Oscars 2024 predictions: Who will walk away winners TONIGHT?

The 96th Academy Awards will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles on Sunday, 10 March.

The E! channel gets things under way with Brunch at the Oscars at 22:00 (SA time), then moves to Live from the Red Carpet show at midnight (SA time).

The ceremony itself will begin at 02:00 (Monday, 11 March SA time) and is expected to last three and a half hours.

Jimmy Kimmel will be the show’s host for a fourth time.

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO …

“Oppenheimer” leads the way with 13 nominations, followed by “Poor Things” (11) and “Killers of the Flower Moon” (10)

While some of the main award winners are dead certainties, others are less so.

Here’s who the SAPeople website predicts will walk away as winners in 12 of the biggest Oscars 2024 categories:

Best picture – Oppenheimer (Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, producers)
Best actor – Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)
Best actress – Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Best supporting actor – Robert Downey jnr (Oppenheimer)
Best supporting actress – Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)
Best director – Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
Best song – What Was I Made For? (from “Barbie,” music and lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell)
Best adapted screenplay – American Fiction (written for the screen by Cord Jefferson)
Best original screenplay – Anatomy of a Fall (screenplay by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari)
Best documentary – 20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath)
Best animated film – The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki)
Best international film – The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)