05 Mar Final 2024 Oscar Predictions: Animated Feature, International Feature, Documentary Feature
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Boy and the Heron is competitive here and can’t be underestimated. It’s animation legend Hayao Miyazaki’s final film (though knowing him he’s probably working on another) and one of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year in its own right. However, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is more critically-acclaimed and has more audience love. With the kind of love it has, it would’ve been nominated for Best Picture if it wasn’t animated, but alas, this is the world we live in.
Nominees:
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – PGA, Annie, CCA
The Boy and the Heron – GG, BAFTA
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Elemental
Pick: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
This one seems pretty obvious. The Zone of Interest is the only Best Picture nominee of the bunch and is a serious contender in other categories as well; it has this in the bag.
Nominees:
The Zone of Interest – BAFTA
Society of the Snow
Perfect Days
The Teachers’ Lounge
Io Capitano
Pick: The Zone of Interest
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
No winner in this category in the past eight years has won without a nomination at both BAFTA and DGA and a win in one of the genre documentary categories at the Critics Choice Awards, and the only nominee that fits that criterion is 20 Days in Mariupol. And it was not only nominated for BAFTA and DGA, but it also won both. By far the highest-profile doc of the bunch, ‘Mariupol’ is almost guaranteed to take this.
Nominees:
20 Days in Mariupol – DGA, BAFTA
Bobi Wine: The People’s President – IDA
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
Pick: 20 Days in Mariupol