2022 Oscar Predictions
Updated December 3rd, 2022
1. Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans
A semi-autobiography based on Spielberg's own childhood growing up in post-war Arizona, from age seven to eighteen.
2. Todd Field - TÁR
Set in the international world of classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár. widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
3. Sarah Polley - Women Talking
A group of women in an isolated Mennonite religious colony in Bolivia as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a string of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
4. Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisherin
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
5. Damien Chazelle - Babylon
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Next In Line:
6. Daniels - Everything Everywhere All At Once
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led.
7. James Cameron - Avatar: The Way of Water
Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the planet of Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their planet.
8. Joseph Kosinski - Top Gun: Maverick
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him.
9. Alejandro González Iñárritu – Bardo
Follows a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker who returns home and works through an existential crisis as he grapples with his identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories.
10. Sam Mendes - Empire of Light
Set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s, EMPIRE OF LIGHT is a powerful and poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema from Academy Award® winning director Sam Mendes.
11. Rian Johnson - Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
A sequel to Knives Out
12. Darren Aronofsky - The Whale
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
13. Baz Luhrmann - Elvis
A look at the life of the legendary rock and roll star, Elvis Presley.
14. Ryan Coogler - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T'Challa's death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with Nakia and Everett Ross to forge a new path for their beloved kingdom.
15. James Gray - Armageddon Time
A coming-of-age story about growing up in Queens in the 1980s.
Also Consider:
16. S.S. Rajamouli - RRR
A tale of two legendary revolutionaries and their journey far away from home. After their journey they return home to start fighting back against British colonialists in the 1920s.
17. Gina Prince-Bythewood - The Woman King
A historical epic inspired by the true events that happened in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
18. Noah Baumbach - White Noise
Follows a year in the life of Jack Gladney, a professor who has made his name by pioneering the field of Hitler studies.
19. Maria Schrader - She Said
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
20. Ruben Östlund - Triangle of Sadness
A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island.
21. Park Chan-wook - Decision to Leave
A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains ends up meeting and developing feelings for the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
22. Antoine Fuqua - Emancipation
A runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.
23. J. D. Dillard - Devotion
Elite fighter pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner become the U.S. Navy's most celebrated wingmen during the Korean War.
24. Florian Zeller - The Son
Peter as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.
25. Jordan Peele - Nope
The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.