And just like that, the Oscars have rolled around again and crept up and surprised me by being on TOMORROW! Eeek, no time for my usual detailed predictions. Here's what I think though.
Best Picture - Roma is my best guess. The Favourite or Green Book would be the other potentials but The Favourite is still too odd and Green Book perhaps a little too mild.
Best Actor - Rami Malek is a lock for this category for Bohemian Rhapsody.
Best Actress - I think Olivia Colman or Glenn Close could win this. I'm going out on a limb to say Olivia Colman - it's an amazing performance.
Best Supporting Actor - Mahershala Ali for sure here. Some of the others in this category were very small roles in their films.
Best Supporting Actress - this is the toughest main category to choose. Amy Adams is brave and bold as Mrs Cheney in Vice, but both Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone are fabulous in The Favourite. Do they cancel each other out? Surely not. Emma's is the showier performance but I want to guess Rachel Weisz for her wounded lover putting on a big fight.
Animated Film - Isle of Dogs was my best film of last year, but I think Into the Spiderverse might have this one for sheer creativity and humour.
Cinematography - Roma has this all sewn up.
Costume Design - Black Panther will probably take the gong for this one.
Best Director - I would so love to see Spike Lee win this as BlackkKlansman is explosively relevant, but I think Alfonso Cuaron will take it for the extremely personal work of art Roma.
Best Foreign Film - Roma again for sure.
Music (Original Song) - Shallow from A Star is Born is the most likely winner.
Visual Effects - I'm hoping First Man is the deserving winner here.
Adapted Screenplay - Really hard category. Between A Star is Born and BlackkKlansman and Ballad of Buster Scruggs I reckon. I'm going out on a limb again here for the Coens for Buster Scruggs.
Original Screenplay - I like Green Book and Roma but The Favourite must just edge them both out in this category. Go Aussies!
The rest, I don't know, we shall see!
