So, we’re not even done with the 2022 season, but I felt like throwing up some year-in-advance picks just because. If nothing else, we’ll all get to laugh at how wrong everything is when the actual season eventually rolls around.

Not much here in the way of “analysis,” since we’ve yet to have the films themselves to explore. I’ve got Maestro winning Best Picture because Bradley Cooper gets his Oscar that way.

Anyway, Happy New Year, all! I may update this page with pics and such in the coming days or weeks. I’ll be back with updated picks in April.

Best Picture

1. Maestro
2. Oppenheimer
3. Challengers
4. Dune: Part Two
5. Killers of the Flower Moon
6. The Color Purple
7. And
8. Magazine Dreams
9. Barbie
10. Poor Things

Best Director

1. Luca Guadagnino, Challengers
2. Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
3. Bradley Cooper, Maestro
4. Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two
5. Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things

Best Actress in a Leading Role

1. Zendaya, Challengers
2. Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple
3. Jessica Lange, Long Day’s Journey into Night
4. Melissa Barrera, Carmen
5. Mia Goth, MaXXXine

Best Actor in a Leading Role

1. Ed Harris, Long Day’s Journey into Night
2. Bradley Cooper, Maestro
3. Jonathan Majors, Magazine Dreams
4. Kelvin Harrison Jr, Chevalier
5. Jesse Plemons, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

1. Taraji P Henson, The Color Purple
2. Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
3. Shelley Duvall, The Forest Hills
4. Taylour Paige, Magazine Dreams
5. Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

1. Willem Dafoe, Poor Things
2. Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer
3. Colman Domingo, The Color Purple
4. Ben Foster, Long Day’s Journey into Night
5. Matt Bomer, Maestro

Best Original Screenplay

1. Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos, And
2. Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer, Maestro
3. Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers
4. Nicole Holofcener, You Hurt My Feelings
5. Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black, Rustin

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
2. Taika Waititi and Iain Morris, Next Goal Wins
3. Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two
4. Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
5. Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, Barbie

Best Original Song

1. Song from Carmen (Nicholas Britell and Julieta Venegas)
2. Song from The Little Mermaid (Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda)
3. Song from Wish (Julia Michaels)
4. “Argylle” from Argylle (Dua Lipa… and more?)
5. Song from Love Again (performed by Celine Dion)

Other songs

• Song from Spellbound (Alan Menken)
• “Be Yourself” from The Amazing Maurice (Gabreille Aplin, Liz Horsman, and Tom Howe)
• “Side by Side” from The Amazing Maurice (Gabreille Aplin, Liz Horsman, and Tom Howe)

Other films to watch out for in Original Song: Facing the Laughter: Minnie Pearl, Spinning Gold, Chevalier, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Fast X, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Elemental, Barbie, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Trolls 3, Wonka, The Color Purple