2021 Oscar Predictions: VISUAL EFFECTS (November)

She’s back. After months of moving dates and deliberations, Warner Bros dropped a bombshell announcement last week that Wonder Woman 1984 would be released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max on Christmas Day, putting it back into play this awards season. It drops in this month at #2.

Netflix’s The Midnight Sky takes the top spot, pushing down WB’s Birds of Prey, Disney’s Mulan and Apple’s Greyhound.

Here are my ranked 2021 Oscar predictions in Visual Effects for November.

Green – moves up; Red – moves down; Blue – new or re-entry this month

1. The Midnight Sky (Netflix)
Nominees TBD

2. Wonder Woman 1984 (Warner Bros/HBO Max)
Nominees TBD

3. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Warner Bros)
Nominees TBD

4. Mulan (Disney+)
Nominees TBD

5. Sonic the Hedgehog (Paramount Pictures)
Nominees TBD

6. Greyhound (Apple TV+)

Nominees TBD

7. The Invisible Man (Universal Pictures)

Nominees TBD

8. Tenet (Warner Bros)
Nominees TBD

9. Over the Moon (Netflix)
Nominees TBD

10. Soul (Pixar)
Nominees TBD

Other Contenders

The Call of the Wild (20th Century Studios)

Nominees TBD

Cinderella (Sony Pictures)

Nominees TBD

Doolittle (Universal Pictures)

Nominees TBD

The New Mutants (20th Century Studios)
Nominees TBD

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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), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) 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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