Who Will Be Nominated? – Final Predictions | 98th Oscars

AMPAS is announcing its list of nominees for the upcoming 98th Academy Awards on the 22nd. So, yes, now is the time to fill in your final Oscars nominations predictions. This is exactly what I’ve done here. Below you’ll see what I’m predicting. The choices are ranked from one to five or one to ten, based on how confident I am that something is getting nominated, with 1 being the most confident. One thing of note: I am predicting that Sinners will break the record for most Oscar nominations (by getting 15).

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The Shorts

Live-Action Short

1. Ado
2. Beyond Silence
3. Rock, Paper, Scissors
4. The Boy With White Skin
5. A Friend of Dorothy

Documentary Short

1. All the Empty Rooms
2. Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
3. All the Walls Came Down
4. Bad Hostage
5. Cashing Out

Animated Short

1. Autokar
2. Eiru
3. Snow Bear
4. Butterfly
5. The Girl Who Cried Pearls

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Special Flicks

International Film

1. Sentimental Value
2. The Secret Agent
3. It Was Just an Accident
4. Sirat
5. No Other Choice

Documentary Feature

1. The Perfect Neighbor
2. 2000 Meters to Andriivka
3. Cover-Up
4. The Alabama Solution
5. Mr. Nobody Against Putin

Animated Feature

1. KPop Demon Hunters
2. Zootopia 2
3. Arco
4. Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
5. Elio

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Below-The-Line

Visual Effects

1. Avatar: Fire and Ash
2. Superman
3. F1
4. Frankenstein
5. Sinners

Sound

1. F1
2. Sinners
3. One Battle After Another
4. Frankenstein
5. Avatar: Fire and Ash

Song

1. “Golden,” – KPop Demon Hunters
2. “I Lied to You,” – Sinners
3. “Train Dreams,” – Train Dreams
4. “Dear Me,” – Diane Warren: Relentless
5. “No Place Like Home,” – Wicked: For Good

Score

1. Sinners
2. One Battle After Another
3. Marty Supreme
4. Frankenstein
5. Hamnet

Production Design

1. Frankenstein
2. Wicked: For Good
3. Sinners
4. Hamnet
5. The Fantastic 4: First Steps

Make-Up and Hairstyling

1. Frankenstein
2. Wicked: For Good
3. Sinners
4. The Smashing Machine
5. One Battle After Another

Editing

1. One Battle After Another
2. Marty Supreme
3. Sinners
4. F1
5. Hamnet

Costume Design

1. Sinners
2. Wicked: For Good
3. Frankenstein
4. Hamnet
5. Marty Supreme

Cinematography

1. Sinners
2. One Battle After Another
3. Frankenstein
4. Train Dreams
5. Hamnet

Casting

1. Sinners
2. One Battle After Another
3. Sentimental Value
4. Marty Supreme
5. Hamnet

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Above-The-Line

Original Screenplay

1. Sinners
2. Sentimental Value
3. Marty Supreme
4. It Was Just an Accident
5. The Secret Agent

Adapted Screenplay

1. Hamnet
2. One Battle After Another
3. Frankenstein
4. Bugonia
5. Train Dreams

Supporting Actor

1. Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another
2. Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value
3. Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
4. Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
5. Paul Mescal – Hamnet

Supporting Actress

1. Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
2. Amy Madigan – Weapons
3. Inga Ibsdottir Lilleaas* – Sentimental Value
4. Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good
5. Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners

Actor

1. Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
2. Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
3. Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
4. Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
5. Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon

Actress

1. Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
2. Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
3. Emma Stone – Bugonia
4. Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
5. Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value

Director

1. Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
2. Ryan Coogler – Sinners
3. Chloe Zhao – Hamnet
4. Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
5. Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein

Picture

1. One Battle After Another
2. Sinners
3. Hamnet
4. Marty Supreme
5. Frankenstein
6. Sentimental Value
7. The Secret Agent
8. Bugonia
9. Train Dreams
10. It Was Just an Accident

– Article and Predictions by Jeffrey Rex Bertelsen.