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    Anne Thompson’s Closing Oscar Nominations Predictions in 23 Classes

    David GroveBy David GroveJanuary 21, 202511 Mins Read
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    There’s no apparent 2025 Oscars frontrunner like final yr’s “Oppenheimer” (Common). This yr, that studio’s blockbuster stage-to-screen musical “Depraved” shall be certainly one of 10 lauded frontrunners duking it out for Greatest Image.

    One other musical, the Spanish-language French Oscar entry “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix), is poised to dominate the delayed Oscar nominations announcement on January 23 with 12 nods, by my estimation, adopted by papal thriller “Conclave” (Focus Options) with 10, and “The Brutalist” (A24), a post-World Conflict II drama about an émigré architect (Adrien Brody) produced for underneath $10 million, with 9. All show the size, scope, and ambition of a possible Oscar winner.

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    Based mostly on the hit stage musical, “Depraved” ought to nab eight nominations and boasts extra stateside help and a SAG Ensemble nod, as does “Emilia Pérez,” which additionally gained 5 European Movie Awards (together with Greatest Movie) and 4 Golden Globes together with Greatest Comedy/Musical, and scored 11 BAFTA nominations to “Depraved’s” seven. One other SAG Ensemble nominee, British manufacturing “Conclave,” led the BAFTA nominations with 12.

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    Ariana Grande in ‘Depraved’©Common/Courtesy Everett Assortment

    Final yr, the BAFTAs had been fairly predictive of the Oscars. Apart from a number of hometown faves like BAFTA nominee Saoirse Ronan (“The Outrun”), you can fill in your Oscar nominations picks with the BAFTA lists and never be far off.

    That’s as a result of some 10,000 Academy voters have turn into extra worldwide (20 %), and the BAFTAs signify that abroad bloc. An indication of the occasions: Awards campaigners are sending even low-budget documentary filmmakers on promo excursions to not simply New York and Los Angeles, however London and Copenhagen.

    The AFI Awards and the PGA high 10s share eight of the doubtless closing 10 Oscar Greatest Image slots. The underside two slots might be AFI choices “Nickel Boys” (MGM/Orion/Amazon) or “Sing Sing” (A24); each have discovered some BAFTA and guild help. RaMell Ross’ avant-garde critics’ fave “Nickel Boys” might land an Tailored Screenplay nod together with Greatest Image, whereas jail theater drama “Sing Sing” is probably to attain a Greatest Actor slot for Colman Domingo. Within the presumed tenth spot on the PGA’s checklist is 1972 Olympic newsroom thriller “September 5,” produced in Europe, which summoned no BAFTAs and restricted guild curiosity.

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    Ethan Herisse, RaMell Ross, Brandon Wilson pose with the Auteur Award for ‘Nickel Boys’ on the IndieWire Honors 2024 held at Citizen Information on December 05, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.Michael Buckner

    The PGA, SAG Ensemble, and DGA director nominees match up on 4 films, that are the Oscar frontrunners duking it out for Greatest Image: Cannes prize-winners “Anora” (Neon), introducing a solid with sensible comedic presents, and Jacques Audiard’s ebullient musical “Emilia Pérez,” starring Zoe Saldaña and trans Spanish actress Karla Sofia Gascón; James Mangold’s “A Compete Unknown” (Searchlight), starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan throughout probably the most explosive artistic part of his early 60s profession; and “Conclave,” Edward Berger’s handsomely mounted up to date Vatican thriller starring Ralph Fiennes and an impeccable ensemble solid. The film boasts loads of worldwide love and is among the many extra mainstream main contenders.

    Nicely, taking the mainstream by storm is Jon M. Chu’s “Depraved” ($896 million worldwide), which landed SAG Ensemble, PGA, and WGA, however not the DGA. With two massively fashionable leads (Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande), the film is taking part in to packed homes together with the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, which elicited rousing applause. The movie that spreads pleasure might be a tonic for our difficult occasions. Six musicals have gained Greatest Image, from “Oliver!” and “The Sound of Music” to the more moderen “Chicago.”

