You will notice that many changes have been made to these predictions (cause I haven’t done a set in a billion years). Anyways, here are some new Oscar predictions. They are now ranked in each category with the first film/person/thing as the winner and in descending order.
Best Picture
Spotlight
The Revenant
Steve Jobs
The Danish Girl
The Hateful Eight
Brooklyn
Inside Out
Joy
Carol
The Martian
Dropped: Sicario, Genius, Bridge of Spies
Best Director
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant
Todd McCarthy, Spotlight
Danny Boyle, Steve Jobs
Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight
Tom Hooper, The Danish Girl
Dropped: Todd Haynes, Carol, Steven Spielberg, Bridge of Spies
Best Actor
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Michael Caine, Youth
Matt Damon, The Martian
Dropped: Don Cheadle, Miles Ahead, Colin Firth, Genius, Tom Hanks, Bridge of Spies
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larsen, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Soairse Ronan, Brooklyn
Carey Mulligan, Suffragette
Dropped: Emily Blunt, Sicario
Best Supporting Actress
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Jane Fonda, Youth
Dropped: Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria, Laura Linney, Genius, Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Best Supporting Actor
Samuel L. Jackson, The Hateful Eight
Michael Keaton, Spotlight
Benicio del Toro, Sicario
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Dropped: Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation,Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Best Original Screenplay
Spotlight
Joy
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
Bridge of Spies
Dropped: Trainwreck
Best Adapted Screenplay
Steve Jobs
The Danish Girl
The Revenant
Carol
The Martian
Dropped: In The Heart of the Sea, Beasts of No Nation
Best Animated Feature
Inside Out
The Good Dinosaur
Home
Anomalisa
The Little Prince
Dropped: The Peanuts Movie
Film Editing
Spotlight
Steve Jobs
The Revenant
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
Dropped: Bridge of Spies, Beasts of No Nation, Genius
Production Design
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Cinderella
Crimson Peak
The Martian
Bridge of Spies
Dropped: The Hateful Eight, In the Heart of the Sea, Genius
Cinematography
The Revenant
Sicario
In the Heart of the Sea
The Hateful Eight
The Martian
Dropped: By the Sea, Bridge of Spies
Costume Design
Cinderella
Brooklyn
Carol
Crimson Peak
In the Heart of the Sea
Dropped: Joy
Makeup and Hairstyling
The Danish Girl
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Revenant
Dropped: The Hateful Eight
Visual Effects
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Walk
The Martian
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
Dropped: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Sound Editing
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
In the Heart of the Sea
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Revenant
Dropped: Sicario
Sound Mixing
Sicario
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
In the Heart of the Sea
Dropped: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Beasts of No Nation, Jurassic World
Original Score
The Hateful Eight
The Good Dinosaur
Spectre
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Bridge of Spies
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
Amy
The Hunting Ground
Iris
The Look of Silence
The Wolfpack
Dropped: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Being Evel
Foreign Language Film
Son of Saul (Hungary)
Labryinth of Lies (Germany)
The Second Mother (Brazil)
The Assassin (Taiwan)
The Club (Chile)
Dropped: A War (Denmark), Dheepan (France), The Tribe (Ukraine), Magical Girl (Spain)