Oscar Power Rankings

Oscar Power Rankings

Best Picture

1. La La Land: It is an examination of Hollywood and they love that. Just ask the team and producers that brought about The Artist. It does not feel like the typical oscar drab, and it is made like old school musicals, in a way that praises why people feel in love with them in the first place. 

2. Moonlight / Manchester by the Sea:  It is hard to tell which one of these two films will take that coveted second spot and provide La La Land with its biggest competition come the actual voting season, as both are said to be masterful pieces of cinema, myself being able to attest to that fact with the latter. 

4. Hell or High Water: It seems like every year a movie like this sneaks in as a dark horse, and the critics and guilds seem to love it with both Taylor Sheridan and David McKenzie being possible nominees in writing and directing respectively. 

5. Arrival: The academy does have a soft spot for well made sci-fi piece, (this fact is debatable, just ask Inception and Avatar. It stars Oscar darling Amy Adams and has a twist ending and well established writing and directing that it required to be nominated. 

6. Hacksaw Ridge: Mel Gibson's Braveheart is considered one of the worst best picture winners of the nineties and I can attest to that fact that this is a film that is even better and more suited to the taste of oscar voters. 

7- 11. A tie between, Sully, Loving, Hidden Figures, Jackie and Nocturnal Animals: They all seem to be made for the oscars and all star oscar darlings and feature elements and narrative devices needed to draw the attention of oscar voters.