Final Nomination Predictions for the 98th Academy Awards

Best Picture: 

  1. One Battle After Another 
  2. Marty Supreme 
  3. Hamnet
  4. Sinners
  5. Sentimental Value 
  6. Frankenstein
  7. The Secret Agent 
  8. It Was Just an Accident 
  9. Bugonia
  10. Train Dreams

Alt: No Other Choice

Best Director: 

  1. Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another 
  2. Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value 
  3. Ryan Coogler – Sinners 
  4. Chloé Zhao – Hamnet 
  5. Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme 

Alt:  Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident

Best Actress: 

  1. Jessie Buckley – Hamnet 
  2. Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You 
  3. Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value 
  4. Emma Stone – Bugonia 
  5. Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another 

Alt: Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee

Best Actor: 

  1. Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
  2. Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
  3. Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
  4. Michael B. Jordan – Sinners 
  5. Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon 

Alt: Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams

Best Supporting Actress: 

  1. Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another 
  2. Amy Madigan – Weapons 
  3. Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners 
  4. Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value 
  5. Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme 

Alt: Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good

Best Supporting Actor: 

  1. Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value 
  2. Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein  
  3. Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another 
  4. Paul Mescal – Hamnet 
  5. Sean Penn – One Battle After Another 

Spoiler: Miles Caton – Sinners 

Best Casting: 

  1. Sinners
  2. One Battle After Another 
  3. Hamnet
  4. Marty Supreme  
  5. Weapons 

Alt: Sentimental Value

Best Adapted Screenplay: 

  1. One Battle After Another 
  2. Hamnet
  3. Bugonia
  4. Train Dreams 
  5. Frankenstein

Alt: No Other Choice 

Best Original Screenplay: 

  1. Sinners
  2. Sentimental Value 
  3. It Was Just an Accident 
  4. Marty Supreme 
  5. Sorry, Baby 

Alt: The Secret Agent 

Best Film Editing: 

  1. One Battle After Another 
  2. Sinners
  3. Hamnet
  4. F1
  5. Marty Supreme 

Alt: Sentimental Value 

Best Cinematography: 

  1. Train Dreams
  2. Sinners
  3. One Battle After Another 
  4. Hamnet
  5. Frankenstein 

Alt: Marty Supreme

Best Production Design: 

  1. Frankenstein
  2. Wicked: For Good 
  3. Sinners
  4. Hamnet
  5. Marty Supreme 

Alt: One Battle After Another

Best Costume Design:

  1. Frankenstein
  2. Wicked: For Good 
  3. Hamnet
  4. Sinners
  5. Hedda

Alt: Testament of Ann Lee

Best Score: 

  1. Sinners
  2. One Battle After Another 
  3. Hamnet
  4. Frankenstein
  5. Marty Supreme 

Alt: Train Dreams 

Best Original Song: 

  1. “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters 
  2. “I Lied to You” from Sinners 
  3. “The Girl in the Bubble” from Wicked: For Good 
  4. “Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless 
  5. “Train Dreams” from Train Dreams 

Alt: Last Time I Seen The Sun from Sinners

Best Sound: 

  1. F1
  2. Sinners 
  3. One Battle After Another
  4. Avatar Fire And Ash 
  5. Sirāt 

Alt: Frankenstein  

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: 

  1. Frankenstein
  2. Sinners
  3. Wicked: For Good 
  4. The Smashing Machine 
  5. Marty Supreme 

Spoiler: One Battle After Another

Best Visual Effects: 

  1. Avatar: Fire and Ash 
  2. F1
  3. The Lost Bus 
  4. Superman
  5. Frankenstein

Alt: Wicked For Good

Best Animated Feature: 

  1. KPop Demon Hunters 
  2. Zootopia 2 
  3. Arco 
  4. Little Amélie or the Character of the Rain
  5. Elio 

Alt: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle

Best Documentary Feature: 

  1. The Perfect Neighbour 
  2. Cover-Up 
  3. 2000 Meters to Andriivka 
  4. Apocalypse in the Tropics 
  5. My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow 

