EARLY 2025 Oscar Predictions | March 2024 

Really bold of you guys to have Madame Web at No. 1

Love these early predictions videos because it's the best way to know what movies are going to be released in the upcoming year.

you should do a reaction to the 2024 early predictions!!

There are three important differences between Joker: Folie á Deux and other superhero movie sequels: Joker did get a director nomination, Joker did WIN an acting oscar and (the most important one for a potential Best Pic nomination) it's not a 08/15-sequel. The inclusion of Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn alone is genius, but to make it a musical... I believe this is a brilliant idea and fits perfectly to the chaos, the predecesor started. And don't forget Joaquin Phoenix, who doesn't do sequels lightheartly...

The most wonderful time of the year. 2024 officially starts NOW.

It’s time for Ralph Fiennes to win an Oscar. He should have won for Schlinder list…

Probably my favourite video of the year, both because it’s fun to just throw out guesses that’ll probably be wildly wrong but also because it gets me excited about upcoming films

I've been waiting for this! It's always the most fun of the predictions, as this is the time people can really show their understanding of awards prediction

The one thing to maybe keep in mind about Juror #2 is that this officially Eastwoods final movie. If it’s good, I could see a narrative rise up about praising him just one final time

I can see Wicked missing on the big awards, but I think Song, Costume, Production Design, Makeup and Hairstyling are good bets. At least this early on.

Oh and I would love to see Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) and Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice) battle it out for a supporting actor win

calling the goldfinch a mom novel is crazy

I’ve read a lot of an early draft for Megalopolis. Yeah it’s… a lottt. It’s just so massive and specific. Excited to see it.

Y'all are addicts....now pass it on to me

80 MINUTES for EARLY predictions?! DAMN!

Thanks for making the video so we can be sure what films will come out this year

I hope you do a reflection on last year's predictions as well. That's always a fun video and enjoyed last year's entry.

I think Hand of Dante could be a player. Schnabel pretty consistently gets lead actors nominated and this movie is easily his biggest ensemble

I just saw PROBLEMISTA last night and Tilda Swinton was SPECTACULAR 🎉! I wish films like these would catch the eye of the academy and critics. It has amazing reviews too. ❤❤❤

Adam Elliot’s (director of Mary and Max) next feature film Memoir of a Snail is coming out this year. Should be a contender for best animated feature if it’s on the same level of quality as his other works. Curious to see what the release strategy will be though.

I think you guys are underestimating Juror #2. Clint Eastwood's final film, has a meaty premise.

La Cocina needs to be in your lists. Best Picture, Best International Film (Mexico), Best Director, Best Actress - Rooney Mara, Best Actor - Raúl Briones, Best Adapted Screenplay. It does not have US distribution yet but the English-speaking press loves it.

Who else already has their predictions up on the Award Expert app?

You should look up Wicked BTS pictures because they most definitely didn’t fall on “blue screen syndrome”. They for sure used a ton of CGI but it’s also made with practical effects, full size sets built and flowers planted and everything. I don’t know if it’s gonna be Oscar bait, I doubt it, but I’m super hopeful we’ll get a great musical movie for sure (I trust Jon Chu).

Oh you're just doing picture on this one? BrotherBro! Are we getting the Young British Actor poll and DGA poll?

Any predictions on which non-English language film(s) will make the Best Picture lineup? The last 6 years in a row has seen at least 1 non-English language film nominated (3 did it in the recent ceremony, marking the first time that multiple films made the lineup).

Knowing a bit about the composer of The End, he's not your typical golden age Broadway musical composer. His most notable work was a bit operatic, very eccentric, dissonant. This is very likely going the way of Annette instead of Chicago.

Great list guys! I would add Last Breath (Alex Parkinson) and In the Blink of an Eye (Andrew Stanton) as Oscar hopefuls.

A Mike Leigh film??!!! And a reunion with Marianne Jean-Baptiste?!!

Civil War seems like it should be under consideration at this point given its outstanding reviews and relevance- how is it not on their list at all?

Please whatever higher power is out there let I saw the tv glow happen it’s a genuine masterclass

I think Elizabeth Olsen is hella underrated. I would love to see her get nominated in the supporting category for His Three Daughters.

Ok who in the actual *fuck* said Twisters is gonna be the new Top Gun: Maverick

I read the nickel boys earlier this year(highly recommend) and it sounds like the movie will be slightly different from the book & I hope it doesn't steer away from the most important events in the book to make it "hollywood"

Love the app 👍🏻👍🏻

YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

Queer could be All of Us Strangers pt 2 or Call me By Your Name pt 2 with a BP, Actor, and Adapted Screenplay. Even drew Starkey could “almost get a supporting actor nom” like Armie hammer almost did. Let’s hope it’s more like CMBYN than AoUS.

55:49 moments like this make me love you guys so much

I think it comes down to these 5 Megapolis Dune 2 Joker 2 Blitz Sing sing

I was pretty unimpressed by the stage production of The Piano Lesson. Great performances by Jackson and Washington but I'd be surprised if this is nominated

can’t wait for dakota johnson’s first oscar!

