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Shortlists for ten categories for the 97th Oscars will be announced tomorrow. Please see below for predictions in alphabetical order for the seven feature categories: documentary feature film, international feature film, makeup and hairstyling, original score, original song, sound, and visual effects. Come back tomorrow for a debrief of what did and didn’t make the cut!
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Black Box Diaries
Dahomey
Daughters
Elton John: Never Too Late
Frida
Gaucho Gaucho
Hummingbirds
The Last of the Sea Women
No Other Land
Piece by Piece
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Will and Harper
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Julie Keeps Quiet, Belgium
I’m Still Here, Brazil
Universal Language, Canada
The Girl with the Needle, Denmark
Emilia Perez, France
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Germany
Touch, Iceland
Lost Ladies, India
Kneecap, Ireland
Come Closer, Israel
Vermiglio, Italy
Flow, Latvia
Sujo, Mexico
Armand, Norway
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, Thailand
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
A Different Man
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Joker: Folie a Deux
Maria
Nosferatu
Saturday Night
The Substance
Wicked
ORIGINAL SCORE
Blitz
The Brutalist
Challengers
Conclave
Emilia Perez
Gladiator II
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
The Room Next Door
Saturday Night
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
September 5
The Substance
Wicked
The Wild Robot
ORIGINAL SONG
Forbidden Road (Better Man)
Compress/Repress (Challengers)
Never Too Late (Elton John: Never Too Late)
El Mal (Emilia Perez)
Mi Camino (Emilia Perez)
Alone (The End)
Sick in the Head (Kneecap)
Beautiful That Way (The Last Showgirl)
Beyond (Moana 2)
Piece by Piece (Piece by Piece)
Like a Bird (Sing Sing)
The Journey (The Six Triple Eight)
On a Corner at the Center of the World (Veselka)
Kiss the Sky (The Wild Robot)
Harper and Will Go West (Will and Harper)
SOUND
Civil War
A Complete Unknown
Deadpool and Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
The Fall Guy
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Twisters
Wicked
VISUAL EFFECTS
Alien: Romulus
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Better Man
Deadpool and Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
The Substance
Wicked
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