The Oscars will be airing this coming Sunday, March 4th, and the Critic and the Referee are back to bring you their annual predictions on the winners in this years major categories, while giving you their own favorites in those categories. Will they predict the winners? Do they agree or disagree with the Academy’s nominees? You’ll have to listen in to this episode, then tune into the Oscars airing on ABC this Sunday to find out.

Major Categories

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly’s Game
Mudbound

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound \
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq.

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Meryl Streep – The Post

DIRECTING
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Greta Gerwig Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water

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