2020 Oscars Predictions

As always, these are my predictions to win, not who or what movie I wish would win.


Best Picture: 1917

Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix - Joker

Best Actress: Renée Zellweger - Judy

Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt - Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood

Best Supporting Actress: Laura Dern - Marriage Story

Best Director: Sam Mendes - 1917

Best Original Screenplay: Noah Baumbach - Marriage Story

Best Adapted Screenplay: Greta Gerwig - Little Women

Best Animated Film: Klaus

Best Foreign Film: Parasite

Best Documentary Film: The Cave

Best Documentary (Short Subject): Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)

Best Animated Short Film: Hair Love

Best Live Action Short Film: Nefta Football Club

Best Original Score: Hildur Guðnadóttir - Joker

Best Original Song: "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" - Rocketman

Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins - 1917

Best Film Editing: Yang Jin-mo - Parasite

Best Production Design: Barbara Ling and Nancy Haigh - Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood

Best Costume Design: Arianne Phillips - Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan, and Vivian Baker - Bombshell

Best Sound Editing: Oliver Tarney and Rachael Tate - 1917

Best Sound Mixing: Mark Taylor and Stuart Wilson - 1917

Best Visual Effects: The Irishman


Sorry for this being posted late. I was spending most of the day, and pretty much all of awards season, paying attention to what's happening in the world of Eurovision. At least there you have some real drama and stakes compared to this year's Oscars.

Sadly not much has changed since the Golden Globes. I thought 1917 would lose steam but it has been doing well at the other award shows. I definitely know it will pick up several technical awards, most especially Best Director and Best Cinematography, but it has a very strong chance taking the big prize away from Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood and Parasite. Some critics think Parasite has a strong shot but as displayed in this year's Brutally Honest Oscar Voter interviews via The Hollywood Reporter, the Academy would prefer that the Best Picture go to an American feature. See last year's decision of Green Book over Roma as an example.

I do think Sam Mendes will be the person to bring back the double whammy, aka a movie winning both Best Picture and Best Director.

Nothing really to say about the acting categories. Phoenix has been on a roll despite the weird and provocative things coming out of his mouth and the industry has such a hard on for Zellweger to be a comeback queen. That plus the Academy needs to give an acting Oscar to a non-fiction character every year or else they will riot.

Hopefully the Academy are like me and want to give the real-life couple of Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig corresponding Oscars for their writing work last year.

It's still amazing how much Toy Story 4 is just not resonating nowadays. It still has a mighty shot at winning Best Animated Feature, largely thanks to the amount of Disney people in the Academy, but Klaus has been doing very well all over the place, most notably sweeping up a lot at the Annie Awards.

Who knew Best Documentary Short Feature would be so controversial: I like most found out that Life Overtakes Me is embattled with strong accusations of an interviewee falsifying their accounts of experiencing Resignation Syndrome and the filmmakers distorting the words of a doctor.

I really hope Hair Love wins Best Animated Short just to shut up that Brutally Honest Oscar Voter who somehow didn't get it. More like Brutally White Oscar Voter.

Man, the Best Original Song performances might be a hard sit. None of them are really the best of last year. But whatever, at least Elton John will get another Oscar.


See you on Monday with my reactions to the awards and the ceremony itself.