Oscar Experts Just Confirmed Fans’ Worst Fears on Best Picture Winner

The Oscars ceremony is still more than a month away, but the first predictions are already in, and some of them are currently causing even more fuss among the audiences.

This year’s race compounds the most critically and commercially successful movies of 2024, with the flicks like The Brutalist, Emilia Pérez, Wicked, Anora and Dune: Part Two becoming the frontrunners of the Best Picture category.

However, the Oscar experts have already weighed in on each movie’s chances ahead of the nominations’ announcement last week, and it might have caused another outburst of rage among those who have been boycotting one of this year’s big winners all along.

Emilia Pérez Has the Most Chances to Win Best Picture, Experts Say

Upon the Academy’s announcement of this year’s nominees last Thursday, the biggest media outlets were quick to unite their forces by bringing their Oscar experts together for the first Best Picture predictions.

A video posted by Gold Derby, which is a news forum that primarily focuses on foretelling prestigious awards’ potential outcome, sees Gold Derby’s Debra Birnbaum, Deadline’s Pete Hammond, Variety‘s Clayton Davis, The Hollywood Reporter‘s Scott Feinberg, and Indiewire’s Anne Thompson making their own bets on who will eventually take the main prize.

Most of them agreed that things look pretty good for Emilia Pérez that garnered almost a record-breaking number of 13 nominations, with Feinberg adding that “literally only three movies have ever had more than that, and that was just one more [nomination]. And two of those won.”

Hammond also tuned in stating that the movie is most likely the “undeniable” winner, though it still might lose Best Picture, grabbing the award for Best International Film instead.

Viewers Have Been Slamming Emilia Pérez For Months

Despite being the critics’ darling, Emilia Pérez has been long considered one of the worst movies released last year, at least among those who watched it ever since it hit the screens back in November.

The film came as an utter insult for Mexican people, who never stopped being sick and tired of their country’s misrepresentation on the screen, and was also slammed for unfolding its story in a place that its French director Jacques Audiard seemingly has no clue about.

Gold Derby’s newly posted video gave the audience yet another reason for uniting in their protest against Emilia Pérez.

In the comments, user @lozadahe stated that “Emilia Perez is a horribly insulting film. Stop elevating this absurd attempt at a musical”.

Another user nicknamed @SleepFan771 seemingly agreed with the previous one by saying “God, I hope Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, or I'm Still Here can beat the mediocre movie Emilia Perez.”

Whether their hopes will meet with reality or not, it’s a question that can only receive its answer on March 2 when the ceremony will take place.