Did a 20-Year-Old Yearbook Photo Predict This Year’s Oscars?

A 20-year-old yearbook superlative might finally become true during this year’s Best Actress race at the Academy Awards. In a 2004 photo that has since gone viral, Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone poses for her senior-year award: “Most Likely to Win an Oscar,” which she won alongside one of her classmates and theater pals, Josh Ryder.

With plenty of Oscar pundits predicting a historic win from Gladstone, who plays Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese’s latest film, this prophecy could come to fruition. Was that year’s Mountlake Terrace High School yearbook magic? And does this mean there’s a win in Ryder’s future, too?

“I don’t foresee that happening,” Ryder says on a Zoom this week with The Daily Beast’s Obsessed. Since the photo was taken, he’s left the acting world; now, he co-owns and works as a chef at a restaurant in Seattle. “As cool as that would be, I’m not the same person that I was 20 years ago.”

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