Oscars Nominations: Best Picture Prediction

On January 11th, one day after The Golden Globes, the Oscar nominations opened up, marking the halfway of the awards season! And today the announcements have been finally made.  As a movie lover and as someone who has watched all of them I’m really excited for that. First of, big congrats to Cuban-Spanish Ana de Armas for her first Oscar nomination for Blonde!

And here you are our predictuions for Best Picture!

• Women Talking:  This is a very harsh drama about a group of women who have been assaulted and oppressed in a Bolivian Mennonite colony. Even though is a very dark subject, the movie does a great job of not focusing on the horror of the rapes and assaults but on what the women did in response; one of them, Ona, played by Rooney Mara proposes a very radical idea for someone who has never known anything better. What if the women leave the colony and begin a new life somewhere else? Great cast and relevant with the #metoo movement, however, it has very low probabilities of winning the Oscar.
• The Banshees of Inisherin: Very slow and European, this is a very cute story of a friendship going south abruptly in a small Irish town and the consequences they might experience this movie is a strong contender, in my opinion the winner.
• Top Gun: Maverick: With an almost a 100% in Rotten Tomatoes from from audience and critics, this action-packed movie is one of the biggest blockbusters of the year. However, it’s not the type of movie to win the Oscar.
• Everything Everywhere All At Once: The weirdest yet most intriguing movie of the year, this is actually a stronger contender as well. Directed by the “Daniels”, it’s a movie packed with poignant themes as regret and what happens when parents put their frustrations on their kids in the most absurd possible way. Fun to watch, a bit too absurd in some moments, but overall a movie that has been being loved by everyone. This is my second choice for Best Picture.
• Triangle of Sadness: A social commentary with a that shows that illustrates Gandhi’s sentence When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money. 
• The Fabelmans. Part biopic, part fictions, it’s a cute movie inspired by Spielbergs own childhood. But an Oscar winning one? We’ll see.
• All Quiet On The Western Front. A German epic anti-war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.
• Avatar: The Way of Water: The stunning sequel directed by James Cameron certainly deserves the nomination for being visually the most curated and beautifully movie of the year. However the narrative it is very average.
• Elvis: The biopic of the rockstar by Austin Butler will most likely get him the award for Best Actor but won’t win this one.
• Tar: Aside from being Cate Blanchet’s lifetime performance as Lydia Tar, the movie drags for trying to be too self-important. No one has seen it so definitely won’t win.