2021 Oscar Preview with Chris & Ron [Exclusive]

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Introduction from Mr. Eaves:

I will always remember the night the State Lock Down announcements began. It was March 11^th, 2020 and I was at the Rose Garden (Moda Center) in Portland, Oregon. My friend Brice had gifted me a ticket to see Tool with him – a band I have loved since Jr. High but had never found an opportunity to see perform live. An exceedingly kind gesture and one I will always treasure. The show was a mesmerizing spectacle of sound and sight collectively experienced by 20,000 people. A soul shocking juxtaposition slamming right into the coming uncertainty and isolation of the developing pandemic. What would ultimately become a Marathon without mile markers.

The first people to feel the pains of the Lock Down were those who operated our favorite neighborhood establishments. The places we seek out, to hang out, with our friends and family, build comradery and share experiences with each other. Our favorite restaurant, the Friday night movie theater and the local music venue all shuttered their doors. Somethings’ importance is not easily recognized until it is no longer around. How important these neighborhood institutions are to our culture and fueling our humanity.

The first few weeks of the pandemic carried a sense of optimism as we worked to flatten the infection curve. Although, weeks turned into months and waves 2 and 3 began hammering our cities. What we had thought and naively hoped for early on was a quick return to the old world, instead, missed the stealthily acceleration of convenience into our homes. And as the world stayed at home the streaming of content presented an opportunity for most to find moments of escapist entertainment.

We all learned about Tiger King and how Nicolas Cage would star in the film adaptation. Disney+ returned us to a past, and frankly quaint, approach to television, with their crazy notion of releasing a single episode each week. Disney+ dominated the pop culture conversation for weeks on end with The Mandalorian, WandaVision and The Falcon & the Winter Soldier. Warner Brothers decided to release all their Feature Films onto HBO Max at only 14.99 a month without informing their movie creators. And “The Snyder Cut” was finally released digitally after only a small additional 70-million-dollar investment and three years of Twitter outrage. Streaming became the race to acquire new Subscribers at all costs via fracturing content into hundreds of new Fill-In-The-Blank + apps.

Everything is so convenient now. Restaurant food delivered right to your front door. Groceries delivered right to your front door. Pencils and pressure washers delivered right to your front door. A new car delivered and parked right in your driveway. I just refinanced my home via signing all my documents with an E-Signature. And this is such a sorrowful notation for me. In person interactions create empathy. Human contact builds empathy just like a bench press builds muscular strength. Empathy requires practice and work, or it will wither away. Convenience has its cost. And this is coming from an introvert who conceals his anxiety.

If you have made it this far you are probably wondering why I am rambling on like this for an Academy Award Ballet Prediction write up. The Movies are cultural markers. They shine a light on our accomplishments as well as our tragedies. The Movies make us laugh and they make us weep. Movies are wonderful empathy machines. And the medium of theaters is an institution for building empathy through collective experience. A comedy is never as funny as when you watch it with a group of people fueling each other’s enjoyment.

The Theater Experience is like a restaurant or a music hall or a museum or an air show or a dozen other similar places. A place for us to share experience with one another and to experience the humanity within each other’s unique perspectives. These places are our cultural watering holes. While 2020 delivered an overabundance of collective pain and hardships, it also isolated us from one another and allowed for are more devilish instincts to bubble to the surface.

Late showing summer movies are my favorite experience. When the theater house lights come up and everyone starts looking around the auditorium, reading each other’s experiences across their faces. Some people clapping and others laughing. People slowly start to rustle their way towards the lobby. Small groups form up to talk about what they just witnessed. And my absolute favorite feeling – the rush of warm summer air upon my face as we step out of the air-conditioned lobby, the last bits of orange twilight shining above the horizon line. The conversations of the lobby have continued out under the Marquee and then meander their way out into the parking lot. All our social institutions have these similar kinds of experiences.

The theater experience will not be snuffed out by 2020 but it will forever be changed. The prerequisite for an OSCAR qualification is a theatrical release. The 2021 Academy Awards have made the exception for streaming nominations if the film had a planned theatrical release prior to the Lock Down. And as Subscription continues to dominate and watching from home continues to grow, the weight of Netflix, Amazon Prime and HBO Max’s consolidation of power over the Theatrical Exhibitionists of AMC, Regal, Cinemark and NATO (National Association of Theater Owners) will undoubtedly lead to more changes in how the Academy will operate. The theater will not die but the power of the theater has greatly diminished like an old bulb of a projector.

