2020 Award Season is done, and it is time to ring in a new year of films, and a new crop of movies that could be talked about all year long. I know these picks are incredibly early and highly uneducated (I am basically throwing darts at a board). I know that some of these films might end up flopping and get very little, to absolutely no, awards season love (last year I pegged Harriet to come away with countless awards). I also understand some people might not end up being in these positions (ex. I have a lead who is really a supporting). Whatever the case, here is who I think, AT THIS MOMENT, will be nominated and win Awards next season.

*Disclaimer: I have not seen any of these movies, so all of these predictions are going solely on gut feeling.

*Runner-Ups are in no particular order, I just put them as I thought of them.

Best Picture

Winner: Minari

Runner-Ups:

The Trial of the Chicago 7

West Side Story

The French Dispatch

Tenet

Dune

Mank

Da 5 Bloods

Nightmare Alley

Hillbilly Elegy

Best Director

Winner: Dennis Villeneuve – Dune

Runner-Ups:

Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods

Christopher Nolan – Tenet

Steven Speilberg – West Side Story

David Fincher – Mank

Best Actor

Winner: Winston Duke – Nine Days

Runner-Ups:

Ansel Elgort – West Side Story

Steven Yeun – Minari

Anthony Hopkins – The Father

Gary Oldman – Mank

Best Actress

Winner: Amy Adams – Hillbilly Elegy

Runner-Ups:

Rebecca Ferguson – Dune

Rachel Zegler – West Side Story

Jennifer Hudson – Respect

Cate Blanchett – Nightmare Alley

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Bill Murray – On the Rocks

Runner-Ups:

Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Jonathan Majors – Da 5 Bloods

Timothee Chalamet – Dune/The French Dispatch

Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Saoirse Ronan – Ammonite/The French Dispatch

Runner-Ups:

Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy

Thomasin McKenzie – The Last Night in Soho

Rooney Mara – Nightmare Alley

Rita Moreno – West Side Story

Best Original Screenplay

Winner: Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Runner-Ups:

Christopher Nolan – Tenet

Edgar Wright, Krysty Wilson-Cairns – The Last Night in Soho

Wes Anderson – The French Dispatch

Spike Lee, Kevin Willmott – Da 5 Bloods

Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner: Tony Kushner – West Side Story

Runner-Ups:

Eric Roth, Dennis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts – Dune

Vanessa Taylor – Hillbilly Elegy

Kim Morgan, Guillermo del Torro – Nightmare Alley

Luke Davies – News of the World

Best Animated Feature

Winner: Soul

Runner-Ups:

SCOOB!

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

Onward

Raya and the Last Dragon

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