We hope to have
nominations in these categories next year.
Not exact matches
The pair, who were also both nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday, are widely regarded as the favourites
in the
category and appear poised to secure Oscar
nominations when they are announced
next year.
Starting now and leading up to the 90th annual Oscars, I will be offering my final predictions
in each
category next month (ahead of the
nominations announcement on Jan. 23) and breaking down the frontrunners as well as who should and will win
in the following months.
It all comes down to the
next five days because what
nominations a film gets, how many
nominations it gets will decide whether it wins
in its chosen
categories or not.
If the picture is snubbed again
in this
category when Academy Award
nominations are announced
next Thursday it will have many believing it's a much shakier frontrunner than we believed.
12 Years a Slave will likely be landing plenty of Oscar
nominations in a number of
categories next month, so don't be surprised to see Paulson pop up
in the Best Supporting Actress
category.
His
next movie will be
in English, so he had told me late last year that this might be the Academy's last chance to give him a
nomination in the FL
category.
That means that it will qualify
in the «Best Comedy or Musical»
category at
next year's Golden Globes, should it earn the
nomination.
If The Jungle Book could win the Visual Effects Oscar nearly a year after opening and Cinderella could land a Costume Design
nomination a year earlier, then it stands to reason that this opulent and no doubt commercially potent Beauty and the Beast can be remembered
in some technical
categories next award season.