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 Martian
The Revenant
Room
Brooklyn
The Danish Girl
Creed
The Hateful Eight
Carol
Inside Out
Dropped: Joy, Steve Jobs
Best Director
Todd McCarthy, Spotlight
Ridley Scott, The Martian
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant
Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Dropped: Tom Hooper, The Danish Girl
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Michael Caine, Youth
Matt Damon, The Martian
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Best Actress
Brie Larsen, Room
Soairse Ronan, Brooklyn
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Dropped: Carey Mulligan, Suffragette
Best Supporting Actress
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Jane Fonda, Youth
Elizabeth Banks, Love and Mercy
Dropped: Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl (moved to Lead)
Best Supporting Actor
Michael Keaton, Spotlight
Benicio del Toro, Sicario
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Jacob Tremblay, Room
Best Original Screenplay
Spotlight
Joy
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
Sicario
Best Adapted Screenplay
Steve Jobs
Room
The Martian
Brooklyn
Creed
Dropped: The Danish Girl
Best Animated Feature
Inside Out
Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
Home
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Dropped: The Little Prince
Film Editing
Spotlight
Steve Jobs
The Revenant
The Martian
Mad Max: Fury Road
Production Design
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Cinderella
Crimson Peak
The Martian
Bridge of Spies
Cinematography
The Revenant
Sicario
In the Heart of the Sea
The Hateful Eight
The Martian
Costume Design
Cinderella
Brooklyn
Carol
Crimson Peak
In the Heart of the Sea
Makeup and Hairstyling
The Danish Girl
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Revenant
Visual Effects
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Martian
Mad Max: Fury Road
In the Heart of the Sea
The Walk
Dropped: Jurassic World
Sound Editing
The Martian
Mad Max: Fury Road
In the Heart of the Sea
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Revenant
Sound Mixing
The Martian
Sicario
Mad Max: Fury Road
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
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sicario
Steve Jobs
Carol
Dropped: The Good Dinosaur, Spectre
Original Song
“See You Again” Furious 7
“Simple Song #3” Youth
“Cold One” Ricki and the Flash
“Writing’s on the Wall” Spectre
“Until It Happens to You” The Hunting Ground
Dropped: Spy, The Good Dinosaur
Documentary Feature
Amy
The Look of Silence
The Hunting Ground
Iris
The Wolfpack
Foreign Language Film
Son of Saul (Hungary)
Labryinth of Lies (Germany)
The Second Mother (Brazil)
The Assassin (Taiwan)
The Club (Chile)