The Academy Awards nominations will *finally* be announced this Monday morning! There are only 23 categories this year instead of 24 because the Sound categories are now combined (for some ridiculous reason). Here are my predictions of the nominees in seven of the major categories:
Best Animated Feature
“Onward”
“Over The Moon”
“A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon”
“Soul”
“Wolfwalkers”
Alternate: “The Croods: A New Age” (over “Shaun”)
Best Supporting Actor
Chadwick Boseman, “Da 5 Bloods”
Sacha Baron Cohen, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Leslie Odom, Jr., “One Night in Miami”
Paul Raci, “Sound of Metal”
Alternate: Bill Murray, “On the Rocks” (over Raci)
Best Supporting Actress
Glenn Close, “Hillbilly Elegy”
Olivia Colman, “The Father”
Jodie Foster, “The Mauritanian”
Amanda Seyfried, “Mank”
Youn Yuh-Jung, “Minari”
Alternate: Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” (over Seyfried)
Best Actor
Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”
Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”
Gary Oldman, “Mank”
Steven Yeun, “Minari”
Alternate: Mads Mikkelsen, “Another Round” (over Oldman)
Best Actress
Andra Day, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”
Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Sophia Loren, “The Life Ahead”
Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”
Alternate: Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman” (over Loren)
Best Director
Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”
David Fincher, “Mank”
Regina King, “One Night in Miami”
Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Chloe Zhao, “Nomadland”
Alternate: Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman” (over King)
Best Picture
“Da 5 Bloods”
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
“Mank”
“Minari”
“Nomadland”
“One Night in Miami”
“Promising Young Woman”
“The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Addition: “Sound of Metal” (or Alternate over “Da 5 Bloods”)
The nominees will be announced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas & Nick Jonas LIVE this Monday beginning at 8:19amET on ABC during “Good Morning America”. The Oscars ceremony is Sunday April 25th at 8pmET.