Oscars Best Picture Predictions 2020

It’s that time of year again where the Hollywood will gather to celebrate the year’s most prestigious awards, The Academy Awards, better known as The Oscars. 2019 Was an amazing year for movies and judging by the best picture nominations, The Oscars 2020 is going to be a tight race to the most glamorous prize. We take a look at each movie nominated and discuss the reasons it should win as well as the reasons it won’t. And the Oscar goes to.

- Andre Coetzer

1917

During the First World War, Lance Corporal Schofield and Lance Corporal Blake two young men in the British army must venture deep behind enemy lines to deliver a critical message that could prevent the massacre of a British battalion in a trap laid by the enemy. At the bidding of their superior officers, the young privates put their own lives on the line, as it could mean the difference between life and death for 1,600 of their brothers in arms, including Blake’s own brother.

Why It Should Win: A unique take on the horrors of the Great War, director Sam Mendes and Director of Photography Roger Deakins has crafted not only a harrowing experience of two soldiers in the Great War, but a beautifully and uniquely shot war film that stands apart from its contemporaries. Add in brilliant performances from George Mackay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch this film is an instant classic.

Why It Won’t Win: The last “war“ movie that won the highly prized Oscar was The Hurt Locker in 2009 and overall only 16 war-related movies have ever won an Oscar for best picture in the history of the Academy Awards. Considering that the last World War 1 based movie that won an Oscar was Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, history does not seem to favor 1917.

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