2018 Oscars Predictions

2018 Oscars Predictions

Joe Bozzella, Staff Writer

*All nominees are listed in alphabetical order

 

Best Picture

Call Me by Your Name

Dunkirk

Get Out

I, Tonya

Lady Bird

The Big Sick

The Post

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

Potential Spoilers

The Florida Project

Mudbound

The Disaster Artist

Phantom Thread

Darkest Hour

Wonder Woman

Logan

 

Best Director

Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)

Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)

Jordan Peele (Get Out)

Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)

 

Potential Spoilers

Steven Spielberg (The Post)

Sean Baker (The Florida Project)

Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name)

Ridley Scott (All the Money in the World)

Dee Rees (Mudbound)

 

Best Actor

Timothee Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name)

Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)

Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)

Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)

Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.)

 

Potential Spoilers

James Franco (The Disaster Artist) *100% would have been nominated before those recent allegations against him

Tom Hanks (The Post)

Jake Gyllenhaal (Stronger)

Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick)

 

Best Actress

Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)

Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Margot Robbie (I, Tonya)

Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)

Meryl Streep (The Post)

 

Potential Spoilers

Jessica Chastain (Molly’s Game)

Judi Dench (Victoria & Abdul)

Annette Bening (Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool)

 

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)

Armie Hammer (Call Me by Your Name)

Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water)

 

Potential Spoilers

Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me by Your Name)

Ray Romano (The Big Sick)

Steve Carell (Battle of the Sexes)

Sebastian Stan (I, Tonya)

 

Best Supporting Actress

Mary J. Blige (Mudbound)

Holly Hunter (The Big Sick)

Allison Janney (I, Tonya)

Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)

Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water)

 

Potential Spoilers

Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip)

Hong Chau (Downsizing)

Catherine Keener (Get Out)

 

Best Adapted Screenplay

Call Me by Your Name

The Disaster Artist

Logan

Molly’s Game

Mudbound

 

Potential Spoilers

Wonder

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

All the Money in the World

 

Best Original Screenplay

Get Out

Lady Bird

The Shape of Water

The Big Sick

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

Potential Spoilers

The Post

The Florida Project

Dunkirk

I, Tonya

 

Best Animated Feature

Cars 3

Coco

Loving Vincent

The Breadwinner

The Lego Batman Movie

 

Potential Spoilers

The Boss Baby

Despicable Me 3

 

Best Documentary Feature

City of Ghosts

Faces Places

Icarus

Jane

Strong Island

 

Potential Spoilers

Longs Strange Trip

One of Us

An Inconvenient Sequel

 

Best Foreign Language Film

A Fantastic Woman

Foxtrot

In the Fade

The Insult

The Square

 

Potential Spoilers

Loveless

On Body and Soul

 

Best Cinematography

Blade Runner 2049

Call Me by Your Name

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

 

Potential Spoilers

The Post

Wonderstruck

Lady Bird

Mudbound

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

 

Best Costume Design

Beauty and the Beast

Darkest Hour

I, Tonya

Phantom Thread

The Post

 

Potential Spoilers

Dunkirk

Wonderstruck

Mudbound

 

Best Film Editing

Baby Driver

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

 

Potential Spoilers

The Post

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

I, Tonya

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Darkest Hour

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Wonder

 

Potential Spoilers

Ghost in the Shell

Bright

I, Tonya

 

Best Original Score

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

The Post

The Shape of Water

Phantom Thread

 

Potential Spoilers

Darkest Hour

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Wonderstruck

 

Best Original Song

“I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” (Fifty Shades Darker)

“It Ain’t Fair” (Detroit)

“Remember Me” (Coco)

“Stand Up for Something” (Marshall)

“This is Me” (The Greatest Showman)

 

Potential Spoilers

“Evermore” (Beauty and the Beast)

“The Mystery of Love” (Call Me by Your Name)

“Mighty River” (Mudbound)

 

Best Sound Mixing

Baby Driver

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

The Shape of Water

 

Potential Spoilers

Get Out

Detroit

Coco

 

Best Sound Editing

Blade Runner 2049

Dunkirk

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

The Shape of Water

Wonder Woman

 

Potential Spoilers

Baby Driver

Detroit

Transformers: The Last Knight

 

Best Production Design

Blade Runner 2049

Beauty and the Beast

Darkest Hour

Dunkirk

The Shape of Water

 

Potential Spoilers

Murder on the Orient Express

The Post

Phantom Thread

 

Best Visual Effects

Blade Runner 2049

Stars Wars: The Last Jedi

The Shape of Water

War for the Planet of the Apes

Valerian and City of a Thousand Planets

 

Potential Spoilers

Dunkirk

Okja

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

 

Best Animated Short

Cradle

Dear Basketball

In a Heartbeat

Lou

Revolting Rhymes

 

Potential Spoilers

Negative Space

Garden Party

Life Smartphone

 

Best Documentary Short

116 Cameras

Edith+Eddie

Heroin(e)

Kayayo, The Living Shopping Baskets

Knife Skills

 

Potential Spoilers

Ten Meter Tower

Ram Dass, Going Home

 

Best Live Action Short

DeKalb Elementary

Facing Mecca

Lost Face

My Nephew Emmett

Watu Wote/All of Us

 

Potential Spoilers

Witnesses

Rise of a Star

 

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