2024 Oscar Predictions: SOUND (November)

The Oscar shortlists will be revealed on December 21, 2023. Cinema Audio Society (CAS) nominations are announce January 9, 2024. Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) Golden Reel nominations will be announced on January 15. Oscar nominations will be announced on January 23 and the 96th Academy Awards will be held on March 10.

Here are my 2024 Oscar predictions for the 10-film shortlist in Sound for November 2023.

1. Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
2. Maestro (Netflix)
3. Ferrari (NEON)
4. Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films)
5. The Zone of Interest (A24)
6. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
7. The Color Purple (Warner Bros)
8. Napoleon (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures)
9. Barbie (Warner Bros)
10. American Symphony (Netflix)

Next up: 

The Creator (20th Century Studios), Elemental (Pixar), John Wick Chapter 4 (Lionsgate), The Killer (Netflix), Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures), Wonka (Warner Bros)

Other contenders: 

The Bikeriders (20th Century Studios), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Walt Disney), The Iron Claw (A24), The Little Mermaid (Walt Disney), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount Pictures), Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Paramount Pictures), Wish (Walt Disney)

Photo: Jason McDonald/Netflix

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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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