{"id":23798,"date":"2026-03-12T04:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23798"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:08:53","slug":"and-the-oscar-goes-to-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/and-the-oscar-goes-to-5\/","title":{"rendered":"And The Oscar Goes To\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/side_oscar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5619\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/side_oscar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/side_oscar.jpg 219w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/side_oscar-165x300.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>As they finish polishing up the statues in Hollywood for Sunday&#8217;s ceremony, it\u2019s time to finish up our predictions with the major categories for the 98th Academy Awards.\u00a0 So, without further ado, we begin with:<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Best Picture<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Bugonia<br \/>\nF1<br \/>\nFrankenstein<br \/>\nHamnet<br \/>\nMarty Supreme<br \/>\nOne Battle After Another<br \/>\nThe Secret Agent<br \/>\nSentimental Value<br \/>\n<strong>Sinners<\/strong><br \/>\nTrain Dreams<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually seen three of these, so I&#8217;ll go with Ryan Coogler&#8217;s <i>Sinners<\/i>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Best Actor<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, <em>Marty Supreme<\/em><br \/>\nLeonardo DiCaprio, <em>One Battle After Another<\/em><br \/>\nEthan Hawke, <em>Blue Moon<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Michael B. Jordan, <em>Sinners<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nWagner Moura, <em>The Secret Agent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Michael B. Jordan played two roles in <em>Sinners<\/em>, so that&#8217;s got to be worth something.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Best Actress<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Jessie Buckley, <em>Hamnet<\/em><br \/>\nRose Byrne, <em>If I Had Legs I&#8217;d Kick You<\/em><br \/>\nKate Hudson, <em>Song Sung Blue<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Renate Reinsve, <em>Sentimental Value<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nEmma Stone, <em>Bugonia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only seen one of these, but I&#8217;ll take a stab in the dark and pick the one actress I&#8217;ve never heard of for this.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Best Supporting Actor<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Benicio del Toro, <em>One Battle After Another<\/em><br \/>\nJacob Elordi, <em>Frankenstein<\/em><br \/>\nDelroy Lindo, <em>Sinners<\/em><br \/>\nSean Penn, <em>One Battle After Another<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd, <em>Sentimental Value<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite seeing two of these, I&#8217;m going out on a limb with one I haven&#8217;t seen.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Best Supporting Actress<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Elle Fanning, <em>Sentimental Value<\/em><br \/>\nInga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, <em>Sentimental Value<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Amy Madigan, <em>Weapons<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nWunmi Mosaku, <em>Sinners<\/em><br \/>\nTeyana Taylor, <em>One Battle After Another<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen two of these performances and I&#8217;m going with the more disturbing one.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Best Director<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Chlo\u00e9 Zhao, <em>Hamnet<\/em><br \/>\nJosh Safdie, <em>Marty Supreme<\/em><br \/>\nPaul Thomas Anderson, <em>One Battle After Another<br \/>\n<\/em>Joachim Trier, <em>Sentimental Value<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Ryan Coogler, <em>Sinners<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since I already went with <i>Sinners <\/i>for Best Picture, I&#8217;ll stick with that horse and choose Ryan Coogler to take home this prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they finish polishing up the statues in Hollywood for Sunday&#8217;s ceremony, it\u2019s time to finish up our predictions with the major categories for the 98th Academy Awards.\u00a0 So, without further ado, we begin with: Best Picture Bugonia F1 Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners Train Dreams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[12494,12500,6601,12298,9381,12498,12496,338,4488,12378,4338,12421,12502,12495,12499,12505,12446,12444,674,1381,12435,7097,12369,3042,5466,12504,12501,10484,658,12447,12260,12503,12497,12492,12475,7746,12431,12506,12266,12493],"class_list":["post-23798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-amy-madigan","tag-benicio-del-toro","tag-blue-moon","tag-bugonia","tag-chloe-zhao","tag-delroy-lindo","tag-elle-fanning","tag-emma-stone","tag-ethan-hawke","tag-f1","tag-frankenstein","tag-hamnet","tag-if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you","tag-inga-ibsdotter-lilleaas","tag-jacob-elordi","tag-jessie-buckley","tag-joachim-trier","tag-josh-safdie","tag-kate-hudson","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-marty-supreme","tag-michael-b-jordan","tag-one-battle-after-another","tag-oscars","tag-paul-thomas-anderson","tag-renate-reinsve","tag-rose-byrne","tag-ryan-coogler","tag-sean-penn","tag-sentimental-value","tag-sinners","tag-song-sung-blue","tag-stellan-skarsgard","tag-teyana-taylor","tag-the-secret-agent","tag-timothee-chalamet","tag-train-dreams","tag-wagner-moura","tag-weapons","tag-wunmi-mosaku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23890,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798\/revisions\/23890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}