The 2025 Academy Awards: Thoughts and Predictions

Best Documentary Feature: The documentary category always puzzles but I’ll go with the film that seems to be most relevant.

The Nominees: Black Box Diaries, No Other Land, Porcelain War, Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat, Sugarcane

Will Win: Porcelain War

Should Win: Porcelain War

Best Documentary Short Subject: I honestly have no idea here. Maybe my 1/5 guess will be correct.

The Nominees: Death By Numbers, I Am Ready Warden, Incident, Instruments of a Beating Heart, The Only Girl in the Orchestra

Will Win: I Am Ready Warden

Best Supporting Actress: Emilia Perez isn’t going to win much, but this should be one of the lone bright spots for the divisive film for the evening. It helps that the category is very weak this year.

The Nominees: Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown), Ariana  Grande (Wicked), Felicity Jones (The Brutalist), Isabella Rossellini (Conclave), Zoe Saldana (Emilia Perez)

Will Win: Zoe Saldana (Emilia Perez)

Should Win: Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown)

Best Sound: Science Fiction and loud and creating sounds that don’t exist. Why wouldn’t it win?

The Nominees: A Complete Unknown, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Perez, Wicked, The Wild Robot

Will Win: Dune: Part Two

Should Win: Dune: Part Two

Best Cinematography: The most loaded category of the evening where every single nominee simply looks gorgeous, my pick is the film that captures the way movies used to look before everything got too saturated and pretty and clean.

The Nominees: The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Perez, Maria, Nosferatu

Will Win: The Brutalist

Should Win: The Brutalist

Best Film Editing: Anora is A LOT of movie, at times feeling way too long than it deserves to be, but there are a few strokes of genius when it comes to the way the movie moves.

The Nominees: Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, Emilia Perez, Wicked

Will Win: Anora

Should Win: The Brutalist

Best Visual Effects: I think Dune: Part Two will repeat here but the winner should be Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. It has the best visual effects of any film to date and is on the forefront of the new frontier.

The Nominees: Alien: Romulus, Better Man, Dune: Part Two, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Wicked

Will Win: Dune: Part Two

Should Win: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

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