Awards analysis is provided by Sean from @MathTeacherMovies.
This is it! After an entire year of theorizing, theater traveling, streaming, and stressing, here are the final picks for this year’s Oscars. This year, I delved into what will win, should win, got robbed and shouldn’t be there. Things are always subject to change, but these are the picks as of now.
BEST PICTURE
Will Win: CODA
Should Win: CODA
Got Robbed: Mass
Shouldn’t Be There: Don’t Look Up
BEST DIRECTOR
Will Win: Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
Should Win: Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
Got Robbed: Denis Villeneuve (Dune)
Shouldn’t Be There: Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
BEST ACTOR
Will Win: Will Smith (King Richard)
Should Win: Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Got Robbed: Nicholas Cage (Pig)
Shouldn’t Be There: Javier Bardem (Being in the Ricardos)
BEST ACTRESS
Will Win: Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
Should Win: Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
Got Robbed: Tessa Thompson (Passing)
Shouldn’t Be There: Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Will Win: Troy Kotsur (CODA)
Should Win: Troy Kotsur (CODA)
Got Robbed: Jason Isaacs (Mass)
Shouldn’t Be There: J.K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Will Win: Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Should Win: Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Got Robbed: Martha Plimpton (Mass)
Shouldn’t Be There: Judi Dench (Belfast)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Will Win: Belfast
Should Win:The Worst Person in the World
Got Robbed: Mass
Shouldn’t Be There: Don’t Look Up
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Will Win: CODA
Should Win: Drive My Car
Got Robbed: West Side Story
Shouldn’t Be There: The Lost Daughter
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Will Win: Encanto
Should Win: The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Shouldn’t Be There: Encanto
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Will Win: Flee
Should Win: Summer of Soul
Got Robbed: The Rescue
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Will Win: Drive My Car (Japan)
Should Win: Drive My Car (Japan)
Got Robbed: Titane (France)
Shouldn’t Be There: The Hand of God (Italy)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Will Win: Cruella
Should Win: Cruella
Got Robbed: The Green Knight
Shouldn’t Be There: Nightmare Alley
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Will Win:The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)
Should Win:The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)
Got Robbed: The Green Knight
Shouldn’t Be There: (All Deserving)
BEST FILM EDITING
Will Win: King Richard
Should Win:King Richard
Got Robbed: In the Heights
Shouldn’t Be There: Don’t Look Up
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Will Win:The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Should Win:Dune
Got Robbed: The Green Knight
Shouldn’t Be There: Cruella
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Will Win: Dune (Hans Zimmer)
Should Win: Dune (Hans Zimmer)
Got Robbed: Spencer (Johnny Greenwood)
Shouldn’t Be There: Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Will Win:“No Time to Die” — Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell (No Time to Die)
Should Win:“No Time to Die” — Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell (No Time to Die)
Got Robbed: “When Can We Start?” – Annette
Shouldn’t Be There: “Somehow You Do” — Diane Warren (Four Good Days)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Will Win: Dune
Should Win: Dune
Got Robbed: The French Dispatch
Shouldn’t Be There: The Power of the Dog
BEST SOUND
Will Win: Dune
Should Win: Dune
Got Robbed: In the Heights
Shouldn’t Be There: (All Deserving)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Will Win: Dune
Should Win: Dune
Got Robbed: Matrix Resurrections
Shouldn’t Be There: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Will Win:Audible
Should Win:Audible
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Will Win:Robin Robin
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
Will Win: The Long Goodbye
There it is! The official list of Oscar Predictions for the 2021 year and while there will definitely be wrong answers that’s what makes it fine, exciting and unexpected.