Oscar 2021: Top Category Predictions for 93rd Academy Awards

CHICAGO – Predicting the Oscars is like going on a blind date. You really don’t know what’s going to happen, and often you’re humiliated to boot. But here goes Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, along with one million other online prognosticators. The 93rd Academy Awards are Sunday, April 25th, 2021, in Hollywood.



Through the last five weeks on the Morning Mess, WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on the Scott Thompson Show, McDonald put the Swami on for the top categories at Sunday’s ceremony … Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Picture (with a bonus Best Director prediction).

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Before the big 2021 prediction video below how about some appropriate quotes about the Academy Awards …

“Nothing can take the sting off the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues.” ~ Billy Crystal

The best thing that winning those Academy Awards things are … is that when I say some of my ideas, somebody’s going to listen to it, and they’ll preface what I say, ‘Academy Award winner da-da-da-da-da.’ ~ Haskell Wexler

“Things with my Dad [Ryan O’Neal] were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.” ~ Tatum O’Neal

“Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar” ~ Dean Cavanagh 


Here are the 2021 Oscar predictions of Patrick McDonald on WBGR-FM …

Filling out an entire ballot (23 categories)? Go to PAGE TWO for the latest odds for the rest of the Oscar 2021 field …

Best Original Screenplay                                
Promising Young Woman   2/11
The Trial of the Chicago 7  5/2
Minari   14/1
Judas and the Black Messiah  33/1
Sound of Metal  33/1
 
Best Adapted Screenplay                               
Nomadland   1/3
The Father   11/4
Borat Subsequent Movie Film  7/1
One Night in Miami   12/1
The White Tiger   25/1
                                   
Best Animated Feature Film                           
Soul  1/40
Wolfwalkers   15/2
Onward   14/1
Over the Moon  16/1
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon 25/1
                                   
Best Documentary Feature                             
My Octopus Teacher  4/11
Time  11/4
Crip Camp  7/1
Collective  9/1
The Mole Agent   33/1
                       
Best International Feature Film                                  
Another Round   1/15
Quo Vadis, Aida?   6/1
Collective   9/1
Better Days  20/1
The Man Who Sold His Skin  33/1

Best Live Action Short Film                                  
The Letter Room   71/20
Two Distant Stranger  18/5
The Present   4/1
Feeling Through   9/2
White Eye  9/2

Best Documentary Short Film                               
A Love Song for Latasha  17/5
A Concerto is a Conversation   19/5
Collette  4/1
Do Not Split   9/2
Hunger Ward  9/2

Best Animated Short Film                              
If Anything Happens I Love You   31/10
Burrow   4/1
Genius Loci   4/1
If Anything Happens I Love You   31/10
Opera  9/2
Yes-People  9/2
 
Best Cinematography                         
Nomadland   2/7
Mank  9/4
News of the World  14/1
Judas and the Black Messiah  16/1
The Trial of the Chicago 7  20/1
                                   
Best Film Editing                                
The Trial of the Chicago 7  5/6
Sound of Metal  10/11
Nomadland  15/2
The Father  22/1
Promising Young Woman  33/1
           
Best Original Score                            
Soul   1/25
Mank   6/1
Minari   2/1
Da 5 Bloods  25/1
News of the World  25/1
                                   
Best Original Song                             
Speak Now   5/8
lo Si   5/2
Husavik   11/4
Fight For You   20/1
Hear My Voice   25/1
                                   
Best Sound                             
Sound of Metal    1/40     
Mank  9/1
Soul   9/1
Greyhound   25/1
News of the World   25/1
                                   
Best Visual Effects                              
Tenet    1/6
The Midnight Sky   11/4
Mulan   16/1
Love and Monsters   25/1
The One and Only Ivan   28/1
                       
Best Production Design                                  
Mank  1/9
Ma Raineys Black Bottom  6/1
Tenet   9/1
The Father  16/1
News of the World  18/1
                                               
Best Costume Design                         
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom   1/2
Emma   9/5
Mank  11/2
Pinocchio  16/1
Mulan  33/1
                       
Best Makeup and Hairstyling                          
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom  1/4
Pinocchio  4/1
Hillbilly Elegy  7/1
Emma   14/1
Mank   14/1

[28]	By PATRICK McDONALD [29] Editor, Film Writer HollywoodChicago.com pat@hollywoodchicago.com [28]