So many shortlists have been dropped and so much has changed in the race (where did this Trumbo and The Big Short love come from?). This set of Oscar predictions, I really tried to divorce myself from the narrative and only kept movies/performers in that had at least 2 critics nominations or a significant nomination/win at a big show like the globes or SAG. SO enjoy the new Oscar predictions.
Best Picture
Spotlight
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
Creed
Brooklyn
The Hateful Eight
The Big Short
Dropped: Inside Out, The Danish Girl
Best Director
Todd McCarthy, Spotlight
Ridley Scott, The Martian
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Dropped: Tom Hooper, The Danish Girl, Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Matt Damon, The Martian
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Dropped: Michael Caine, Youth
Best Actress
Brie Larsen, Room
Soairse Ronan, Brooklyn
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Dropped: Carey Mulligan, Suffragette
Best Supporting Actress
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Rooney Mara, Carol
Jane Fonda, Youth
Helen Mirren, Trumbo
Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria
Dropped: Rachel McAdams, Spotlight, Elizabeth Banks, Love and Mercy
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Michael Keaton, Spotlight
Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation
Jacob Tremblay, Room
Dropped: Benicio del Toro, Sicario, Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight, Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Best Original Screenplay
Spotlight
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
Sicario
Son of Saul
Dropped: Joy
Best Adapted Screenplay
Steve Jobs
Room
The Martian
The Big Short
Creed
Dropped: The Danish Girl, Brooklyn
Best Animated Feature
Inside Out
Anomalisa
Shaun the Sheep Movie
The Peanuts Movie
The Good Dinosaur
Dropped: The Little Prince, Home
Film Editing
Spotlight
Steve Jobs
The Martian
Mad Max: Fury Road
Room
Dropped: The Revenant, The Hateful Eight
Production Design
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Cinderella
Crimson Peak
The Martian
Bridge of Spies
Cinematography
The Revenant
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sicario
In the Heart of the Sea
The Hateful Eight
Dropped: The Martian
Costume Design
Cinderella
Brooklyn
Carol
Crimson Peak
In the Heart of the Sea
Makeup and Hairstyling
The Revenant
The Danish Girl
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Revenant
Creed
Dropped: In the Heart of the Sea
Sound Mixing
Sicario
The Martian
Mad Max: Fury Road
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Revenant
Dropped: In the Heart of the Sea, 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
“Until It Happens to You” The Hunting Ground
“Simple Song #3” Youth
“Writing’s on the Wall” Spectre
“Who Else Can You Trust?” Spy
Dropped: “Cold One” Ricki and the Flash
Documentary Feature
The Look of Silence
Amy
The Hunting Ground
Listen to Me, Marlon
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Dropped: Iris, The Wolfpack
Foreign Language Film
Son of Saul (Hungary)
Labryinth of Lies (Germany)
The Second Mother (Brazil)
The Club (Chile)
Mustang (France)
Dropped: The Assassin (Taiwan)