This year has some heavyweight contenders and the predictions for the winners are already in.
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For every year since 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards has been the main honorary event celebrated by every person in Hollywood, or with a fiery passion for film in general. With every passing year, the Academy Awards have kept picking up steam and continued to garner so much local and international attention until it became the mega event all fans know and love. With it being the most prestigious film award ceremony in the world, many look forward to watching it and keep up with all the potential nominees and those likely in favor to win.
The Oscars are not without their fair share of controversy though. Over the years there have been multiple criticisms which many people directed towards the Academy including whitewashing and picking favorites.Subsequently, the ratings for the Oscars are not what they used to be, but supposedly, the Academy is working on being a fair and inclusive body whose sole mission is to propagate art.
This year holds many worthy performances and films that managed to captivate audiences worldwide. Out of all the nominations, fans and critics seem to their idea or at least preference of who’d take back the prized trophy home. Here’s a list of the internet’s predictions for the major categories.
8The Top Contender For Best Adapted Screenplay Is Women Talking
The movie Talking Women is an important feature with powerful performances across the board. Based on the 2018 novel of the same name originally written by Miriam Toews, the director and screenplay writer Sarah Polley is nominated for this category for the film’s compelling narrative and great execution. The cast is a powerhouse of strong female actresses as the film stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, and Frances McDormand.
The story takes place in an isolated religious community where the women reveal the harrowing secret that the men in their colony would drug and sexually assault them. As the truth only comes out when these women start talking, this film highlights the power that women’s voices have in terms of standing up to injustices and changing their status in the world.
7The Top Contender For Best Original Screenplay Is The Banshees of Inisherin
The Banshees of Inisherin has been an award season favorite for many fans and critics and a top contender for the best screen play category at the Academy Awards. The film is written and directed by the brilliant Martin McDonagh who is also the mind behind other memorable absurdist films like In Bruges and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The story revolves around the friendship between two characters on a fictional island off the coast of Ireland, Colm Doherty and Pádraic Súilleabháin. After Colm’s sudden disdain towards Pádraic, and Pádraic relentless attempts at earning back his friendship, much is revealed about what qualities like kindness, compassion, and the nature of humanity, which also reflected on the real actors while filming on set.
6The Top Contender For Best Supporting Actor Is Ke Huy Quan
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Ke Huy Quan has been an actor ever since he was a child, famously starring in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as Short Round, and played Data in The Goonies. The story of ke Huy Quan is inspiring for many because after a few years in the Hollywood limelight, he virtually disappeared from screens everywhere. That was until he came back at full force in the film Everything, Everywhere, All At Once to deliver the performance of a lifetime whose richness and complexity made him the front-runner for this year’s Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
5The Top Contender For Best Supporting Actress Is Angela Basset
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Angela Basset’s performance in Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever earned her a second Oscar nomination as fans rally behind her in ultimate support. Basset was nominated only once before for an Academy Award for her role in the film What’s Love Got to Do with It but as a Leading Actress back in 1993. However, this year she is on top of critics’ polls as the favorite to win her category as she already won a Golden Globe Award for the same performance.
4The Top Contender For Best Leading Actor Is Colin Farrell
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Collin Farrell is no stranger to the award show game, but after a noted absence he is currently the most likely to win in the category of best actor for The Banshees of Inisherin. Farrell is one of the most famous leading men of all time and was named the 5th best film actor in Irish history by the Irish Times, so it’s about time he finally won his trophy.
3The Top Contender For Best Leading Actress Is Cate Blanchett
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Though another favorite to win this year’s Oscar is Michelle Yeoh for her career-making performance in Everything, Everywhere All At Once, but it’s a tight race between her and Cate Blanchett. Blanchett is nominated for the film Tar where she played the first female maestro of her orchestra. As her character, Lydia Tar, seems to be the closest she’s ever been to writing a melody that would enshrine her with the greats of classical music, everything in her life suddenly falls apart. Cate Blanchett has already won this year’s Golden Globe for Best Actress in A Motion Picture Drama, which is why she is considered by many most likely to also win an Academy Award in the same category.
2The Top Contender For Best Picture Is Everything Everywhere All at Once
This movie was just one hell of a ride. Really, anyone watching must have been dumbfounded at one point or the other during the film just wondering how on earth did the filmmakers pull that off. The editing, the cinematography, the flow of the narrative, the acting, and the direction were as close as they could possibly be to perfect, and this movie definitely deserves the nomination and perhaps win for being this giant piece of cinematic accomplishment.
1The Top Contenders For Best Director Are Dan Kwan And Daniel Scheinert For Everything Everywhere All at Once
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are the duo behind Everything Everywhere All at Once, and by taking up such a huge challenge, fans bet they indeed must’ve been doing everything on set all at once. The director duo also wrote the movie which only shows the extent of their vivid imagination and proves their case for being this year’s potential Oscar winners.
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