Maestro (c) Netflix
With a slow August and the continued actors and writers’ strikes (I support!), I decided to tackle the early Oscar discourse with a preamble of predictions for possible Oscar nominations for movies which haven’t opened yet and a suggestion of an Oscar-worthy movie that has already been released in each category for you to catch up on. Enjoy!
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2023-2024 Oscar Predictions
The Color Purple (c) Warner Bros
Best Picture
Air
Barbie
The Color Purple
Dune, Part 2
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Saltburn
The Zone of Interest
ME: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part 1
Saltburn (c) MGM
Director
Emerald Fennell – Saltburn
Jonathan Glazer –
The Zone of Interest
Christopher Nolan –
Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese –
Killers of the Flower Moon
Denis Villeneuve – Dune Part 2
ME: Wes Anderson – Asteroid City
Nyad (c) Netflix
Actress
Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple
Annette Bening – Nyad
Greta Lee – Past Lives
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Kate Winslet – Lee
ME: Michelle Williams – Showing Up
Oppenheimer (c) Universal Pictures
Actor
Bradley Cooper –
Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio –
Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo –
Rustin
Barry Keoghan –
Saltburn
Cillian Murphy –
Oppenheimer
ME: Franz Rogowski – Passages
Killers of the Flower Moon (c) Paramount Pictures, Apple TV+
Supporting Actress
Viola Davis – Air
Jodie Foster – Nyad
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Taraji P Henson – The Color Purple
Rachel McAdams – Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
ME: Alina Khan - Joyland
All of Us Strangers (c) Searchlight Pictures
Supporting Actor
Robert DeNiro –
Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr. –
Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling –
Barbie
Richard E. Grant –
Saltburn
Paul Mescal –
All of Us Strangers
ME: Nicholas Cage – Renfield
Past Lives (c) A24
Original Screenplay
Air
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
Past Lives
Saltburn
ME: Elemental
Poor Thing (c) Searchlight Pictures
Adapted Screenplay
All of Us Strangers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Thing
The Zone of Interest
ME: Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret
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