The Oscar nominations have just been revealed and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer has been
nominated for 13 awards, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Motion Picture.
It has already been sweeping in a lot of the ceremonies on the award circuit so far, and
based on those wins and what it has been nominated for at the Oscars, we can get a good
idea of what is has a chance of winning.
So with the nominations now out, I'm going to be discussing what awards the film can
win and also the other films that I can see winning
in all of the other categories.
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But without further a do, lets dive into the Oscar
nominations for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer.
So with oscar nominations now out, Oppenheimer has been recognised in a lot of the biggest
categories.
Oppenheimer leads the way with 13 nominations, followed by Poor Things with
11, Killers of The Flower Moon with 10 and Barbie with 8.
Of course, Christopher Nolan's film has been dominating the awards circuit over the last
few months and it's already won best director and picture at both the Golden
Globes and the Critics Choice awards.
We've still got two of the big award cermonies to go before the oscars in both the Baftas
and the SAG Awards, so momentum could change in
the time ahead.
But right now, the Oscar nominations point to Oppenheimer getting the same kind of love
across the board, picking off nods in the big categories
and also a lot of the tecnical categories too.
The 13 Oscars that Oppenheimer has been nominated for include, Best Motion Picture,
Best Director for Christopher Nolan, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting
Actor for Robert Downey Jr, Best Supporting Actress for Emily Blunt, Best Adapted Screenplay
for Christopher Nolan, Best Production Design for Ruth De Jong, Best Cinematography for
Hoyte Van Hoytema, Best Sound for Richard King, Best Original Score for Ludwig Gorannson,
Best Film Editing for Jennifer Lame, Best Makeup and Hairstyling for Jamie Leigh McIntosh
& Luisa Abel and Best Costume Design for Ellen Mirojnick.
I don't think there were any snubs when it came to Oppenheimer's nominations,
other than of course the visual effects category, which it apparently wasn't even longlisted
for.
That would have got it to the joint record of 14 nominations.
But overall, it was a solid list of nods and when it comes to a lot of the biggest categories,
at this point, it's hard to see Oppenheimer not
being the favourite or second favourite to win.
Speaking of that, it's time to discuss what I think it wil win, giving you final updated
predictions for the oppenheimer on Oscar night.
I'm going to list the 9 categories I think it will win, and then out of those 9 awards,
predict the ones I think it will likely win and the few that it's got a good chance in,
but might not.
The record for wins at the academy awards is 11, shared by Titanic, Lord
Of The Rings: Return Of The King and Ben Hur.
And the last film to win 9 Oscars was The English Patient back in 1996.
The closest to that was Slumdog Millionaire with 8 wins in
2008 and then just behind that is Everything Everywhere All At Once with 7 wins from last
year.
So the 9 Oscars I've put as predictions to win are Best Picture, Best Director, Best
Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Sound,
Best Film Editing and Best Cinematography.
Out of those 9 potential wins, I think there are 7 that it's the hot favourite to win and
they are Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best
Sound, Best Film Editing, and Best Cinematography.
It's pretty much dominating in these categories on the award circuit, and it's hard to imagine
there being a big upset in those.
Best Picture is probably the only one there that has a chance of going the other way,
as on the odd award show, Killers of The Flower Moon, Past Lives, Barbie or The Holdovers
are winning, but again, Oppenheimer has won double
what Killers has for Best Picture.
So when it comes to those 7, I think it will most likely win.
However, the 2 categories that I predict it to win are ones that are still
unpredictable at this moment in time or are swaying in another direction.
They are yes, ones that Oppenheimer is leading the way in, but
ones where other nominees are gaining some momentum making it much tighter.
The two awards that I'm talking about are Best Actor and of course, Best Adapted Screenplay.
Starting with Best Actor, this is probably a 50/50 chance when it comes to Cillian Murphy
picking up the award as while he is a bit ahead in the precurser, recent awards have
gone to Paul Giamatti for the Holdovers.
Out of the two big award shows so far, 1 best actor has gone to Cillian at the Golden Globes
and two has gone to Giamatti at both the Golden Globes for comedy and then the Critics Choice.
