COSTUME DESIGN

Tier 1 - Predictions

Paul Tazewell
2 noms / 1 win
WICKED: FOR GOOD

Ruth E Carter
3 noms / 2 wins
SINNERS

Tier 2 - Or Maybe It'll Be...

Alexandra Byrne
4 noms | 1 win
FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS

Colleen Atwood
12 noms / 4 wins
KISS OF THE SPIDER-WOMAN

Malgorzata Turzanska
never nominated
TRAIN DREAMS

Pascaline Chavanne
never nominated
NOUVELLE VAGUE

Tier 3 - Long Shots 

If the branch watches lots of films (and pays attention) several other films are possible including work from these previous nominees.

• Blue Moon Consolata Boyle (3 noms)
• The Choral Jenny Beavan (12 noms / 3 wins)
• One Battle After Another Colleen Atwood (12 noms / 4 wins)
• Phoenician Scheme Milena Canonero (9 noms / 4 wins)
• The Secret Agent Rita Azevedo
• Snow White - Sandy Powell (15 noms / 3 wins)

Or work from these artisans who have not yet been Oscar-embraced...

• Caught Stealing- Amy Westcott
• Dead Man's Wire - Peggy Schnitzer
• Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - Brittany Loar & Kasia Walicka Maimone
• Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale - Anna Robbins
• History of Sound - Miyako Bellizi
• How to Train Your Dragon - Lindsay Pugh
• The Secret Agent - Rita Azevedo
• Song Sung Blue - Ernesto Martinez
• Tron Ares - Christine Bieselin & Alix Friedberg
• The Ugly Stepsister - Manon Rasmussen

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Tier 1 - Predictions

Lukasz Zal
2 noms
HAMNET

Adolph Veloso
never nominated
TRAIN DREAMS

Michael Bauman
never nominated
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Tier 2 - Or Maybe It'll Be...

Evgenia Alexandrova
never nominated
THE SECRET AGENT

Previous nominees for Best Cinematography

• Avatar Fire and Ash Russell Carpenter (1 nom | 1 win)
• Ballad of a Small Player James Friend (1 nom | 1 win)
• Bugonia Robbie Ryan (2 noms)
• Caught Stealing - Matthew Libatique (3 noms)
• Eddington- Darius Khondji (2 noms)
• Ella McCay - Robert Elswit (2 noms / 1 win)
• The Phoenician Scheme - Bruno Delbonnel (6 noms)

Never nominated. But that could change

• How To Train Your Dragon - Bill Pope
• Kiss of the Spider-Woman - Tobias A Schliessler
• Materialists - Shabier Kirchner
• Roofman - Andrij Parekh
• Smashing Machine - Maceo Bishop
• Song Sung Blue - Amy Vincent
• Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - Masanobu Takayanagi
• Testament of Ann Lee - William Rexer
• Wicked For Good - Alice Brooks

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Tier 1 - Predictions

Jack Fisk
3 noms
MARTY SUPREME

Tier 2 - Or Maybe It'll Be...

Hannah Beachler
1 nom | 1 win
SINNERS

Alexandra Schaller
never nominated
TRAIN DREAMS

James Price
1 nom
BUGONIA

For Your Consideration - Impressive Longshots...

• Fantastic Four - Kasra Farahani
• Mickey 17 - Fiona Crombie (1 nom)
• No Other Choice - Ryu Seong-Hie
• The Phoenician Scheme Adam Stockhausen (4 noms | 1 win)
• Tron Ares - Darren Gilford

And still more contenders...

• Ballad of a Small Time Player - Jonathan Houlding
• Caught Stealing - Mark Friedberg
• The Choral Peter Francis (1 nom)
• Dead Man's Wire - Stefan Dechant (1 nom)
• Deliver Me From Nowhere - Stefania Cella
• F1 - Ben Munro & Mark Tildesley
• How To Train Your Dragon - Dominic Watkins
• Kiss of the Spider-Woman - Scott Chambliss
• Sentimental Value - Jørgen Stangeby Larsen
• Springsteen Deliver Me From Nowhere - Stefania Cella
• The Testament of Ann Lee - Sam Bader

FILM EDITING

Somewhat randomly selecting half of the Best Picture nominees for this category's April Foolish guesswork. 

Ronald Bronstein
never nominated
MARTY SUPREME

Matheus Farias & Eduardo Serrano
THE SECRET AGENT

Tier 2 - Or Maybe It'll Be...

Kirk Baxter
3 noms | 2 wins
HOUSE OF DYNAMITE

Myron Kerstein
1 nom
WICKED FOR GOOD

Evan Schiff
FRANKENSTEIN

Tier 3 - Other Possibilities

For Your Consideration... Impressive Longshots

• Avatar Fire and Ash - various editors
• No Other Choice -
• Roofman - Ron Patane
• Sentimental Value - Olivier Bugge Coutte

And still more contenders

• Ballad of a Small Player -Nick Emerson (1 nom)
• Jay Kelly - Valerio Bonelli & Rachel Durance
• Kiss of the Spider Woman - Brian A Kates
• The Lost Bus - William Goldenberg (5 noms / 1 win) & Paul Rubell (2 noms)
• Mission Impossible Final Reckoning - Eddie Hamilton (1 nom)
• Running Man- Paul Machliss (1 nom)
• Smashing Machine - Benny Safdie
• Song Sung Blue - Billy Fox
• Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - Pamela Martin (2 noms)
• The Testament of Ann Lee - Sofia Subercaseaux
• Train Dreams - Parker Laramie

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Tier 1 - Predictions

FRANKENSTEIN
Michael Hill, Jordan Samuel, Steve Newburn (never nominated)

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Heba Thorisdottir
Ahou Mofid, Aiden Tuiten

SINNERS

Tier 2 - Or Maybe It'll Be...

For Your Consideration - Impressive Longshots

• Fantastic Four: The First Steps - Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou (1 nom)
• Kiss of the Spider-Woman - ...
• Mickey 17 - Sharon Martin, Niamh O'Loan, Francesco Alberico (nominations????)
• The Phoenician Scheme - Mark Coulier (5 noms / 3 wins), Heike Merker (1 nom)

Other Possible Contenders for 2025

• Ballad of a Small Player - Heike Merker (1 nom)
• Caught Stealing - Judy Chin (1 nom / 1 win)
• Dead Man's Wire - Debbie Zoller & Vito Trotta
• Downton Abbey Grand Finale - Julia Plant
• Marty Supreme -Michael Fontaine (1 nom)
• Roofman - Stephanie Pasicov
• Snow White- Nadia Stacey (2 noms / 1 win), Mark Coulier (5 noms / 3 wins)
• Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - Jackie Risotto
• The Testament of Ann Lee - Stephanie Pasicov
• Tron Ares - Camille Friend (1 nom)

VISUAL EFFECTS

Tier 1 - Predictions

Tier 2 - Or Maybe It'll Be...

WICKED FOR GOOD

MICKEY 17

Dan Glass, Chris McLaughlin, Stuart Penn, Dominic Tuohy

Other Possibilities

What will make the finalist and semi-finalist lists?

• 28 Years Later
• Animal Friends
• Bugonia
• Captain America: Brave New World
• Frankenstein
• Lilo & Stitch
• Mercy
• Minecraft Movie - Dan Lemmon, Sheldon Stopsack, Seth Maury, Piotr Karwas
• The Running Man
• Sinners - Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, Donnie Dean
• Snow White
• Thunderbolts*