Oscar 2021: Top Category Predictions for 93rd Academy Awards

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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

By PATRICK McDONALD Editor, Film Writer HollywoodChicago.com pat@hollywoodchicago.com