There have been many exceptional films this year, but it is hard to know which are strictly eligible, given that so many have appeared on streaming platforms only or first; I think I am right in saying the Academy is being lenient for the 2020 crop, and feature-length is all that is required. Despite there being some superb films of the year I have yet to see, here are what I predict as definite picks, and likely, winners, for some major categories - STARTING TODAY WITH some best actor possibilities. BEST ACTOR Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Boseman electrifies in his role as the arrogant upstart Jazz musician with a streak of genius , deformed by cruel white racism into madness; as he died too soon, this award is his to lose. Gary Oldman - Mank Lose it he won't, but could, to Oldman's finest hour since Churchill, as a drunken, brilliant, and crushed screenwriter with the soul of a poet, matching wits with starlets, tycoons, studio heads, and Orson Welles. Riz
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