# Dopers Predict the 88th Academy Awards Winners: Director **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-predict-the-88th-academy-awards-winners-director/743835 "2016-01-21T23:36:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-predict-the-88th-academy-awards-winners-director/743835/1 "2016-01-21T23:36:26Z")
[LINK](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=781460) to Best Picture poll [LINK](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=781568) to Best Actor poll [LINK](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=781672) to Best Actress poll Let’s see how well we can, as a group, predict the major Oscar winners. It is not necessary to have seen all the nominated films to vote, simply predict who or what you think will win. Next up: Director mmm ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-predict-the-88th-academy-awards-winners-director/743835/2 "2016-01-21T23:53:45Z")
They won’t give Inarritu a second straight one, Miller is a septuagenarian and Mad Max directorial efforts were universally praised, even if it’s an actioner- Abrahamson is too indie and McCarthy- well, he did an Adam Sandler movie- he’s going to need five Station Agents to atone for that one. Going with Miller. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-predict-the-88th-academy-awards-winners-director/743835/3 "2016-01-22T01:20:25Z")
This is the hardest major category. That’s actually true many years. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-predict-the-88th-academy-awards-winners-director/743835/4 "2016-01-22T02:52:44Z")
Yeah, we might get a split with Miller winning this and Revenant winning Best Picture. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-predict-the-88th-academy-awards-winners-director/743835/5 "2016-01-22T04:13:46Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Yeah, we might get a split with Miller winning this and Revenant winning Best Picture. That’s what I think will happen. They’ll never give BP to a movie like Mad Max, but they’ll probably take the opportunity to award Miller for this movie and really, his whole career, since Inarritu won last year. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-predict-the-88th-academy-awards-winners-director/743835/6 "2016-01-22T04:38:14Z")
I agree the best bet is a split; Miller is well respected and it’d be a deserving award for a remarkably directed film