2024 Oscars Category Predictions & Forecasts

The 2024 Oscars is currently set for Sunday, March 10, 2024 and will be held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. It will be the 96th edition of the Academy Award Show.

Be sure to check out all the 2023 Oscars betting results and upcoming odds here.

Below are the films and categories to keep an eye out for this year. We forecast as many films as possible before next year’s event, as the Oscars betting market is one to attack early.

Best Picture and a few other major categories typically see odds as early as May. Everything Everywhere All At Once opened Best Picture odds at +800 before closing at -2500. It’s important to start betting on this market early for value, so we’ve compiled early contenders for you to consider for next year’s event.

I began covering the Oscars as a betting market in 2022. We hit +1705 (thank you Jessica Chastain) in 2022 and then we topped that in 2023 at +1880 (thank you Everything Everywhere All At Once). Over the last two Oscars we have made $3,585 on picks. Let’s see if we can top +1880 in 2024!

Below are reviewed 2024 Oscars forecasting contenders and categories.

2024 OSCARS BEST PICTURE CONTENDERS

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Oppenheimer
3. A Thousand and One
4. BlackBerry
5. The Burial
6. Gran Turismo
7. Past Lives
8. Barbie
9. The Killer
10. They Cloned Tyrone
11. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
12. Asteroid City
13. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
14. Rye Lane
15. The Artifice Girl
16. The Year of the Dog
17. Sisu
18. Polite Society
19. Tetris
20. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
21. Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game
22. The Covenant
23. Air
24. Theater Camp

2024 OSCARS BEST DIRECTOR CONTENDERS

1. Greta Gerwig (Barbie)
2. A.V. Rockwell (A Thousand and One)
3. Celine Song (Past Lives)
4. Wes Anderson (Asteroid City)
5. Raine Allen-Miller (Rye Lane)
6. Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
7. David Fincher (The Killer)
8. Neill Blomkamp (Gran Turismo)
9. Colin West (Linoleum)
10. James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3)
11. Kelly Fremon Craig (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.)
12. Austin & Meredith Bragg (Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game)
13. Maggie Betts (The Burial)
14. Christopher McQuarrie (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One)
15. Jon S. Baird (Tetris)
16. Matt Johnson (BlackBerry)
17. Franklin Ritch (The Artifice Girl)
18. Juel Taylor (They Cloned Tyrone)
19. Nida Manzoor (Polite Society)
20. Guy Ritchie (The Covenant)
21. Ben Affleck (Air)
22. Molly Gordon & Nick Lieberman (Theater Camp)
23. Ray Ramano (Somewhere in Queens)
24. Juan Felipe Zuleta (Unidentified Objects)
25. Jalmari Helander (Sisu)
26. Emma Seligman (Bottoms)
27. Michael B. Jordan (Creed 3)
28. Jingyi Shao (Chang Can Dunk)
29. Jamie Deck (Palm Trees and Power Lines)

2024 OSCARS BEST ACTOR CONTENDERS

1. Cillian Murphy (Oppenhiemer)
2. Kelvin Harrison, Jr. (Chevalier)
3. Archie Madekwe (Gran Turismo)
4. Jamie Foxx (The Burial)
5. John Boyega (They Cloned Tyrone)
6. Teo Yoo (Past Lives)
7. Michael Fassbender (The Killer)
8. Jason Schwartzman (Asteroid City)
9. Jim Gaffigan (Linoleum)
10. Mike Faist (Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game)
11. Rob Grabow (The Year of the Dog)
12. Jay Baruchel (BlackBerry)
13. Ben Platt (Theater Camp)
14. Matthew Jeffers (Unidentified Objects)
15. Ray Ramano (Somewhere in Queens)
16. Michael B. Jordan (Creed 3)
17. David Jonsson (Rye Lane)
18. Jorma Tommila (Sisu)
19. Tommy Lee Jones (The Burial)
20. Jake Gyllenhaal (The Covenant)
21. Taron Egerton (Tetris)
22. Matt Damon (Air)
23. Dave Bautista (Knock at the Cabin)

