Welcome to Filmotomy’s predictions hub for the 97th Academy Awards. It’s here you’ll find the latest predictions from Awards Editor Doug Jamieson. Click the links below each category for monthly detailed coverage and a full list of contenders.
Be sure to check back regularly for updated predictions as awards season barrels along and the race begins to become clearer.
UPDATED: OCTOBER 31 2024
BEST PICTURE
1. Anora (Neon)
2. The Brutalist (A24)
3. Conclave (Focus Features)
4. A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
5. Blitz (Apple Original Films)
6. Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
7. Sing Sing (A24)
8. Nickel Boys (Amazon MGM Studios)
9. Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
10. The Wild Robot (Universal Pictures)
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BEST DIRECTOR
1. Brady Corbet – The Brutalist (A24)
2. Sean Baker – Anora (Neon)
3. Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
4. Denis Villenueve – Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
5. Edward Berger – Conclave (Focus Features)
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BEST ACTRESS
1. Mikey Madison – Anora (Neon)
2. Angelina Jolie – Maria (Netflix)
3. Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun (Sony Pictures Classics)
4. Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
5. Nicole Kidman – Babygirl (A24)
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BEST ACTOR
1. Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
2. Adrien Brody – The Brutalist (A24)
3. Ralph Fiennes – Conclave (Focus Features)
4. Colman Domingo – Sing Sing (A24)
5. Daniel Craig – Queer (A24)
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
2. Felicity Jones – The Brutalist (A24)
3. Saoirse Ronan – Blitz (Apple Original Films)
4. Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson (Netflix)
5. Selena Gomez – Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Guy Pearce – The Brutalist (A24)
2. Denzel Washington – Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
3. Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
4. Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing (A24)
5. Stanley Tucci – Conclave (Focus Features)
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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Anora – Sean Baker (Neon)
2. The Brutalist – Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold (A24)
3. A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg (Searchlight Pictures)
4. Blitz – Steve McQueen (Apple Original Films)
5. Hard Truths – Mike Leigh (Bleeker Street)
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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Conclave – Peter Straughan (Focus Features)
2. Sing Sing – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield (A24)
3. Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard (Netflix)
4. The Room Next Door – Pedro Almodóvar (Sony Pictures Classics)
5. Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes (Amazon MGM Studios)
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser (Warner Bros.)
2. The Brutalist – Lol Crawley (A24)
3. Maria – Edward Lachmann (Netflix)
4. Blitz – Yorick Le Saux (Apple Original Films)
5. Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke (Focus Features)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
1. Wicked – Paul Tazewell (Universal Pictures)
2. Dune: Part Two – Jacqueline West (Warner Bros.)
3. Blitz – Jacqueline Durran (Apple Original Films)
4. Gladiator II – Janty Yates (Paramount Pictures)
5. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – Colleen Atwood (Warner Bros.)
BEST FILM EDITING
1. Anora – Sean Baker (Neon)
2. The Brutalist – Dávid Jancsó (A24)
3. Conclave – Nick Emerson (Focus Features)
4. Blitz – Peter Sciberras (Apple Original Films)
5. Dune: Part Two – Joe Walker (Warner Bros.)
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
1. Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
2. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros.)
3. Nosferatu (Focus Features)
4. The Substance (Mubi)
5. Joker: Folie à Deux (Warner Bros.)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
1. Conclave – Volker Bertelmann (Focus Features)
2. Gladiator II – Harry Gregson-Williams (Paramount Pictures)
3. The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg (A24)
4. Emilia Pérez – Clément Ducol (Netflix)
5. The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers (Universal Pictures)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
1. “El Mal” – Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
2. “The Journey” – The Six Triple Eight (Netflix)
3. “I Always Wanted a Brother” – Mufasa: The Lion King (Walt Disney Studios)
4. “Like a Bird” – Sing Sing (A24)
5. “Beautiful That Way” – The Last Showgirl (Roadside Attractions)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
1. Gladiator II – Arthur Max, Elli Griff (Paramount Pictures)
2. Wicked – Nathan Crowley (Universal Pictures)
3. Dune: Part Two – Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos (Warner Bros.)
4. The Brutalist – Judy Becker (A24)
5. Blitz – Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock (Apple Original Films)
BEST SOUND
1. Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
2. Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
3. Wicked (Universal Pictures)
4. Blitz (Apple Original Films)
5. A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
1. Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
2. Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
3. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios)
4. Mufasa: The Lion King (Walt Disney Pictures)
5. Wicked (Universal Pictures)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
1. The Wild Robot (DreamWorks)
2. Inside Out 2 (Disney/Pixar)
3. Memoir of a Snail (IFC Films)
4. Flow (Janus Films)
5. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
1. Black Box Diaries (MTV Documentary Films)
2. Will & Harper (Netflix)
3. Daughters (Netflix)
4. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber)
5. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Warner Bros.)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
1. Emilia Pérez (France)
2. I’m Still Here (Brazil)
3. The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)
4. Kneecap (Ireland)
5. Grand Tour (Portugal)
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