These projections are a reflection of Scott Feinberg's personal impressions (from advance screenings), publicly available information (release dates, genres, talent rosters and teasers/trailers often offer valuable clues), historical considerations (how other films with similar pedigrees have resonated), precursor awards (some awards groups have historically correlated with the Academy more than others) and consultations with industry insiders (including fellow members of the press, awards strategists, filmmakers and awards voters).
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Best Picture
Image Credit: Mark Rogers/Long Way Productions PROJECTED STANDINGS
La La Land (Lionsgate)
Moonlight (A24)
Manchester by the Sea (Amazon/Roadside Attractions)
Hidden Figures (Fox)
Lion (The Weinstein Co.)
Hell or High Water (CBS Films/Lionsgate)
Arrival (Paramount)
Hacksaw Ridge (Lionsgate)
Fences (Paramount) -
Best Director
Image Credit: Dale Robinette/Lionsgate PROJECTED STANDINGS
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
Denis Villeneueve (Arrival) -
Best Actor
Image Credit: Mark Rogers/Summit Entertainment PROJECTED STANDINGS
Denzel Washington (Fences) — podcast
Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) — podcast
Ryan Gosling (La La Land)
Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge) — podcast
Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic) — podcast -
Best Actress
Image Credit: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation PROJECTED STANDINGS
Emma Stone (La La Land) — podcast
Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Natalie Portman (Jackie) — podcast
Ruth Negga (Loving) — podcast
Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins) — podcast -
Best Supporting Actor
Image Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features PROJECTED STANDINGS
Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) — podcast
Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water) — podcast
Dev Patel (Lion) — podcast
Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea)
Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals) — podcast -
Best Supporting Actress
Image Credit: Courtesy of TIFF PROJECTED STANDINGS
Viola Davis (Fences)
Naomie Harris (Moonlight) — podcast
Nicole Kidman (Lion) — podcast
Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)
Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures) -
Best Adapted Screenplay
Image Credit: Hopper Stone/Twentieth Century Fox PROJECTED STANDINGS
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney)
Hidden Figures (Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi)
Lion (Luke Davies)
Fences (August Wilson)
Arrival (Eric Heisserer) -
Best Original Screenplay
Image Credit: Courtesy of A24 PROJECTED STANDINGS
Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
Hell or High Water (Taylor Sheridan)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou)
20th Century Women (Mike Mills) -
Best Animated Feature
Image Credit: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival PROJECTED STANDINGS
Zootopia (Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer – Disney)
Moana (Claude Barras and Max Karli – Disney)
Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner – Focus Features)
The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit and Toshio Suzuki – Sony Classics)
My Life As a Zucchini (Claude Barras and Max Karli – GKIDS) -
Best Documentary Feature
Image Credit: Courtesy of ESPN PROJECTED STANDINGS
O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow – ESPN)
I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, Remi Grellety and Hebert Peck – Magnolia)
13th (Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick and Howard Barish – Netflix)
Life, Animated (Roger Ross Williams and Julie Goldman – The Orchard)
Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi and Donatella Palermo – Kino Lorber) -
Best Foreign Language Film
Image Credit: Courtesy of Komplizen Film PROJECTED STANDINGS
The Salesman (Iran – Asghar Farhadi)
Toni Erdmann (Germany – Maren Ade)
A Man Called Ove (Sweden – Hans Holm)
Land of Mine (Denmark – Martin Pieter Zandvliet)
Tanna (Australia – Bently Dean, Martin Butler) -
Best Cinematography
Image Credit: Courtesy of Paramount Pictures PROJECTED STANDINGS
La La Land (Linus Sandgren)
Lion (Grieg Fraser)
Moonlight (James Laxton)
Arrival (Bradford Young)
Silence (Rodrigo Prieto) -
Best Costume Design
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. PROJECTED STANDINGS
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Colleen Atwood)
Jackie (Madeline Fontaine)
La La Land (Mary Zophres)
