Everything You Need to Know About the 96th Academy Awards
On Sunday, March 10th, the long and windy road to the 96th Academy Awards come to an end when the telecast is broadcast live on ABC and Disney+. After a tumultuous few years, it appears to be a year of stability and predictability with few changes to the ceremony and a clear frontrunner in the form of Oppenheimer. Here, I preview the telecast and provide predictions for who will win in all 23 categories.
This article is about who I think will win the Oscars this year. To find out who I think should win the top Oscars this year, check out my articles ranking the four acting categories and the contenders in the screenplay, directing, and Best Picture categories.
A Brief Look Back at the Recent Oscar Telecasts
The last few years have been a wild ride in terms of Oscar ceremonies. The Academy has had to deal with the pandemic, increasingly loud demands for greater diversity, and dwindling viewership.
In a fortuitous coincidence, the 2020 Oscar ceremony was moved several weeks earlier from its original to avoid competing with the Winter Olympics. By doing so, they managed to be over and done with nearly a full month before the COVID-19 lockdown hit the U.S. That telecast certainly had its fair share of bizarre elements (like Eminem inexplicably showing up to sing his…
