2025 Oscar Predictions

The Contending Consensus

Below, you will find the consensus predictions from staff and contributors here at The Contending. Simply select the header (e.g. “Best Picture”) if you’d like to view individual predictions per category. Select predictors’ names below to view their individual prediction pages.

Anora
Conclave
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Substance
I'm Still Here
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Demi Moore, The Substance
Mikey Madison, Anora
Fernanda Torres, I'm Still Here
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Yura Borisov, Anora
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Zoë Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande-Butera, Wicked
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Anora
A Real Pain
The Substance
The Brutalist
September 5
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
A Complete Unknown
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Brutalist
Nosferatu
Maria
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
The Wild Robot
Flow
Inside Out 2
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Memoir of a Snail
Wicked
Nosferatu
Conclave
Gladiator II
A Complete Unknown
The Substance
Wicked
A Different Man
Nosferatu
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Brutalist
Nosferatu
Dune: Part Two
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Wicked
A Complete Unknown
Emilia Pérez
The Wild Robot
Dune: Part Two
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Better Man
Wicked
Alien: Romulus
"El Mal," Emilia Pérez
"The Journey," The Six Triple Eight
"Mi Camino," Emilia Pérez
"Never Too Late," Elton John: Never Too Late
Like a Bird," Sing Sing
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
The Wild Robot
Wicked
I'm Still Here
Emilia Pérez
Flow
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Girl With the Needle
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Sugarcane
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Black Box Diaries
Wander To Wonder
Yuck!
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Beautiful Men
Magic Candies
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Death By Numbers
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Anuja
I'm Not a Robot
A Lien
The Last Ranger

Last Updated: 2/21

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