Florence Foster Jenkins (Consolata Boyle)
Allied (Joanna Johnston) -
Best Film Editing
Image Credit: Lorey Sebastian PROJECTED STANDINGS
La La Land (Tom Cross)
Moonlight (Joi McMillon, Nat Sanders)
Hacksaw Ridge (John Gilbert)
Arrival (Joe Walker)
Hell or High Water (Jake Roberts) -
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Image Credit: Warner Bros. PROJECTED STANDINGS
Suicide Squad (Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson)
Star Trek Beyond (Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo)
A Man Called Ove (Eva von Bahr and Love Larson) -
Best Original Score
Image Credit: Courtesy of Sony Pictures PROJECTED STANDINGS
La La Land (Justin Hurwitz)
Lion (Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka)
Moonlight (Nicholas Britell)
Passengers (Thomas Newman)
Jackie (Mica Levi) -
Best Original Song
Image Credit: Dale Robinette PROJECTED STANDINGS
"City of Stars" (La La Land), Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
"Can’t Stop the Feeling!" (Trolls), Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Shellback — podcast (Timberlake)
"How Far I'll Go" (Moana), Lin-Manuel Miranda — podcast
"Audition" (La La Land), Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
"The Empty Chair" (Jim: The James Foley Story), Sting and J. Ralph — podcast (Sting) & podcast (J. Ralph) -
Best Production Design
Image Credit: Courtesy of Warner Brothers Entertainment PROJECTED STANDINGS
La La Land (Production design: David Wasco; Set decoration: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco)
Arrival (Production design: Patrice Vermette; Set decoration: Paul Hotte)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Production design: Stuart Craig; Set decoration: Anna Pinnock)
Passengers (Production design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set decoration: Gene Serdena)
Hail, Caesar! (Production design: Jess Gonchor; Set decoration: Nancy Haigh)
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Best Sound Editing
Image Credit: Photofest PROJECTED STANDINGS
La La Land (Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan)
Hacksaw Ridge (Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright)
Arrival (Sylvain Bellemare)
Sully (Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman)
Deepwater Horizon (Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli)
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Best Sound Mixing
Image Credit: Courtesy of Jonathan Olley/Lucasfilm Ltd. PROJECTED STANDINGS
La La Land (Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee and Steve A. Morrow)
Hacksaw Ridge (Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace)
Arrival (Bernard Gariepy Strobl and Claude La Haye)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson)
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth)
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Best Visual Effects
Image Credit: Courtesy of Marvel Studios PROJECTED NOMINEES
The Jungle Book (Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel and Neil Corbould)
Doctor Strange (Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli and Paul Corbould)
Deepwater Horizon (Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Jason Billington and Burt Dalton)
Kubo and the Two Strings (Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean and Brad Schiff)
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Best Animated Short
Image Credit: Courtesy of TIFF PROJECTED NOMINEES
Piper (Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer)
Pearl (Patrick Osborne)
Borrowed Time (Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj)
Blind Vaysha (Theodore Ushev)
Pear Cider and Cigarettes (Robert Valley and Cara Speller)
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Best Documentary Short
Image Credit: Courtesy of Netflix PROJECTED STANDINGS
Joe’s Violin (Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen – Lucky Two Productions)
The White Helmets (Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara – Grain Media and Violet Films)
Extremis (Dan Krauss – f/8 Filmworks in association with Motto Pictures)
4.1 Miles (Daphne Matziaraki – University of California, Berkeley)
Watani: My Homeland (Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis – ITN Productions)
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Best Live Action Short
Image Credit: Courtesy of SND Films PROJECTED STANDINGS
La Femme et le TGV (Timo von Gunten and Giacun Caduff)
Sing (Kristof Deak and Anna Udvardy)
Timecode (Juanjo Gimenez)
Ennemis Interieurs (Selim Azzazi)
Silent Nights (Aske Bang and Kim Magnusson)
