by Jacob Jones Hello, all, and welcome back to The Friendly Film Fan! After multiple emergency delays and a chaotic awards season lead-up, we are less than 24 hours out from the official announcement of the nominations for the 97th Annual Academy Awards. The event will be hosted by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott beginning at 8:30am EST/5:30am PST and be broadcast across on both Good Morning America and ABC News Live, as well as available to stream through the Academy’s social network pages and on Disney+ and Hulu. It’s been a long road to this point through the 2024 awards season, and at this point, anything is likely to happen. Clarence Maclin could get his first nomination in Best Supporting Actor. Nickel Boys could bypass Best Cinematography entirely. Emilia Pérez could win Best Picture. Almost four different movies are competing for the number ten spot in the biggest category of the night! No matter what world we wake up to tomorrow, there will always be the inevitabilities of one big surprise and one heartbreaking miss. But before tomorrow arrives, let’s go category by category and attempt to predict what those hits and misses are ultimately going to be. For those of you who are new here or may not be familiar with the ways I predict these awards over here at The Friendly Film Fan: the Oscars has 23 categories, each of which contains five nomination slots (except for Best Picture, which contains ten). Using this knowledge, I predict what I think will be the most likely selections by AMPAS for nominations, even if they don’t match what I personally think would be best (see The Friendly Film Fan Awards nominations for that, coming soon). There are also include three “wildcard” selections, which can range from things I’m hoping for that have just enough of a shot to secure a nomination to things people are severely underestimating in terms of their chances to things that are simply the 6th or 7th most likely to compete in their respective categories. Typically, I do three rounds of nomination predictions here, but as this year has been a bit busier outside of this space than anticipated, I’ve only had time to draft this one list and unfortunately will not be able to break things down category by category as I usually do. I also have not had the time or access to watch everything on the Oscars Shortlists which were released in December, so while I’ve got a pretty good idea as to what’s competing in those fields, less obvious categories such Best Live-Action, Animated, or Documentary Short Film are far less certain than I’d personally like them to be (I more or less tried to go by the consensus picks on those). I’ll be going live on The Friendly Film Fan’s Instagram page shortly before the nominations announcement tomorrow morning, so be sure to follow us over there if you’d like to see how I react to each nomination as they happen! And now, without any further ado, here are my official predictions for the nominations at the 97th Annual Academy Awards! BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT Predicted Nominees:
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And those are my predicted nominees for the 97th Annual Academy Awards! What are you predicting gets nominated tomorrow morning? Any that you’re hoping will surprise? Any that you’ll crash out over if they don’t happen? Let us know in the comments section below, and thanks for reading!
- The Friendly Film Fan
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