94th Academy Awards: Final Predictions
Written by Andreas Babiolakis
You’ve read all of my rankings over the course of a month and a half (or so), and have heard enough of The K Cut’s predictions. Now, I present my final list of predictions. No beating around the bush. Just the predictions. Have a good Academy Awards Sunday!
BEST PICTURE
Belfast
Coda
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
BEST DIRECTOR
Belfast-Kenneth Branagh
Drive My Car-Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Licorice Pizza-Paul Thomas Anderson
The Power of the Dog-Jane Campion
West Side Story-Steven Spielberg
BEST ACTRESS
The Eyes of Tammy Faye-Jessica Chastain
The Lost Daughter-Olivia Coleman
Parallel Mothers-Penélope Cruz
Being the Ricardos-Nicole Kidman
Spencer-Kristen Stewart
BEST ACTOR
Being the Ricardos-Javier Bardem
The Power of the Dog-Benedict Cumberbatch
tick, tick…BOOM!-Andrew Garfield
King Richard-Will Smith
The Tragedy of Macbeth-Denzel Washington
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
The Lost Daughter-Jessie Buckley
West Side Story-Ariana DeBose
Belfast-Judi Dench
The Power of the Dog-Kirsten Dunst
King Richard-Aunjanue Ellis
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Belfast-Ciarán Hinds
CODA-Troy Kotsur
The Power of the Dog-Jesse Plemons
Being the Ricardos-J.K. Simmons
The Power of the Dog-Kodi Smit-McPhee
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CODA-Screenplay by Siân Heder
Drive My Car-Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
Dune-Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
The Lost Daughter-Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog-Written by Jane Campion
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Belfast-Written by Kenneth Branagh
Don’t Look Up-Screenplay by Adam McKay, Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota
King Richard-Written by Zach Baylin
Licorice Pizza-Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
The Worst Person in the World-Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Drive My Car-Japan
Flee-Denmark
The Hand of God-Italy
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom-Bhutan
The Worst Person in the World-Norway
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Writing With Fire
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Ala Kachuu-Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs For Benazir
When We Were Bullies
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dune-Greig Fraser
Nightmare Alley-Dan Lausten
The Power of the Dog-Ari Wegner
The Tragedy of Macbeth-Bruno Delbonnel
West Side Story-Janusz Kaminski
BEST FILM EDITING
Don’t Look Up-Hank Corwin
Dune-Joe Walker
King Richard-Pamela Martin
The Power of the Dog-Peter Sciberras
tick, tick…BOOM!-Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune-Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer
Free Guy-Sven Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick
No Time to Die-Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings-Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver
Spider-Man: No Way Home-Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick
BEST SOUND
Belfast-Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather, Niv Adiri
Dune-Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, Ron Bartlett
No Time to Die-Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey, Mark Taylor
The Power of the Dog-Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie, Tara Webb
West Side Story-Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson, Shawn Murphy
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Don’t Look Up-Nicholas Britell
Dune-Hans Zimmer
Encanto-Germaine Franco
Parallel Mothers-Alberto Iglesias
The Power of the Dog-Jonny Greenwood
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
King Richard-”Be Alive”, Music and Lyric by Dixon and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
Encanto-”Dos Oruguitas”, Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Belfast-”Down to Joy”, Music and Lyric by Van Morrison
No Time to Die-”No Time to Die”, Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell
Four Good Days-”Somehow You Do”, Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dune-Production Design: Patrice Vermette, Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos
Nightmare Alley-Production Design: Tamara Deverell, Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
The Power of the Dog-Production Design: Grant Major, Set Decoration: Amber Richards
The Tragedy of Macbeth-Production Design: Stefan Dechant, Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
West Side Story-Production Design: Adam Stockhausen, Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Cruella-Jenny Beavan
Cyrano-Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran
Dune-Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan
Nightmare Alley-Luis Sequeira
West Side Story-Paul Tazewell
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Coming 2 America-Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer
Cruella-Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon
Dune-Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
The Eyes of Tammy Faye-Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh
House of Gucci-Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras
Andreas Babiolakis has a Masters degree in Film and Photography Preservation and Collections Management from X University (formerly known as Ryerson), as well as a Bachelors degree in Cinema Studies from York University. His favourite times of year are the Criterion Collection flash sales and the annual Toronto International Film Festival.