2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: FILM EDITING & CINEMATOGRAPHY (September)

Not a lot of major changes in Film Editing and Cinematography this month (Cinematography top 5 is the exact same) even as we’ve just left the Telluride and Toronto International Film Festivals. The biggest move is Netflix’s Marriage Story, which cemented itself as not just an acting and writing contender but in both of these crucial categories as well.

Here are my 2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions in Film Editing and Cinematography for September 16, 2019.

FILM EDITING

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

1. The Irishman (Thelma Schoonmaker) Netflix
2. Ford v. Ferrari (Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker) 20th Century Fox
3. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Fred Raskin) Sony/Columbia
4. Marriage Story (Jennifer Lame) Netflix
5. Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (Maryann Brandon, Stefan Grube) Disney

NEXT UP (alphabetical by film)

1917 (Lee Smith) Universal
Ad Astra (John Axelrad, Lee Haugen) 20th Century Fox
The Aeronauts (Mark Eckersley) Amazon
Jojo Rabbit (Tom Eagles) Fox Searchlight
Knives Out (Bob Ducsay) Lionsgate

OTHER CONTENDERS (alphabetical by film)

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Anne McCabe) Sony/TriStar
Bombshell (John Poll) Lionsgate
Dark Waters (TBD) Focus Features
The Farewell (Matthew Friedman, Michael Taylor) A24
Harriet (Wyatt Smith) Focus Features
Little Women (Nick Houy) Sony/Columbia
Motherless Brooklyn (Joe Klotz) Warner Bros
Rocketman (Chris Dickens) Paramount
The Two Popes (Fernando Stutz) Netflix
Uncut Gems (TBD) A24
Us (Nicholas Monsour) Universal
Waves (Isaac Hagy, Trey Edward Shults) A24

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. Ford v. Ferrari (Phedon Papamichael) 20th Century Fox
5. The Lighthouse (Jarin Blaschke) A24

NEXT UP (alphabetical by film)

Ad Astra (Hoyte van Hoytema) 20th Century Fox
Dark Waters (Ed Lachman) Focus Features
A Hidden Life (Jörg Widmer) Fox Searchlight
Jojo Rabbit (Mihai Mălaimare Jr.) Fox Searchlight
Marriage Story (Robbie Ryan) Netflix

OTHER CONTENDERS (alphabetical by film)

The Aeronauts (George Steel) Amazon
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Jody Lee Lipes) Sony/TriStar
Bombshell (Barry Ackroyd) Lionsgate
The Farewell (Anna Francesa Solano) A24
Harriet (John Toll) Focus Features
Joker (Lawrence Sher) Warner Bros
Just Mercy (Brett Pawlak) 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
Motherless Brooklyn (Dick Pope) Warner Bros
Parasite (Hong Kyung-pyo) Neon
Seberg (Rachel Morrison) Amazon
Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker (Dan Mindel) Disney
The Two Popes (César Charlone) Netflix
Uncut Gems (Darius Khondji) A24
Waves (Drew Daniels) A24

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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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