These Oscar predictions from 2019 shaped cinema history and remain essential viewing for understanding modern film excellence.

The Oscars Are Here…

The 2019 Oscars might not have a host, but the show will go on.

The Oscars are the highest recognition in cinema, honouring the best films, film performances, and technical achievements in film over the past year. And in 2019, one of the most intriguing things about the awards is that there’s no absolute frontrunner for Best Picture.

Up to 10 movies can be nominated in the Best Picture category, and the 2019 Oscars are poised to yield an incredible variety of films among the Best Picture nominees.

Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book, two movies that have both been the subject of controversy, had big nights at the Golden Globes earlier this month, with each one winning a Best Picture trophy (in the drama and comedy or musical categories, respectively). If both films are nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, those conversation surrounding those controversies may follow.

The 2019 Best Picture nominees could also include critically acclaimed box office hits like A Star Is Born (which made $400 million worldwide) and Black Panther ($1.3 billion worldwide) as well as arthouse fare like The Favourite and If Beale Street Could Talk.

2019 could also be the year that Netflix earns its first Best Picture nomination, for the director Alfonso Cuarón’s favorite Roma.

The 2019 Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 24, and will air live on ABC at 8 pm Eastern/5 pm Pacific.

We will keep this list of nominees updated as they are announced:

Best Picture

Black Panther

BlacKkKlansman

Bohemian Rhapsody

The Favourite

Green Book

Roma

A Star is Born

Vice

Actor in a Leading Role

Christian Bale, Vice

Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born

Willem DaFoe, At Eternity’s Gate

Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody

Viggo Mortensen, Green Book

Actress in a Leading Role

Yalitza Arapicio, Roma

Glenn Close, The Wife

Olivia Colman, The Favourite

Lady Gaga, A Star is Born

Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams, Vice

Marina de Tavira Roma,

Regina King, If Beale String Could Talk

Emma Stone, The Favourite

Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Actor in a Supporting Role

Mahershala Ali, Green Book

Adam Driver, BlackKlansman

Sam Elliot, A Star is Born

Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me

Sam Rockwell, Vice

Directing

BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee

Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski

The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos

Roma, Alfonso Cuaron

Vice, Adam McKay

Adapted Screenplay

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Joel and Ethan Coen

BlacKkKlansman, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee

Can You Ever Forgive Me, Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty

If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins

A Star is Born, Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters

Original Screenplay

The Favourite, Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara

First Reformed, Paul Schrader

Green Book, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly

Roma, Alfonso Cuarón

Vice, Adam McKay

Foreign Language Film

Capernaum, Lebanon

Cold War, Poland

Never Look Away, Germany

Roma, Mexico

Shoplifters, Japan

Animated Feature

Incredibles 2

Isle of Dogs

Mirai

Ralph Breaks the Internet

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Original Score

Black Panther

BlacKkLlansman

If Beale Street Could Talk

Isle of Dogs

Mary Poppins Returns

Original Song

“All the Stars,” Black Panther

“I’ll Fight,” RBG

“The Place Where Lost Things Go,” Mary Poppins Returns

“Shallow,” A Star Is Born

“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings,” The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Documentary Short

Black Sheep

End Game

Lifeboat

A Night at the Garden

Period. End of Sentence.

Cinematography

Cold War, Lukasz, Zal

The Favourite, Robbie Ryan

Never Look Away, Caleb Deschanel

Roma, Alfonso Cuaron

A Star is Born, Matthew Libatique

Best Documentary Feature

Free Solo

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Minding the Gap

Of Fathers and Sons

RBG

Production Design

Black Panther

The Favourite

First Man

Mary Poppins Returns

Roma

Sound Mixing

Black Panther

Bohemian Rhapsody

First Man

Roma

A Star is Born

Costume Design

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Black Panther

The Favourite

Mary Poppins Returns

Mary Queen of Scots

Film Editing

BlacKkKlansman

Bohemian Rhapsody

The Favourite

Green Book

Vice

Sound Editing

Black Panther

Bohemian Rhapsody

First Man

A Quiet Place

Roma

Animated Short Film

Animal Behavior

Bao

Late Afternoon

One Small Step

Weekends

Live Action Short

Detainment

Fauve

Marguerite

Mother

Skin

Makeup and Hairstyle

Border

Mary Queen of Scots

Vice

Visual Effects

Avengers: Infinity War

Christopher Robin

First Man

Ready Player One

Solo: A Star Wars Story