OSCAR PREDICTIONS 2021
Disclaimer: These are my personal rankings of the films in each category, not my prediction of who I believe The Academy will choose. I have viewed all 54 Oscar-nominated films this year.
Best Picture
1. The Trial of the Chicago 7
2. Mank
3. Promising Young Woman
4. Sound of Metal
5. The Father
6. Nomadland ***will win***
7. Minari
8. Judas and the Black Messiah
Best Director
1. Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
2. David Fincher (Mank)
3. Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
4. Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
5. Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)
Best Actor
1. Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
2. Anthony Hopkins (The Father)
3. Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
4. Gary Oldman (Mank)
5. Steven Yeun (Minari)
Best Actress
1. Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)
2. Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)
3. Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
4. Frances McDormand (Nomadland)
5. Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holliday)
Best Supporting Actor
1. Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
2. Sacha Baren Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7)
3. Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)
4. Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami)
5. LaKeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah)
Best Supporting Actress
1. Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy)
2. Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)
3. Amanda Seyfried (Mank)
4. Youn Yun-jung (Minari) ***will win***
5. Olivia Colman (The Father)
Best Original Screenplay
1. The Trial of the Chicago 7
2. Promising Young Woman
3. Sound of Metal
4. Judas and the Black Messiah
5. Minari ***will win***
Best Adapted Screenplay
1. Nomadland
2. The Father
3. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
4. The White Tiger
5. One Night in Miami
Best Animated Feature Film
1. Onward
2. Wolfwalkers
3. Over the Moon
4. Soul ***will win***
5. A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Best International Feature Film
1. Better Days
2. The Man Who Sold His Skin
3. Another Round ***will win***
4. Quo Vadis, Aida?
5. Collective
Best Documentary Feature
1. My Octopus Teacher
2. Time
3. The Mole Agent
4. Crip Camp
5. Collective
Best Documentary Short Subject
1. Colette
2. Do Not Split
3. Hunger Ward
4. A Concerto is a Conversation
5. A Love Song for Latasha
Best Live Action Short Film
1. Feeling Through
2. Two Distant Strangers ***will win***
3. White Eye
4. The Present
5. The Letter Room
Best Animated Short Film
1. If Anything Happens I Love You
2. Burrow
3. Opera
4. Yes-People
5. Genius Loci
Best Original Score
1. Mank (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
2. Soul (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) ***will win***
3. News of the World (James Newton Howard)
4. Minari (Emile Mosseri)
5. Da 5 Bloods (Terence Blanchard)
Best Original Song
1. Speak Now (from One Night in Miami)
2. Hear My Voice (from The Trial of the Chicago 7)
3. Husavik (from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga)
4. Io Si (from The Life Ahead)
5. Fight For You (from Judas and the Black Messiah)
*ROCKET TO THE MOON (FROM OVER THE MOON) DESERVES TO WIN THIS CATEGORY BUT WAS NOT NOMINATED
Best Sound
1. Sound of Metal
2. Greyhound
3. News of the World
4. Mank
5. Soul
Best Production Design
1. Mank
2. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
3. News of the World
4. Tenet
5. The Father
Best Cinematography
1. Nomadland
2. Mank
3. The Trial of the Chicago 7
4. Judas and the Black Messiah
5. News of the World
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
1. Pinocchio
2. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ***will win***
3. Hillbilly Elegy
4. Emma
5. Mank
Best Costume Design
1. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2. Mank
3. Emma
4. Mulan
5. Pinocchio
Best Film Editing
1. The Trial of the Chicago 7
2. Sound of Metal
3. The Father
4. Nomadland
5. Promising Young Woman
Best Visual Effects
1. Tenet
2. The One and Only Ivan
3. Love and Monsters
4. The Midnight Sky
5. Mulan
