Oscars 2024 predictions: Who will win - and who should?

Oppenheimer is the favourite for several awards – but there are bound to be a few surprises. BBC Culture's film critics give their predictions for the big categories.

1. Best picture

You can never be very certain which film will win the top award at the Oscars: lately, both The Force of the Canine and Fantasy world appeared to have it clinched, yet the two of them were beaten. No different either way, it would be a significant surprise in the event that Oppenheimer wasn't named best picture this year. It's a film with a heavyweight subject and a heavenly cast, but on the other hand it's in fact stunning: Christopher Nolan's biopic of J Robert Oppenheimer is undeniably more perplexing than the typical Hollywood "in view of a genuine story" show. There are additionally the little matters of how extraordinarily fruitful it's been at the worldwide film industry, how completely it has ruled grants season, and how commandingly it drives the field concerning Oscar assignments - 13 altogether. I can't genuinely say that Oppenheimer is my own #1 of the best picture competitors, yet it would (and will) be a commendable champ. (Nicholas Hairdresser)

At the point when the best picture classification extended from five to 10 designated films in 2009, the change was prodded by reaction to how Christopher Nolan's blockbuster The Dull Knight was scorned the earlier year. Presently it's round trip time. Nolan's hazardous yet character-driven legendary Oppenheimer, with an ideal harmony between craftsmanship and trade, is ready to win best picture. Enemies of the Blossom Moon and Unfortunate Things are additionally perfect in their various ways, however Oppenheimer's desire and creation make it, deservedly, the current year's ideal. (Caryn James)

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2. Best director

Each movie Christopher Nolan has made has had the right to place him in a best director race. Alright, perhaps not A sleeping disorder or Interstellar, yet pretty much every one, from Keepsake to Beginning and the current year's probably best picture victor Oppenheimer, which he likewise composed. He has always lost, however this is his year, and not just in light of the fact that he ought to win. He as of late gotten the Directors Organization Grant, typically a decent indicator of how the Oscar will go. More than whatever other movie this year, Oppenheimer is formed by a solitary director's vision. (CJ)

Christopher Nolan will win for coordinating Oppenheimer, obviously. He coordinated Keepsake, The Notoriety, Beginning, Interstellar, Dunkirk, and a Batman set of three, but he's always lost an Oscar, so it's without a doubt his chance to bring back home a brilliant statuette or three. (He could likewise bring back home one for composing the movie, and one more for creating it.) Plus, you don't need to have a ton of familiarity with coordinating to perceive that supervising a venture however muddled as Oppenheimer may be a huge accomplishment. It gives you the feeling that Nolan took each illustration he gained from his different movies and applied them to this, his most aggressive task to date. Granted, all of the other best director chosen people did awesome positions, as well. It wouldn't be crooked in the event that Jonathan Glazer, Yorgos Lanthimos, Martin Scorsese or Justine Triet was given the Oscar. Yet, this is Nolan's second. (NB)

3. Best actor

This classification isn't finished and cleaned. Cillian Murphy must be the #1 for his arresting presentation in Oppenheimer, since he's simply won the lead actor prize at the Screen actors Society Grants. Yet, electors could rather not give each and every Oscar to Oppenheimer, particularly as there are several very much cherished American actors in conflict. Neither Paul Giamatti nor Jeffrey Wright has at any point won a Foundation Grant, as celebrated as their professions have been, so both of them could be compensated for their rich, others conscious characterisations in The Remnants and American Fiction, separately. Murphy would be my decision for a job that expected him to cover such countless various mind-sets in so many different time spans, yet I wouldn't be excessively vexed in the event that Giamatti won all things being equal. (NB)

Cillian Murphy is probably going to win this honor, as he ought to. His controlled at this point mixing execution makes his personality the tormented soul of Oppenheimer. There's as yet a slight possibility Paul Giamatti could win for his wry, contacting execution in The Remainders. All things considered, Giamatti's job as a testy educator is flashier, the benevolent Oscar electors frequently go for over more nuanced exhibitions. In any case, Murphy's new success over Giamatti at the Screen actors Organization Grants - with actors the biggest block of Oscar electors - gives him the edge. (CJ)

4. Best actress

This was consistently a race between Lily Gladstone and Emma Stone, two phenomenal and remarkably various exhibitions, however it appears to be that Gladstone has pulled ahead, winning the Droop grant. She has the right to win for her wonderful, unpretentious exhibition as Molly Burkhart, the core of Enemies of the Blossom Moon. Likewise with the best actress race, this isn't totally a slam dunk, since Stone's showy turn as the Frankenstein an women's activist Bella Baxter is more obvious "Acting". However, Stone has won previously, for Fantasy world, and Gladstone's success would be memorable, making her the main Local American to win best actress, so the Oscar ought to turn out well for her. (CJ)

Lily Gladstone for Enemies of the Blossom Moon and Emma Stone for Unfortunate Things are endlessly neck. As far as I might be concerned, Gladstone is in all the more a supporting job as opposed to a lead job, and the mission to situate her as the film's courageous woman has been somewhat untrustworthy. (Assuming that the narrative of Enemies of the Bloom Moon had to be sure been told according to her personality's viewpoint, it would have been a superior film.) However Gladstone has spoken expressively about the significance of seeing Local Americans on screen, and Stone has previously won an Oscar, so electors could well feel that picking Gladstone would be the correct thing to do. My own decision would be Carey Mulligan, who was glorious as Leonard Bernstein's significant other in Maestro, however Bradley Cooper's film doesn't appear to be transforming its designations into wins this grants season. (NB)

5. Best supporting actor

This is another classification that is starting to feel like an inescapable end product. Robert Downey Jr brings the entirety of his typical power and moxy to the job of Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer, however there's nuance and profundity there, as well. Instead of simply being a resentful bad guy, Strauss fumes with dread and frailty. Plus, when Downey Jr played Iron Man in the Wonder Artistic Universe, he was perhaps of Hollywood's most important resource: simply see how Wonder has wobbled since he left the group. An Institute Grant would be a thank-you for every one of the billions of dollars he has assisted with creating, as well as an affirmation that there is something else to him besides Tony Obvious' quick talking grandiosity. Actually, I'd be enticed to give the award to Ryan Gosling, who is so silly in Barbie - despite the fact that, as I've said previously, he's actually the film's co-lead, so by freedoms he ought not be in that frame of mind by any means. (NB)

This classification is stacked areas of strength for with, but on the other hand it's one of the simplest to call. Robert Downey Jr, who has been getting grants the entire season as Oppenheimer's main adversary, will win. It's difficult to contend against that when his exhibition is so resolute and solid. In any case, Robert De Niro does a portion of his best work in years in Enemies of the Bloom Moon, and merits it similarly to such an extent. What's more, Ryan Gosling is surprisingly entertaining in Barbie, however parody struggles with rivaling show. Gosling will sing I'm Only Ken in the show, however, which is all I've truly needed from the current year's Oscars. (CJ)

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