My goal was not to be a downer on the subject. Chloé Zhao and Nomadland deserve to win big this year! Zhao captures the complexities of humanity without judgment. Chadwick Boseman will win posthumously. Judas and the Black Messiah is a positive kick to the soul and should also win big. Delroy Lindo’s snub for Best Actor is nothing less than outrageous and a front to his craft. A few of the nominated films received limited releases but most found their way onto Premium Streaming VOD Platforms to which like most years most people still did not watch.

Cinema is a medium of storytelling. At one point Movie Palaces sold out 5,000 seat auditoriums each night before television found its way into every home. But what makes the act of Cinema so powerful was the experience of witnessing the spectacle of sight and sound collectively. Without the human interaction, a movie struggles to be more than just flickering light. Of course, a film will still affect you at home, but the reinforcement of the experience will solidify it as part of you. Just like that kind gesture of my friend Brice to see Tool with him. Just like the time Ron, I, Adam, Mike and Tyler all saw the Midnight showing of Inglourious Basterds (2009) at Cinetopia and Mike yelled out “Oh Fuck” after Hitler got blow away (because that is always the correct response after that scene). Or the first date I had with my wife to see The Hangover (2009). Or the time I saw the unforgivable trash heap that was Independence Day 2 (2016) with Adam, Cody, Brett, and Zac. Sharing the misery of that bullshit with those Sirs brought me so much joy. If I had watched Resurgence at home, it would have just been another forgotten memory.

The world is changing. We have been on this path for a while and 2020 simply accelerated its pace. Please keep watching movies. It is okay to watch movies at home. But remember why we watch movies. We watch to experience these emotions with other people. We still want to connect with people. And if the opportunity arises, please support your local theater. I hope to see you in the lobby and want to hear all about what you experienced. Until then – safe journey.

Introduction from Mr. Trembath:

Fuck COVID. Let’s all go the movies (soon?). Also Trial of the Chicago 7 was absolute trash. I recommend the 3 part podcast episode that our friends at The Dollop about Abbie Hoffman. And get vaccinated. NOW.

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BEST PICTURE

THE FATHER – David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi and Philippe Carcassonne, Producers

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH – Shaka King, Charles D. King and Ryan Coogler, Producers

MANK – Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth and Douglas Urbanski, Producers

MINARI – Christina Oh, Producer

NOMADLAND – Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey and Chloé Zhao, Producers

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN – Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell and Josey McNamara, Producers

SOUND OF METAL – Bert Hamelinck and Sacha Ben Harroche, Producers

THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – Marc Platt and Stuart Besser, Producers

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

NOMADLAND

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN: 

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

NOMADLAND

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN: 

NOMADLAND

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

RIZ AHMED – Sound of Metal

CHADWICK BOSEMAN – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

ANTHONY HOPKINS – The Father

GARY OLDMAN – Mank

STEVEN YEUN – Minari

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

DELROY LINDO – Da 5 Bloods (Write In)

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN: 

CHADWICK BOSEMAN – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

CHADWICK BOSEMAN – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN: 

CHADWICK BOSEMAN – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

SACHA BARON COHEN – The Trial of the Chicago 7

DANIEL KALUUYA – Judas and the Black Messiah

LESLIE ODOM, JR. – One Night in Miami…

PAUL RACI – Sound of Metal

LAKEITH STANFIELD – Judas and the Black Messiah

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

DANIEL KALUUYA – Judas and the Black Messiah

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

DANIEL KALUUYA – Judas and the Black Messiah

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

DANIEL KALUUYA – Judas and the Black Messiah

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

DANIEL KALUUYA – Judas and the Black Messiah

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

VIOLA DAVIS – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

ANDRA DAY – The United States vs. Billie Holiday

VANESSA KIRBY – Pieces of a Woman

FRANCES MCDORMAND – Nomadland

CAREY MULLIGAN – Promising Young Woman

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

ANDRA DAY – The United States vs. Billie Holiday

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

VIOLA DAVIS – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

FRANCES MCDORMAND – Nomadland

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

FRANCES MCDORMAND – Nomadland

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

MARIA BAKALOVA – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

GLENN CLOSE – Hillbilly Elegy

OLIVIA COLMAN – The Father

AMANDA SEYFRIED – Mank

YUH-JUNG YOUN – Minari

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

MARIA BAKALOVA – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

MARIA BAKALOVA – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

AMANDA SEYFRIED – Mank

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

MARIA BAKALOVA – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

ONWARD – Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae

OVER THE MOON – Glen Keane, Gennie Rim and Peilin Chou

A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON – Richard Phelan, Will Becher and Paul Kewley

