Annually, sure motion pictures and awards contenders ultimately emerge and positive issues for Oscar nominations, others are possible, and one other few are battling it out for the ultimate spot on a listing of 5 (or 10 within the case of Greatest Image).

On the most recent episode of Leisure Weekly's The Awardist podcast, EW Sr. Author Joey Nolfi, Sr. Editor Joyce Eng, and Editor-in-Chief Patrick Gomez be part of me to share their last (and in some circumstances nonetheless wavering) predictions within the high six classes: Greatest Image, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress.

What did we determine?

Supporting Actor

All of us agree that Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Worth), Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After One other), Sean Penn (One Battle After One other), and Paul Mescal (Hamnet) will likely be nominated.

Lead Actor

All of us agree that Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After One other), and Michael B. Jordan (Sinners) will get nominated.

After some backwards and forwards about contenders Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), who began to surge in late-fall, Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent), who gained the Golden Globe for Drama, Jesse Plemons (Bugonia), who's popped up at SAG's Actor Awards, the Globes, and on BAFTAs longlist, and Joel Edgerton (Prepare Goals), all of us settled on Moura and Plemons for the ultimate two spots.

Supporting Actress

This may be the toughest class to foretell. Teyana Taylor (One Battle After One other), Amy Madigan (Weapons), Ariana Grande (Depraved: For Good), Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Worth), Elle Fanning (Sentimental Worth), Odessa A'Zion (Marty Supreme), Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners), Gwyneth Paltrow (Marty Supreme), and Regina Corridor (One Battle After One other) have all been a part of the dialog sooner or later — some extra severe than others.

Madigan took residence the primary of the tv honors, on the Critics Selection Awards, adopted by Taylor on the Golden Globes. Whereas all of us agree that Taylor, Lilleaas, and Mosamu are in. Joey, Patrick, and I all assume that Grande will get her second nomination. Joyce and I believe Madigan is a lock, and Joey and Joyce provides their fifth slots to A'Zion. Patrick, in the meantime, goes out on a limb for his last two, with Fanning and Corridor.

Lead Actress

Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) is the one to beat. If anybody can, it's Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You), who has picked up a number of critics and movie competition honors, together with the Silver Bear on the Berlin Movie Competition, and she or he has nominations on the Actor Awards, Critics Selection Awards, and a win on the Golden Globes.

Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Worth) also needs to don’t have any downside getting in, although Joey thinks she's "severly weak," nor ought to Emma Stone (Bugonia).

Nevertheless it's that last slot that has us scratching our heads. As soon as upon a time, Depraved: For Good star Cynthia Erivo was a presumed lock right here…however the magic pale as soon as the film opened. However love for Amanda Seyfried's work in one other musical, The Testomony of Ann Lee, surged, as did that of Kate Hudson within the sleepy hit Music Sung Blue. However then there's One Battle After One other's Chase Infiniti. Love for that film is sturdy, sturdy sufficient to hold her by way of? Joyce makes the compelling argument:

"This class is leaning manner too intellectual and artsy. And there’s a lane for the middlebrow, primary biopic folks, and that's Kate Hudson," she says on The Awardist. "Individuals on movie Twitter stick their nostril up at Music Sung Blue. It's just like the Nyad of this yr. And everybody acquired mad when Annette Bening acquired in two years in the past. However I believe she simply had that lane all to herself of that voting demographic. And I believe that voting demographic doesn't have something this yr, however Music Music Blue after which with Chase, , she's not likely a lead within the movie."

Plus, there's the Oscars voting system to think about.

"It's ranked as preferential. So, I don't know what number of quantity ones Chase is gonna pull. Whereas Jessie's gonna have, like, 80 % of the quantity ones anyway," Joyce says. "So then it's simply gonna create this bizarre vacuum after her. So I believe the individuals who love motion pictures like Music Sung Blue, they're gonna put Kate in primary. Rose Byrne is gonna have ardour supporters. Primary. Emma Stone, similar factor — her Meryl Streep period who simply will get nominated for every part. Identical factor with Renata. After which, I don't understand how many individuals put Chase at primary; she's been hitting all these locations, however in case you keep in mind, most of those locations now have six spots aside from SAG; she acquired into SAG. So she might be in sixth place at Critics Selection. BAFTA hasn't introduced but; she might be in sixth place there. The best way these different our bodies work, you simply want to seem on the poll, like at SAG. It's not ranked. They might be writing Chase Infiniti within the fifth slot, however she has essentially the most appearances as a result of everybody has seen One Battle, in order that's how she will get validated."

Joyce's argument was convincing; Joey, Patrick, and I all change our last choose on the spot to Kate Hudson.

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After One other), with out query, will likely be nominated — and win. Becoming a member of him within the class will likely be Ryan Coogler (Sinners) and Chloé Zhao (Hamnet). However the last two slots are up for debate. Will it’s Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein), Joachim Trier (Sentimental Worth), Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme), or Jafar Panahi (It Was Simply an Accident)? Or maybe another person?

Joey goes for del Toro and Panahi, whereas Joyce's vote goes to Safdie and Trier. Patrick goes for one among every: del Toro and Trier. I initially teetered on Trier, del Toro, and Safdie, however I've now locked in my picks on the latter two.

Greatest Image

We agree on eight of the ten slots: One Battle After One other, Sinners, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Worth, Bugonia, Frankenstein, and The Secret Agent.

For the ultimate two, we debate whether or not Prepare Goals, F1, Avatar: Fireplace and Ash, Weapons, It Was Simply an Accident. will make it in.

Hearken to the total episode of The Awardist, under, to see who we select, and in addition hear our evaluation and favourite moments from this yr's Golden Globes.

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