Oscars 2017: Predictions

COSTUME DESIGN
Who Will Win

If you’ve got a chance to watch the movie Jackie you will understand why it’s favored to win for costume design. It looks like costume designer Madeline Fontaine went back in time and raided Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis closet. They movie not only honored the fashion of the time but also the woman who had a hand in creating it. Sadly, this will not be enough for Fontaine to secure a win. Three-time Oscar winner, Colleen Atwood will play spoiler with her designs from the movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Atwood’s designs were not only lovely to look at but told a story about the characters wearing them. That’s the kind of stuff the Academy looks for, and no one does it better than Atwood.

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide Squad
Who Will Win

This might be the Oscars weakest category this year.  Well, many have scoffed at the fact that Suicide Squad got an Oscar nomination, but if you watch the film, it has a good reason. No, we are not talking about the writing, editing or even acting but it did have a very dramatic makeup and hair styling design. Honestly, it’s the only thing the movie has going for it. Lucky for Suicide Squad, comic books provide an excellent source of material. The film Star Trek Beyond, however, it had to create it’s makeup and hair designs from scratch. I see the Academy going with originality and giving the Oscar to Star Trek Beyond. This would be the second Oscar for the Star Trek movie franchise and its makeup artist Joel Harlow.

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Arrival
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Hail, Caesar!
La La Land
Passengers
Who Will Win

I already told you you’re going to get tired of me saying La La Land but here we go again. La La Land is going to win this category for the mere fact they did not use any CGI for this movie. The only other film that can say the same in this group is Hail, Caesar! but the quality is not near the same as in La La Land. It doesn’t take much to see those past Oscar winners for production design use very little if any CGI. You have to go back to 2011 Oscar winner, Alice and Wonderland to find a movie that used CGI.