombshell
Should
have been nominated: Billie Lourd - Booksmart;
Cho Yeo-jeong - Parasite; Lee Jeong-eun - Parasite; Penélope Cruz
- Pain & Glory
ACTOR
IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
♥ Tom
Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes
Al Pacino – The Irishman
Joe Pesci – The Irishman
★ Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time… in
Hollywood
Should
have been nominated: Jamie Foxx - Just
Mercy; Sam Rockwell, Jojo Rabbit; Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pain &
Glory
DIRECTING
The
Irishman
– Martin Scorsese
Joker – Todd Phillips
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino
1917 – Sam Mendes
★ ♥ Parasite – Bong Joon Ho
Should
have been nominated: The Farewell - Lulu Wang; Little Women -
Greta Gerwig; Pain & Glory - Pedro Almodovar; Us - Jordan
Peele
WRITING
(Adapted Screenplay)
The
Irishman
– Steven Zaillian
★ Jojo Rabbit – Taika Waititi
Joker – Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
♥ Little
Women
– Greta Gerwig
The Two Popes – Anthony McCarten
WRITING
(Original Screenplay)
Knives
Out
– Rian Johnson
Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
1917 – Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns
★ Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Quentin
Tarantino
♥ Parasite – Bong Joon Ho,
Han Jin Won
Should
have been nominated: The Last Black
Man in San Francisco - Jimmie Fails, Joe Talbot, Rob Richert
MUSIC
(Original Song)
“I
Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” – Toy Story 4 – Music and Lyric by
Randy Newman
★ “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” – Rocketman
– Music by Elton John; Lyric by Bernie Taupin
“I’m Standing With You” – Breakthrough – Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“Into the Unknown” – Frozen II – Music and Lyric by Kristen
Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez
♥ “Stand
Up” – Harriet – Music and Lyic by Joshuah Brian Campbell, Cynthia Erivo
MUSIC
(Original Score)
★ Joker – Hildur Guðnadóttir
Little Women – Alexandre Desplat
♥ Marriage
Story
– Randy Newman
1917 – Thomas Newman
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – John Williams
The
Last Black Man in San Francisco - Emile Mosseri
FILM
EDITING
★ Ford v Ferrari – Michael
McCusker, Andrew Buckland
The Irishman – Thelma Schoonmaker
Jojo Rabbit – Tom Eagles
Joker – Jeff Groth
♥ Parasite – Yang Jinmo
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The
Irishman
– Rodrigo Prieto
Joker – Lawrence Sher
The Lighthouse – Jarin Blaschke
★ 1917 – Roger Deakins
♥ Once
Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Robert Richardson
The
Last Black Man in San Francisco - Adam Newport-Berra
PRODUCTION
DESIGN
The
Irishman
– Production Design: Bob Shaw; Set Decoration: Regina Graves
Jojo Rabbit – Production Design: Ra Vincent; Set Decoration: Nora
Sopková
★ 1917 – Production Design: Dennis
Gassner; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Production Design: Barbara Ling; Set
Decoration: Nancy Haigh
♥ Parasite – Production
Design: Lee Ha Jun; Set Decoration: Cho Won Woo
Should
have been nominated: Midsommar - Henrik Svensson; Us - Ruth De
Jong
COSTUME
DESIGN
The
Irishman
– Sandy Powell, Christopher Peterson
♥ Jojo
Rabbit
– Mayes C. Rubeo
Joker – Mark Bridges
★ Little Women – Jacqueline
Durran
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Arianne Phillips
MAKEUP
AND HAIRSTYLING
★ Bombshell – Kazu Hiro, Anne
Morgan, Vivian Baker
♥ Joker – Nicki
Ledermann, Kay Georgiou
Judy – Jeremy Woodhead
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil – Paul Gooch, Arjen Tuiten, David White
1917 – Naomi Donne, Tristan Versluis, Rebecca Cole
SOUND
MIXING
Ad
Astra
– Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Mark Ulano
♥ Ford
v Ferrari
– Paul Massey, David Giammarco, Steven A. Morrow
Joker – Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Tod Maitland
★ 1917 – Mark Taylor, Stuart Wilson
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Michael Minkler, Christian P. Minkler,
Mark Ulano
SOUND
EDITING
♥ Ford
v Ferrari
– Donald Sylvester
Joker – Alan Robert Murray
★ 1917 – Oliver Tarney, Rachael Tate
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood – Wylie Stateman
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Matthew Wood, David Acord
VISUAL
EFFECTS
Avengers:
Endgame
– Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Matt Aitken, Dan Sudick
The Irishman – Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Nelson
Sepulveda-Fauser, Stephane Grabli
The Lion King – Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, Elliot
Newman
★ ♥ 1917 – Guillaume
Rocheron, Greg Butler, Dominic Tuohy
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick
Tubach, Dominic Tuohy
ANIMATED
FEATURE FILM
♥ How
to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
I Lost My Body
Klaus
Missing Link
★ Toy Story 4
INTERNATIONAL
FILM
Corpus
Christi
– Poland
Honeyland – North Macedonia
Les Misérables – France
♥ Pain
and Glory
– Spain
★ Parasite – South Korea
DOCUMENTARY
(Feature)
★ American Factory – Steven Bognar,
Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert
The Cave – Feras Fayyad, Kirstine Barfod, Sigrid Dyekjær
The Edge of Democracy – Petra Costa, Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris,
Tiago Pavan
For Sama – Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
♥ Honeyland – Ljubo Stefanov,
Tamara Kotevska, Atanas Georgiev
Should
have been nominated: Fiddler: A
Miracle of Miracles
DOCUMENTARY
(Short Subject)
♥ In
the Absence
– Yi Seung-Jun, Gary Byung-Seok Kam
★ Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If
You’re a Girl)
– Carol Dysinger, Elena Andreicheva
Life Overtakes Me – John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson
St. Louis Superman – Smriti Mundhra, Sami Khan
Walk Run Cha-Cha – Laura Nix, Colette Sandstedt
SHORT
FILM (Animated)
Dcera
(Daughter)
– Daria Kashcheeva
★ Hair Love – Matthew A.
Cherry, Karen Rupert Toliver
Kitbull – Rosana Sullivan, Kathryn Hendrickson
Memorable – Bruno Collet, Jean-François Le Corre
♥ Sister – Siqi Song
SHORT
FILM (Live Action)
Brotherhood – Meryam Joobeur,
Maria Gracia Turgeon
♥ Nefta
Football Club
– Yves Piat, Damien Megherbi
★ The Neighbors’ Window – Marshall Curry
Saria – Bryan Buckley, Matt Lefebvre
A Sister – Delphine Girard