Im rooting for Juror. Toni Collete and Zoey Deutch with supporting role ❤❤❤

Thank you for feeding my addiction 😂😂😂 love you guys!!!

May i make the case for an outsider? Perhaps not an oscar frontrunner but a definite critical darling that might pick up steam... on the set of Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy got chatting to Matt Damon about wanting to make a movie based on a book called Small Things Like These, written by Claire Keegan, who wrote the book that the Irish movie A Quiet Girl is based on. Matt Damon asked could he produce the movie. Cillian Murphy stars in it opposite his buddy from his theatre days, Eileen Walsh. The director they got made a critically acclaimed tv show called The Responder. And it was adapted by Enda Walsh, the playwright who helped launch Murphy's career. It's got all the right ingredients. The plot is a bit like Spotlight, but it's about a man uncovering religious abuse in 1980s rural Ireland. Premiered at Berlin to a standing ovation.

This videos are my favorites

Jerskin Fendrix working with Yorgos again is the best news i've had this year

I feel like stan will be pulling a Rockwell in vice type performance

You guys think Mario Casas has a chance to get nominated for Escape? It’s being directed by Rodrigo Cortes and executive produced by Martin Scorsese

megalopolis could be something like maestro or elvis, where's it's divisive among critics and audiences, but the academy likes it so much that they put it in because they like frances ford coppola so much (or just the idea of nominating him and his movie again)

Brother bro, I can't scroll on the "community" tab on Android! Can you please fix this?

brother bro is looking right !

Finally! A long ass video! 🔥

So do your research, because there’s been a lot of coverage on Wicked: Part One about how most of the sets and stunts are real: they planted thousands and thousands of flowers for a set, they built a entire real train, Cynthia and Ariana have done most of their own stunts

"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" has the same concept as "Kinds of Kindness", and it won best foreign language film

When are y'all posting your Top Movies of 2023?

I think you should maybe have more faith in Paul Schrader's 'Oh, Canada' than you currently do. It's not just about draft dodgers, it's about a fictional renowned documentary filmmaker who tells his wife and another filmmaker (who's making a doc on his life), his life story while he's on his deathbed. In reviews for the book a lot of people have a hard time with the main character revealing himself to be a bit of an awful person, so that might hurt Richard Gere's chances at an acting nom, but I think a lone screenplay nom is totally possible here. Schrader also worked on this either during or shortly after a period of time when he was hospitalized and thought he might die, which hopefully means he'll bring some personal perspective to it.

Do you think the smashing machine will have a chance of getting in?

If your predicting kinds of kindness, remember the only anthology films nominated for an Oscar besides ballad of buster scruggs are all old or international, like 21 grams, Fellini satyricon, kwaidan, paisan, California suite, yesterday today and tomorrow, la ronde, and the red violin Or movies like pulp fiction, the hours and babel which are barely anthology

Throwing out Hamnet as nobody seems to be acknowledging it. There's a slight chance it comes out this year, and if it does... I expect Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal (both playing Shakespeare's) to be contenders for the win

I disagree with We Live in time, apparently some people saw early screenings and said that Andrew and Florence gave very weighty and emotional performances/ apparently one of them dies?

I feel like the best picture race is gonna be full of remakes and sequels next year

I’m very confident on Apex, the new Joseph Kosinski film about F1 and starring Brad Pitt. Follow-up to Top Gun Maverick; a technical marvel that demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible; possible huge BTL player; following a sport that’s blowing up like crazy on the USA and has high profile people going crazy over it like Ryan Reynolds? Its floor is Ford v Ferrari at the LEAST IMO

WE DEMAND ANOTHER RETROSPECTIVE VIDEO

Idk if is coming this year, but you sholuld have in mind the new Mael brother's movie, X-Crucior produced by FOCUS, if it comes out this year, i think is a possibility, i have it in my 10 right now.

15:57 clearly you haven’t watched Brenden Gleason in The Comey Rule.

you still dont have your personal favorite movies of last year though. well, i know your number one now, but i'm curious of the rest . 😆

sad to not see the usual editing style for early predictions!

surprised you guys didn't mention The Bikeriders or Hit Man. ultimately I think they'll both miss, but Austin Butler in Bikeriders shouldn't be ignored and Hit Man was one of the most well liked films at the festivals last year too and Glen Powell is superb in it

How do cole know so much about joker 2? Was he in a test screening?

Emma stone is coming back again with yorgos lanthimos. Margaret qualley is gaining steam in Hollywood as an actress

The History of Sound is NOWHERE CLOSE TO HAPPENING LET ALONE GETTING RELEASED THIS YEAR

waiting for this since the oscar season ended

Gladiator 2 is one to look out for

what about acting categories?

react to your 2024 first predictiobs too!!

