According to the showbiz bible Variety, this is the most wide-open Oscars race in decades, with no conclusive front runner emerging from the preliminary awards. Yet that does not stop me from predicting tonight’s winners, just in time for you to place a bet with your neighbors or bookie.
By the end of a probably long evening, here is what the list of those clutching gold statuettes will look like:
• Actor, Leading Role: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
• Actress, Leading Role: Glenn Close, The Wife
• Actor, Supporting Role: Mahershala Ali, Green Book
• Actress, Supporting Role: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
• Cinematography: Roma
• Direction: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
• Film Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody
• Production Design: Black Panther
• Visual Effects: First Man
• Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman
• Original Screenplay: Green Book
• Sound Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody
• Sound Mixing: Bohemian Rhapsody
• Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Foreign Language Film: Roma
• Documentary Feature: Free Solo
• Animated Short: Bao
• Live Action Short: Marguerite
• Documentary Short: Black Sheep
• Original Score: Ludwig Goransson, Black Panther
• Original Song: “Shallow,” from A Star is Born
• Makeup and Hairstyling: Vice
• Best Picture: Green Book