I think the Baftas will favour Cillian but I'm unsure about the Sag, so at this time,
I think it comes down to whoever wins it at the Sag Awards.
If Giamatti continues his recent momentum then he probabaly will win, but I'm still
holding on to a Cillian win, as he has been coming out on top in most of the
award shows.
When it comes to Best Adapted Screenplay, I think this is going to be an interesting
one, because yes, while Oppenheimer is leading in that catgory, there is still
the chance that like in more recent Oscar history, there could be an upset.
Also I'm finding that a lot of different films are winning in this category throughout the
award circuit, so it is quite unpredictable to know
which way they'll go.
I've put Oppenheimer down to win Adapted Screenplay because it is leading the precurser, but if
you know the oscars they tend to surprise us in some of
these tighter categories.
So out of the two it might win, I think Best Picture is definitely the bigger chance of
happening.
Regardless of it missing out on one or two of these awards,
with it likely winning an acting award, a director award and loads of technical awards
too, that could mean that it does get the advantage in the best picture race.
Overall, I'm going to stick with my predictions of 9 wins for Christopher Nolan's film at
the Oscars and even if there's an upset in 1 or 2 of
the categories, I think it's still going to end up with a lot of wins across the board.
So now that I've broke down Oppenheimer's nominations and chances of winning in each
of the categories, I thought I would also list my predictions for all of the other categories
that it's either not nominated for or ones that it likely won't win for, even if it is
in there.
For Best Actress, I'm sticking with Lily Gladstone from Killers Of The Flower Moon.
Now Now I know Emma Stone of Poor Things has picked
off a few crucial wins lately and the momentum is definitely in her favour, especially since
Gladstone wasn't nominated at the Baftas.
But Gladstone is still winning the precurser and I think it will all come down to the SAG
awards for that final bit of momentum.
It could go either way and while it's hard to deny that emma stone has built an advantage,
I'm sticking with Gladstone to come out on top.
For Best Supporting Actress I've put Da'Vine Joy Randolph from The Holdovers, and
right now I think that's pretty much locked that she'll win it based on the direction
of the awards circuit.
Original Screenplay is another one I've given to The Holdovers as that
has led the way throughout the entire precurser.
Animated film I've given to Spider-Man Across the Spiderverse, but I will say that The Boy
and the Heron has a good outside chance of winning here too.
International film I've given to The Zone Of Interest.
And Best Visual Effects I'm predicting that The Creator will come out on top.
It is a shame that Oppenheimer didn't get a nomination here because
it has won a few big visual effects awards like the Critics Choice.
But the debate over it not being there could take up a whole
seperate video and because it wasn't on the Oscars longlist for that category, we all
knew it wasn't going to get a nomination anyway.
Moving on, Original song, Costume Design and Production Design, I've put down as wins for
Barbie.
I think it's pretty much locked that it's winning in those categories right now, and
while I don't think it will win any of the bigger awards on the night, it's still
good to see it get recognised across the nominations.
And finally for Makeup and Hairstyling, my favourite seems to be with Poor Things,
which I did watch the other day and really enjoyed some of the craft and work put into
that film.
For all the documentary and short film categories, I've put down favourites
as I'm yet to see the nominated films in those categories.
But that wraps up my predictions for the Oscars based on today's revealed nominations, and
while I think Oppenheimer will dominate the winners list too, as you
can see, I do think they will share some of the awards out to other films in all the different
categories.
But that was my video breaking down the Oscar nominations for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer.
Like I said in a previous video, I really think that this is Christopher Nolan's year
to win big at the award shows and based on everything that's happened on
the award circuit thus far, it looks like his latest film Oppenheimer is going to be
winning big in a lot of the categories.
We'll have to see what happens and whether it wins in
a lot of the catgeories it was nominated for and I will definitely be covering the Oscars
when it takes place this March.
But what do you think about the Oscar nominations and
what awards do you think Oppenheimer can win on the night?
Let me know down below in the comments section.
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