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On Sunday, March 2nd, the seemingly interminable awards season will come to an end when the 97th Academy Awards air live on ABC and Hulu. Here, I preview the telecast and provide predictions for who will win in all 23 categories.
This article is about who I think will win the Oscars this year. To find out who I think should win the top Oscars this year, check out my articles ranking the four acting categories and the contenders in the screenplay, directing, and Best Picture categories.
A Brief Look Back at the Last 5 Oscar Telecasts
The last few years have been a wild ride in terms of Oscar ceremonies. The Academy has had to deal with the pandemic, increasingly loud demands for greater diversity, dwindling viewership, and even some on-screen physical assault.
In a fortuitous coincidence, the 2020 Oscar ceremony was moved several weeks earlier from its original to avoid competing with the Winter Olympics. By doing so, they managed to be over and done with nearly a full month before the COVID-19 lockdown hit the U.S. That telecast certainly had its fair share of bizarre elements (like Eminem inexplicably showing up to sing his Oscar-winning song “Lose Yourself” nearly 2 decades after he snubbed the Oscars and declined to perform), but it had numerous memorable ones as…
