Hey everyone, I forgot to post this yesterday, mainly because I actually added this as a permanent page on the site, which you can access any time from the sidebar of the homepage. I’ll be updating it intermittently, but as promised once a month I will post them on the site so you can all see what’s changed and what’s stayed the same as award season progresses. The September version of these predictions can be found here. Here are my predicted nominees as of October 1st in all non-short categories at the 2020 Academy Awards:

Picture

1. Marriage Story
2. Ford v Ferrari 
3. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
4. The Irishman
5. Little Women
6. 1917
7. Jojo Rabbit
8. The Farewell
9. Parasite
10. Waves

Director

1. Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story)
2. Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)
3. Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood)
4. Sam Mendes (1917)
5. Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)

Actress

1. Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story)
2. Saoirse Ronan (Little Women)
3. Renée Zellweger (Judy)
4. Cynthia Erivo (Harriet)
5. Awkwafina (The Farewell)

Supporting Actress

1. Laura Dern (Marriage Story)
2. Annette Bening (The Report)
3. Margot Robbie (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood)
4. Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers)
5. Zhao Shuzhen (The Farewell)

Actor

1. Adam Driver (Marriage Story)
2. Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood)
3. Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes)
4. Robert De Niro (The Irishman)
5. Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)

Supporting Actor

1. Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood)
2. Brad Pitt (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood)
3. Jamie Foxx (Just Mercy)
4. Sterling K. Brown (Waves)
5. Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes)

Adapted Screenplay

1. Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
2. Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)
3. The Irishman (Steven Zaillian)
4. A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood (Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster)
5. The Two Popes (Anthony McCarten)

Original Screenplay

1. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
2. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won)
4. The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
5. Knives Out (Rian Johnson)

Cinematography

1. 1917 (Roger Deakins)
2. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Robert Richardson)
3. Ford v Ferrari (Phedon Papamichael)
4. Ad Astra (Hoyte can Hoytema)
5. A Hidden Life (Jörg Widmer)

Editing

1. Ford v Ferrari (Andrew Buckland & John-Henry Butterworth)
2. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Fred Raskin)
3. 1917 (Lee Smith)
4. The Irishman (Thelma Schoonmaker)
5. Marriage Story (Jennifer Lane)

International Feature

1. Parasite
2. Pain and Glory
3. Les Misérables
4. Monos
5. Ema

Documentary Feature

1. Apollo 11
2. Maiden
3. The Cave
4. Honeyland
5. Knock Down The House

Animated Feature

1. Toy Story 4
2. Frozen 2
3. How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
4. The Addams Family
5. Weathering With You

Production Design

1. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
2. A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
3. The Irishman
4. 1917
5. Ad Astra

Costume Design

1. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
2. Little Women
3. Dolemite Is My Name
4. Joker
5. Rocketman

Makeup & Hairstyling

1. Bombshell
2. Dolemite Is My Name
3.  Joker
4. Little Women
5. Rocketman

Visual Effects

1. The Irishman
2. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
3. The Lion King
4. Avengers: Endgame
5. Ad Astra

Sound Editing

1. 1917
2. Ford v Ferrari
3. Ad Astra
4. The Irishman
5. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Sound Mixing

1. 1917
2. Ford v Ferrari
3. Ad Astra
4. Judy
5. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Original Score

1. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (John Williams)
2. Marriage Story (Randy Newman)
3. Little Women (Alexandre Desplat)
4. Ford v Ferrari (Marco Beltrami)
5. A Hidden Life (James Newton Howard)

Original Song

1. Into The Unknown (Frozen 2)
2. Spirit (The Lion King)
3. Speechless (Aladdin)
4. Glasgow (No Place Like Home) (Wild Rose)
5. (I’m Gonna) Love Me Again (Rocketman)
   

Current tally (more than one nomination):

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: 9
The Irishman: 8
Marriage Story: 8
1917: 7
Ad Astra: 5
Ford v Ferrari: 5
Little Women: 5
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: 4
A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood: 3
The Farewell: 3
Joker: 3
Rocketman: 3
The Two Popes: 3
Dolemite Is My Name: 2
Frozen 2: 2
Jojo Rabbit: 2
The Lion King: 2
Parasite: 2
Waves: 2