Oscars 2017 Predictions: Will ‘La La Land’ Bag The Major Titles?

Sky Cinema has the United Kingdom exclusive with a dedicated Oscars channel, so if you don’t have access (which you can also get through NowTV) you will have to follow along on Twitter or get updates online. It was acceptable to give the Oscar to The Artist in 2011, when Obama was in the Oval Office and the liberal world order appeared unassailable. Thanks to President Trump’s attempted Muslim Ban last month, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, whose film The Salesman is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, said he would not attend the Oscars, even if he were to be granted an exemption. As a result, “Moonlight” is a favorite for the Best Adapted Screenplay award, while the Best Original Screenplay award seems to be up for grabs. She should have won for “Help” but could not, but this time she is a sure shot victor.

Getting to the 2017 Academy Awards is easy.

The makeup and hairstyling category pits two underwhelming studio blockbusters against a quaint Swedish film that’s also nominated for foreign language film. Clue: 3 films are tied for this honor. The awards ceremony will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood in California.

Best Supporting Actor is similarly murky. Possibility No. 2, you’re all racists.

Collecting a bunch of awards before this weekend does not guarantee a Best Picture Oscar, but pre-Oscars winning streaks have historically helped predict the Academy’s eventual pick.

In 2002 the musical “Chicago”, won for best musical ending a 34-year drought back to 1968 when the musical “Oliver!” won the award. And in that thinking you would be wrong. Best Actress might go to Emma Stone for her performance in La La Land. And could Barry Jenkins be the first African-American director to be honoured by the Academy? Ditto for actors like Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro, who haven’t been bashful about making their views known. Lead actor, in particular, feels very much up in the air. I’ll catch Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue and go online later to get a tally on who won what. Billy Crystal is a distant second having hosted nine gigs. It’s just that after a steady diet of political acceptance speeches and conservative condemnation, it’s hard to imagine many people being surprised to see references to reality intrude on this annual ode to make-believe and glamor. La La Land equalled the current nominations record, joining ranks with All About Eve, directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz (1951), and James Cameron’s Titanic (1998).

A few of the films up for Oscars at this Sunday’s Academy Awards were just released Tuesday morning for watching at home! The shortest ceremony ever was the first, in 1929, that lasted 15 minutes. Oh yeah, you also need to either know someone or go back in time and contribute to one of these aforementioned hit films because tickets are almost impossible to come by, otherwise.