Who are the favorites and underdogs for each class in the Oscars this year? Continue reading for our betting tips and predictions for this year’s ceremony.
The nominations are in and the brief lists are shown for the 91st Annual Awards — or as they are more affectionally known — The Oscars. About Sunday 24th February 2019, Hollywood’s greatest stars, old and new, will fill the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to see who’ll walk away with a coveted Academy Award and (more significantly ) to watch whatever dramas, controversies, and award snubs might happen.
The 2019 nominations came with a few raised eyebrows and plenty of cheering in the rafters. Roma and The Favorite guide the way with 10 nominations apiece using A Star Is Born and Vice both securing 8. The biggest surprise is Black Panther bagging a total of 7 nods, including one for Best Picture, making it the very first superhero film to ever be nominated for its highest award.
But today everyone’s focus turns to the service itself, who the eventual winners would be and where cash can be made by correctly calling the results. Who’s a certain thing and where would be the best chances of an upset? Here I’ll take you who will win, that should win and who’s a dark horse in all the important 6 categories, which means you have the best suggestions on where to put your money.
Best Picture
“Black Panther”
“BlacKkKlansman”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“The Favourite”
“Green Book”
“Roma”
“A Star Is Born”
“Vice”
The largest award of the night is no stranger to controversies; The La La Land/Moonlight mix up of 2017 and Shakespeare In Love winning over Saving Private Ryan in 1999 spring into mind. So, to ever assume that this class is a lock is a fool’s game. With that being said, last year’s winner for Best Picture and director – The Shape Of Water and Guillermo Del Toro respectively – were roughly as easy to predict as you’ll see. It is one of the things we love about the Oscars and the Best Picture race specifically — it’s either a dull, easy-to-call affair or an ridiculous controversy… the problem is, you will never know which one you will find every year!
This year’s front runner is Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma. Almost everything about it screams’triumph': it is a black and white foreign language movie with no scoretakes, shot beautifully and led by a prior Best Director winner in Cuaron. The only red flag is it is a Netflix film. Roma is the first Netflix movie to be nominated for Best Picture and because of this nobody really knows what impact that is going to have on its chances of winning. As for me, I don’t think being a Netflix film will damage it at all, I really think it may help it since the movie has been much more accessible to audiences that some of its rivals. However, the simple fact of the matter is, nobody really knows and only time will tell.
Hot on the heels of Roma are Green Book, The Favourite, and A Star Is Born. Of those 3, The Favourite is, well… the favourite to steal the prize. Prior to nominations, Green Book would have been up there. However, with the news that Green Book’s manager Peter Farrelly and A Star Is Born manager, Bradley Cooper both failed to secure Best Director nominations, this has undoubtably hurt both films chances of winning Best Picture. I still think Green Book has a chance of creating a late rise to the top but since it currently stands, Roma is the one to conquer.
As great as BlacKKKlansman and Bohemian Rhapsody were as movies, their Best Picture nominations are credit sufficient and that I can’t see either movie hard for the win here. The exact same goes to Vice; despite grabbing 8 nominations, the movie has had mixed critics reviews and I can’t see the Academy rewarding a movie about Dick Cheney with its highest award of the evening.
Now, let’s discuss Black Panther; though the film has a total of 7 nominations, none of them are for acting, screenplay or directing without a super hero movie has ever been nominated for Best Picture, let alone won it. So, there’s absolutely no way it could win, right? Practically, no. However, in Hollywood anything could happen and Black Panther winning the top prize might be the next step in the development of cinema along with the Academy Awards.
Black Panther is written, directed and largely created by black filmmakers and in a year where the movie industry has been forced to take a long hard look at itself, a party of diversity in Hollywood is not only long overdue, but may well be a significant focus of the 2019 ceremony.
Think about this too; Black Panther grossed around $1 Million worldwide. Yes, it’s an action-packed, CGI experience, but there’s so much more to it than that. The same as many previous Best Picture nominees and winners, Black Panther tackles a multitude of timely and pertinent questions about race and prejudice. The more I think about it, the more I think, it actually could happen!

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