2024 OSCARS BEST ACTRESS CONTENDERS

1. Teyana Taylor (A Thousand and One)
2. Greta Lee (Past Lives)
3. Scarlett Johansson (Asteroid City)
4. Margot Robbie (Barbie)
5. Laurie Metcalf (Somewhere in Queens)
6. Abby Ryder Fortson (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.)
7. Michelle Williams (Showing Up)
8. Sarah Hay (Unidentified Objects)
9. Lily McInerny (Palm Trees and Power Lines)
10. Vivian Oparah (Rye Lane)
11. Molly Gordon (Theater Camp)
12. Priya Kansara (Polite Society)
13. Rachel Sonnett (Bottoms)
14. Rhea Seehorn (Linoleum)
15. Jennifer Lawrence (No Hard Feelings)
16. Hayley Atwell (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One)
17. Halle Bailey (The Little Mermaid)
18. Julia Louis-Dreyfus (You Hurt My Feelings)
19. Ashley Park (Joy Ride)
20. Ayo Edebiri (Bottoms)

2024 OSCARS BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR CONTENDERS

1. Robert Downey, Jr. (Oppenheimer)
2. Glenn Howerton (BlackBerry)
3. Jamie Foxx (They Cloned Tyrone)
4. Chukwudi Iwuji (Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3)
5. Matt Damon (Oppenheimer)
6. William Catlett (A Thousand and One)
7. Ryan Gosling (Barbie)
8. Mamoudou Athie (The Burial)
9. Aaron Kingsley Adetola (A Thousand and One)
10. David Harbour (Gran Turismo)
11. Alan Ruck (The Burial)
12. Ben Affleck (Air)
13. Jake Ryan (Asteroid City)
14. Dar Salim (The Covenant)
15. Jonathan Majors (Creed 3)
16. Franklin Ritch (The Artifice Girl)
17. Josiah Cross (A Thousand and One)
18. Rupert Grint (Knock at the Cabin)
19. Jason Bateman (Air)
20. John Magaro (Past Lives)
21. Miles Fowler (Bottoms)
22. Jonathan Tucker (Palm Trees and Power Lines)
23. David Girard (The Artifice Girl)

2024 OSCARS BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS CONTENDERS

1. Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)
2. Teyonah Parris (They Cloned Tyrone)
3. Rachel McAdams (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.)
4. Ritu Arya (Polite Society)
5. Jurnee Smollett (The Burial)
6. Florence Pugh (Oppenheimer)
7. Vanessa Kirby (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One)
8. Katelyn Nacon (Linoleum)
9. Samara Weaving (Chevalier)
10. Stephanie Hsu (Joy Ride)
11. Hong Chau (Showing Up)
12. Kathy Bates (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.)
13. Sadie Stanley (Somewhere in Queens)
14. Tatum Matthews (The Artifice Girl)
15. Tessa Thompson (Creed 3)
16. Pom Klementieff (Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3)
17. Crystal Reed (Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game)
18. Mardy Ma (Chang Can Dunk)
19. Sinda Nichols (The Artifice Girl)
20. Viola Davis (Air)
21. America Ferrera (Barbie)
22. Sabrina Wu (Joy Ride)
23. Ruby Cruz (Bottoms)

2024 OSCARS BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY CONTENDERS

1. A Thousand and One
2. Asteroid City
3. Past Lives
4. They Cloned Tyrone
5. Somewhere in Queens
6. Rye Lane
7. Elemental
8. Joy Ride
9. Polite Society
10. The Artifice Girl
11. The Year of the Dog
12. Tetris
13. The Covenant
14. Sisu
15. Air
16. Linoleum
17. Bottoms
18. Theater Camp
19. No Hard Feelings
20. Palm Trees and Power Lines
21. You Hurt My Feelings
22. Chang Can Dunk
23. Unidentified Objects

2024 OSCARS BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY CONTENDERS

1. Oppenheimer
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. The Burial
4. Gran Turismo
5. Barbie
6. BlackBerry
7. The Killer
8. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
9. Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game
10. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
11. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
12. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
14. How To Blow Up A Pipeline
15. Creed 3
16. Knock at the Cabin

2024 OSCARS BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY CONTENDERS

1. Oppenheimer
2. Past Lives
3. The Killer
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
5. Sisu
6. Gran Turismo
7. Rye Lane
8. Asteroid City
9. The Covenant
10. They Cloned Tyrone
11. BlackBerry
12. Linoleum
13. Tetris
14. Knock at the Cabin
15. Barbie
16. How To Blow Up A Pipeline
17. Creed 3
18. Gods of Mexico
19. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
20. Unidentified Objects
21. A Thousand and One

2024 OSCARS BEST ANIMATED FILM CONTENDERS

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
3. Elemental
4. The Magician’s Elephant
5. The Amazing Maurice
6. Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
7. The Super Mario Brothers Movie

2024 OSCARS BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM CONTENDERS

1. Little Richard: I Am Everything
2. Silver Dollar Road
3. The League
4. I Got A Monster
5. Reggie
6. It’s Quieter in the Twilight
7. Pamela, A Love Story
8. Stan Lee
9. Gods of Mexico

2024 OSCARS BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM CONTENDERS

1. TBD

2024 OSCARS BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN CONTENDERS

1. Barbie
2. Asteroid City
3. Oppenheimer
4. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
5. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
6. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
7. Chevalier
8. Polite Society
9. They Cloned Tyrone
10. The Burial
11. Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game
12. Tetris
13. The Little Mermaid
14. Linoleum

2024 OSCARS BEST COSTUME DESIGN CONTENDERS

1. Barbie
2. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
3. The Little Mermaid
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
5. Polite Society
6. Chevalier
7. Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game
8. Asteroid City
9. They Cloned Tyrone
10. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
11. The Killer
12. Joy Ride
13. The Burial
14. Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania

2024 OSCARS BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLE CONTENDERS

1. Oppenheimer
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
3. Sisu
4. Barbie
5. They Cloned Tyrone
6. BlackBerry
7. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
8. Chevalier
9. The Little Mermaid
10. Asteroid City
11. Joy Ride
12. A Thousand and One
13. Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game
14. Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
15. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
16. The Artifice Girl

2024 OSCARS BEST SOUND CONTENDERS

1. Oppenheimer
2. The Killer
3. Gran Turismo
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
5. The Covenant
6. Chevalier
7. Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
8. Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game
9. The Little Mermaid
10. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
11. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
12. Unidentified Objects
13. Creed 3
14. Plane

2024 OSCARS BEST SCORE CONTENDERS

1. Oppenheimer
2. Asteroid City
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
4. Past Lives
5. The Killer
6. The Covenant
7. Rye Lane
8. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
9. Knock at the Cabin
10. Bottoms
11. Sisu
12. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
13. They Cloned Tyrone
14. The Burial
15. BlackBerry
16. The Year of the Dog
17. Tetris
18. Linoleum
19. The Little Mermaid
20. A Thousand and One
21. Unidentified Objects
22. How To Blow Up A Pipeline
23. Cocaine Bear

2024 OSCARS BEST ORIGINAL SONG CONTENDERS

1. ‘For The First Time’ by Halle Bailey (The Little Mermaid)
2. ‘Steal The Show’ by Lauv (Elemental)
3. ‘Calling’ by Metro Boomin, Boogie wit da Hoodie, NAV & Swae Lee (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)
4. ‘What Was I Made For?’ by Billie Eilish (Barbie)
5. ‘I’m Just Ken’ by Ryan Gosling (Barbie)
6. ‘Peaches’ by Jack Black (The Super Mario Brothers Movie)
7. ‘Gonna Be You’ by Dolly Parton, Belinda Carlisle, Cyndi Lauper and Diane Warren (80 For Brady)

2024 OSCARS BEST FILM EDITING CONTENDERS

1. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
2. Oppenheimer
3. Past Lives
4. Asteroid City
5. Linoleum
6. Gran Turismo
7. Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game
8. BlackBerry
9. The Killer
10. Polite Society
11. Tetris
12. Rye Lane
13. The Covenant
14. A Thousand and One
15. They Cloned Tyrone
16. Barbie
17. Chang Can Dunk
18. Air
19. Unidentified Objects

2024 OSCARS BEST VISUAL EFFECTS CONTENDERS

1. Oppenheimer
2. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
3. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
4. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
5. Gran Turismo
6. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
7. The Little Mermaid
8. Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
9. Cocaine Bear
10. Plane