FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: SOUND, MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING and VISUAL EFFECTS

Oscar nominations will be announced on January 23 and the 96th Academy Awards will be held on March 10. Here are my final 2024 Oscar nomination predictions in Sound, Makeup and Hairstyling and Visual Effects.

SOUND

1. Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures) – BAFTA longlist, CAS, MPSE (x3)
2. Maestro (Netflix) – BAFTA longlist, CAS, MPSE (x2)
3. Ferrari (NEON) – BAFTA longlist, CAS, MPSE
4. Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films) – BAFTA longlist, CAS, MPSE
5. The Zone of Interest (A24) – BAFTA longlist, MPSE

• 6. Barbie (Warner Bros) – BAFTA longlist, CAS, MPSE (x2)
• 7. Napoleon (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures) – BAFTA longlist, MPSE (x2)
• 8. The Creator (20th Century Studios)
• 9. The Killer (Netflix) – BAFTA longlist, MPSE
• 10. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount Pictures) – BAFTA longlist, MPSE

MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

1. Maestro (Netflix) – BAFTA longlist, CCA, MUAH
2. Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures) – BAFTA longlist, CCA, MUAH
3. Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures) – BAFTA longlist, CCA, MUAH
4. Beau Is Afraid (A24)
5. Society of the Snow (Netflix)

• 6. Golda (Bleecker Street) – BAFTA longlist, MUAH
• 7. Napoleon (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures)
• 8. Ferrari (NEON) – BAFTA longlist
• 9. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (Universal Pictures)
• 10. Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films) – BAFTA longlist

VISUAL EFFECTS

1. The Creator (20th Century Studios) – BAFTA longlist, CCA, VES
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Marvel/Walt Disney) – BAFTA longlist, CCA, VES
3. Spider-Man: Across the Universe (Sony Pictures) – BAFTA longlist, CCA, VES
4. Society of the Snow (Netflix) – VES
5. Godzilla Minus One (Toho) – VES

• 6. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Walt Disney)– BAFTA longlist, VES
• 7. Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures) – BAFTA longlist, CCA
• 8. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount Pictures) – BAFTA longlist, CCA, VES
• 9. Napoleon (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures)– BAFTA longlist, VES
• 10. Rebel Moon: Part One – Child of Fire (Netflix)

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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), 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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