SOUL – Pete Docter and Dana Murray

WOLFWALKERS – Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Paul Young and Stéphan Roelants

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

SOUL – Pete Docter and Dana Murray

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

SOUL – Pete Docter and Dana Murray

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

SOUL – Pete Docter and Dana Murray

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

SOUL – Pete Docter and Dana Murray

CINEMATOGRAPHY

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH – Sean Bobbitt

MANK – Erik Messerschmidt

NEWS OF THE WORLD – Dariusz Wolski

NOMADLAND – Joshua James Richards

THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – Phedon Papamichael

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

MANK – Erik Messerschmidt

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH – Sean Bobbitt

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

MANK – Erik Messerschmidt

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

NOMADLAND – Joshua James Richards

COSTUME DESIGN

EMMA – Alexandra Byrne

MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM – Ann Roth

MANK – Trish Summerville

MULAN – Bina Daigeler

PINOCCHIO – Massimo Cantini Parrini

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

MANK – Trish Summerville

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM – Ann Roth

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

MANK – Trish Summerville

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM – Ann Roth

DIRECTING

ANOTHER ROUND – Thomas Vinterberg

MANK – David Fincher

MINARI – Lee Isaac Chung

NOMADLAND – Chloé Zhao

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN – Emerald Fennell

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

NOMADLAND – Chloé Zhao

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN – Emerald Fennell

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

NOMADLAND – Chloé Zhao

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

NOMADLAND – Chloé Zhao

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

COLLECTIVE – Alexander Nanau and Bianca Oana

CRIP CAMP – Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht and Sara Bolder

THE MOLE AGENT – Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibáñez

MY OCTOPUS TEACHER – Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster

TIME – Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino and Kellen Quinn

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

MY OCTOPUS TEACHER – Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

CRIP CAMP – Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht and Sara Bolder

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

MY OCTOPUS TEACHER – Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

MY OCTOPUS TEACHER – Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

COLETTE – Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard

A CONCERTO IS A CONVERSATION – Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers

DO NOT SPLIT – Anders Hammer and Charlotte Cook

HUNGER WARD – Skye Fitzgerald and Michael Scheuerman

A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA – Sophia Nahli Allison and Janice Duncan

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA – Sophia Nahli Allison and Janice Duncan

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA – Sophia Nahli Allison and Janice Duncan

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA – Sophia Nahli Allison and Janice Duncan

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

A CONCERTO IS A CONVERSATION – Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers

FILM EDITING

THE FATHER – Yorgos Lamprinos

NOMADLAND – Chloé Zhao

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN – Frédéric Thoraval

SOUND OF METAL – Mikkel E. G. Nielsen

THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – Alan Baumgarten

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

SOUND OF METAL – Mikkel E. G. Nielsen

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

SOUND OF METAL – Mikkel E. G. Nielsen

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

SOUND OF METAL – Mikkel E. G. Nielsen

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

NOMADLAND – Chloé Zhao

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

ANOTHER ROUND – Denmark

BETTER DAYS – Hong Kong

COLLECTIVE – Romania

THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN – Tunisia

QUO VADIS, AIDA? – Bosnia and Herzegovina

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

ANOTHER ROUND – Denmark

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

ANOTHER ROUND – Denmark

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

ANOTHER ROUND – Denmark

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

ANOTHER ROUND – Denmark

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

EMMA – Marese Langan, Laura Allen and Claudia Stolze

HILLBILLY ELEGY – Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle and Patricia Dehaney

MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM – Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson

MANK – Gigi Williams, Kimberley Spiteri and Colleen LaBaff

PINOCCHIO – Mark Coulier, Dalia Colli and Francesco Pegoretti

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

MANK – Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM – Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

