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2023 Academy Awards Predictions — Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay

These are our 2023 Oscar predictions for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay, part of a series on this year’s awards. Check out full predictions in all Oscar categories.

Best Original Screenplay

  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • The Fabelmans
  • Tár
  • Triangle of Sadness

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2023 Academy Awards Predictions — Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup & Hairstyling

These are our 2023 Oscar predictions for Best Makeup & Hairstyling and Best Visual Effects, part of a series on this year’s awards. Check out full predictions in all Oscar categories.

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • The Batman
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Elvis
  • The Whale

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2023 Academy Awards Predictions — Best Production Design and Best Costume Design

These are our 2023 Oscar predictions for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design, part of a series on this year’s awards. Check out full predictions in all Oscar categories.

Best Costume Design

  • Babylon
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Elvis
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

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2023 Academy Awards Predictions — Best Editing and Best Cinematography

These are our 2023 Oscar predictions for Best Editing and Best Cinematography, part of a series on this year’s awards. Check out full predictions in all Oscar categories.

Best Editing

  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Elvis
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Tár
  • Top Gun: Maverick

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2023 Academy Awards Predictions — Best Score, Best Song, Best Sound

These are our 2023 Oscar predictions for Best Original Score, Best Original Song, and Best Sound, part of a series on this year’s awards. Check out full predictions in all Oscar categories.

Best Original Score

  • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Babylon
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • The Fabelmans

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2023 Academy Awards Predictions — Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor

These are our 2023 Oscar predictions for Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor, part of a series on this year’s awards. Check out full predictions in all Oscar categories.

Best Supporting Actress

  • Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Hong Chau – The Whale
  • Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once

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2023 Academy Awards Predictions — All Categories

Below, you will find links to predictions for every category at this year’s Oscars. These predictions were published on Feb 25, 2023, prior to some major precursor awards to the Oscars. Our official and final Academy Awards predictions will be released prior to the ceremony in March.


Final Oscar Ballot


Best Picture

Best Director

Best Actress

Best Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Post SAG Awards Acting Category Update

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Cinematography

Best Editing

Best Production Design

Best Costume Design

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Best Sound

Best Original Score

Best Original Song

Best Visual Effects

Best Animated Feature

Best Documentary Feature

Best International Feature

Best Live Action Short Film

Best Animated Short Film

Best Documentary Short Subject


As always, thanks for reading!

—Alex Brannan (Twitter, Letterboxd, Facebook)

2022 Academy Awards Predictions

Never before have I been less tuned-in to the Academy Awards. For many years, I have written in-depth coverage of the Oscars, including predictions for nominees and winners in every category. This year, I have been more invested in what teams will make the NCAA March Madness Tournament than what movies will be nominated for Oscars.

With that in mind, I do have some thoughts about the movies involved in this year’s contest. I have thoughts about who is in the races, I have some opinions on who didn’t make the cut, and I even have some (half-researched) predictions.

Here are my picks as of today (which may or may not end up on my final ballot come Oscar Sunday).

Best Picture

  • Belfast
  • CODA
  • Don’t Look Up
  • Drive My Car
  • Dune
  • King Richard
  • Licorice Pizza
  • Nightmare Pizza
  • The Power of the Dog
  • West Side Story

We have a full slate of Best Picture nominees this year (most of which are pretty solid flicks). The Power of the Dog is the Continue reading 2022 Academy Awards Predictions

2021 Oscar Predictions – Best Original & Adapted Screenplay

It is good to preface the Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay categories with the usual spiel about the Writers Guild Awards (WGA). It has been very common, since 2000, for the WGA award and the Academy Award to go to the same movie in these categories. There is the occasional split, but there are usually a reasonable explanation as to why this occurs (for example, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King pulled off a massive sweep at the Oscars due to the Academy wanting to honor the series as a whole, while the WGA gave it to a much smaller film, American Splendor).

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Original Screenplay – The Nominees:

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2021 Oscar Predictions — Best Actor

The thing about Academy Award acting categories is that, while they are often some of the most high profile awards of the night, they are also some of the least exciting from a prediction standpoint. Of all categories, the acting categories are usually locked up long before the ceremony begins. In recent history in particular, the same acting nominees usually steamroll through awards season, winning every award leading up to the Oscars. Of course, there is always room for upset. But even so, entering the Oscars it is generally fairly clear who the top one or two contenders are.

This year’s Best Actor category is a little strange for reasons that are bittersweet.