2020 Award Season is done, and it is time to ring in a new year of films, and a new crop of movies that could be talked about all year long. I know these picks are incredibly early and highly uneducated (I am basically throwing darts at a board). I know that some of these films might end up flopping and get very little, to absolutely no, awards season love (last year I pegged Harriet to come away with countless awards). I also understand some people might not end up being in these positions (ex. I have a lead who is really a supporting). Whatever the case, here is who I think, AT THIS MOMENT, will be nominated and win Awards next season.

*Disclaimer: I have not seen any of these movies, so all of these predictions are going solely on gut feeling.

*Runner-Ups are in no particular order, I just put them as I thought of them.

Best Picture

Winner: Minari

Runner-Ups:

• The Trial of the Chicago 7
• West Side Story
• The French Dispatch
• Tenet
• Dune
• Mank
• Da 5 Bloods
• Nightmare Alley
• Hillbilly Elegy

Best Director

Winner: Dennis Villeneuve – Dune

Runner-Ups:

• Spike Lee – Da 5 Bloods
• Christopher Nolan – Tenet
• Steven Speilberg – West Side Story
• David Fincher – Mank

Best Actor

Winner: Winston Duke – Nine Days

Runner-Ups:

• Ansel Elgort – West Side Story
• Steven Yeun – Minari
• Anthony Hopkins – The Father
• Gary Oldman – Mank

Best Actress

Winner: Amy Adams – Hillbilly Elegy

Runner-Ups:

• Rebecca Ferguson – Dune
• Rachel Zegler – West Side Story
• Jennifer Hudson – Respect
• Cate Blanchett – Nightmare Alley

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Bill Murray – On the Rocks

Runner-Ups:

• Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Jonathan Majors – Da 5 Bloods
• Timothee Chalamet – Dune/The French Dispatch
• Chadwick Boseman – Da 5 Bloods

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Saoirse Ronan – Ammonite/The French Dispatch

Runner-Ups:

• Glenn Close – Hillbilly Elegy
• Thomasin McKenzie – The Last Night in Soho
• Rooney Mara – Nightmare Alley
• Rita Moreno – West Side Story

Best Original Screenplay

Winner: Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Runner-Ups:

• Christopher Nolan – Tenet
• Edgar Wright, Krysty Wilson-Cairns – The Last Night in Soho
• Wes Anderson – The French Dispatch
• Spike Lee, Kevin Willmott – Da 5 Bloods

Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner: Tony Kushner – West Side Story

Runner-Ups:

• Eric Roth, Dennis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts – Dune
• Vanessa Taylor – Hillbilly Elegy
• Kim Morgan, Guillermo del Torro – Nightmare Alley
• Luke Davies – News of the World

Best Animated Feature

Winner: Soul

Runner-Ups:

• SCOOB!
• The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
• Onward
• Raya and the Last Dragon

Find me on twitter and agree, argue, whatever with me on who you think will get the recognition come this awards season. I cannot wait to find out how right, or most likely wrong, these predictions turn out to be!

Jacob is a film critic and co-founder of the Music City Drive-In. He is a member of the Music City Film Critics’ Association and specializes in the awards season. You can find him on Twitter @Tberry57.