2019 Oscars Predictions Scored

Well, I missed the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday. And it took me a minute to get around to putting this together, a piece that scores my predictions for who would win the big Oscars prizes. Besides the huge upset of GREEN BOOK winning Best Picture (got that right though even though it was super disappointing to be correct on this matter!), I think there were some good reactions to other big wins. The “no host” business apparently didn’t derail the whole show. Just…again. GREEN BOOK, man. It’s not a good movie. And BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY took home the most awards with four. OK then. I was definitely wrong there; I guessed A STAR IS BORN would be the biggest winner with the same number of wins. Anyways, here are my predictions versus actual wins below. I’ll bold my choice and the actual winner will be marked with an *.

Best Picture

• BLACK PANTHER
• BLACKKKLANSMAN
• BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
• THE FAVOURITE
• GREEN BOOK*
• ROMA
• A STAR IS BORN
• VICE

Best Director

• Spike Lee — BLACKKKLANSMAN
• Paweł Pawlikowski — COLD WAR
• Yorgos Lanthimos — THE FAVOURITE
• Alfonso Cuarón — ROMA*
• Adam McKay — Vice

Best Actor

• Christian Bale — VICE
• Bradley Cooper — A STAR IS BORN
• Willem Dafoe — AT ETERNITY’S GATE
• Rami Malek — BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY*
• Viggo Mortensen — GREEN BOOK

Best Actress

• Yalitza Aparicio — ROMA
• Glenn Close — THE WIFE
• Olivia Colman — THE FAVOURITE*
• Lady Gaga — A STAR IS BORN
• Melissa McCarthy — CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

Best Supporting Actor

• Mahershala Ali — GREEN BOOK*
• Adam Driver — BLACKKKLANSMAN
• Sam Elliott — A STAR IS BORN
• Richard E. Grant — CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
• Sam Rockwell — VICE

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams — VICE
• Marina de Tavira — ROMA
• Regina King — IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK*
• Emma Stone — THE FAVOURITE
• Rachel Weisz — THE FAVOURITE

Best Original Screenplay

• THE FAVOURITE — Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
• FIRST REFORMED — Paul Schrader
• GREEN BOOK — Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, and Peter Farrelly*
• ROMA — Alfonso Cuarón
• VICE — Adam McKay

Best Adapted Screenplay

• THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS — Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
• BLACKKKLANSMAN — Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee*
• CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? — Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
• IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK — Barry Jenkins
• A STAR IS BORN — Eric Roth and Bradly Cooper & Will Fetters

Best Animated Feature Film

• INCREDIBLES 2
• ISLE OF DOGS
• MIRAI
• RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET
• SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE*

Best Foreign Language Film

• CAPERNAUM
• COLD WAR
• NEVER LOOK AWAY
• ROMA*
• SHOPLIFTERS

Best Documentary — Feature

• FREE SOLO*
• HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING
• MINDING THE GAP
• OF FATHERS AND SONS
• RBG

Best Documentary — Short Subject

• BLACK SHEEP
• END GAME
• LIFEBOAT
• A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN
• PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE.*

Best Live Action Short Film

• DETAINMENT
• FAUVE
• MARGUERITE
• MOTHER
• SKIN*

Best Animated Short Film

• ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
• BAO*
• LATE AFTERNOON
• ONE SMALL STEP
• WEEKENDS

Best Original Score

• BLACK PANTHER — Ludwig Göransson*
• BLACKKKLANSMAN — Terence Blanchard
• IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK — Nicholas Britell
• ISLE OF DOGS — Alexandre Desplat
• MARY POPPINS RETURNS — Marc Shaiman

Best Original Song

• “All the Stars” — BLACK PANTHER
• “I’ll Fight” — RBG
• “The Place Where Lost Things Go” — MARY POPPINS RETURNS
• “Shallow” — A STAR IS BORN*
• “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” — THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS

Best Sound Editing

• BLACK PANTHER — Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker
• BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY — John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone*
• FIRST MAN — Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
• A QUIET PLACE — Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
• ROMA — Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay

Best Sound Mixing

• BLACK PANTHER — Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter Devlin
• BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY — Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali*
• FIRST MAN — Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis
• ROMA — Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García
• A STAR IS BORN — Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow

Best Production Design

• BLACK PANTHER — Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart*
• THE FAVOURITE — Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton
• FIRST MAN — Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas
• MARY POPPINS RETURNS — John Myhre and Gordon Sim
• ROMA — Eugenio Caballero and Bárbara Enriquez

Best Cinematography

• COLD WAR — Łukasz Żal
• THE FAVOURITE — Robbie Ryan
• NEVER LOOK AWAY — Caleb Deschanel
• ROMA — Alfonso Cuarón*
• A STAR IS BORN — Matthew Libatique

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• BORDER — Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer
• MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS — Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher, and Jessica Brooks
• VICE — Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe, and Patricia Dehaney*

Best Costume Design

• THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS — Mary Zophres
• BLACK PANTHER — Ruth E. Carter*
• THE FAVOURITE — Sandy Powell
• MARY POPPINS RETURNS — Sandy Powell
• MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS — Alexandra Byrne

Best Film Editing

• BLACKKKLANSMAN — Barry Alexander Brown
• BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY — John Ottman*
• THE FAVOURITE — Yorgos Mavropsaridis
• GREEN BOOK — Patrick J. Don Vito
• VICE — Hank Corwin

Best Visual Effects

• AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR — Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl, and Dan Sudick
• CHRISTOPHER ROBIN — Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones, and Chris Corbould
• FIRST MAN — Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles, and J.D. Schwalm*
• READY PLAYER ONE — Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler, and David Shirk
• SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY — Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, and Dominic Tuohy

I got an exact 50 percent: 12 of my 24 predictions aligned with Academy’s (many) bewildering decisions. Oh well. Until next year!