Advertisement
Sinners up against One Battle After Another for best picture at the Academy Awards
Many categories at the coming Academy Awards are hard to predict, but there are some firm favourites for best picture, actor and actress
2-MIN READ2-MIN
1
Listen
Top names in Hollywood will gather on March 15 to hand out the annual Academy Awards at a red-carpet ceremony brimming with drama in the major races.
One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a one-time political radical now parenting a teenager, was seen as the front runner for the coveted best picture prize after stacking up trophy after trophy at recent ceremonies.
The vampire story Sinners, a celebration of blues music and black culture in the segregation-era US South, made a late surge with a win at the Actor Awards on March 1. It leads with 16 nominations, a record number in the nearly 100-year history of the Oscars.
Advertisement
Jessie Buckley is seen as a sure thing for best actress. She is nominated for playing Agnes Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, as the couple navigate the death of their 11-year-old son in Hamnet.
The remainder of the top categories have no clear front-runner, according to Hollywood awards watchers.
Among the top awards, “five of the six seem to be up in the air which is extremely rare”, says Scott Feinberg, executive editor of awards at The Hollywood Reporter.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Select Voice
Select Speed
1.00x