Oscar Predictions Update: Well Who Knows…

Now that I am out of the Comic Con grinder, I figured it was time to do, reporting on and discussing films that haven’t come out yet!…wait…I might have misjudged this. Anyways, here are my newest set of Oscar predictions. I don’t have much in the way of analysis except to say that I made a lot of changes since April. Biggest Category Changes: Best Picture, which saw me move half of the original films out of the lineup, the acting races, which got 3 new members each, and the sound categories, which look amazingly exciting this year.

Best Picture
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Carol
Genius
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
Joy
The Revenant
Sicario
Steve Jobs

Dropped: That’s What I’m Talking About, By the Sea, Beasts of No Nation, In the Heart of the Sea, Joy

Best Director
Danny Boyle, Steve Jobs
Todd Haynes, Carol
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant
Steven Spielberg, Bridge of Spies
Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight

Dropped: Cary Fukanaga, Beasts of No Nation

Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Colin Firth, Genius
Tom Hanks, Bridge of Spies
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

Dropped: Ben Foster, Icon, Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Emily Blunt, Sicario
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Soairse Ronan, Brooklyn
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl

Dropped: Sally Field, Hello, My Name is Doris, Carmen Ejogo, Born to Be Blue, Marion Cotillard, Macbeth

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Laura Linney, Genius
Rooney Mara, Carol
Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

Dropped: Amy Ryan, Bridge of Spies, Sarah Paulson, Carol, Julia Roberts, Money Monster

Best Supporting Actor
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Samuel L. Jackson, The Hateful Eight
Kurt Russell, The Hateful Eight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Benicio del Toro, Sicario

Dropped: Tyler Hoechlin, That’s What I’m Talking About, Alan Alda, Bridge of Spies, Kyle Chandler, Carol, Chris Cooper, Demolition

Best Original Screenplay
Bridge of Spies
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
Joy
Trainwreck

Dropped: By the Sea, Demolition

Best Adapted Screenplay
Beasts of No Nation
Carol
Genius
The Revenant
Steve Jobs

Dropped: That’s What I’m Talking About

Best Animated Feature
The Good Dinosaur
Home
Inside Out
The Peanuts Movie
The Little Prince

Film Editing
Bridge of Spies
Genius
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Steve Jobs

Dropped: Beasts of No Nation

Production Design
Bridge of Spies
Genius
The Hateful Eight
In the Heart of the Sea
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Cinematography
Bridge of Spies
In the Heart of the Sea
The Hateful Eight
The Revenant
Sicario

Dropped: Sea of Trees

Costume Design
Brooklyn
Carol
Cinderella
Crimson Peak
In the Heart of the Sea

Dropped: Joy

Makeup and Hairstyling
The Hateful Eight
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Dropped: That’s What I’m Talking About, Cinderella

Visual Effects
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Jurassic World
The Martian
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Sound Editing
In the Heart of the Sea
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Revenant

Dropped: Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Bridge of Spies

Sound Mixing
I Saw the Light
In the Heart of the Sea
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Dropped: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Beasts of No Nation, Jurassic World

Original Score
Bridge of Spies
The Good Dinosaur
The Hateful Eight
Spectre
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Dropped: Tomorrowland

Original Song
Furious 7
The Good Dinosaur
Ricki and the Flash
Spectre
Spy

Dropped: Me, Earl and the Dying Girl, Inside Out

Documentary Feature
Being Evel
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
The Hunting Ground
Iris
Racing Extinction

Foreign Languae Film
The Club (Chile)
Dheepan (India)
Magical Girl (Spain)
Son of Saul (Hungary)
The Tribe (Ukraine)