";s:4:"text";s:5796:" To make Best Picture Oscar predictions, we weigh many factors with the most important being the preferential ballot. Possible Nominations:Best PictureBest Director (Spike Lee)Best Supporting Actor (Chadwick Boseman)Best Original ScreenplayBest CinematographyBest Film EditingBest Sound EditingBest Sound MixingPossible Nominations:Best PictureBest Director (Steven Spielberg)Best Actor (Ansel Elgort)Best Actress (Rachel Zegler)Best Supporting Actress (Ariana DeBose)Best Adapted ScreenplayBest CinematographyBest Costume DesignBest Production DesignBest Film EditingPossible Nominations:Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix)Armed with only one word -- Tenet -- and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.The life story of legendary R&B singer, Aretha Franklin.A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.Possible Nominations:Best PictureBest Director (Christopher Nolan)Best Original ScreenplayBest Original ScoreBest CinematographyBest Film EditingBest Production DesignBest Sound EditingBest Sound MixingBest Visual EffectsPossible Nominations:Best PictureBest Actor (Anthony Hopkins)Best Supporting Actress (Olivia Colman)Four African American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.A Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.Possible Nominations:Best PictureBest Director (Paul Greengrass)Best Actor (Tom Hanks)Best Adapted ScreenplayBest CinematographyBest Production DesignBest Film EditingPossible Nominations:Best Original Song ("No Time to Die")The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.Possible Nominations:Best PictureBest Director (Wes Anderson)Best Original ScreenplayBest Original ScoreBest CinematographyBest Costume DesignBest Production DesignBest Film EditingA musician who has lost his passion for music is transported out of his body and must find his way back with the help of an infant soul learning about herself.Possible Nominations:Best PictureBest Director (Denis Villeneuve)Best Adapted ScreenplayBest Original ScoreBest CinematographyBest Film EditingBest Production DesignBest Sound EditingBest Sound MixingBest Visual EffectsPossible Nominations:Best PictureBest Director (David Fincher)Best Actor (Gary Oldman)Best Supporting Actor (Tom Burke)Best Supporting Actress (Amanda Seyfried/Lily Collins)Best Original ScreenplayBest Original ScoreBest CinematographyBest Costume DesignBest Production DesignPossible Nominations:Best Actress (Jennifer Hudson)Best Make-Up and HairstylingPossible Nominations:Best PictureBest Animated FeatureBest Original ScreenplayPossible Nominations:Best PictureBest Director (Aaron Sorkin)Best Supporting Actor (Sacha Baron Cohen)Best Original ScreenplayBest CinematographyBest Film EditingFeature adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel, about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy.A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. He’s one of the industry’s biggest stars and he’s never won an acting Oscar (he’s won two as a producer). Best Director. But Disney/Pixar is such a juggernaut and the Toy Story franchise is beloved that it feels like the most likely winner.The title alone would win the short an Oscar, but the subject matter — a girls’ skating school in Afghanistan — is the kind of feel-good, politically significant stuff that the Academy laps up.The safer bet is 1917, considering its haul of precursors.
And all credit to him — 1917’s one-shot style is breathtaking and audacious and required a superb level of craft on every level.Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips.Like Phoenix, Zellweger has won every precursor award, including a Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA.