This is the closest category to call, but Waltz seems likely to repeat as a winner for another Quentin Tarantino film (he won this category in 2011 for Inglorious Bastards).
On this new record, the sound of the Heartless Bastards has caught up to her unique talent and that's all it took for a workman like band to become a great one.
His props, including old Buicks and Oldsmobiles he took to buyers' houses ("I drove the paint off three of those bastards"), were all part of the bargaining act, a sort of collector's duck blind behind which he hid.