First 2025 Nomination Predictions
Sean Baker "Anora"
Steve McQueen "Blitz"
James Mangold "A Complete Unknown"
Edward Berger "Conclave"
Ridley Scott "Gladiator II"
Other Contenders - Denis Villeneuve "Dune", Todd Phillips "Joker: Folie à Deux", Jacques Audiard "Emilia Perez", Luca Guadagnino "Queer", John M. Chu "Wicked", RaMell Ross "Nickel Boys", Pedro Almodovar "The Room Next Door", Yorgos Lanthimos "Kinds of Kindness", Mohammad Rasoulof "The Seed of the Sacred Fig", Malcolm Washington "The Piano Lesson", George Miller "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga", Jason Reitman "Saturday Night", Luca Guadagnino "Challengers", Azazel Jacobs "His Three Daughters", Andrea Arnold "Bird", Marielle Heller "Nightbitch", William Goldenberg "Unstoppable", Joshua Oppenheimer "The End", Brady Corbet "The Brutalist", Mike Leigh "Hard Truths", Richard Linklater "Hit Man", Greg Kwedar "Sing Sing", Tim Fehlbaum "September 5", Payal Kapadia "All We Imagine As Light", Robert Zemeckis "Here", Rachel Morrsion "The Fire Inside", John Crowley "We Live in Time", Franics Ford Coppola "Megalopolis", Clint Eastwood "Juror #2"
Commentary - For my starting five, I am going with the legend Ridley Scott (returning with the sequel to a Best Picture winner), previous nominee Steve McQueen, James Mangold (Maybe finally with a Bob Dylan biopic), Edward Berger (Conclave is getting raves out of Venice), and Sean Baker, who has been flirting with Oscar success for years, and is hoping Anora is finally his ticket to to the big party. Beyond those five, we have a ton of veterans, previous nominees, etc. that are hoping to continue their success including Villeneuve, Phillips, Audiard, Guadagnino, Miller, Lanthimos, Almodovar, Reitman, Arnold, Heller, Leigh, Linklater, Zemeckis, Coppola, Eastwood, and Crowley. Add onto those newcomers, interesting international names, and underground favorites like Chu, Rasoulof, Ross, Washington, Goldenberg, Oppenheimer, Corbet, Kwedar, Jacobs, Fehlbaum, Kapadia, and Morrison and you have quite a race.
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