For the past week, I’ve given you my impossibly premature projections for the 96th Academy Awards. After all, most of these predicted features have yet to hold a screening.
Yet it’s worth pointing out that my initial forecast for the previous BP nominees in April of 2022 yielded seven of the ten eventual nominees. Three were included in my top 10: the winner Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, and Women Talking. Four were placed in Other Possibilities – Avatar: The Way of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, and Tár.
Let’s see how this ratio for 2023 works out a few months down the road, shall we? If you missed my look at Director and the four acting competitions, they can accessed at the end of this post.
Here we go!
TODD’S MARCH 2023 OSCAR PREDICTIONS: BEST PICTURE
Air
Challengers
The Color Purple
Dune: Part Two
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
May December
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
Other Possibilities:
Asteroid City
Barbie
The Bikeriders
Blitz
The Book of Clarence
Ferrari
Flint Strong
Foe
The Holdvoers
The Killer
Napoleon
Next Goal Wins
Rustin
Saltburn
Untitled Bob Marley Movie