nominations. It’s an understatement to say this was an unusual year. Of my ten picks for Best Picture, I only saw one of them in the theater. The cinematic experience isn’t dead, but it’s fair to say streaming made strides. If I was a member of the Academy, here’s what I would vote for:
Best Picture
The Call of the Wild
Class Action Park
Cuties
Hillbilly Elegy
I Am Patrick
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas
Story
News of the World
Pray: The Story of
Patrick Peyton
Soul
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Best Actor
KJ Apa, I Still Believe
Michael
Collins, Bookends
Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù, His House
Deroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Charlie Plummer, Words on the Bathroom Walls
Best Actress
Amy Adams, Hillbilly Elegy
Kat Espaillat,
Bookends
Wunmi Mosaku, His House
Taylor Russel, Words on the Bathroom Walls
Fathia Youssouf, Cuties
Best Supporting
Actress
Médina El Aidi-Azouni, Cuties
Mbissine Diop, Cuties
Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Miranda Hart, Emma
Emily Lind, The Babysitter: Killer Queen
Best Supporting
Actor
Matthew
Donaldson, Bookends
Johnny Flynn, Emma
John Malkovich, Ava
Bill Nighly, Emma
Josh O’Connor, Emma
Best Director
Cuties
Da 5 Bloods
Emma
Hillbilly Elegy
Words on the Bathroom
Walls
Best Screenplay
Bookends
Cuties
Emma
Hillbilly Elegy
Soul
Best Cinematography
The Babysitter: Killer
Queen
The Call of the Wild
His House
Mank
News of the World
Best Art Direction
Emma
Fatima
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas
Story
Mank
Radioactive
Best Costume Design
Birds of Prey
Cuties
Emma
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas
Story
Radioactive
Best Visual Effects
The Call of the
Wild
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas
Story
Mulan
Words on the
Bathroom Wall
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Best Editing
Bookends
Da 5 Bloods
Emma
His House
Words on the
Bathroom Wall
Best Score
The Call of the
Wild
Jingle Jangle: A
Christmas Story
Soul
Tesla
Two Crowns
Best Sound
Ava
Da 5 Bloods
His House
Words on the
Bathroom Wall
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Of
course, things don’t work out perfectly. Here are my predictions for the actual
nominations:
Best Picture
Nomadland
Mank
Da
5 Bloods
The
Trial of the Chicago 7
Minari
Promising
Young Woman
News
of the World
Ma
Rainey’s Black Bottom
Best Actor
Raz
Ahmed, The Sound of Metal
Chadwick
Bosman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Anthony
Hopkins, The Father
Delory
Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Gary
Oldman, Mank
Best Actress
Andra
Day, United States v. Billie Holiday
Viola
Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Vanessa
Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
Francis
McDormand, Nomadland
Carey
Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
Best Supporting
Actor
Sasha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel
Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Bill
Murray, On the Rocks
Leslie
Odom Jr, One Night in Miami
Paul
Raci, The Sound of Metal
Best Supporting
Actress
Maria
Bakolova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Glen
Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Jodie
Foster, The Mauritanian
Yuh-Jung
Youn, Minari
Helena
Zengel, News of the World
Best Director
Lee
Isaac Chung, Minari
David Fincher, Mank
Spike Lee, Da Five Bloods
Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Chloe
Zhao, Nomadland
Best
Original Screenplay
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Promising
Young Woman
The
Trial of the Chicago 7
Best
Adapted Screenplay
The Father
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
News of the World
Nomadland
The White Tiger
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