    Denis Villeneuve’s beautiful desert epic “Dune: Half Two” wowed on the field workplace ($707 million worldwide); the sequel will choose up principally craft slots. Whereas “Half One” earned 10 Oscar nominations and 4 wins, this time round it might be extra like seven slots. “Half Two” did nab PGA and WGA noms, however missed the DGA. Many are ready for the trilogy to conclude with the upcoming “Dune: Messiah.” When the third installment of “The Lord of the Rings,” “The Return of the King” (2003), was launched, it swept the Oscars, profitable all 11 classes together with Image and Director for Peter Jackson. Regardless that it’s the primary in a two-part film collection, “Depraved,” isn’t being thought-about the identical manner. It’s not a sequel: It’s recent and eye-popping. Sequels usually endure.

    DUNE: PART TWO, (aka DUNE: PART 2, aka DUNE 2), 2024. © Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection
    ‘Dune: Half Two’©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Assortment

    Additionally a crowdpleaser, “Anora” is perceived as a comedy a couple of intercourse employee, even when it offers with severe themes about treating the underclass as human beings. “Anora” might win Greatest Authentic Screenplay and Modifying for Sean Baker’s exact mise-en-scène, though the editors hardly ever give administrators the win: Solely Alfonso Cuarón (“Gravity”) and James Cameron (“Titanic”) have pulled off that feat.

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    “Emilia Pérez” is poised to win Greatest Supporting Actress, Worldwide Function Movie, and Tune, which is more likely to win with two attainable nominations. If the Cannes pick-up had been to win Greatest Image, it might break the Netflix curse. Whereas antipathy for the streamer nonetheless runs excessive in Hollywood, one can hope that the movie’s diploma of issue and multicultural provenance would overcome remaining resistance. Mubi is now releasing the movie in Latin America, the place a large contingent of Academy voters reside.

    Not making the mainstream SAG Ensemble checklist is one other critics’ darling, “The Brutalist,” starring Oscar-winner Adrien Brody (“The Pianist”) as a Hungarian holocaust survivor attempting to make his manner in America; Globe-winner Brody is the frontrunner for Greatest Actor at SAG in addition to the BAFTAs and Oscars, with Chalamet (nominated for “Name Me By Your Identify”) and Fiennes (nominated for “Schindler’s Listing” and “The English Affected person”) not far behind.

    Within the race for Greatest Director, Venice directing and Globe Drama winner Brady Corbet is the frontrunner, and will take Greatest Image as properly. The auteur (along with his life and writing associate Mona Fastvold) pushed this bold mission to completion over a few years. That narrative might play with Oscar voters. Sure, it’s three and a half hours in VistaVision with an intermission. Some critics want the primary half to the second. However its portrait of the American class system is searing and well timed.

    Lastly, the film has gravitas, which is commonly a key issue for a Greatest Image win. Regardless of its anti-fascist story thread, “Depraved” is a frothy confection that leans into the feminine viewers; it might be this yr’s “Barbie” — “It gained on the field workplace.” As a lot as Edward Berger elevated “Conclave” from its potboiler roots, the film might wind up with extra nominations than wins (Globe-winning screenwriter Peter Straughan might take Tailored screenplay).

    And “A Full Unknown,” the final film to be screened throughout the award season, is approaching robust with SAG Ensemble, DGA, PGA, WGA, and 5 BAFTA slots. Chalamet might overtake Brody. He nailed Dylan as artist and lover, and carried out reside on guitar and harmonica. However Chalamet is 29 years previous, and shall be again once more. “The Brutalist,” like “Lincoln,” rests on Brody’s efficiency. He carries the movie, as did Daniel Day-Lewis, who gained the Oscar.

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    Adrien BrodyAnne Thompson

    Two extra competition movies will wind up on many ballots. There’s author/director/star Jesse Eisenberg’s Sundance premiere “A Actual Ache” (Searchlight), about two cousins (Eisenberg and Supporting Actor frontrunner Kieran Culkin) visiting their Polish household’s holocaust previous, and Coralie Fargeat’s feminist physique horror fable “The Substance” (Mubi), which has earned $49 million worldwide, and will earn 4 nominations: Image, Authentic Screenplay, Actress, and Make-up & Hairstyling. Demi Moore, after her good efficiency on the Globes, ought to take the win. Actors can’t resist the story of a never-nominated film star coming again with the makeup-smearing position of her life.

