As junior Lindsey Prestholdt awaits the Oscars, she looks forward to the Best Original Screenplay award and the Best Writing Adapted Screenplay award.

“I’m most excited for the writing, both original screenplay and adapted screenplay, because I like to see the best thought out and put together story,” Prestholdt said.

Prestholdt hopes the movie “La La Land,” along with its two main actors Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, will end the night with an award.

“I hope ‘La La Land’ wins something along with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling because I was absolutely amazed by that movie and think it deserves to win,” Prestholdt said.

Sophomore Charisse Ondara looks forward to the Best Picture award because of the many diverse movies in the running this year.

“(I’m looking forward to) the Best Movie of the Year award because there are a lot of good movies,” Ondara said. “Last year there weren’t any diverse movies whatsoever nominated, but this year there are far more. I’m hoping that this year a diverse movie might win an award.”

According to Ondara, “Hidden Figures” is the one movie she is really hoping will win an award.

“We never learned about how those three women helped a man orbit around the earth, so it was interesting to see how that all played out in a movie and I think that movie should win,” Ondara said.

While Prestholdt said she is excited for the Oscars, she wishes Neil Sethi had received a nomination for his work in the film “The Jungle Book.”

“I really wish Neil Sethi, who plays Mowgli in ‘The Jungle Book,’ would have been nominated because I thought he did an amazing job acting especially for his age and experience and considering he had to act with animated animals,” Prestholdt said.

Ondara said she is planning on watching the awards ceremony because it is one of the more prevalent award shows.

“I’m not really a fan of award shows, but some of them are more important, like this one is more important this year,” Ondara said.

The Oscars will air Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. on ABC.