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Gurus O’ Gold: Best Picture & Unlikely Underdogs

By Ray Pride

Rank	Last Chart	Best Picture	Bahr	Ellwood	Howell	Johnson	Karger	Morales	Patterson	Poland	Pond	Rogers	Sneider	Votes	Total
1	2	Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	2	1	1	1	11	129
2	1	The Irishman	2	2	4	4	2	1	2	4	2	3	5	11	112
3	3	Parasite	4	3	3	2	4	2	3	5	4	2	4	11	107
4	4	Marriage Story	3	5	6	6	5	4	5	6	5	6	3	11	89
5	5	1917	5	4	2	3	3	5	4	1	3	5	2	11	84
6	8	Little Women	6	7	5	8	8	6	10	7	6	8	8	11	64
7	7	Joker	7	9	8	7	7	7	7	10	8	4	6	11	63
8	6	Jojo Rabbit		6	7	5	6	9	6	3	7	7	7	10	47
9	9	Ford v Ferrari		10	9	9	10	11	8	8	9	9	11	10	36
10		Knives Out	9		11	11	12			12	12	10	10	8	17
	t-10	Bombshell		11		10	9		11	11	10			6	16
	t-10	The Two Popes						10	9	9	11	11		5	15
		The Farewell	8	8	10	12			12			12	9	7	6
		Uncut Gems	10	12				12					12	4	6
		Rocketman			12		11							2	3
														0	0
One Vote Wonders
		Dolemite Is My Name						8						1	5

Rank	Underdogs 2019	Bahr	Ellwood	Howell	Johnson	Karger	Morales	Patterson	Poland	Pond	Rogers	Sneider	Votes	Total
	The Farewell						*				*	*	3	3
	Adam Sandler Uncut Gems	*								*			2	2
	Christian Bale Ford v Ferrari					*			*				2	2
	Tracy Letts Ford v Ferrari			*				*					2	2
	Hustlers		*								*		2	2
	Greta Gerwig Director, Little Women	*							*				2	2
	Zhao Shuzhen The Farewell	*		*									2	2
	Taylor Russell Waves					*			*				2	2
One Vote Wonders
	Kevin Garnett Uncut Gems							*					1	1
	Uncut Gems									*			1	1
	Jonathan Pryce The Two Popes								*				1	1
	Julie Hagerty							*					1	1
	Bill Camp Dark Waters							*					1	1
	Avengers: Endgame						*						1	1
	Hidden Life									*			1	1
	Almodóvar Director, Pain & Glory									*			1	1
	John Lithgow Bombshell								*				1	1
	Terminator: Dark Fate FX											*	1	1
	Paul Walter Hauser RIchard Jewell											*	1	1
	Todd Phillips Joker											*	1	1
	Jessie Buckley Wild Rose											*	1	1
	Ad Astra										*		1	1
	A Beautiful Day										*		1	1
	Pain & Glory										*		1	1
	Uncut Gems Film Editing									*			1	1
	Honeyboy						*						1	1
	Harriet						*						1	1
	The Safdies Uncut Gems	*											1	1
	I Lost My Body Score		*										1	1
	Rocketman Production Design		*										1	1
	Willem Dafoe The Lighthouse		*										1	1
	Song Kang-ho Parasite			*									1	1
	Julia Butters Once Upon A Time ...			*									1	1
	Nahéma Ricci Antigone			*									1	1
	The Peanut Butter Falcon				*								1	1
	Daniel Craig Knives Out				*								1	1
	Florence Pugh Midsommar				*								1	1
	Camila Morrone Mickey and the Bear				*								1	1
	Sienna Miller American Woman				*								1	1
	Portrait of a Lady on Fire					*							1	1
	Annette Bening The Report					*							1	1
	Taika Waititi Jojo Rabbit					*							1	1
	Just Mercy						*						1	1
	Timothée Chalamet Little Women	*											1	1

The Gurus, At Your Service

Thelma Adams: Author, Critic, Oscar Expert @thelmadams
Robyn Bahr: Freelance (Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Fair, Guardian) @RobynBahr
Gregory Ellwood: The Playlist @TheGregoryE
Peter Howell: Toronto Star @peterhowellfilm
Mark Johnson: Awards Circuit
Dave Karger: TCM, IMDb
Wilson Morales: BlackFilm.com
Michael Patterson: Michael’s Telluride Film Blog; Twitter; Facebook
David Poland @DavidPoland
Steve Pond: The Wrap
NathanielR: The Film Experience
Sasha Stone: Awards Daily @AwardsDaily
Jeff Sneider: Collider @TheInSneider

3 Responses to “Gurus O’ Gold: Best Picture & Unlikely Underdogs”

Bradley Laing says:

January 8, 2020 at 2:51 pm

—is there a possibility that the animated short film “Le Mans 1955” will be nominated.
Terry says:

January 8, 2020 at 11:15 pm

Please excuse my ignorance, but what does ‘Underdogs 2019’ represent?
Ray Pride says:

January 9, 2020 at 6:15 pm

The Gurus predict what the Academy would do. The “underdogs” are personal preferences that are unlikely to make the cut on Monday.

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