2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: FILM EDITING and CINEMATOGRAPHY (November)

Parasite moves into the top 5 for Film Editing this month as its Best Picture prospects grow. That pushes 1917 back down into the Next Up section but it’s still a broad contender for multiple nominations and wins.

In Cinematography, the flashy lensing of Ford v Ferrari makes way for the ethereal look of A Hidden Life. For now.

Here are my 2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions in Film Editing and Cinematography for November 26, 2019.

FILM EDITING

Green – moves up Red – moves down Blue – new/re-entry

1. Ford v. Ferrari (Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker, Dirk Westervelt) – 20th Century Fox
2. The Irishman (Thelma Schoonmaker) – Netflix
3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Fred Raskin) – Sony/Columbia
4. Marriage Story (Jennifer Lame) – Netflix
5. Parasite (Jinmo Yang) – Neon

NEXT UP (alphabetical by film)

1917 (Lee Smith) – Universal
Jojo Rabbit (Tom Eagles) – Fox Searchlight
Little Women (Nick Houy) – Sony/Columbia
Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Maryann Brandon, Stefan Grube) – Disney
The Two Popes (Fernando Stutz) – Netflix

OTHER CONTENDERS (alphabetical by film)

Ad Astra (John Axelrad, Lee Haugen) – 20th Century Fox
The Aeronauts (Mark Eckersley) – Amazon
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Anne McCabe) – Sony/TriStar
Bombshell (John Poll) – Lionsgate
The Farewell (Matthew Friedman, Michael Taylor) – A24
Knives Out (Bob Ducsay) – Lionsgate
Rocketman (Chris Dickens) – Paramount
Us (Nicholas Monsour) – Universal

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Green – moves up Red – moves down Blue – new/re-entry

1. 1917 (Roger Deakins) – Universal
2. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Robert Richardson) – Sony/Columbia
3. The Irishman (Rodrigo Prieto) – Netflix
4. A Hidden Life (Jörg Widmer) – Fox Searchlight
5. The Lighthouse (Jarin Blaschke) – A24

NEXT UP (alphabetical by film)

Ad Astra (Hoyte van Hoytema) – 20th Century Fox
Ford v. Ferrari (Phedon Papamichael) – 20th Century Fox
Jojo Rabbit (Mihai Mălaimare Jr.) – Fox Searchlight
Marriage Story (Robbie Ryan) – Netflix
The Two Popes (César Charlone) – Netflix

OTHER CONTENDERS (alphabetical by film)

The Aeronauts (George Steel) – Amazon
The Farewell (Anna Francesa Solano) – A24
Joker (Lawrence Sher) – Warner Bros
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Adam Newport-Berra) – A24
Little Women (Yorick Le Saux) – Sony/Columbia
The Lion King (Caleb Deschanel) – Disney
Parasite (Hong Kyung-pyo) – Neon
Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker (Dan Mindel) – Disney

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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