Oscar Nomination Predictions

Most Nominations – Mank – 13

Best Picture

• Nomadland
• The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Minari
• Promising Young Woman
• Mank
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• One Night in Miami…
• Judas and the Black Messiah
• Sound of Metal

Alternate: The Father

Best Director

• Chloe Zhao – Nomadland
• David Fincher – Mank
• Lee Isaac Chung – Minari
• Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman
• Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Alternate: Darius Marder – Sound of Metal

Best Actor

• Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal
• Anthony Hopkins – The Father
• Gary Oldman – Mank
• Steven Yeun – Minari  

Alternate: Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round

Best Actress

• Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman
• Frances McDormand – Nomadland
• Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holliday
• Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman

Alternate: Yeri Han – Minari

Best Supporting Actor

• Daniel Kaluuya – Judas & the Black Messiah
• Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Leslie Odom Jr – One Night in Miami…
• Paul Raci – Sound of Metal
• Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods

Alternate: David Strathairn – Nomadland   

Best Supporting Actress

• Olivia Colman – The Father
• Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy
• Amanda Seyfried – Mank

Alternate: Jodie Foster – The Mauritanian

Best Original Screenplay

• The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Promising Young Woman
• Minari
• Sound of Metal
• Mank

Alternate: Soul

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Nomadland
• One Night in Miami…
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• The Father
• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Alternate: News of the World

Best Animated Film

• Soul
• Wolfwalkers
• Over the Moon
• Onward
• The Croods: A New Age

Alternate: A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon

Best Foreign Film

• Another Round
• Collective
• Two of Us
• A Sun
• Quo Vadis, Aida?

Alternate: I’m No Longer Here

Best Documentary Film

• Crip Camp
• Time
• The Truffle Hunters
• Collective
• Dick Johnson is Dead

Alternate: Welcome to Chechnya

Best Cinematography

• Nomadland
• Mank
• News of the World
• Minari
• The Trial of the Chicago 7

Alternate: Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Editing

• Sound of Metal
• Nomadland
• The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Mank
• The Father

Alternate: News of the World

Best Original Score

• Soul
• Mank
• The Midnight Sky
• Minari
• News of the World

Alternate: Tenet

Best Original Song

• “Speak Now” – One Night in Miami…
• “Io Si (Seen)” – The Life Ahead
• “Hear My Voice” – The Trial of the Chicago 7
• “Fight for You” – Judas and the Black Messiah
• “Husavik” – Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga

Alternate: “Wuhan Flu” – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Production Design

• Mank
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• News of the World
• The Midnight Sky
• Emma

Alternate: The Father

Best Costume Design

Alternate: News of the World

Best Hair and Make Up

• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Hillbilly Elegy
• Mank
• Pinocchio
• Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn

Alternate: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Sound

• Sound of Metal
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
• Nomadland
• News of the World
• Mank

Alternate: Soul

Best Visual Effects

• Tenet
• Mank
• The Midnight Sky
• The One and Only Ivan
• Welcome to Chechnya

Alternate: Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn