The Oscar Narrative: Final Nomination Predictions - Best Original Score, Original Song, Sound, and Visual Effects

Best Original Score

Justin Hurwitz "Babylon"

Carter Burwell "The Banshees of Inisherin" 

John Williams "The Fabelmans"

Alexandre Desplat "Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio"

Hildur Guðnadóttir "Women Talking"

Other Contenders - Son Lux "Everything Everywhere All at Once", Volker Bertelmann "All Quiet on the Western Front", Ludwig Göransson "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever", Terence Blanchard "The Woman King", Nicholas Britell "She Said", Simon Franglen "Avatar: The Way of Water"

Best Original Song

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - Lift Me Up

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio - Ciao Papa

RRR - Naatu Naatu

Top Gun: Maverick - Hold My Hand

The Voice of Dust and Ash - Dust and Ash

Other Contenders - Tell it Like a Woman - Applause, Avatar: The Way of Water - You Give Me Strength, Till - Stand Up, Where the Crawdads Sing - Carolina, A Man Called Otto - Till You're Home, Spirited - Good Afternoon, Everything Everywhere All at Once - This is Life

Best Sound

All Quiet on the Western Front

Avatar: The Way of Water

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Top Gun: Maverick

Other Contenders - The Batman, Babylon, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Moonage Daydream, Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

Best Visual Effects

All Quiet on the Western Front

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Batman

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Top Gun: Maverick

Other Contenders - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Jurassic World: Dominion, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Nope, Thirteen Lives