At last, tomorrow will be the Oscar ceremony. So I asked our staff to personally choose their selection in six major categories of the Academy Awards.
Those are six categories.
Actor in a Supporting Role
- Sacha Baron Cohen, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
- Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
- Leslie Odom, Jr., “One Night in Miami…”
- Paul Raci, “Sound of Metal”
- Lakeith Stanfield, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Actress in a Supporting Role
- Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
- Glenn Close, “Hillbilly Elegy”
- Olivia Colman, “The Father”
- Amanda Seyfried, “Mank”
- Youn Yuh-jung, “Minari”
Actor in a Leading Role
- Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”
- Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
- Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”
- Gary Oldman, “Mank”
- Steven Yeun, “Minari”
Actress in a Leading Role
- Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
- Andra Day, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”
- Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman”
- Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
- Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”
Directing
- Thomas Vinterberg, “Another Round”
- David Fincher, “Mank”
- Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”
- Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
- Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
Best Picture
- “The Father”
- “Judas and the Black Messiah”
- “Mank”
- “Minari”
- “Nomadland”
- “Promising Young Woman”
- “Sound of Metal”
- “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Those are the ones selected by our writers.
- Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
Profile : Works as film critic and journalist who covers stories about culture and sustainability. With a degree in Political Sciences, a Master’s in Screenwriting & Film Production, and studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Chiara has been working in the press since 2003. Italian by blood, British by upbringing, fond of Japanese culture since the age of 7, once a New Yorker always a New Yorker, and an avid traveller, Chiara collaborates with international magazines and radio-television networks. She is also a visual artist, whose eco-works connect to her use of language: the title of each painting is inspired by the materials she upcycles on canvas. Her ‘Material Puns’ have so far been exhibited in four continents, across ten countries. She is a dedicated ARTivist, donating her works to the causes and humanitarians she supports, and is Professor of Phenomenology of Contemporary Arts at Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan.
Actor in a Supporting Role
Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Actress in a Supporting Role
Glenn Close, “Hillbilly Elegy”
Actor in a Leading Role
Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”
Actress in a Leading Role
Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Directing
Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
Best Picture
“Nomadland”
- Abe Friedtanzer
Profile : Abe Friedtanzer is a film and TV enthusiast who spent most of the past fifteen years in New York City. He has been the editor of MoviesWithAbe.com and TVwithAbe.com since 2007, and has been predicting the Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, and SAG Awards since he was allowed to stay up late enough to watch them. He has attended numerous film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW, and is a contributing writer for The Film Experience, Awards Radar, and AwardsWatch.
Actor in a Supporting Role
Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Actress in a Supporting Role
Youn Yuh-jun, “Minari”
Actor in a Leading Role
Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Actress in a Leading Role
Andra Day, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”
Directing
Chloe Zhao, “Nomadland”
Best Picture
“Nomadland”
- Edward Moran
Profile : Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.
Actor in a Supporting Role
Leslie Odom Jr., “One Night In Miami”
Actress in a Supporting Role
Glenn Close, “Hillbilly Elegy”
Actor in a Leading Role
Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”
Actress in a Leading Role
Francis McDormand, “Nomadland”
Directing
Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
Best Picture
“Nomadland”
- Nobuhiro Hosoki
Profile : Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning Satellite” at the New York branch office but he didn’t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan News. In that role, he writes news articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.
Actor in a Supporting Role
Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Actress in a Supporting Role
Youn Yuh-jung, “Minari”
Actor in a Leading Role
Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Actress in a Leading Role
Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”
Directing
Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
Best Picture
“Promising Young Woman”
Matthew Schuchman :He politely declined to vote because some of the Oscar Nominees that he had not seen and would not be fair judges for the selection.