Final 2020 Oscar Predictions – THE FULL LIST

Here’s the quick and easy version of the 2020 Oscar predictions for the 92nd Academy Awards.

Click each category for my full breakdown analysis and ranking of all nominees as I’ve made a few slight changes to some since their original postings. See you back here on the 9th!

BEST PICTURE

Prediction: Kwak Sin Ae and Bong Joon Ho, PARASITE
Spoiler: Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris, Jayne-Ann Tenggren and Callum McDougall, 1917

DIRECTOR

Prediction: Sam Mendes, 1917
Spoiler: Bong Joon Ho, PARASITE

LEAD ACTOR

Prediction: Joaquin Phoenix, JOKER
Spoiler: Adam Driver, MARRIAGE STORY

LEAD ACTRESS

Prediction: Renée Zellweger, JUDY
Spoiler: Scarlett Johansson, MARRIAGE STORY

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Prediction: Brad Pitt, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
Spoiler: Joe Pesci, THE IRISHMAN

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Prediction: Laura Dern, MARRIAGE STORY
Spoiler: Scarlett Johansson, JOJO RABBIT

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Prediction: JOJO RABBIT (Taika Waititi)
Spoiler: LITTLE WOMEN (Greta Gerwig)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Prediction: PARASITE (Screenplay by Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won, Story by Bong Joon Ho)
Spoiler: ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (Written by Quentin Tarantino)

FILM EDITING

Prediction: PARASITE (Yang Jinmo)
Spoiler: FORD V FERRARI (Michael McCusker and Andrew Buckland)

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Prediction: 1917 (Roger Deakins)
Spoiler: THE IRISHMAN (Rodrigo Prieto)

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Prediction: ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (Production Design by Barbara Ling and Set Decoration by Nancy Haigh)
Spoiler: 1917 (Production Design by Dennis Gassner and Set Decoration by Lee Sandales)

COSTUME DESIGN

Prediction: LITTLE WOMEN (Jacqueline Durran)
Spoiler: JOJO RABBIT (Mayes C. Rubeo)

ORIGINAL SCORE

Prediction: JOKER (Hildur Guðnadóttir)
Spoiler: 1917 (Thomas Newman)

ORIGINAL SONG

Prediction: “Stand Up,” HARRIET (Music and Lyric by Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo)
Spoiler: “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again,” ROCKETMAN (Music by Elton John, Lyric by Bernie Taupin)

SOUND EDITING

Prediction: FORD V FERRARI (Donald Sylvester)
Spoiler: 1917 (Oliver Tarney and Rachel Tate)

SOUND MIXING

Prediction: 1917 (Mark Taylor and Stewart Wilson)
Spoiler: FORD V FERRARI (Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Steven A. Morrow)

MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Prediction: BOMBSHELL (Kazu Hiro, Anne Morgan and Vivian Baker)
Spoiler: JOKER (Nicki Ledermann and Kay Georgiou)

VISUAL EFFECTS

Prediction: THE LION KING (Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Elliot Newman)
Spoiler: THE IRISHMAN (Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser and Stephane Grabli)

ANIMATED FEATURE

Prediction: KLAUS (Sergio Pablos, Jinko Gotoh and Marisa Román)
Spoiler: TOY STORY 4 (Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen and Jonas Rivera)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Prediction: AMERICAN FACTORY (Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert and Jeff Reichert)
Spoiler: FOR SAMA (Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts)

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Prediction: PARASITE (South Korea)
Spoiler: PAIN AND GLORY (Spain)

ANIMATED SHORT

Prediction: HAIR LOVE (Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver)
Spoiler: KITBULL (Rosanna Sullivan and Kathryn Hendrickson)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

Prediction: LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WAR ZONE (IF YOU’RE A GIRL) (Carol Dysinger and Elena Andreicheva)
Spoiler: ST. LOUIS SUPERMAN (Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan)

LIVE ACTION SHORT

Prediction: THE NEIGHBOR’S WINDOW (Marshall Curry)
Spoiler: BROTHERHOOD (Meryam Joobeur and Maria Gracia Turgeon)

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Erik Anderson

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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