Welcome to Filmotomy’s predictions hub for this year’s Academy Awards. It’s here you’ll find Awards Editor Doug Jamieson‘s latest predictions for all 23 categories. For more detailed coverage of each category, click the corresponding links below.
Be sure to check back regularly for updated predictions as awards season barrels along and the race begins to become clearer.
UPDATED: APRIL 24 2021
BEST PICTURE
1. Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)
2. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)
3. Minari (A24)
4. Promising Young Woman (Focus Features)
5. Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)
6. The Father (Sony Pictures Classics)
7. Mank (Netflix)
8. Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)
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BEST DIRECTOR
1. Chloé Zhao – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)
2. Lee Isaac Chung – Minari (A24)
3. Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features)
4. David Fincher – Mank (Netflix)
5. Thomas Vinterberg – Another Round (Metro Goldwyn Mayer)
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BEST ACTRESS
1. Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
2. Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features)
3. Andra Day – The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Hulu)
4. Frances McDormand – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)
5. Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman (Netflix)
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BEST ACTOR
1. Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
2. Anthony Hopkins – The Father (Sony Pictures Classics)
3. Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)
4. Steven Yeun – Minari (A24)
5. Gary Oldman – Mank (Netflix)
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari (A24)
2. Maria Bakalova – Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Studios)
3. Olivia Colman – The Father (Sony Pictures Classics)
4. Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix)
5. Amanda Seyfried – Mank (Netflix)
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)
2. Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)
3. Paul Raci – Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)
4. Leslie Odom Jr. – One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios)
5. LaKeith Stanfield – Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)
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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Promising Young Woman (Focus Features)
2. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)
3. Minari (A24)
4. Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)
5. Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)
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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)
2. The Father (Sony Pictures Classics)
3. One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios)
4. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Studios)
5. The White Tiger (Netflix)
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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
1. Soul (Disney/Pixar)
2. Wolfwalkers (GKIDS/AppleTV+
3. Onward (Disney/Pixar)
4. Over the Moon (Netflix)
5. A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (Netflix)
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)
2. Mank (Netflix)
3. News of the World (Universal Pictures)
4. Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)
5. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)
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BEST COSTUME DESIGN
1. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
2. Emma. (Focus Features)
3. Mank (Netflix)
4. Mulan (Disney)
5. Pinocchio (Roadside Attractions)
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BEST FILM EDITING
1. Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)
2. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)
3. Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)
4. The Father (Sony Pictures Classics)
5. Promising Young Woman (Focus Features)
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BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
1. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
2. Pinocchio (Roadside Attractions)
3. Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix)
4. Mank (Netflix)
5. Emma. (Focus Features)
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BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
1. Mank (Netflix)
2. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
3. The Father (Sony Pictures Classics)
4. Tenet (Warner Bros.)
5. News of the World (Universal Pictures)
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BEST SOUND
1. Sound of Metal (Amazon Studios)
2. Soul (Disney/Pixar)
3. Mank (Netflix)
4. Greyhound (Apple TV+)
5. News of the World (Universal Pictures)
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BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
1. Tenet (Warner Bros.)
2. The Midnight Sky (Netflix)
3. Mulan (Disney)
4. The One and Only Ivan (Disney)
5. Love and Monsters (Paramount Pictures)
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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
1. Soul (Disney/Pixar)
2. Minari (A24)
3. News of the World (Universal Pictures)
4. Mank (Netflix)
5. Da 5 Bloods (Netflix)
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BEST ORIGINAL SONG
1. “Speak Now” – One Night in Miami (Amazon Studios)
2. “Húsavík (My Hometown)” – Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Netflix)
3. “Io Sì (Seen)” – The Life Ahead (Netflix)
4. “Fight For You” – Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)
5. “Hear My Voice” – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)
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BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
1. My Octopus Teacher (Netflix)
2. Collective (Magnolia Selects)
3. Time (Amazon Studios)
4. Crip Camp (Netflix)
5. The Mole Agent (Gravitas Ventures)
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BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
1. Another Round (Denmark)
2. Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
3. Collective (Romania)
4. Better Days (Hong Kong)
5. The Man Who Sold His Skin (Tunisia)
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BEST ANIMATED SHORT
1. If Anything Happens I Love You
2. Burrow
3. Genius Loci
4. Opera
5. Yes People
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
1. A Concerto Is a Conversation
2. A Love Song for Latasha
3. Colette
4. Hunger Ward
5. Do Not Split
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
1. The Letter Room
2. The Present
3. Two Distant Strangers
4. Feeling Through
5. White Eye