The nominations for the 94th Annual Academy Awards were unveiled back on February 8th by Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross. There was the usual mix of surprises (Judi Dench?!) and shocking snubs (where on Earth is Denis Villeneuve?! Sorry, Lady Gaga!), including Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog leading the nominations with 12 over technical powerhouse Dune (which netted an even ten noms).

I correctly predicted 87/120 of this year's nominees (72.5%), which landed me my worst ever finish at GoldDerby (874th place finish of 9,721 participants - top 9% though!) Having finished 12th, 1st, 8th, and 4th in years past, this year’s results were nothing to write home about. In particular, the short film categories proved trickier than usual for most every prognosticator (likely owing to the fact that the shortlists for those categories increased from ten to fifteen).

Read on for a list of the nominations and my predictions results.

And just like that…the day has (finally) arrived - Oscar nominations morning!

The 94th Annual Academy Awards nominations will be revealed on Tuesday morning by Leslie Jordan & Tracee Ellis Ross beginning at 8:18am ET (you can view a live stream of the announcement via the Oscars website).

The nominations will honor the best in cinema from the past 10 months (January and February of 2021 were lumped into last year’s Oscar eligibility window to accommodate the many changing pandemic release dates). As COVID continues to disrupt life in and outside of Hollywood, assessing the tea leaves has become even more challenging for us Oscar prognosticators. Expect Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune to lead the nominations, though it seems likely to boil down to Belfast vs The Power of the Dog for the Best Picture win (we’re very strongly in the Power of the Dog camp here at CineMunch).

Read on for my final nominations predictions!