    Towards all odds, the film is fashionable. It’s a protracted shot, however Fargeat is the likeliest lady to slide into Greatest Director. The Administrators Department favors worldwide auteurs, however this yr, Audiard and Berger are forward of her. The administrators might additionally go for Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia (“All We Think about as Mild”). Each filmmakers would have a greater likelihood in the event that they weren’t girls directing their breakout movies; they’re exterior the membership. Italy’s Lina Wertmüller (“Seven Beauties”), England’s Emerald Fennell (“A Promising Younger Lady”), and France’s Justine Triet (“Anatomy of a Fall”) did acquire nominations, together with People Greta Gerwig (“Ladybird”) and Sofia Coppola (“Misplaced in Translation”). The one three girls to win Greatest Director are American Kathryn Bigelow (“The Harm Locker”), Chinese language-American Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”), and Australian Jane Campion (“The Energy of the Canine”).

    Greatest Actress is a crowded discipline. 4 slots appear locked (see beneath), with about 5 actresses vying for the fifth: Globe winner Fernanda Torres (“I’m Nonetheless Right here”) has her mom, “Central Station” star Fernanda Montenegro, and her distributor, Sony Footage Classics, behind her. She didn’t get SAG or BAFTA nominations (she was ineligible for the latter), however has momentum with Academy voters. Additionally attempting for the spot is critics’ group winner Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who did get the BAFTA nod, and delivers the efficiency of her life in Mike Leigh’s “Arduous Truths.”

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    And behind them are Nicole Kidman (kinky intercourse drama “Babygirl”) and Angelina Jolie (“Maria”), who discovered opera to play Maria Callas. All 4 are deserving. So is Pamela Anderson as a Las Vegas dancer dealing with the tip of her profession in “The Final Showgirl,” however Jamie Lee Curtis, who landed each SAG and BAFTA recognition, is extra more likely to choose up the Supporting Actress slot, with much less competitors.

    See you Thursday morning.

    Right here’s my closing checklist of 23 class picks, ranked by chance of being nominated:

    'Anora' star Mikey Madison and writer-director Sean Baker at the 2024 TellurideFilm Festival
    ‘Anora’ star Mikey Madison and writer-director Sean Baker on the 2024 Telluride Movie PageantAnne Thompson

    Greatest Image

    “Emilia Pérez″ (Netflix)
    “Conclave” (Focus Options)
    “The Brutalist” (A24)
    “Anora” (Neon)
    “A Full Unknown” (Searchlight)
    “Depraved” (Common)
    “Dune: Half Two” (Warner Bros.)
    “The Substance” (Mubi)
    “A Actual Ache” (Searchlight)
    “Nickel Boys” (Orion/MGM/Amazon)

    Greatest Director

    Brady Corbet (“The Brutalist”)
    Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Pérez”)
    Sean Baker (“Anora”)
    Edward Berger (“Conclave”)
    James Mangold (“A Full Unknown”)

    Greatest Actor

    Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”)
    Timothée Chalamet (“A Full Unknown”)
    Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”)
    Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”)
    Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”)

    Greatest Actress

    Demi Moore (“The Substance”)
    Karla Sofia Gascón (“Emilia Pérez)
    Mikey Madison (“Anora”)
    Cynthia Erivo (“Depraved”)
    Fernanda Torres (“I’m Nonetheless Right here”)

    Greatest Supporting Actor

    Kieran Culkin (“A Actual Ache”)
    Yura Borisov (“Anora”)
    Man Pearce (“The Brutalist”)
    Edward Norton (“A Full Unknown”)
    Jeremy Robust (“The Apprentice”)

    Greatest Supporting Actress

    Zoe Saldaña (“Emilia Pérez”)
    Ariana Grande (“Depraved”)
    Isabella Rossellini (“Conclave”)
    Felicity Jones (“The Brutalist”)
    Jamie Lee Curtis (“The Final Showgirl”)

    Greatest Tailored Screenplay

    Peter Straughan (“Conclave”)
    Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Pérez”)
    James Mangold and Jay Cocks (“A Full Unknown”)
    Dana Fox and Winnie Holzman (“Depraved”)
    RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes (“Nickel Boys”)

    Greatest Authentic Screenplay

    Sean Baker (“Anora”)
    Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold (“The Brutalist”)
    Jesse Eisenberg (“A Actual Ache”)
    Coralie Farageat (“The Substance”)
    Justin Kuritzkes (“Challengers”)