Alt: Mr. Nobody Against Putin 

Best International Feature: 

  1. Norway — Sentimental Value 
  2. Brazil — The Secret Agent 
  3. France — It Was Just an Accident 
  4. Spain — Sirāt 
  5. Korea – No Other Choice 

Alt: Tunisia – The Voice of Hind Rajab 

Final Predictions for the 97th Academy Award Nominations

Best Picture:

  1. Anora
  2. The Brutalist 
  3. Emilia Perez
  4. Conclave
  5. Dune: Part Two
  6. Wicked
  7. A Complete Unknown
  8. The Substance
  9. Nickel Boys
  10. Sing Sing

Alternative: A Real Pain

Best Director: 

  1. Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
  2. Sean Baker, Anora
  3. Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perez
  4. Edward Berger, Conclave
  5. Coraline Fargeat, The Substance

Alternative: Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two

Best Actress:

  1. Demi Moore, The Substance
  2. Mikey Madison, Anora
  3. Karla Sofia Gascon, Emilia Perez
  4. Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
  5. Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Alternative: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths

Best Actor: 

  1. Timothee Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
  2. Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
  3. Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
  4. Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
  5. Daniel Craig, Queer

Alternative: Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best Supporting Actress:

  1. Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez
  2. Ariana Grande, Wicked
  3. Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
  4. Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
  5. Jamie Lee Curtis, The Last Showgirl

Alternative: Margaret Qualley, The Substance

Best Supporting Actor:

  1. Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
  2. Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
  3. Yura Borisov, Anora
  4. Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
  5. Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Alternative: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing 

Best Adapted Screenplay:

  1. Conclave
  2. Emilia Perez
  3. Dune: Part 2
  4. Nickel Boys
  5. Sing Sing

Alternative: A Complete Unknown 

Best Original Screenplay:

  1. Anora 
  2. The Brutalist
  3. A Real Pain
  4. The Substance
  5. September 5

Alternative: Challengers

Best Animated Feature:

  1. Wild Robot
  2. Flow
  3. Inside Out 2
  4. Memoir of a Snail
  5. Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 

Alternative: Moana 2

Best Documentary Feature:

  1. No Other Land
  2. Daughters
  3. Sugarcane
  4. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
  5. Black Box Diaries

Alternative: Porcelain War

Best International Feature:

  1. Emilia Perez
  2. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  3. I’m Still Here
  4. Kneecap
  5. The Girl With the Needle

Alternative: Flow

Best Cinematography:

  1. Dune: Part Two
  2. The Brutalist
  3. Conclave
  4. Nosferatu 
  5. Nikkel Boys

Alternative: Maria

Best Costume Design:

  1. Wicked
  2. Dune: Part Two
  3. Conclave
  4. Nosferatu 
  5. Gladiator Two

Alternative: A Complete Unkown

Best Film Editing:

  1. Dune: Part Two
  2. Conclave
  3. Anora
  4. Emilia Perez
  5. Challengers

Alternative: The Brutalist 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: 

  1. The Substance
  2. A Different Man
  3. Wicked
  4. Dune Part Two
  5. Nosferatu 

Alternative: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

Best Production Design: 

  1. Dune Part Two
  2. The Brutalist
  3. Wicked
  4. Conclave 
  5. Nosferatu 

Alternative: Gladiator Two

Best Score:

  1. The Brutalist
  2. Challengers
  3. Conclave
  4. Wild Robot
  5. Emilia Perez

Alternative: Nosferatu

Best Song: 

  1. Emilia Perez, El Mal
  2. Wild Robot, Kiss The Sky
  3. Challengers, Compress/Repress
  4. Emilia Perez, Mi Camino
  5. Six Tripple Eight, The Journey,

Alternative: Will and Harper, Harper and Will Go West

Best Sound:

  1. Dune Part Two
  2. Wicked
  3. A Complete Unknown
  4. Emilia Perez
  5. Gladiator Two

Alternative: Blitz

Best Visual Effects:

  1. Dune Part Two
  2. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
  3. Wicked
  4. Better Man
  5. Gladiator Two

Alternative: Twisters