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Oscar Predictions: Who bags the conveted trophy?

The Blue Dragon Film Awards of Korea, The Filmfare Awards of India, the BAFTAs of the UK, the AACTA Awards of Australia, the Canadian Guild Awards, the European Film Awards are all sort-after awards across the world but the award season is always incomplete without the awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture and Sciences, or commonly as we know, the Oscars. The Academy Awards are due for the 25th of April and here is the Bollywood Elephant predicting the winners of the 93rd Academy Awards after inferring the results from 18 Award Shows. The Bollywood Elephant presents 2 categories of "Should Win" vs "Likely to Win" for all major categories.
                                                              



  • Best Production Design:
Should Win: Mank









Likely to Win: Mank








  • Costume Design:
Should Win: Emma
Likely to Win: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 

  • Cinematography (One of the toughest split):
Should Win: Nomadland 










Likely to Win: Man










  • Animated Feature:
Should Win: Soul

 









Likely to Win: Soul











  • Original Screenplay:
Should Win: Trial of Chicago 7






















Likely to Win: Promising Young Woman















  • Adapted Screenplay: 
Should Win: Nomadland















Likely to Win: Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm 














  • Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
Should Win: Paul Raci for Sound of Metal










Likely to Win: Daniel Kaluuya for Judas and the Black Messiah 









  • Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
Should Win: Maria Bakalova for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm











Likely to Win: Glenn Close for Hillbilly Elegy (Glenn might not have won accolades for her role in this movie but considering the Academy's old history of moving over their guilt by awarding the actor's next worthy performance like they did with Judi Dench in 1999 (snubbed her for 'Mrs. Brown'[1997], Ingrid Bergman in 1975(subbed earlier for The Constant Wife [1966], Renee Zellweger in 2003 (subbed/lost 'minorly' in 2002 for Chicago). Therefore, the Bollywood Elephant speculates Close's much deserving and overdue Oscar win!












  • Best Actor in a Leading Role:
Should Win: Sir Anthony Hopkins for The Father













Likely to Win: Late Chadwick Boseman for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
















  • Best Actress in a Leading Role (The toughest as it has quite an even split):
Should Win: Frances McDormand for Nomadland (cannot stop raving about this performance!!!) Hope this woman creates history by being the 1st Actress to win 3 Oscars in the Lead Actress Category and deservedly so!!



Likely to Win: Viola Davis for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (becomes the 13th woman to win both a supporting oscar and lead actor oscar)




  • Best Director:
Should Win: Chloe Zhao for Nomadland (2nd woman to win a directing oscar)
Likely to Win: Chloe Zhao for Nomadland

  • Best Picture:
                                                                 NOMADLAND


                              



So here are Bollywood Elephant's predictions for this year's winners of the converted trophy! It would be great to hear from you! Thank you! Cant' wait for hearing from you!








Comments

  1. Shashank Pandey11 April 2021 at 19:48

    👍🏻

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  2. Anonymous12 April 2021 at 03:14

    Good guesses :-)

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  3. Unknown16 April 2021 at 11:58

    Interesting predictions! Will wait to see how well the results match these predictions.

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