Academy Awards 2022 nominees predictions: Best Picture (1st ROUND)

Now that the 2021's editions of Venice Film Festival and TIFF have announced their winners and there are the first reviews of NY Film Festival's major award hopefuls releases, I believe it's safe to start predicting which titles will compete for some major Oscar gold.

A note about The Power of the Dog and Belfast which got the audiences' recognition at TIFF (with the later taking the People's Choice and The Power of the Dog received the Silver Lion at Venice). King Richard also got a lot of love at Telluride Film Festival and The Tragedy of Macbeth is getting rave reviews at New York Film Festival the moment we talk. A note to Sundance hit Sian Heder's CODA - which took home the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic - and Asghar Farhadi's A Hero, which got lots of love during Cannes Film Festival and won the film festival's Grand Prix (but since it is a foreign language film, will it get stuck in Best International Film category? I believe and I hope not). Denis Villeneuve's Dune got some great reviews and it's well positioned at the race (at the moment). In the Heights got the reviews, but the pandemic-factor cancelled its box-office hit potential... can it stage a late year comeback to the awards conversation? And what about Rebecca Hall's Passing? It got great reviews at Sundance, but will the Netflix push it hard during awards season? Or will Netflix prioritize Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Lost Daughter? Both? I don't believe the streaming giant will only focus on The Power of the Dog... Adam McKay's Don't Look Up maybe? But that looks so "campy comedy" and "not-Oscar-shaped"...!

House of Gucci, Nightmare Alley, Spielberg's West Side Story and No Time to Die remain to be seen, but they look so Oscary given all the talent involved in the productions!

So, here they are:

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