Oscar predictions 9–19–23

Justin Horowitz
5 min readSep 19, 2023

Best Picture

  • American Fiction
  • Barbie
  • The Color Purple
  • The Holdovers
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Maestro
  • Oppenheimer
  • Past Lives
  • Poor Things
  • The Zone of Interest

Best Director

  • Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet
  • Barbie, Greta Gerwig
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese
  • Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan
  • The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer

Best Actor

  • American Fiction, Jeffrey Wright
  • The Holdovers, Paul Giamatti
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Maestro, Bradley Cooper
  • Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy

Best Actress

  • Anatomy of a Fall, Sandra Hüller
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone
  • Nyad, Annette Bening
  • Past Lives, Greta Lee
  • Poor Things, Emma Stone

Best Supporting Actor

  • Barbie, Ryan Gosling
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, Robert De Niro
  • Oppenheimer, Robert Downey Jr.
  • Past Lives, Teo Yoo
  • Poor Things, Mark Ruffalo

Best Supporting Actress

  • The Color Purple, Danielle Brooks
  • The Color Purple, Taraji P. Henson
  • Ferrari, Penélope Cruz
  • The Holdovers, Da’Vine Joy Randolph
  • Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt

Best Original Screenplay

  • Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
  • Asteroid City, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
  • The Holdovers, David Hemingson
  • Maestro, Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer
  • Past Lives, Celine Song

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • American Fiction, Cord Jefferson
  • Killers of the Flower Moon, Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese
  • Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan
  • Poor Things, Tony McNamara
  • The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer

Best Cinematography

  • Killers of the Flower Moon, Rodrigo Prieto
  • Oppenheimer, Hoyte van Hoytema
  • Poor Things, Robbie Ryan
  • Saltburn, Linus Sandgren
  • The Zone of Interest, Lukasz Zal

Best Production Design

  • Barbie Sarah Greenwood (production designer), Katie Spencer (set decorator)
  • The Color Purple Paul D. Austerberry (production designer), Larry Dias (set decorator)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon — Jack Fisk (production designer); Adam Willis (set decorator)
  • Oppenheimer — Ruth De Jong (production designer), Claire Kaufman (set decorator)
  • Poor Things — Shona Heath & James Price (production designers), Zsuzsa Mihalek (set decorator)

Best Costume Design

  • Barbie Jacqueline Durran
  • The Color Purple — Francine Jamison-Tanchuck
  • Killers of the Flower Moon —Ellen Mirojnick
  • Poor Things — Holly Waddington
  • Priscilla — Stacey Battat

Best Editing

  • Barbie — Nick Huoy
  • The Killer — Kirk Baxter
  • Killers of the Flower Moon — Thelma Schoonmaker
  • Oppenheimer — Jennifer Lame
  • Poor Things — Yorgos Mavropsaridis

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

  • Barbie
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
  • Maestro
  • Oppenheimer
  • Poor Things

Best Sound

  • Ferrari
  • The Killer
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Oppenheimer
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Visual Effects

  • The Creator
  • Ferrari
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Napoleon
  • Oppenheimer

Best Music, Original Score

  • Elemental — Thomas Newman
  • The Killer — Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
  • Killers of the Flower Moon — Robbie Robertson
  • Oppenheimer — Ludwig Göransson
  • Past Lives — Christopher Bear & Daniel Rossen

Best Music, Original Song

  • Barbie — “I’m Just Ken” — Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
  • Barbie —“What Was I Made For?” — Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell, Andrew Wyatt and Mark Ronson
  • The Color Purple —TBA
  • Rustin — “Road to Freedom” — Lenny Kravitz
  • Wish — “The Wish” — Julia Michaels, Benjamin Rice and David Metzger

Best Animated Feature

  • The Boy and the Heron — Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki
  • Elemental — Peter Sohn, Denise Ream
  • 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

Best International Film

  • About Dry Grass (Turkey)
  • Anatomy of a Fall (France)
  • La Chimera (Italy)
  • The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany)
  • The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

Best Documentary Feature

  • 20 Days in Mariupol
  • American Symphony
  • The Deepest Breath
  • The Eternal Memory
  • Little Richard: I Am Everything

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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/