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. Starting soon, there will be monthly detailed coverage of each category 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 11 2024
BEST PICTURE
1. Anora (Neon)
2. The Brutalist (A24)
3. Conclave (Focus Features)
4. A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
5. Blitz (Apple TV+)
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)
BEST DIRECTOR
1. Brady Corbet – The Brutalist (A24)
2. Sean Baker – Anora (Neon)
3. Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
4. Steve McQueen – Blitz (Apple TV+)
5. Denis Villenueve – Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
BEST ACTRESS
1. Angelina Jolie – Maria (Netflix)
2. Mikey Madison – Anora (Neon)
3. Saoirse Ronan – The Outrun (Sony Pictures Classics)
4. Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
5. Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths (Bleecker Street)
BEST ACTOR
1. Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
2. Adrien Brody – The Brutalist (A24)
3. Ralph Fiennes – Conclave (Focus Features)
4. Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment)
5. Colman Domingo – Sing Sing (A24)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
2. Felicity Jones – The Brutalist (A24)
3. Saoirse Ronan – Blitz (Apple TV+)
4. Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson (Netflix)
5. Selena Gomez – Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Guy Pearce – The Brutalist (A24)
2. Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
3. Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing (A24)
4. Stanley Tucci – Conclave (Focus Features)
5. Denzel Washington – Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Anora – Sean Baker (Neon)
2. The Brutalist – Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold (A24)
3. Blitz – Steve McQueen (Apple TV+)
4. A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg (Searchlight Pictures)
5. Saturday Night – Jason Reitman, Gil Kenan (Sony Pictures)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Conclave – Peter Straughan (Focus Features)
2. Sing Sing – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield (A24)
3. The Room Next Door – Pedro Almodóvar (Sony Pictures Classics)
4. Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes (Amazon MGM Studios)
5. Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard (Netflix)
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 TV+)
5. Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke (Focus Features)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
1. Dune: Part Two – Jacqueline West (Warner Bros.)
2. Wicked – Paul Tazewell (Universal Pictures)
3. Blitz – Jacqueline Durran (Apple TV+)
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 TV+)
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. Dune: Part Two – Hans Zimmer (Warner Bros.)
2. Conclave – Volker Bertelmann (Focus Features)
3. Gladiator II – Harry Gregson-Williams (Paramount Pictures)
4. The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg (A24)
5. Emilia Pérez – Clément Ducol (Netflix)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
1. TBA – Wicked (Universal Pictures)
2. TBA – Mufasa: The Lion King (Walt Disney Studios)
3. “Relentless” – Diane Warren: Relentless (TBC)
4. “Mi Camino” – Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
5. “We’re Back” – Moana 2 (Walt Disney Studios)
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 TV+)
BEST SOUND
1. Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
2. Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures)
3. Wicked (Universal Pictures)
4. Blitz (Apple TV+)
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)