Me, Popcorn and The Oscars: The Oscars 2017 Final Nomination Predictions

I promised a nomination prediction a couple of days before the Oscars announced their nominations, and here it is. I have found that most people don’t really know or care about nominations like “Best Sound Mixing” and “Best Production Design”, and because I don’t know much about that either, I have limited my predictions to the bigger awards. I hope nobody minds this. If you do, there are a lot of other predictions you could read.

Best Picture (First set of five)

• La La Land
• Manchester by the Sea
• Moonlight
• Arrival
• Hacksaw Ridge

Best Picture (Second set of five; in the case that the Academy chooses—like in previous years—to nominate more than five)

• Fences
• Hell or High Water
• Nocturnal Animals
• Silence
• 20th Century Women
• Hidden Figures

Best Director

• Damien Chazelle (“La La Land”)
• Barry Jenkins (“Moonlight”)
• Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester by the Sea”)
• Tom Ford (“Nocturnal Animals”)
• Denis Villeneuve (“Arrival”)

Best Actor

• Casey Affleck (“Manchester by the Sea”)
• Andrew Garfield (“Hacksaw Ridge”)
• Ryan Gosling (“La La Land”)
• Denzel Washington (“Fences”)
• Colin Farrel (“The Lobster)

Best Actress

• Amy Adams (“Arrival”)
• Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”)
• Natalie Portman (“Jackie”)
• Emma Stone (“La La Land”)
• Annette Bening (“20th Century Women”)

Best Supporting Actor

• Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight”)
• Jeff Bridges (“Hell or High Water”)
• Hugh Grant (“Florence Foster Jenkins”)
• Michael Shannon (“Nocturnal Animals”)
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson (“Nocturnal Animals”)

Best Supporting Actress

• Viola Davis (“Fences”)
• Naomie Harris (“Moonlight”)
• Nicole Kidman (“Lion”)
• Felicity Jones (“A Monster Calls”)
• Michelle Williams (“Manchester By the Sea”)

Best Original Screenplay

• “20th Century Women” (Mike Mills)
• “The Lobster” (Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos)
• “La La Land” (Damien Chazelle)
• “Manchester by the Sea” (Kenneth Lonergan)
• “Jackie” (Noah Oppenheim)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• “Arrival” (Eric Heisserer)
• “Fences” (August Wilson)
• “Loving” (Jeff Nichols)
• “Nocturnal Animals” (Tom Ford)
• “Moonlight” (Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney)

Best Animated Feature

• “Finding Dory” (Pixar/Disney)
• “Kubo and the Two Strings” (Focus Features)
• “Moana” (Disney)
• “My Life as a Zucchini” (Gkids)
• “Zootopia” (Disney)

Best Original Song

• “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” (Justin Timberlake, “Trolls”)
• “City of Stars” (Ryan Gosling, “La La Land”)
• “How Far I’ll Go” (Auli’i Cravalho, “Moana”)
• “Faith” (Stevie Wonder, “Sing”)
• “Never Give Up” (Sia, “Lion”)

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Handmaiden (South Korea)
• “It’s Only the End of the World” (Canada)
• “A Man Called Ove” (Sweden)
• “The Salesman” (Iran)
• “Toni Erdmann” (Germany)