Pop Altar’s Totally Shaky 91st Academy Award Predictions
Welcome to Pop Altar’s 2nd annual Oscar predictions, which by comparison to last year’s mildly confident predictions (where I only got four wrong), are undeniably wobbly this time around, and have the consistency of jello that’s been sitting out in the sun for about 2 hours.
To be honest, I haven’t really seen a Best Picture field this wide open in recent memory, and I’ve been following the Oscars pretty damn closely since I was but a wee little thing in the 80’s. With the wild disparity in who’s won the various critics awards, guild awards, Golden Globes Awards, and the SAG Awards, it really is anyone’s award to win.
Except Vice. Vice won’t win.
Except makeup, maybe.
Having said that, this year’s telecast has the potential to light social media ablaze, not only with surprise winners and shocking upsets, but with haughty opinions about the telecast as a whole after a series of incredibly bad decisions were reversed in response to considerable backlash from industry professionals and Oscar purists alike. Yours truly included. If said bad decisions and the uproar around them is somehow a calculated way to get people to tune in to watch the potential train wreck, then it’s actually a stroke of genius, if you think about it.
Anyways, I’m stalling in starting my predictions because the sheer unpredictability of this Oscar season will most likely result in me getting MANY of these wrong. But, I’ll follow the same formula I do every year, which considers a combination of buzz, controversies, Academy politics, national politics, Academy makeup, general momentum, common sense, making voodoo dolls, and flipping coins.
And with that – here are the most tentative Oscar predictions I think that I’ve given in my long yet amateur Oscar-predicting career. Let’s just have some fun, shall we?
