The Morgan You Know podcast proudly celebrates the 93rd Academy Awards with our fifth annual Academy Awards preview. Each year on the pod, we share our picks, predictions, excitement, discontent, knowledge, and all around enthusiasm for what we consider the greatest show on earth. Below are our Big 10 Oscar picks for your reading pleasure. For us, the Big 10 includes Best Picture, Best Director, Lead Actor, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Animated Feature, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, and Documentary Feature.
We look forward to your thoughts and to learning who will be declared this year’s Oscar Ballot Winner when the show airs this Sunday, April 25. Be sure to listen to the Oscar pod, share your own picks, and debate us on ours if you must.
ACADEMY AWARD CATEGORIES AND PICKS
Best Picture:
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
Nomadland - Rod, Jake
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Kate
Best Director:
Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
David Fincher, Mank
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Chloé Zhao, Nomadland - Rod, Kate, Jake
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Lead Actor:
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - Rod, Kate, Jake
Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Gary Oldman, Mank
Steven Yeun, Minari
Lead Actress:
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - Jake
Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman - Rod, Kate
Supporting Actor:
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah - Rod, Kate, Jake
Leslie Odom, Jr., One Night in Miami
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah
Supporting Actress:
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm - Rod
Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy - Kate, Jake
Olivia Colman, The Father
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari
Animated Feature:
Onward
Over the Moon
A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
Soul - Rod, Kate, Jake
Wolfwalkers
Adapted Screenplay:
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Dan Swimer, Nina Pedrad - Rod
The Father, Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
Nomadland, Chloé Zhao - Jake
One Night in Miami…, Kemp Powers - Kate
The White Tiger, Ramin Bahrani
Original Screenplay:
Will Berson and Shaka King, Judas and the Black Messiah
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman - Rod
Darius Marder and Abraham Marder, Sound of Metal
Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Kate and Jake