Oscars 2022: Final Predictions In Every Category
15. Best Sound
NOMINEES:
Belfast
Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
What Should Win: Dune
Dune's mesmerising soundscape is really on a whole other level to the rest of the nominees, melding Hans Zimmer's intense score with outstanding sound effects.
The sound design was just as much a reason to watch Dune on the big screen as the visuals, and while all five nominees have quality sound, none of the others even get close to Dune's accomplishments.
What Will Win: Dune
Though Oscar voters tend to have a pretty poor understanding of sound, streamlining the sound editing and sound mixing awards into a single category in recent years has agreeably simplified things.
Dune has a big advantage here in basically offering the "most" sound, which tends to sway the wider voting body, but it's also really miles ahead of anything else the other nominees are doing, so it's tough to see it losing.