    Greatest Animated Function

    “The Wild Robotic”
    “Circulate”
    “Inside Out 2”
    “Wallace & Gromit: Homicide Most Fowl”
    “Memoir of a Snail”

    Greatest Animated Quick

    “Wander to Marvel”
    “Stunning Males”
    “Within the Shadow of the Cypress”
    “Yuck!”
    “Perhaps Elephants”

    Greatest Dwell Motion Quick

    “Dovecote”
    “A Lien”
    “An Orange from Jaffa”
    “Anuja”
    “The Compatriot”

    Greatest Cinematography

    Lol Crawley (“The Brutalist”)
    Greig Fraser  (“Dune: Half Two”)
    Paul Guilhaume (“Emilia Pérez”)
    Stéphane Fontaine (“Conclave”)
    Jarin Blaschke (“Nosferatu”)

    Greatest Costume Design

    Paul Tazewell (“Depraved”)
    Linda Muir (“Nosferatu”)
    Lisy Christl (“Conclave”)
    Arianne Phillips (“A Full Unknown”)
    Jacqueline Durran (“Blitz”)

    Greatest Documentary Function

    “No Different Land”
    “Will and Harper”
    “Black Field Diaries”
    “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
    “Sugarcane”

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    Greatest Documentary Quick

    “As soon as Upon a Time in Ukraine”
    “I Am Prepared, Warden”
    “A Swim Lesson”
    “Everlasting Father”
    “Planetwalker”

    Greatest Modifying

    Sean Baker (“Anora”)
    Juliette Welfling (“Emilia Pérez”)
    Joe Walker (“Dune: Half Two”)
    Nick Emerson (“Conclave”)
    Marco Costa (“Challengers”)

    Greatest Worldwide Function Movie

    “Emilia Pérez” (Jacques Audiard, France)
    “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Mohammad Rouseloff, Germany)
    “I’m Nonetheless Right here” (Walter Salles, Brazil)
    “Circulate” (Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia)
    “Kneecap” (Wealthy Peppiatt, Eire)

    Greatest Make-up and Hairstyling

    Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, Frédérique Arguello, Marilyne Scarselli (“The Substance”)
    Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier, Jean-Christophe Spadaccini, Romain Marietti  (“Emilia Pérez”)
    David White, Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton (“Nosferatu”)
    Love Larson, Eva Von Bahr  (“Dune: Half Two”)
    Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Sarah Nuth (“Depraved”)

    Greatest Manufacturing Design

    Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia  (“The Brutalist”)
    Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau (“Dune: Half Two”)
    Craig Lathrop (“Nosferatu”)
    Suzie Davies, Cynthia Sleiter  (“Conclave”)
    Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales (“Depraved”)

    Greatest Authentic Rating

    Daniel Blumberg  (“The Brutalist”)
    Camille, Clément Ducol (“Emilia Pérez”)
    Volker Bertelmann (“Conclave”)
    Kris Bowers (“The Wild Robotic”)
    Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (“Challengers”)

    Greatest Authentic Tune

    “Emilia Pérez” (“El Mal”)
    “The Wild Robotic” (“Kiss the Sky”)
    “Emilia Pérez” (“Mi Camino”)
    “Will & Harper” (“Harper and Will Go West”)
    “The Six Triple Eight” (“The Journey”)

    Greatest Sound

    Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill, Gareth John, Richard King  (“Dune: Half Two”)
    Robin Baynton, Simon Hayes, John Marquis, Andy Nelson, Nancy Nugent Title (“Depraved”)
    Tod Maitland, Paul Massey, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan : (“A Full Unknown”)
    Stéphane Bucher, Matthew Collinge, Paul Massey Danny Sheehan (“Gladiator II”)
    John Casali, Paul Cotterell, James Harrison (“Blitz”)

    Greatest Visible Results

    Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Gerd Nefzer, Rhys Salcombe (“Dune: Half Two”)
    Mark Bakowski, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny, Pietro Ponti (“Gladiator II”)
    Erik Winquist, Rodney Burke, Paul Story, Stephen Unterfranz (“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”)
    Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, Peter Stubbs (“Higher Man”)
    Scott R. Fisher, Florian Witzel, Ben Snow, Invoice Georgiou (“Twisters”)



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