HOLLYWOOD, CA — The 95th Academy Awards will take place Sunday night in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements for the year 2022. So, get ready to celebrate Hollywood’s biggest night and see if your predictions hit the mark.
But first, is your bubbly ready?
Will the juggernaut nomination leader "Everything Everywhere All at Once" win Best Picture? Or will the epic “All Quiet on the Western Front” prevail, instead, to win the Academy’s most coveted prize? Will Austin Butler, Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jaimee Lee Curtis win the evening’s top acting prizes? We’re all dying to find out.
In the meantime, we have compiled a breakdown of our own Oscar winner predictions in all 23 categories.
2023 Oscar Winner Predictions
Best Picture
Patch Prediction: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Having swept eight of the other nine guilds, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” is well-poised to be the likeliest winner in the Best Picture category. However, the anti-war “All Quiet on the Western Front” still poses the main threat to the multiverse-spanning film due to the Academy’s controversial preferential ballot — each voter ranks the nominees in order of preference, rather than choosing only one to be the winner. In the end, the crux of the question lies in the polarizing yet crowd-pleasing nature of “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” You love the film’s baffling plot or hate it.
Patch Prediction: Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
The trailblazing auteurs Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, who go by the sobriquet Daniels, are heavily favored to take home the Oscar, having won Best Director at the Directors Guild Awards (DGA). For the past 74 years, except in seven occasions, the DGA’s top prize winner has gone on to win the Oscars’ Best Director award. Besides, auteurs — such as the likes of previous Best Director winners Jane Campion, Chloe Zhao, Bong Jon Hoo, Ang Lee, Alfonso Cuaron and A.G. Iñárritu — tend to fare better in this category.
Best Actor
Patch Prediction: Austin Butler, “Elvis”
The Best Actor race has become quite a showdown between Austin Butler in the biopic “Elvis” and Brendan Fraser in the drama-redemption “The Whale.” Butler won at the Golden Globes and BAFTA, while Fraser won at the Critics Choice and SAG Awards. Nevertheless, this award is Butler’s to lose, as he stars in a Best Picture nominated film. For the past 13 years, a Best Actor nominee from a Best Picture nominee has gone on to take home the Oscar.
Best Actress
Patch Prediction: Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Thespians Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett are both equally deserving of a win in this category. Yeoh won the Globes, SAG and Spirit Awards, while Blanchett won the Globes, Critics Choice and BAFTA. Blanchett appears to have the advantage in this category, having two prior wins in the Oscars acting categories. However, Yeoh’s win would be historic as she will be hailed as the first-ever Asian-identifying Oscar winner in the Best Actress category — so, Yeoh for the win.
Source:https://patch.com/california/hollywood/oscar-predictions-2023-who-will-win-every-category