The 2016 Oscar nominations will finally be revealed early Thursday morning, and our Prediction pages have been given the final update before the big announcement. I may not have done so well with those Golden Globes winner predictions, but then again no one did. Also included with the links below are the first Wishful Thinking choices of outside candidates that would be a delightful surprise.
- Wishful Thinking: Sicario – My take over at The Film Experience says it all: this is one hefty film with all elements in sync. It has received some guild love (most notably from the PGA), but remains an outsider. If it gets in, you can thank the preferential ballot and a passionate fanbase.
- Wishful Thinking: Lenny Abrahamson, Room – Many would call for Todd Haynes here, but the BAFTA haul for Carol gives me the confidence to predict him (despite missing out at the DGA today). Abrahamson’s work has gone undervalued all season long, despite the passionate support his film has gathered.
- Wishful Thinking: Emily Blunt, Sicario – She’s not the passive cipher that early critics have called her – watch it again, she’s ferocious.
- Wishful Thinking: Paul Dano, Love and Mercy and Jacob Tremblay, Room – Everyone’s been griping over category fraud for Rooney Mara and Alicia Vikander and simultaneously grousing over the thin Best Actor field. Here’s two supporting candidates that would liven up the field while being fully deserving.
- Wishful Thinking: Sarah Paulson, Carol – Campaigning Rooney Mara in supporting has sucked the air out of the room for Paulson, who could’ve been a surefire nominee who’s no stranger to television awards consideration.
- Wishful Thinking: Oscar Isaac, Ex Machina – Our fingers are crossed for Michael Keaton in Spotlight, but he or Mark Ruffalo could still make it in despite not landing in the precursors. Read our previous take on Isaac’s performance.
- Wishful Thinking: I’ll See You in My Dreams. The first screener that went out this year hasn’t yielded any attention on the season (though its Best Song chances are higher). Marc Basch and Brett Haley’s script is a warm study of aging and human surprises.
- Wishful Thinking: The End of the Tour
- Wishful Thinking: Room
- Wishful Thinking: It Follows
- Wishful Thinking: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
- Wishful Thinking: Crimson Peak
- Wishful Thinking: Crimson Peak (inelligible)
- Wishful Thinking: It Follows
- Wishful Thinking: “Flashlight” – Pitch Perfect 2
- Wishful Thinking: Love and Mercy
- Wishful Thinking: Inside Out
- Wishful Thinking: Ex Machina… but I think it gets in…
- Wishful Thinking: Taxi (inelligible)
- Wishful Thinking: Heart of a Dog – my review
- Wishful Thinking: So long as Shaun the Sheep gets in…
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