Nominee Predictions for the 94th Academy Awards

 

The 94th Academy Awards are almost upon us and tomorrow morning the nominations for this ceremony will be announced. How will this staple of the film scene frustrate, excite, and inspire other complicated emotions in all of us again? Who knows, but I've posted my predictions for the nominees for each category below. Due to time constraints, this is a very stripped-down nominations prediction piece, I don't have in-depth reasons in each section explaining why I picked my predicted nominees. Save for Best Picture nominees being in alphabetic order, the films are also arranged in a random manner, they are not ranked by most likely to get nominated to least likely.

Onto the nominees!

Best Picture:

Belfast

CODA

Don’t Look Up

Drive My Car

Dune

King Richard

The Power of the Dog

Licorice Pizza

Tick, Tick…Boom!

West Side Story

Best Director:

Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Denis Villeneuve (Dune)

Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)

Best Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)

Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick…Boom!)

Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Leonardo DiCaprio (Don’t Look Up)

Will Smith (King Richard)

(Oh please for the love of God, let Nicolas Cage in Pig get in over DiCaprio in Don't Look Up)

Best Actress:

Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)

Olivia Coleman (The Lost Daughter)

Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)

Lady Gaga (House of Gucci)

Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

Best Supporting Actor:

Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

Ciaran Hinds (Belfast)

Troy Kotsur (CODA)

Bradley Cooper (Licorice Pizza)

Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)

Best Supporting Actress:

Caitríona Balfe (Belfast)

Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

Arianna DeBose (West Side Story)

Ruth Negga (Passing)

Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)

Best Original Screenplay:

Licorice Pizza

Belfast

Being the Ricardos

Don’t Look Up

Parallel Mothers

Best Adapted Screenplay:

The Power of the Dog

CODA

The Lost Daughter

West Side Story

Drive My Car

Best Cinematography:

Dune

The Power of the Dog

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Belfast

The Green Knight

Best Editing:

Dune

The Power of the Dog

Belfast

West Side Story

Summer of Soul

Best Animated Feature:

Encanto

Flee

The Mitchells vs. The Machines

Luca

Raya and the Last Dragon

Best Original Score:

Dune

The Power of the Dog

Encanto

Parallel Mothers

Don’t Look Up

Best Original Song:

No Time to Die

Encanto

King Richard

Don’t Look Up

Annette           

Best Visual Effects:

Dune

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Godzilla vs. Kong

No Time to Die

Best Documentary Feature:

Summer of Soul

Flee

The Rescue

Procession

Attica

Best International Feature:

Drive My Car

A Hero

Flee

The Worst Person in the World

Compartment No. 6

Best Makeup/Hairstyling

Cruella

Dune

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

West Side Story

House of Gucci

Best Costume Design

Dune

West Side Story

Cruella

Nightmare Alley

House of Gucci

Best Sound:

The Power of the Dog

West Side Story

No Time to Die

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Dune

Best Production Design:

Nightmare Alley

West Side Story

The French Dispatch

Belfast

Dune

Best Visual Effects:

Dune

No Time to Die

Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Godzilla vs. Kong

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Best Animated Short Film

Us Again

Robin Robin

Bestia

The Windshield Wiper

Namoo

Best Documentary Short Film

Lynching Posts: "Tales of a Great Day"

Day of Rage 

Three Songs for Benazir 

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker 

The Queen of Basketball

Best Live-Action Short Film

Tala'vision

Please Hold

When The Sun Sets

Frimas

The Criminals