MANK – Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM – Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

DA 5 BLOODS – Terence Blanchard

MANK – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

MINARI – Emile Mosseri

NEWS OF THE WORLD – James Newton Howard

SOUL – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

SOUL – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

DA 5 BLOODS – Terence Blanchard

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

SOUL – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

SOUL – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

FIGHT FOR YOU – from Judas and the Black Messiah; Music by H.E.R. and Dernst Emile II; Lyric by H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas

HEAR MY VOICE – from The Trial of the Chicago 7; Music by Daniel Pemberton; Lyric by Daniel Pemberton and Celeste Waite

HUSAVIK – from Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga; Music and Lyric by Savan Kotecha, Fat Max Gsus and Rickard Göransson

IO SÌ (SEEN) – from The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se); Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Diane Warren and Laura Pausini

SPEAK NOW – from One Night in Miami…; Music and Lyric by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Sam Ashworth

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

SPEAK NOW – from One Night in Miami…; Music and Lyric by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Sam Ashworth

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

FIGHT FOR YOU – from Judas and the Black Messiah; Music by H.E.R. and Dernst Emile II; Lyric by H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

SPEAK NOW – from One Night in Miami…; Music and Lyric by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Sam Ashworth

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

SPEAK NOW – from One Night in Miami…; Music and Lyric by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Sam Ashworth

PRODUCTION DESIGN

THE FATHER – Production Design: Peter Francis; Set Decoration: Cathy Featherstone

MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM – Production Design: Mark Ricker; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton

MANK – Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale

NEWS OF THE WORLD – Production Design: David Crank; Set Decoration: Elizabeth Keenan

TENET – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

TENET – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM – Production Design: Mark Ricker; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

TENET – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

MANK – Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

BURROW – Madeline Sharafian and Michael Capbarat

GENIUS LOCI – Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise

IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU – Will McCormack and Michael Govier

OPERA – Erick Oh

YES-PEOPLE – Gísli Darri Halldórsson and Arnar Gunnarsson

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

GENIUS LOCI – Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU – Will McCormack and Michael Govier

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

GENIUS LOCI – Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

GENIUS LOCI – Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

FEELING THROUGH – Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski

THE LETTER ROOM – Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan

THE PRESENT – Farah Nabulsi and Ossama Bawardi

TWO DISTANT STRANGERS – Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe

WHITE EYE – Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

WHITE EYE – Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

FEELING THROUGH – Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

WHITE EYE – Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

FEELING THROUGH – Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski

SOUND

GREYHOUND – Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman

MANK – Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew Kunin

NEWS OF THE WORLD – Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller and John Pritchett

SOUL – Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott and David Parker

SOUND OF METAL – Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michellee Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

SOUND OF METAL – Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michellee Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

SOUND OF METAL – Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michellee Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

GREYHOUND – Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

SOUND OF METAL – Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michellee Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh

VISUAL EFFECTS

LOVE AND MONSTERS – Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt and Brian Cox

THE MIDNIGHT SKY – Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon and David Watkins

MULAN – Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury and Steve Ingram

THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN – Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez

TENET – Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

TENET – Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

THE MIDNIGHT SKY – Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon and David Watkins

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

TENET – Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

TENET – Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM: DELIVERY OF PRODIGIOUS BRIBE TO AMERICAN REGIME FOR MAKE BENEFIT ONCE GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN – Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern; Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Nina Pedrad

THE FATHER – Screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller

NOMADLAND – Written for the screen by Chloé Zhao

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI… – Screenplay by Kemp Powers

THE WHITE TIGER – Written for the screen by Ramin Bahrani

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI… – Screenplay by Kemp Powers

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI… – Screenplay by Kemp Powers

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI… – Screenplay by Kemp Powers

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

NOMADLAND – Written for the screen by Chloé Zhao

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH – Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King; Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas

MINARI – Written by Lee Isaac Chung

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN – Written by Emerald Fennell

SOUND OF METAL – Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder; Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance

THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – Written by Aaron Sorkin

WHO CHRIS WANTS TO WIN:

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH – Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King; Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas

WHO RON WANTS TO WIN:

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH – Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King; Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas

WHO CHRIS THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN – Written by Emerald Fennell

WHO RON THINKS WILL ACTUALLY WIN:

THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – Written by Aaron Sorkin