My 2019 Oscars Predictions

 

It is that time of the year! I understood that how much ever we hate or like them, we still crave for the biggest and oldest cinema event to validate our choices with Oscars.

I did not want to really predict or participate in the regular sentiment with all the drama surrounding it but, I couldn’t miss the function and the excitement it causes among us. So, let’s dive into the list, but before doing so, we augur potential spoilers and, deserved nominees, whom our cinegoer hearts wish could win.

Even though our predictions are based on a mix of opinions, biased views, previous awards and movie reviews, the Academy has come up with big surprises in past years, so we’ll have to see how exciting/ disappointing, the 91st Academy Awards will end up being.

Four categories – in performances, and animation – are pretty much locked down and might as well be dished out now but the rest is up for grabs. Here are my predictions of who’s going to win.

Best Picture:

My Prediction: Gabriela Rodriguez & Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)

Potential Spoiler: Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga (Green Book)

Snub: If Beale Street Could Talk & Eighth Grade

Best Director:

My Prediction: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma

Snub: Debra Granik (Leave No Trace) & Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)

Best Actor:

My Prediction: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody

Should Win: Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born

Best Actress:

My Prediction: Glenn Close, The Wife (She is the most nominated living actor to never win an Oscar (with 6 nominations))

Should win: Lady Gaga, A Star is Born

Best Supporting Actor:

My Prediction: Mahershala Ali, Green Book (He will be the second black actor [after Denzel Washington for Glory & Training Day] to win multiple acting Oscars.)

Potential Spoiler: Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Supporting Actress:

My Prediction: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Adapted Screenplay:

My Prediction: Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)

Potential Spoiler: Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)

Original Screenplay:

My Prediction: Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (The Favourite)

Potential Spoiler: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly (Green Book)

Snub: Eighth Grade

Film Editing:

My Prediction: Hank Corwin, Vice

Potential Spoiler: John Ottman, Bohemian Rhapsody

Cinematography:

My Prediction: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma

Potential Spoiler: Mathew Libatique, A Star is Born

Production Design:

My Prediction: Fiona Crombie, The Favourite

Potential Spoiler: Hannah Beachler, Black Panther

Costume Design:

My Prediction: Sandy Powell, The Favourite

Deserved: Ruth Carter, Black Panther

Original Score:

My Prediction: Nicholas Britell, If Beale Street Could Talk

Potential Spoiler: Ludwig Goransson, Black Panther

Original Song:

My Prediction: Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt. “Shallow,” (A Star Is Born)

Sound Editing:

My Prediction: Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan (First Man)

Deserved: Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl (A Quiet Place)

Sound Mixing:

My Prediction: Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali (Bohemian Rhapsody)

Deserved: Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow (A Star Is Born)

Makeup & Hair Styling:

My Prediction: Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney (Vice)

Snub: Black Panther

Visual Effects:

My Prediction: Avengers: Infinity War (Spider-Man 2 [2004], only Superhero movie that ever won an Oscar in Visual effects.)

Potential Spoiler: Ready Player One

Animated Feature:

My Prediction: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)

Documentary Feature:

My Prediction: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill (Free Solo)

Potential Spoiler: Bing Liu & Diane Quan (Minding the Gap)

Snub: Won’t You Be My Neighbour?

Foreign Language Film:

My Prediction: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma

Potential Spoiler: Hirokazu Koreeda, Shoplifters

Snub: Burning

Animated Short:

My Prediction: Bao

Potential Spoiler: Weekends

Documentary Short:

My Prediction: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (End Game)

Deserved: Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton (Period. End of Sentence) (India)

Live Action Short:

My Prediction: Marguerite

Deserve: Skin