A rundown of this years Oscar nominations and my predictions for who’ll take home the prizes.
The nominations for the 2019 Oscars have been announced, with the 91st annual awards night taking place on February 24th in Los Angeles, California. Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite leading the way ahead of the pack with ten nominations each.
One of the most notable nominations was Black Panther’s nomination for Best Picture, this being notable as it marks the first ever time a superhero movie has made its way into this category. With the Wakandan hero adventure receiving seven nominations, including Best Original Song “All The Stars” by Kendrick Lamar and SZA.
The full list of nominations with my predictions for each category being.
Best Picture
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
A Star Is Born
Vice
My predicition for this category being Roma. Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuaron delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of a domestic worker’s journey set against domestic and political turmoil in 1970’s Mexico. I would however like to state that if up to me I would reward A Star Is Born with this prestigious award, having watched both I believe A Star Is Born to be the better picture.
Best Lead Actor
Christian Bale (Vice)
Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)
Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)
Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate)
My prediction for who will receive this award is Christian Bale for his performance in Vice, having already won the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for this category, I believe that he will make it a hattrick and collect his first ever Oscar.
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali (Green Book)
Richard E Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Sam Elliot (A Star Is Born)
Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman)
Sam Rockwell (Vice)
My prediction for the actor that will be going home with the Oscar is Mahershala Ali. Ali has already won an Academy Award before for his performance in Moonlight and won the Golden Globe and Critics choice for Best Supporting Actor this year, so it a shoe in to win the Oscar as well. However, it would please me massively if Sam Elliot was to win the award as, as far as unrecognised and unaccredited actors go Elliot is one of the very best, having an incredible career
Best Lead Actress
Glenn Close (The Wife)
Olivia Colman (The Favourite)
Lady Gaga ( Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) (A Star Is Born)
Yalitza Aparicio (Roma)
Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Glenn Close is who I would tip to collect this award is Glenn Close, having already receiving three awards for her outstanding display in The Wife, where she plays a reclusive wife of a great American novelist. This also would be Close’s first time being awarded an Oscar.
Best Supporting Actress
Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Amy Adams (Vice)
Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)
Emma Stone (The Favourite)
Marina de Tavira (Roma)
My predictions for the winner of this category is Regina King, her brilliant performance in If Beale Street Could Talk deserves nothing less than the recognition of the nomination and the reward of winning. However, I could see a slight upset with Amy Adams possibly clenching the award from underneath her.
Best Adapted Screenplay
BlacKkKlansman
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Ballas of Buster Scruggs
The film predicted to win this award would be BlacKkKlansman. From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan.
Best Animated Feature Film
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
Incredibles 2
Isle Of Dogs
Ralph Breaks The Internet
Mirai
This is one of the easiest categories to predict with the recipient being as good as named. This being Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. The film depicts teen Miles Morales becoming the Spider-Man of his reality, crossing his path with five counterparts from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities.
Best Cinematography
Roma
A Star Is Born
Cold War
The Favourite
Never Look Away
This like the previous category is practically a certainty, with Roma being tipped by anybody with any knowledge of the film.
Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron (Roma)
Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)
Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)
Adam McKay (Vice)
Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)
The favourite and my prediction for this category is previous Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuaron for his film Roma. Cuaron has already won two Oscars for Best Director and for Best Film Editing for his movie Gravity. The notable missing contender in this line up however is Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born. Cooper was nominated for this category in the BAFTA’s, Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice awards, so his dismissal for the Oscars can only be confusing.
Best Foreign Language Film
Roma
Cold War
Shoplifters
Capernaum
Never Look Away
Simply from reading this blog post its predictable to anybody that the film winning this award most likely will be Roma.
Best Makeup and Hair styling
Vice
Mary Queen Of Scots
Border
My prediction for this category is that Vice will come away with the award, for their amazing efforts in turning Christian Bale into an almost identical copy of Dick Cheney.
Best Original Screenplay
The Favourite
Green Book
Roma
First Reformed
Vice
Ironically the favourite to win this award is in fact Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, however I can very much see a slight upset occurring and Green Book coming away with the award. But I could honestly see it going either way.
Best Sound Editing
First Man
A Quiet Place
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
Roma
My prediction for the winner of this category would have to be First Man, after delivering literally out of this world sound effects that captivated the audience non-stop throughout the picture, it would be a thoroughly deserved win for the film.
Best Original Song
All The Stars (Black Panther by Kendrick Lamar and SZA)
I’ll Fight (RBG by Dianne Warren and Jennifer Hudson)
The Place Where Lost Things Go (Mary Poppins Returns by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman)
Shallow (A Star Is Born by Lady Gaga and Mark Ronson)
When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings (The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch
My prediction for the winner of this category is Shallow from A Star Is Born, after being nominated for four different categories at the Grammy Awards, it’s the smarted educated guess anybody can make for the category.
Best Visual Effects
Avengers: Infinity War
Christopher Robin
First Man
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story.
This in my opinion is the closest category of the evening with my honest opinion being that baring Christopher Robin the award could go to any of the other films, as all display exceptional visual effects from start to finish.
