Oscar Predictions (12–2–22)

Best Picture

• Babylon
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• The Fabelmans
• RRR
• TÁR
• Top Gun: Maverick
• The Whale
• Women Talking

Best Director

• Everything Everywhere All At Once — The Daniels
• The Fabelmans — Steven Spielberg
• RRR — SS Rajamouli
• TÁR — Todd Field
• Women Talking — Sarah Polley

Best Actor

• The Banshees of Inisherin — Colin Farrell
• Elvis — Austin Butler
• The Fabelmans — Gabriel LaBelle
• Living — Bill Nighy
• The Whale — Brendan Fraser

Best Actress

• Babylon — Margot Robbie
• Everything Everywhere All At Once — Michelle Yeoh
• The Fabelmans — Michelle Williams
• TÁR — Cate Blanchett
• Till — Danielle Deadwyler

Best Supporting Actor

• The Banshees of Inisherin — Brendan Gleeson
• The Banshees of Inisherin — Barry Keoghan
• Everything Everywhere All At Once — Ke Huy Quan
• The Fabelmans — Judd Hirsch
• Women Talking — Ben Whishaw

Best Supporting Actress

• The Banshees of Inisherin — Kerry Condon
• Everything Everywhere All At Once — Stephanie Hsu
• She Said —Carey Mulligan
• Women Talking — Jessie Buckley
• Women Talking — Claire Foy

Best Original Screenplay

• The Banshees of Inisherin — Martin McDonagh
• Everything Everywhere All At Once — The Daniels
• The Fabelmans — Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner
• TÁR — Todd Field
• Triangle of Sadness — Ruben Östlund

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Rian Johnson
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Guillermo del Toro, Patrick McHale, and Matthew Robbins
• She Said — Rebecca Lenkiewicz
• The Whale — Samuel D. Hunter
• Women Talking — Sarah Polley

Best Editing

• The Banshees of Inisherin — Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
• Everything Everywhere All At Once — Paul Rogers
• The Fabelmans — Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Bob Ducsay
• Top Gun: Maverick — Eddie Hamilton

Best Production Design

• Babylon — Florencia Martin (production design), Anthony Carlino (set decoration)
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Hannah Beachler (production design), Lisa K. Sessions (set decorator)
• Elvis — Catherine Martin & Karen Murphy (production designers), Shaun Barry, Beverly Dunn and Daniel Reader (set decorators)
• Everything Everywhere All At Once — Jason Kisvarday (production design), Kelsi Ephraim (set decoration)
• RRR — Sabu Cyril (production design)

Best Music, Original Score

• Babylon — Justin Hurwitz
• The Fabelmans — John Williams
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Alexandre Desplat
• RRR — M. M. Keeravani
• Women Talking — Hildur Guðnadóttir

Best Music, Original Song

• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — “Lift Me Up” — Rihanna
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — “Ciao Papa” —Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro Roeban Katz
• RRR — “Naatu Naatu” — Kaala Bhairava, M.M. Keeravani, and Rahul Sipligunj
• Top Gun: Maverick — “Hold My Hand” — Lady Gaga
• Turning Red — “Nobody Like U” — O’Connell and Billie Eilish

Best Cinematography

• All Quiet on the Western Front — James Friend
• Avatar: The Way of Water — Russell Carpenter
• The Batman — Greig Fraser
• The Fabelmans — Janusz Kamiński
• Top Gun: Maverick — Claudio Miranda

Best Costume Design

• Babylon — Mary Zophres
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Ruth E. Carter
• Elvis — Catherine Martin
• Everything Everywhere All At Once — Shirley Kurata
• RRR — Rama Rajamouli

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• The Batman
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Elvis
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• The Whale

Best Sound

• Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Batman
• Elvis
• TÁR
• Top Gun: Maverick

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Batman
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Nope
• Top Gun: Maverick

Best International Feature

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
• Close
• Decision to Leave
• Holy Spider

Best Animated Film

• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
• My Father’s Dragon
• Strange World
• Turning Red

Best Documentary Film

• All That Breathes
• The Descendant
• Moonage Daydream
• Nalvany
• The Territory