Predicting The Oscars If Everyone Was Disqualified
The Oscars are just ten days away, and I’m not ashamed to say I care a ridiculously large amount about award shows. In fact, my biggest gripe with The Game Awards is the way it constantly compares itself to the Oscars, even bragging about higher ratings, when they’re both very different beasts. I considered predicting the Oscars, or putting forward TheGamer’s picks, but I decided predictions were a little bit, well, predictable. I’ve done that on Twitter, if you care very deeply about my picks, but today I’m going to try something a little different.
We’re going to imagine every single nominee is disqualified, yet the award show still goes ahead. However, just because a movie is disqualified from one category doesn’t mean it is disqualified from the rest. Make sense? Basically, we’re picking the best of the rest. Who would the most likely next nominees be, and who would win out of that pool. If Lady Gaga still doesn’t win, I fully expect to be murdered as she sinks deeper and deeper into her role as Patrizia.
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The Best Picture nominee list has bounced up and down in the past few years, with the Academy seemingly keen to give more films than ever the prestige of a top gong nomination while still protecting the sanctity of the show by avoiding big blockbuster hits. Sadly, even if all the movies were disqualified, I still don’t think there’s a place for Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is a very good tie-in crossover popcorn seller, but probably not that great a movie. Sorry Spidey stans. Instead the nominees I’d expect in a disqualification-hit Academy Awards are Encanto, The French Dispatch, Passing, House of Gucci, The Last Duel, C’mon C’mon, The
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