WOW! explores the current awards season and predicts who all may take home an Oscar this march
Awards season is currently underway and the final stop, The 96th Academy Awards, is right around the corner. The precursors to the Oscars, which include critics’ awards, festival awards, the guild awards, the BAFTAs and the Golden Globes (which officially start the season every year), give us an indication as to who all might take home the ultimate golden statue at journey’s end.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer dominates the 2024 Oscar nominations with 13 nods, closely followed by Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things with 11 nods and Martin Scorsese’s historical crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon with ten. However, receiving a high number of nominations does not guarantee wins which makes it that much harder and fun to predict who may take home the highly coveted prize on March 10.
Keeping the precursors in mind, WOW! creates its very own Oscar’s prediction list for ten major categories.
MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
Who will likely win: Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan
Who may surprise: The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Who will likely win: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Who may surprise: Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Who will likely win: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Who may surprise: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Who will likely win: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Who may surprise: Emma Stone, Poor Things
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Who will likely win: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Who may surprise: Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Who will likely win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Who may surprise: Jodie Foster, Nyad
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Who will likely win: Anatomy of a Fall
Who may surprise: Past Lives
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Who will likely win: Oppenheimer
Who may surprise: American Fiction
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Who will likely win: The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom
Who may surprise: Society of the Snow, Spain
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Who will likely win: The Boy and the Heron
Who may surprise: Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse
