The most recent awards season came to an end over a week ago now with the spectacular Oscars sweep for Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, and I am now taking a very early and entirely hypothetical look at next years awards season.
The main reason for this post is to actually raise awareness for these films and keep them on people’s radar throughout the next year, to track the progress, and to see what film’s can completely surprise us to surge to the front of awards season next year.
The French Dispatch
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Score, Sound, Production Design, Costume Design, Make Up and Hair.
Nightmare Alley
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Costume Design, Score, Make Up and Hair.
Tenet
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Score, Sound, Production Design, Visual Effects.
West Side Story
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay, Score, Song, Cinematography, Sound, Production Design, Costume Design.
The Last Duel
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Score, Production Design, Costume Design.
Mank
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing.
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor, Supporting Actor, Editing.
News of the World
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actress.
Hillbilly Elegy
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay.
Dune
Potential Categories – Picture, Cinematography, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects.
Last Night in Soho
Potential Categories – Picture, Screenplay, Actress, Supporting Actress, Cinematography, Editing, Sound.
King Richard
Potential Categories – Picture, Actor, Screenplay.
In the Heights
Potential Categories – Picture, Actor, Screenplay, Cinematography, Song, Production Design.
Red, White, and Water
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay.
Ammonite
Potential Categories – Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress, Screenplay.
Soul
Potential Categories – Screenplay, Animated Feature.
Rebecca
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress, Screenplay, Cinematography.
Macbeth
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay, Editing.
Minari
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay.
Ironbark
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actress, Production Design, Costume Design.
Da 5 Bloods
Potential Categories – Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Screenplay.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Potential Categories – Actress, Supporting Actor, Sound.
Nomadland
Potential Categories – Picture, Actress, Cinematography.
The Father
Potential Categories – Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay.
Four Good Days
Potential Categories – Actress, Supporting Actress.
Blonde
Potential Categories – Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor, Screenplay, Costume Design.
Promising Young Woman
Potential Categories – Actress, Screenplay.
Categories
This is just a bit of fun, and will mainly be something interesting to look back on to see just how wrong I was when the nominations are announced next year. I have given it my best shot, but it is very unlikely that this will be how the nominations look because so much can change over the year and few of these movies have even been shown (or begun filming in some cases).
Best Picture
Ammonite
Macbeth
Minari
Nightmare Alley
Red, White, and Water
Tenet
The French Dispatch
The Last Duel
West Side Story
Best Director
David Fincher – Mank
Guillermo Del Toro – Nightmare Alley
Joel Coen – Macbeth
Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
Lila Neugebauer – Red, White, and Water
Best Actor
Anthony Hopkins – The Father
Bradley Cooper – Nightmare Alley
Denzel Washington – Macbeth
Gary Oldman – Mank
Steven Yeun – Minari
Best Actress
Ana de Armas – Blonde
Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
Jennifer Lawrence – Red, White, and Water
Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Frances McDormand – Macbeth
Best Supporting Actor
Adam Driver – The Last Duel
Brendan Gleeson – Macbeth
Bryan Tyree Henry – Red, White, and Water
Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Willem Dafoe – Nightmare Alley
Best Supporting Actress
Amanda Seyfried – Mank
Amy Adams – Hillbilly Elegy
Jodie Comer – The Last Duel
Saoirse Ronan – Ammonite
Toni Collette – Nightmare Alley
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