Oscar Winner Predictions 2025
It was another barely above average year for me in terms of predicting the Oscar nominations. My only perfect categories were Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay, but I managed to pick four out of five in plenty of the others, so not too shabby. Predicting the winners might be slightly easier. Many of the minor categories have clear front-runners, though not always so clear that an upset is out of the question. The acting categories, on the other hand, are the least clear-cut they've been in a while. The only one I'm confident about is Jessie Buckley winning Best Actress for Hamnet. The other three are mostly toss-ups between two, or sometimes three, candidates. Of course, everyone's talking about the intense contest between Sinners and One Battle After Another. They are each poised to win their respective Screenplay categories, and it looks like One Battle and Paul Thomas Anderson have the momentum to take Picture and Director, but it would not surprise me if Sinners an...