2025 Oscar Favorites

Best Picture Power Rankings from
the December 20, 2024 Big Picture Podcast

1. ✔ Anora
2. ✔ Conclave
3. ✔ Wicked Part One
4. ✔ The Brualist
5. ✔ Emilia Perez
6. ✔ Sing Sing
7. ✔ Dune Part 2
8. ✔ A Complete Unknown
9. ✔ A Real Pain
10. Nickel Boys


Top Ten Oscars List from the November 15, 2024 Big Picture Podcast
1. ✔ Anora
2. ✔ Conclave
3. ✔ The Brutalist
4. ✔ Emelia Perez
5. ✔ Wicked, Part One
6. ✔ Dune, Part Two
7. ✔ A Real Pain
8. ✔ Blitz
9. ✔ Sing Sing
10. ✔ The Substance


Top Ten Oscars List from the October 22, 2024 Big Picture Podcast
1. ✔ Anora
2. ✔ Emelia Perez
3. ✔ The Brutalist
4. ✔ Conclave
5. ✔ Dune Part Two
6. ✔ A Real Pain
7. Gladiator
8. Piano Lesson
9. September 5th
10. Nickel Boys


September 3, 2024 - The Big Picture Podcast
✔ Dune 2
✔ Anora
✔ Sing Sing
✔ Emilia Perez
✔ Conclave
Gladiator II
The Piano Lesson
✔ Saturday Night
✔ A Complete Unknown
✔ Blitz
Challengers
✔ The Brutalist
Joker: Folie à Deux
✔ Wicked Part One
Nosferatu

Gold Derby predictions as of July 18, 2024
The current Goldderby Predictions are here.

BEST PICTURE

1. ✔ Sing Sing
2. ✔ Dune: Part Two
3. ✔ Blitz
4. ✔ Anora
5. ✔ Conclave
6. ✔ Emilia Perez
7. Joker: Folie à Deux
8. Nickel Boys - December 13, 2024
9. Gladiator II
10. ✔ A Real Pain

Predicted Spoilers: The Piano Lesson (December 2024), Hard Truths (October 18, 2024), The Seed of the Sacred Fig (in France on September 18, 2024), ✔ Wicked, Nightbitch (December 6, 2024)


BEST ACTRESS

1. Amy Adams - Nightbitch - December 6, 2024
2. ✔ Mikey Madison - Anora
3. ✔ Saoirse Ronan - Blitz
4. Lady Gaga - Joker: Folie à Deux
5. ✔ Karla Sofia Gascon - Emilia Perez

Predicted Spoilers: Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Hard Truths”), Tilda Swinton (“The Room Next Door”), June Squibb (“Thelma”), Saoirse Ronan (“The Outrun”), ✔ Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”)


BEST ACTOR

1. ✔ Colman Domingo - Sing Sing
2. ✔ Ralph Fiennes - Conclave
3. Joaquin Phoenix - Joker: Folie à Deux
4. John David Washington - The Piano Lesson
5. Paul Mescal - Gladiator II

Predicted Spoilers: Sebastian Stan (“A Different Man”), Nicholas Hoult (“Juror #2”), Jesse Plemons (“Kinds of Kindness”), Andrew Garfield (“We Live in Time”), Ethan Herisse (“Nickel Boys”)


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Danielle Deadwyler - The Piano Lesson
2. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor - Nickel Boys
3. ✔ Zoe Saldana - Emilia Perez
4. ✔ Isabella Rossellini - Conclave
5. Toni Collette - Juror #2”

Predicted Spoilers: Julianne Moore (“The Room Next Door”), Joan Chen (“Didi”), Selena Gomez (“Emilia Perez”), Carrie Coon (“His Three Daughters”), Margaret Qualley (“The Substance”)


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Samuel L. Jackson - The Piano Lesson
2. ✔ Clarence Maclin - Sing Sing
3. ✔ Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain
4. ✔ Stanley Tucci - Conclave
5. Denzel Washington - Gladiator II

Predicted Spoilers: John Lithgow (“Conclave”), Harris Dickinson (“Blitz”), Paul Raci (“Sing Sing”), Pedro Pascal (“Gladiator II”), Mark Eydelshteyn (“Anora”)


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

1. ✔ Sing Sing
2. ✔ Conclave
3. Nickel Boys
4. Nightbitch
5. ✔ Dune: Part Two

Predicted Spoilers: “The Piano Lesson,” “Hit Man,” “Joker: Folie à Deux,” “Gladiator II,” “Here”


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

1. ✔ Anora
2. ✔ Blitz
3. ✔ A Real Pain
4. Hard Truths
5. ✔ Emilia Perez

Predicted Spoilers: “The Room Next Door,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” “The Substance,” “Juror #2,” “Challengers”


BEST DIRECTOR

1. ✔ Steve McQueen - Blitz
2. ✔ Sean Baker - Anora
3. ✔ Denis Villeneuve - Dune: Part Two
4. ✔ Edward Berger - Conclave
5. ✔ Greg Kwedar - Sing Sing

Predicted Spoilers: Ridley Scott (“Gladiator II”), Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Perez”), Mohammad Rasoulof (“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”), Todd Phillips (“Joker: Folie à Deux”), Marielle Heller (“Nightbitch”)