98th Oscars Projections: Pre Fall Festivals Edition
A Pre Fall Festivals Look At The Best Picture Race For The 98th Academy Awards
INTRODUCTION
Good day to you. My name is Luis A. Mendez. I’m a film critic based in Central Florida, and these are my current PERSONAL Oscars’ Best Picture Projections for the 2025 awards season.
If you want more detailed thoughts on my thinking on why I believe a certain film may be a contender, and why I have them ranked where I do, look out for my much more in-depth piece on the matter that might be over at Ordinary Times by the time this is published.
TIER 1: THE PREDICTED TEN
1. One Battle For Another
2. Sinners
3. Sentimental Value
4. Jay Kelly
5. Bugonia
6. Hamnet
7. Rental Family
8. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
9. Wicked: For Good
10. Avatar: Fire And Ash
TIER 2: THE “ON THE BUBBLE” CONTENDERS
11. After The Hunt
12. It Was Just An Accident
13. The Secret Agent
14. Marty Supreme
15. The Smashing Machine
16. Frankenstein
17. Ballad Of A Small Player
18. Nouvelle Vague
19. A House Of Dynamite
20. F1 The Movie
TIER 3: THE DARK HORSES ON THE VERGE OF BEING TAKEN SERIOUS
21. Train Dreams
22. The Testament Of Ann Lee
23. Hedda
24. Highest 2 Lowest
25. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
26. Kiss Of The Spider Woman
27. Ella McCay
28. Sorry, Baby
29. No Other Choice
30. Sirat
TIER 4: THE LONG SHOTS WITH A SLIM PATH
31. Is This Thing On?
32. Eleanor The Great
33. Sound Of Falling
34. Die My Love
35. Black Bag
OFF THE BOARD SINCE THE PREVIOUS UPDATE
Eddington; Resurrection; Roofman; The Rivals Of Amziah King; The Roses