With August coming tomorrow, this would usually be prime time for a new updated to Oscar predictions. However, these are not normal times, so for many pundits, awards season prognostication is on hold. Call me crazy, though, but I’m keeping at it. Am I (as I stated on social media earlier on this month) just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic? For sure. Does that stop me? Not at all. I’m still making some guesses, trying to figure out what may or may not happen when the Academy begins to actually think about contenders. Plus, it’s a minor feeling of normalcy, and we all need that these days, in whatever form you can find it. For me, this is one of them. New predictions can be found below. Interestingly, I’d pulled out Christopher Nolan’s Tenet for a bit, in between the last update and this one, but it’s back now, due to its presumed 2020 release. Moreover, there’s a jump up for Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, which Netflix seems poised to give a big push to. Essentially, it looks like this is Netflix’s to lose, Best Picture wise, as in addition to The Trial of the Chicago 7, they obviously have David Fincher’s Mank still to come, as well as Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy and Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things, alongside the already released Da 5 Bloods from Spike Lee (plus potentially big contenders like Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The White Tiger). Bet against them at your own risk… Here now are some updated Academy Award predictions: BEST PICTURE 1. The Trial of the Chicago 7 2. Mank 3. News of the World 4. Da 5 Bloods 5. West Side Story 6. Nomadland 7. C’mon C’mon 8. Ammonite 9. Stillwater 10. Never Rarely Sometimes Always Next in Line: 11. Tenet 12. The French Dispatch 13. 14. I’m Thinking of Ending Things 15. The White Tiger 16. Minari 17. Hillbilly Elegy 18. Promising Young Woman 19. The Eyes of Tammy Faye 20. Those Who Wish Me Dead 21. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 22. On the Rocks 23. Soul 24. The King of Staten Island 25. Respect 26. First Cow 27. Dune 28. Happiest Season 29. Next Goal Wins 30. The Way Back BEST DIRECTOR 1. David Fincher – Mank 2. Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods 3. Chloe Zhao – Nomadland 4. Paul Greengrass […]