#1 Dune #2 Furiosa ## Argylle

my Oscars 2025 Best Picture (ridiculously early & blind) predictions top 10: Civil War (A24) Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.) Monkey Man (Universal Pictures) Sing Sing (A24) Dìdi (Focus Features) A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures) The Piano Lesson (Netflix) Nosferatu (Focus Features) Joker: Folie À Deux (Warner Bros.) Megalopolis (??) next-in-line: Wolfs (Apple Studios) Blitz (Apple Studios) La Chimera (Neon) The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim (Warner Bros.) The Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures) Here (Sony Pictures) The End (Neon) Conclave (Focus Features)(Black Bear) Flint Strong (MGM) Thelma (Magnolia Pictures) other contenders: The Supremes At Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (Searchlight Pictures) Long Day's Journey Into Night (MGM) Mother Mary (A24) Maria (??) Love Lies Bleeding (A24) Challengers (MGM) Queer (??) Hard Truths (Bleecker Street) The Apprentice (??) Exhibiting Forgiveness (??) The Outrun (??) Anora (Neon) Emmanuelle (Neon) Parthenope (??) Hit Man (Netflix)

The video cuts off as you’re talking about your app at the end 😭

Gladiator 2 that low seems crazy

Chiwetel ediofor- rob peace, best supporting actor

no wicked?

5:59 Welp, definitely not Coppola anymore

Inside Out 2 : Best Animated Feature (Winner) Gladiator 2 : Technical Categories (Probably will lose to Dune Part Two) Here : Best Picture Nominee (FTW)

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Been thinking about WB’s biggest three contenders being Dune, Furiosa and Joker which are all in the same universes as previous best picture nominees with 10+ nominations and a few wins as well. My prediction rn is that only one of them makes it to best picture. I do see all three getting similar techs as their previous films but I see only Dune 2 making it into picture. If it keeps this momentum for a blockbuster in a way that Oppenheimer and Top Gun Maverick just did and does that for the rest of this year, it could be a very strong front runner. I do see Joker not being as strong potentially. I honestly see Joaquin getting snubbed but Lady Gaga nominated cuz as we saw with Barbie, maybe they don’t typically have to nominate the lead if they go for the supporting performance. And idk how often the academy has nominated an actor for playing the same character two times. But Dune 2 feels like the only WB picture lock rn to me.

i'm one of those who put dune 2 at #1 because it's the only movie i've seen so far that i think has a good chance at top 10

"a little late to the party" lmao I hollered

i actually saw a test screening for blitz back in like october and idk i didnt love it but i cant tell whether it was actually bad or if it just wasnt my cup of tea the first 5 minutes alone tho will defo lock in its sound nomination haha

And so it begins…

Nooo what happened I wanted to hear more

Is A Complete Unknown coming oht this year?

My picks for 2025 Oscars: Sing Sing, The Nickel Boys, Dune Part 2, Blitz, Joker: Folie a Deux, The Piano Lesson, A Real Pain, Oh, Canada, Megalopolis, Conclave Possible surprises: Juror No. 2, The Apprentice, Holland, Michigan, Long Day's Journey into Night, Here, Emmanuelle, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Bird, Gladiator 2 Very outside chances: Kinds of Kindness, Queer, Maria, Mother Mary, Hard Truths Best Actor: Colman Domingo Joaquin Phoenix John D. Washington Richard Gere Sebastian Stan Possible surprises: Paul Mescal Ralph Fienneas Ed Harris Ethan Herrise Kevin Costner Best Actress 2025: Saoirse Ronan Lady Gaga Angelina Jolie Jessica Lange Noèmie Merlant Possible surprises: Tessa Thompson Michaele Coel Zendaya Nicole Kidman Glenn Close Marianne Jean-Baptiste Best Supporting Actor 2025: Samuel L. Jackson Kiernan Culkin Stanley Tucci Stephen Graham Clarence Maclin Possible surprises: Jacob Elordi Austin Butler Brendan Gleesson Harvey Lawfey Paul Bettany Best Supporting Actress 2025: Danielle Deadwyler Uma Thurman Robin Weight Toni Collette Nathalie Emmanuel Possible surprises: Hong Chau Zazie Beetz Isabella Rosselini Catherine Keener Ariana Grande Guys you can ask me my reason for the choices. Also tell me if you like my pick

Civil War coming out this year? No chance of this one making top twenty?

Also re: saoirse ronan in BLITZ- I think she’s the lead of the ensemble in the same way Tom Cruise was the lead of the ensemble in MAGNOLIA and Ronee Blakely/ Lily Tomlin in NASHVILLE. Basically, I don’t think there’s a *lead* to BLITZ, but Saoirse is the face of it. Also we know that Steve McQueen can get a Supporting Actress win like he did with Lupita Nyong’o. Stephen Graham could be Michael Fassbender maybe?

Yeyyyyyyyyyyy it’s time to start again!!!!

Kinda bold to have Lindsay Lohan at #1 for The Irish Wish but I respect it

You know Tilda Swinton is an Oscar winner, right? Also, Wild Tales is an anthology film and it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, so was Dogtooth, while The Lobster was nominated for Original Screenplay, you underestimating Lanthimos once again!

What about Bong Joon Ho's Mickey17?

I really believe in Dune Part 2 as the #1. Even though I can understand the love for Sing Sing at SAG, I have a hard time believing BAFTA or PGA going for it. Aside from maybe Domingo for Best Actor, there is not much else I see it winning throughout awards season. Big thanks for the awesome video.

Let's gooooo