Oscars 2019 Nomination Predictions

Christopher Ocker, Staff Writer

Choices are listed in order of likeliness

Best Picture

  • Likely
    • The Favourite **
    • A Star is Born **
    • If Beale Street Could Talk
    • ROMA **
    • BlacKkKlansman **
    • Green Book **
    • Vice **
    • Black Panther **
  • Potential
    • Bohemian Rhapsody *
    • Crazy Rich Asians
    • First Man
    • Eighth Grade

Best Director

  • Likely
    • Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman) **
    • Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born)
    • Alfonso Cuarón (ROMA) **
    • Adam McKay (Vice) **
    • Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite) **
  • Potential
    • Ryan Coogler (Black Panther)
    • Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)
    • Debra Granik (Leave No Trace)

Best Actor

  • Likely
    • Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born) **
    • Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) **
    • Christian Bale (Vice) **
    • John David Washington (BlackKkKlansman)
    • Viggo Mortensen (Green Book) **
  • Potential
    • Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate) *
    • Ryan Gosling (First Man)
    • Lucas Hedges (Boy Erased)

Best Actress

  • Likely
    • Glenn Close (The Wife) **
    • Olivia Colman (The Favourite) **
    • Lady Gaga (A Star is Born) **
    • Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) **
    • Yalitza Aparicio (ROMA) **
  • Potential
    • Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns)
    • Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
    • Toni Collette (Hereditary)

Best Supporting Actor

  • Likely
    • Mahershala Ali (Green Book) **
    • Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman) **
    • Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) **
    • Sam Rockwell (Vice) **
    • Sam Elliott (A Star is Born) **
  • Potential
    • Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther)
    • Steve Carell (Vice)
    • Timothee Chalamet (Beautiful Boy)

Best Supporting Actress

  • Likely
    • Rachel Weisz (The Favourite) **
    • Emma Stone (The Favourite) **
    • Amy Adams (Vice) **
    • Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) **
    • Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie (Leave No Trace)
  • Potential
    • Nicole Kidman (Boy Erased)
    • Claire Foy (First Man)
    • Margot Robbie (Mary Queen of Scots)

Best Animated Movie

  • Likely
    • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse **
    • Isle of Dogs **
    • Incredibles 2 **
    • Ralph Breaks the Internet **
    • Marai **
  • Potential
    • The Grinch
    • Smallfoot

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Likely
    • BlacKkKlansman **
    • If Beale Street Could Talk **
    • Can You Ever Forgive Me? **
    • First Man
    • A Star is Born **
  • Potential
    • Black Panther
    • Boy Erased
    • Leave No Trace

Best Original Screenplay

  • Likely
    • The Favourite **
    • Vice **
    • ROMA **
    • Eighth Grade
    • Green Book **
  • Potential
    • First Reformed *
    • Sorry to Bother You
    • A Quiet Place

Best Original Score

  • Likely
    • If Beale Street Could Talk **
    • Mary Poppins Returns **
    • Black Panther **
    • Isle of Dogs **
    • BlacKkKlansman **
  • Potential
    • First Man
    • Annihilation
    • Suspiria

Best Original Song

  • Likely
    • “Shallow” (A Star is Born) **
    • “The Place Where Lost Things Go” (Mary Poppins Returns) **
    • “All the Stars” (Black Panther) **
    • “I’ll Fight” (RBG) **
    • “Girl in the Movies” (Dumplin)
  • Potential
    • “Trip a Little Light Fantastic” (Mary Poppins Returns)

Best Cinematography

  • Likely
    • The Favourite **
    • First Man
    • ROMA **
    • A Star is Born **
    • Vice
  • Potential
    • Bohemian Rhapsody
    • If Beale Street Could Talk
    • Widows

Best Film Editing

  • Likely
    • ROMA
    • First Man
    • Vice **
    • A Star is Born
    • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Potential
    • Bohemian Rhapsody *
    • BlacKkKlansman *
    • The Favourite *

Best Sound Editing

  • Likely
    • First Man **
    • A Quiet Place **
    • Bohemian Rhapsody **
    • Ready Player One
    • Black Panther **
  • Potential
    • ROMA *
    • Mission Impossible: Fallout
    • A Star is Born

Best Sound Mixing

  • Likely
    • First Man **
    • Bohemian Rhapsody **
    • A Star is Born **
    • Ready Player One
    • A Quiet Place
  • Potential
    • Black Panther *
    • ROMA
    • Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado

Best Production Design

  • Likely
    • The Favourite **
    • Mary Poppins Returns **
    • Black Panther **
    • ROMA **
    • Green Book
  • Potential
    • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
    • Bohemian Rhapsody
    • Vice

Best Visual Effects

  • Likely
    • Ready Player One **
    • Avengers: Infinity War **
    • Mary Poppins Returns
    • Black Panther
    • Solo: A Star Wars Story **
  • Potential
    • First Man *
    • Welcome to Marwen
    • Ant-Man and the Wasp

Best Makeup and Hair Design

  • Likely
    • Black Panther
    • Mary Queen of Scots **
    • Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Potential
    • Suspiria
    • Vice *

Best Costume Design

  • Likely
    • Mary Poppins Returns **
    • The Favourite **
    • Black Panther **
    • Bohemian Rhapsody
    • Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
  • Potential
    • Nutcracker and the Four Realms
    • Mary Queen of Scots

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Likely
    • ROMA (Mexico) **
    • Shoplifters (Japan) **
    • Burning (South Korea)
    • Cold War (Poland) **
    • Capharnaüm (Lebanon) **

Best Documentary

  • Likely
    • Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
    • Three Identical Strangers
    • RBG **
    • They Shall Not Grow Old
    • Minding the Gap