Oscars: Picking the Academy Award Winners
With the Oscars on tonight, there are a lot of great nominees. 2019 had some beautifully crafted stories and characters. Looking at the movies we’ve watched, we’ve selected our projected winners on the biggest categories, abstaining from the categories we’re unfamiliar with. We’ll never cheat our readers like that.
Best Actor in a Lead
Who Should Win: Jaoquin Phoenix – Joker
Likely Picked: Jonathan Pryce – The Two Popes
Jaoquin Phoenix turned in one of the best performances seen in a long time. His Arthur Fleck was a brilliantly crafted tale of neglect and despair. However, the Oscars aren’t known to show love to a superhero or comic book films. More than likely Pryce wins the golden statue.
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Who Should Win: Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood
Likely Picked: Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes
While this category is loaded with a ton of great actors in amazing roles. The consistency of the Oscars will dictate just who wins in what categories. A lot of times, you’ll see actors from the same movie win awards despite the film itself not winning many.
Actress in a Lead
Who Should Win: Saoirse Ronan – Little Women
Likely Pick: Renee Zellweger – Judy
As much as there are better roles, for some reason, the Oscars love to give out awards just because they’re based on real people.
Best Actress in A Supporting Role
Who Should Win: Margot Robbie – Bombshell
Likely Pick: Laura Dern – Marriage Story
Both Laura Dern and Margot Robbie are two actresses who are all over Hollywood right now. They’ve both had their share of success and both played some amazing roles. However, Dern will more likely take home the award this time around.
Animated Feature Film
Who Should Win: Klaus
Likely Pick: Toy Story 4
Klaus was the Santa origin story we didn’t know we needed but we got anyway. However, for some strange reason, Toy Story will always hold a special place in people’s hearts and will get rewarded for that brand recognition despite being a sub-par film.
Cinematography
Who Should Win: The Lighthouse
Likely Pick: 1917
Something about The Lighthouse that looks like an odd movie, yet somehow showed great transition. Too bad, the academy loves their war stories.
Directing
Who Should Win: Todd Phillips – Joker
Likely Pick: Martin Scorsese – The Irishman
The Oscars are notorious for picking names of notoriety over the current class of outstanding performers. Not that Scorsese’s The Irishman isn’t Oscar-worthy, but pass the torch to these deserving nominees already.
Best Picture
Who Should Win: Joker
Likely Pick: Ford v Ferrari
Do the Oscars ever get the best picture right? Each year great films come out and most of the time it seems like the people responsible for voting don’t even watch all the movies. Joker took an origin story that doesn’t exist in the original source material and made it believable. Ford v Ferrari will more than likely win though because again it’s based on real stories.
The Oscars seem to shun quality in work in favor of history. Will this year be the same
Rick ODonnell aka Caveman Rick has many years covering the Miami Dolphins, Sports, and all sorts of movies and television.
