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97th Oscars. Predictions for the Films of 2024. CEREMONY: March 2, 2025
For prediction, discussion, entertainment purposes only discuss on the blog
AND THE NOMINEES ARE...
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Stats reflect Director category only... * means they have stats in another category as well |
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Jacques Audiard |
Sean Baker ANORA |
Brady Corbet THE BRUTALIST |
Coralie Fargeat THE SUBSTANCE Mubi |
James Mangold A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
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READER'S POLL - VOTE DAILY! |
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HOW'D THEY GET NOMINATED? |
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WHO WAS LEFT OUT? |
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How close was Edward Berger (Conclave)? He's now had two Best Picture nominees that scored plentiful nominations including Best Picture but he's still on the outside looking in. Other names that felt like real possibilities included Payal Kapadia (All That We Imagine As Light), RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys) as real possibilities. But given the results of voting we wonder if Walter Salles (I'm Still Here) was not far off as well. Earlier in the season names with buzz included Pedro Almodovar (The Room Next Door), Jon M Chu (Wicked), Denis Villenueve (Dune Part Two) but they all failed to gain much traction in this category. |
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WHO WILL WIN? |
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| It's likely a race between Jacques Audiard (given the absurd amount of nominations for Emilia Perez) and actor turned director Brady Corbet for his success d'estime with The Brutalist. We're giving the edge to Corbet even if Perez takes Best Picture. | ||||
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WHO SHOULD WIN? NATHANIEL'S PICK |
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For this imaginary voter, it's a race between Sean Baker (Anora) and Brady Corbet (The Brutalist) from these five contenders. |
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TRIVIA & ANECDOTES With both Audiard and Fargeat nominated 2024 ties 1974 (50 whole years ago!) as the MOST FRENCH Best Director shortlist ever. In 1974 Roman Polanski and François Truffaut were both nominated. In no other years have two French auteurs been nominated together. |
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| Though this is Audiard's first nom that's only true technically not spiritually; his 2009 international success Un Prophete was up in Best International Feature • |
Fargeat becomes the second French woman ever nominated in this category - and just one year after the first Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall) • |
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