Final Predictions for the 94th Academy Award Nominations
On Tuesday, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will unveil their nominations for the 94th Annual Academy Awards. With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to upend the movie industry and massive changes to related awards shows, this awards season is wildly unpredictable. Here, I take a deep dive into the races for the top 8 awards.
Last year’s Academy Awards ceremony was a case of co-existing extremes. The top winners were richly deserving and inspired, with Nomadland, The Father, Minari, Judas and the Black Messiah, and Promising Young Woman splitting the top 8 awards. However, the ceremony was among the worst ever and it wasn’t the limitations imposed by COVID that made it so. Rather, it was notably misguided creative decisions. (Click here to read my review of last year’s ceremony and more about my take on the winners.)
When last year’s Academy Awards were finally held, many assumed that things would return to “business as usual” this year. But that is most definitely not the case. The pandemic continues to rage on, disrupting production and release timelines and fundamentally altering how people consumed weightier, prestigious films. With older audiences avoiding theaters like the plague (literally), the majority of Oscar…
