1st Oscar predictions for 2021 - October 2020

 Yeah, even though the Oscars won't be taking place until April (maybe even later, depending on how things go) I want to go ahead and start my endless speculation process on what may find itself getting nominated this year in some of the major categories. Why bother? No reason. I have nothing better to do right now and I like Oscar predictions. So I'm going to leave this post untampered and come back in 6-8 months to see how it holds up. 

For my first prediction, I am going to guess that only 60% of these predictions will be accurate. This means I'm only expecting maybe three from each of my top 5s will actually get nominations. I'll calculate that later, too, so we'll just see how this goes. Why not make predictions for my predictions? I'm going full Charlie Kaufman on this, just cramming everything up its own ass until it's all too confusing for most people to understand, but that's what makes it so much fun.

The categories I will cover here are as follows:

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Director

Best Picture

10s of 2020 (pt. 2)

My 20 Favorite Oscar-less performances of the 2010s

Everyone knows the Oscars are a huge joke, with pretty much everyone who loves movies collectively mocking them every year and complaining about the boring and generic picks they make over and over again. Most of the time the movies they award don't hold up at all (Green Book, for example), and a good dose of the movies they nominate were terrible to begin with (nearly 10 years have passed and I still get unreasonably irritated at Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close somehow getting a Best Picture nomination). That being said, I still spend months every year predicting nominees and getting excited for this stupid show, just because it's one of the few widely televised and recognized celebrations of movies that we've got, and when they get things right (like Parasite), it makes me feel like there's still hope that people might not be actually getting dumber on a daily basis. 

This is all just to lead into a couple lists I wanted to make to highlight some of my favorite performances that I feel got overlooked by the Academy. I'm splitting this into two top 10s, one for the men and one for the women. I do this just to keep my list from being too much of a sausage-fest, as probably 15 of my top 20 would have been from the men's list. I'm being inclusive, everyone, look at how #woke I am.

First up, I'm gonna go over the list of my top 10 favorite female performances I felt should have been nominated for the Oscar (many of which I believe should also have won), and I will even include which category I would have put it in, and provide a nominee from said category I would have removed to make room. This is a very thorough list. Oh, except for the fact that I threw this list together in about 10 minutes and didn't bother to really dig through all the stuff I've seen to make it. So odds are I missed out on quite a few great ones, but also keep in mind this is just my opinion. Not meant to be taken seriously.