4. Film (February 28) Which picture will win American filmdom's highest prize this year? These are the five nominees for the Golden Globe for Best Dramatic Picture, which usually contains the best picture for the Academy, as well (although not last year, when Birdman won out over Boyhood et al.) What will win the Academy Award for Best Picture? a. Carol b. Mad Max: Fury Road c. The Revenant d. Room e. Spotlight f. none of the above: some other film will win The Academy has voted, and they chose to disregard the fact that most of the early year awards went to The Revenant . They chose instead an old-fashioned tale, about some quaint thing called a "newspaper." This made the correct answer to Question 4 of the 2016 Prognostication Quiz to be E. Spotlight . This was a hard one to predict this year, with no strong favorite. The most popular answer was actually F , with 17 contestants picking none of the above. After that came C (14 contestants), E (10), A (3)