The Doctor is now an Oscar Nominee.

Film Plenty of actors with guest appearances in Doctor Who have been nominated and even won an Oscar, and although Peter Capaldi's short film, Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life won an academy award, Richard E Grant's nod in the Best Actor category is the first time someone who's played the main character in the franchise has found himself in amongst the top ticket. Grant's played the Doctor twice - in Curse of the Fatal Death as one of Rowan Atkinson's successors and later in Scream of the Shalka, the official continuation of the Doctors adventures for the five minutes before Russell T Davies ignited the revival.

Before any of you suggest neither are canonical, at this point the idea of canonicity in Doctor Who is pretty redundant.  But if you really must, there's enough leeway in the 'verse thanks to alternate reality stories interacting with the primeverse, whatever that means, that the Atkinson Doctor, the Shalka Doctor, Peter Cushing and any of the other fragments are just as legitimate as the person we more usually recognise as the Doctor.  So for the purposes of making history, Richard E Grant is the first Doctor to become nominated for their acting.

With all of that sorted out, here are my serious predictions for the night. What I'd like to win and what will win. I've skipped categories when I haven't a clue.

BEST PICTURE
Like: "Roma"
Will: "A Star Is Born"

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Like: Marina de Tavira, "Roma"
Will: Amy Adams, "Vice"

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Like: Richard E. Grant, "Can You Ever Forgive Me"
Will: Sam Elliott, "A Star Is Born"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Like: "Roma"
Will: "Roma"

ORIGINAL SONG
Like: "When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings" - "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"
Will: "Shallow" - "A Star Is Born"

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Like: "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse"
Will: "Isle of Dogs"

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Like: "BlacKkKlansman"
Will: "BlacLlansman"

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Like: "Roma"
Will: "The Favourite"

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Like: Olivia Colman, "The Favourite"
Will: Glenn Close, "The Wife"

DIRECTOR
Like: Alfonso Cuarón, "Roma"
Will: Adam McKay, "Vice"

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Like: "Black Panther"
Will: "Black Panther"

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Like: "Roma"
Will: "Roma"

COSTUME DESIGN
Like: "Black Panther"
Will: "The Favourite"

SOUND EDITING
Like: "A Quiet Place"
Will: "Bohemian Rhapsody"

SOUND MIXING
Like: "Black Panther"
Will: "Bohemian Rhapsody"

ORIGINAL SCORE
Like: "Black Panther"
Will: "Black Panther"

VISUAL EFFECTS
Like: "Avengers: Infinity War"
Will: "Ready Player One"