Oscar cliffhanger: Which other categories will point way to Best Picture victor?

Brits are overwhelmingly backing five-time Oscar-nominated film star Leonardo DiCaprio to win the best actor gong at the Academy Awards on Sunday, a new poll shows.

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The 88th annual Academy Awards has finally arrived.

All eyes will be on black comedian and actor Chris Rock, who returns to host the awards for a second time, despite calls for him to join a boycott sparked by the paucity of ethnic minority nominees in the acting categories. So many exciting movies were made then.

Redmayne, who won in 2015 for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory Of Everything, is nominated for the second year in a row for his role as transgender artist Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl. But it is also not the type of fare that typically takes home best picture awards.

(AAP)The Revenant took a year of filming.

While 19 of our 27 Experts are predicting that “The Revenant” is going to win Best Picture, four of them favor “The Big Short” and another four say “Spotlight”.

Best Actress: Of the awards we track, Brie Larson, who anchored “Room”, has won six of the seven prizes for which she was nominated, losing only at the Satellite Awards to Saoirse Ronan (“Brooklyn”). And judging from the heroic and back-breaking feats of image capturing (with only natural light!) that he did on The Revenant, plus his wins at pre-Oscars award shows like the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) awards (his third in a row) and at the BAFTAs, the award is clearly his to lose. I could make Trump or racial or old academy guy comments re: Sylvester Stallone most likely taking the supporting actor trophy for his umpteenth round as Rocky in “Creed“, but let’s just chalk it up to standard Oscars sentimentality plus a li’l somethin’-somethin’: It truly is the aging contender’s best performance ever.

Kate Winslet will be hoping to continue her award season success and win best supporting actress for her role as Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs.

Best Picture: This is a fun year to pick the best picture victor. However, Davis, who is predicting “The Revenant” will ultimately emerge victorious, says “members of the academy are very easily distracted”, and concerns over representation, support for other films from the technical branch of voters, as well as “the Leo factor” could be more of an influence on the results.