When Oscar voting started, we asked you to imagine yourselves as Academy members, with Oscar ballots in hand, and cast your own choices for who you’d want to see win at the 98th Academy Awards on March 15th. Over 1800 of you voted, and those results will be announced tomorrow. But until then, the NBP Team did the same thing (with our very small group of 20 people), and now, we’re unveiling our winners. We used preferential balloting for Best Picture, and all other categories used a plurality voting system. Will any of these translate on Oscar night? Not with the number of ties we have, given that we have an even number of members at NBP. Please take a look at the Next Best Picture team’s latest Oscar winner predictions here and our personal winners from this year’s nominees below.
And the (imaginary) Oscar goes to…
Best Picture
1. “One Battle After Another“
2. “Sinners”
3. “Marty Supreme”
4. “Sentimental Value”
5. “Train Dreams”
6. “Hamnet”
7. “The Secret Agent”
8. “Bugonia”
9. “Frankenstein”
10. “F1”
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson – “One Battle After Another“ (WINNER)
Ryan Coogler – “Sinners“ (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Josh Safdie – “Marty Supreme“ (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Joachim Trier – “Sentimental Value”
Chloé Zhao – “Hamnet”
Best Actress
Jessie Buckley – “Hamnet” (RUNNER-UP)
Rose Byrne – “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” (WINNER)
Kate Hudson – “Song Sung Blue”
Renate Reinsve – “Sentimental Value”
Emma Stone – “Bugonia”
Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet – “Marty Supreme” (WINNER TIE)
Leonardo DiCaprio – “One Battle After Another”
Ethan Hawke – “Blue Moon” (WINNER TIE)
Michael B. Jordan – “Sinners”
Wagner Moura – “The Secret Agent” (RUNNER-UP)
Best Supporting Actress
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – “Sentimental Value” (WINNER TIE)
Amy Madigan – “Weapons” (RUNNER-UP)
Wunmi Mosaku – “Sinners“
Teyana Taylor – “One Battle After Another” (WINNER TIE)
Elle Fanning – “Sentimental Value”
Best Supporting Actor
Benicio Del Toro – “One Battle After Another”
Jacob Elordi – “Frankenstein” (RUNNER-UP)
Delroy Lindo – “Sinners”
Sean Penn – “One Battle After Another” (WINNER TIE)
Stellan Skarsgård – “Sentimental Value” (WINNER TIE)
Best Adapted Screenplay
“Bugonia” – Will Tracy
“Frankenstein” – Guillermo Del Toro
“Hamnet” – Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao
“One Battle After Another” – Paul Thomas Anderson (WINNER)
“Train Dreams” – Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar (RUNNER-UP)
Best Original Screenplay
“Blue Moon” – Robert Kaplow
“It Was Just an Accident” – Jafar Panahi, Nader Saeivar, Shadmehr Rastin & Mehdi Mahmoudian (WINNER TIE)
“Marty Supreme” – Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie (RUNNER-UP)
“Sentimental Value” – Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt
“Sinners” – Ryan Coogler (WINNER TIE)
Best Animated Feature
“Arco” (RUNNER-UP)
“Elio”
“KPop Demon Hunters” (WINNER TIE)
“Little Amélie or The Character of Rain”
“Zootopia 2” (WINNER TIE)
Best Documentary Feature
“The Alabama Solution”
“Come See Me in the Good Light” (RUNNER-UP)
“Cutting Through Rocks”
“Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
“The Perfect Neighbor” (WINNER)
Best International Feature Film
“It Was Just an Accident” – France (WINNER)
“The Secret Agent” – Brazil
“Sentimental Value” – Norway (RUNNER-UP)
“Sirāt” – Spain
“The Voice of Hind Rajab” – Tunisia
Best Casting
Gabriel Domingues – “The Secret Agent”
Nina Gold – “Hamnet”
Cassandra Kulukundis – “One Battle After Another”
Francine Maisler – “Sinners” (WINNER)
Jennifer Venditti – “Marty Supreme” (RUNNER-UP)
Best Cinematography
“Frankenstein”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another” (RUNNER-UP)
“Sinners”
“Train Dreams” (WINNER)
Best Costume Design
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” (RUNNER-UP TIE)
“Frankenstein” (WINNER)
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme“
“Sinners” (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Best Film Editing
“F1”
“Marty Supreme” (RUNNER-UP)
“One Battle After Another” (WINNER)
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
Best Make-Up & Hairstyling
“Frankenstein” (WINNER)
“Kokuho“
“Sinners”
“The Smashing Machine”
“The Ugly Stepsister” (RUNNER-UP)
Best Production Design
“Frankenstein” (WINNER)
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”
“Sinners” (RUNNER-UP)
Best Original Score
“Bugonia”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“One Battle After Another” (RUNNER-UP)
“Sinners” (WINNER)
Best Original Song
“Dear Me” – “Diane Warren: Relentless”
“Golden” – “KPop Demon Hunters” (RUNNER-UP)
“I Lied to You” – “Sinners” (WINNER)
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” – “Viva Verdi!”
“Train Dreams” – “Train Dreams”
Best Sound
“F1” (RUNNER-UP)
“Frankenstein”
“One Battle After Another”
“Sinners”
“Sirāt“ (WINNER)
Best Visual Effects
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” (WINNER)
“F1”
“Jurassic World: Rebirth”
“The Lost Bus”
“Sinners” (RUNNER-UP)
Best Animated Short Film
“Butterfly”
“Forevergreen”
“The Girl Who Cried Pearls” (WINNER)
“Retirement Plan” (RUNNER-UP)
“The Three Sisters”
Best Documentary Short Film
“All the Empty Rooms” (WINNER)
“Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud” RUNNER-UP)
“Children No More: ‘Were and are Gone’”
“The Devil is Busy”
“Perfectly a Strangeness”
Live Action Short Film
“Butcher’s Stain“
“A Friend of Dorothy”
“Jane Austen’s Period Drama” (RUNNER-UP)
“The Singers”
“Two People Exchanging Saliva” (WINNER)
WIN TALLY
“One Battle After Another“ – 6
“Sinners” – 4
“Frankenstein” – 3
“Blue Moon” – 2
“It Was Just an Accident” – 2
“Sentimental Value” – 2
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” – 1
“The Girl Who Cried Pearls”
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” – 1
“KPop Demon Hunters” – 1
“Marty Supreme” – 1
“The Perfect Neighbor” – 1
“Sirāt“ – 1
“Train Dreams” – 1
“Zootopia 2” – 1
What do you think of the winners? Do you think any of these will translate to the actual Oscar winners on March 15th? Stay tuned for the NBP Film Community Winners tomorrow. Please let us know your thoughts on our X account and be sure to listen to our final Oscar predictions podcast episode here. Please click here for more important upcoming dates this awards season and here for the most recent tally of awards season winners for the current year.
