Every year Shane over at Film Actually hosts an Oscar nominations contest, wherein we try to guess what films will be nominated. I’ve won a prize in the past, so I persist every year in the naive hope that I can win something again. As usual I’ve seen precious few of the films I’m predicting, but I shall predict nonetheless.

BEST PICTURE
Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Silence

BEST DIRECTOR
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)
Martin Scorsese (Silence)

BEST ACTOR
Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge)
Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
Denzel Washington (Fences)
Joel Edgerton (Loving)
Ryan Gosling (La La Land)

BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening (20th Century Women)
Emma Stone (La La Land)
Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Natalie Portman (Jackie)
Ruth Nega (Loving)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nocturnal Animals)
Hugh Grant (Florence Foster Jenkins)
Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)
John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane)
Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Greta Gerwig (20th Century Women)
Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)
Naomie Harris (Moonlight)
Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)
Viola Davis (Fences)

BEST EDITING
Arrival
La La Land
Moonlight
Hacksaw Ridge
Silence

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Captain Fantastic
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
The Lobster

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Moonlight
Nocturnal Animals

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Man Called Ove
My Life as a Zucchini
Paradise
The Salesman
Toni Erdmann

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Arrival
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Silence

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Caesar!
La La Land
Silence

BEST SOUND MIXING
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Silence

BEST SOUND EDITING
Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
The Jungle Book
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Allied
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land
Silence

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The BFG
Jackie
La La Land
Moonlight
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
13th
Cameraperson
I Am Not Your Negro
O.J. Made in America
Weiner

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootropolis/Zootopia

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Arrival
Doctor Strange
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
The Jungle Book
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Deadpool
Florence Foster Jenkins
Star Trek Beyond

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Audition (La La Land)
City of Stars (La La Land)
How Far I’ll Go (Moana)
Drive It Like You Stole It (Sing Street)
Can’t Stop The Feeling (Trolls)