Oscar Predictions — 4–9 — 2024

Justin Horowitz
4 min readApr 9, 2023

Best Picture

  • Barbie
  • The Color Purple
  • Freud’s Last Session
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Maestro
  • Oppenheimer
  • Past Lives
  • Poor Things
  • Saltburn

Best Director

  • Barbie, Greta Gerwig
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese
  • Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan
  • Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Saltburn, Emerald Fennell

Best Actor

  • Freud’s Last Session, Anthony Hopkins
  • The Holdovers, Paul Giamatti
  • Maestro, Bradley Cooper
  • Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy
  • Saltburn, Barry Keoghan

Best Actress

  • The Color Purple, Fantasia Barrino
  • Flint Strong, Ryan Destiny
  • Nyad, Annette Bening
  • Past Lives, Greta Lee
  • Poor Things, Emma Stone

Best Supporting Actor

  • Barbie, Ryan Gosling
  • The Color Purple, Colman Domingo
  • Past Lives, Teo Yoo
  • The Piano Lesson, Samuel L. Jackson
  • Poor Things, Willem Dafoe

Best Supporting Actress

  • The Color Purple, Danielle Brooks
  • The Color Purple, Taraji P. Henson
  • Ferrari, Penélope Cruz
  • The Holdovers, Da’Vine Joy Randolph
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone

Best Original Screenplay

  • Elemental, Brenda Hsueh
  • The Holdovers, David Hemingson
  • Maestro, Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer
  • Past Lives, Celine Song
  • Saltburn, Emerald Fennell

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Barbie, Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig
  • Freud’s Last Session, Mark St. Germain
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, Eric Roth
  • Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan
  • Poor Things, Tony McNamara

Best Cinematography

  • The Color Purple, Dan Laustsen
  • Dune: Part Two, Greig Fraser
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, Rodrigo Prieto
  • Maestro, Matthew Libatique
  • Oppenheimer, Hoyte van Hoytema

Best Production Design

  • Barbie Sarah Greenwood (production designer), Katie Spencer (set decorator)
  • The Color Purple Paul D. Austerberry (production designer), Larry Dias (set decorator)
  • Dune: Part Two — Patrice Vermette (production designer), Shane Vieau (set decorator)
  • Maestro Kevin Thompson (production designer), Rena DeAngelo (set decorator)
  • Oppenheimer— Ruth De Jong (production designer), Claire Kaufman (set decorator)

Best Costume Design

  • Barbie Jacqueline Durran
  • The Color Purple — Francine Jamison-Tanchuck
  • Dune: Part Two — Jacqueline West
  • Maestro — Mark Bridges
  • Napoleon — Janty Yates

Best Editing

  • Barbie — Nick Huoy
  • Dune: Part Two — Joe Walker
  • Killers of the Flower Moon — Thelma Schoonmaker
  • Oppenheimer — Jennifer Lame
  • Saltburn — Victoria Boydell

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

  • Barbie
  • The Color Purple
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Maestro
  • Napoleon

Best Sound

  • Barbie
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Maestro
  • Oppenheimer
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Visual Effects

  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
  • Oppenheimer
  • Rebel Moon

Best Music, Original Score

  • Barbie — Alexandre Desplat
  • Dune: Part Two — Hans Zimmer
  • Elemental — Thomas Newman
  • Oppenheimer — Ludwig Göransson
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — Daniel Pemberton

Best Animated Feature

  • Elemental — Peter Sohn, Denise Ream
  • How Do You Live? — Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki
  • Nimona — Troy Quane, Nick Bruno, Roy Lee, Julie Zackary, Karen Ann Ryan
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — Joaquin Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Avi Arad, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Amy Pascal, Christina Steinberg
  • Wish — Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn

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Justin Horowitz

I write movie reviews because I like sounding like a Rotten Tomatoes status. Also I write scripts and try to make films. This is one of them: https://vimeo.com/