Who Will Win Every Oscar This Year
Will Oppenheimer Dominate? The Signs Say Yes
The gold derby has entered the final lap.
What started as an intriguing contest with several promising qualifiers quickly became a fight for a distant second. Ultimately, it’s hard to imagine a world where Christopher Nolan’s 13-time nominated political epic Oppenheimer doesn’t dominate Sunday’s 96th Oscar telecast.
But this is the Oscars, and stranger things have happened. There are worthy contenders this year in the 11-time nominee Poor Things, the 10-time nominee Killers of the Flower Moon, and even favorites such as the 5-time nominee The Holdovers and the 2-time nominee Past Lives.
Nothing is ever truly locked, but much like last year’s Best Picture winner, Everything, Everywhere All At Once, it seems very close to near certain at this stage in the race. Below are our final predictions for the winners of every award in the 96th Academy Awards.
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Best Picture
“American Fiction”
“Anatomy of a Fall”
“Barbie”
“The Holdovers”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Maestro”
“Oppenheimer” — PREDICTED WINNER
“Past Lives”
“Poor Things”
“The Zone of Interest”
Best Director
Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest”
Yorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things”
Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer” — PREDICTED WINNER
Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Justine Triet, “Anatomy of a Fall”
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, “Maestro”
Colman Domingo, “Rustin”
Paul Giamatti, “The Holdovers”
Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer” — PREDICTED WINNER
Jeffrey Wright, “American Fiction”
Best Actress
Annette Bening, “Nyad”
Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon” — PREDICTED WINNER
Sandra Hüller, “Anatomy of a Fall”
Carey Mulligan, “Maestro”
Emma Stone, “Poor Things”
Best Supporting Actor
Sterling K. Brown, “American Fiction”
Robert De Niro, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer” — PREDICTED WINNER
Ryan Gosling, “Barbie”
Mark Ruffalo, “Poor Things”
Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt, “Oppenheimer”
Danielle Brooks, “The Color Purple”
America Ferrera, “Barbie”
Jodie Foster, “Nyad”
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers” — PREDICTED WINNER
Original Screenplay
“Anatomy of a Fall” — PREDICTED WINNER
“The Holdovers”
“May December”
“Maestro”
“Past Lives”
Adapted Screenplay
“American Fiction” — PREDICTED WINNER
“Barbie”
“Oppenheimer”
“Poor Things”
“The Zone of Interest”
Animated Feature
“The Boy and the Heron” — PREDICTED WINNER
“Elemental”
“Nimona”
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
“Robot Dreams”
Production Design
“Barbie”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Napoleon”
“Oppenheimer”
“Poor Things” — PREDICTED WINNER
Costume Design
“Barbie” — PREDICTED WINNER
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Napoleon”
“Oppenheimer”
“Poor Things”
Cinematography
“El Conde”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Maestro”
“Oppenheimer” — PREDICTED WINNER
“Poor Things”
Editing
“Anatomy of a Fall”
“The Holdovers”
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Oppenheimer” — PREDICTED WINNER
“Poor Things”
Makeup and Hairstyling
“Golda”
“Maestro” — PREDICTED WINNER
“Oppenheimer”
“Poor Things”
“Society of the Snow”
Sound
“The Creator”
“Maestro”
“Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One”
“Oppenheimer”
“The Zone of Interest” — PREDICTED WINNER
Visual Effects
“The Creator”
“Godzilla Minus One” — PREDICTED WINNER (Author’s note: Go see this movie as soon as possible. It is incredible in every sense of the word.)
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”
“Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One”
“Napoleon”
Original Score
“American Fiction”
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (Author’s Note: Helena’s Theme is one of Williams’ best original compositions of the twenty-first century. There, I said it!)
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
“Oppenheimer” — PREDICTED WINNER
“Poor Things”
Original Song
“The Fire Inside” (“Flamin’ Hot”)
“I’m Just Ken” (“Barbie”)
“It Never Went Away” (“American Symphony”)
“Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” (“Killers of the Flower Moon”)
“What Was I Made For?” (“Barbie”) — PREDICTED WINNER
Documentary Feature
“Bobi Wine: The People’s President”
“The Eternal Memory”
“Four Daughters”
“To Kill a Tiger”
“20 Days in Mariupol” — PREDICTED WINNER
International Feature
“The Teachers’ Lounge,” Germany
“Io Capitano,” Italy
“Perfect Days,” Japan
“Society of the Snow,” Spain
“The Zone of Interest,” United Kingdom — PREDICTED WINNER
Animated Short
“Letter to a Pig”
“Ninety-Five Senses”
“Our Uniform”
“Pachyderme”
“War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” — PREDICTED WINNER
Documentary Short
“The ABCs of Book Banning”
“The Barber of Little Rock”
“Island in Between”
“The Last Repair Shop” — PREDICTED WINNER
“Nai Nai & Wai Po”
Live-Action Short
“The After”
“Invincible”
“Knight of Fortune”
“Red, White and Blue”
“The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” — PREDICTED WINNER
Who do you think will win this year at the 96th Oscars? Let us know in the comments below!
As usual, we’re mostly in agreement! How about this movie year??