And The Oscar Goes To … The 96th Academy Awards 10th March 2024!

Here at Mondo Movies we contrarians always get it gloriously wrong. In this year of Barbenheimer, we give you our predictions for the evening’s ceremony, held an hour ahead of Bat Time and on another Bat Channel due to the US Springing Forward and Sky finally dropping the UK ball. That means our beloved Wossy is back fronting up a movie show for the first time in two decades and there’s an early start for Academy Award Bingo and drinking games. What was it they used to sing on the first season of Big Brother – it’s only a game show, it’s only a game show? Enjoy! Just don’t go spending your spondulix at Paddy Power on anything we think!

Picture: The Zone of Interest

Director: Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

Adapted Screenplay: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Original Screenplay: Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet and Arthur Harari

Animated Feature: The Boy and the Heron

Documentary Feature: 20 Days in Mariupol

Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers

Actress: Emma Stone, Poor Things

Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer

Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

International Feature: The Zone of Interest

Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer

Editing: Jennifer, Lame, Oppenheimer,

Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath, Poor Things

Visual Effects: Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts and Neil Corbould, The Creator

Sound: Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn, The Zone of Interest

Costume Design: Jacqueline Durran, Barbie

Makeup/Hair: Kazu Hiro, Kay Georgiou and Lori McCoy-Bell, Maestro

Score: Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon

Song: What Was I Made For? Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Barbie

Live-Action Short: Wes Anderson, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Illustration: Alex Rhodes, The Los Angeles Times