2017-2018 Build by Guild: Creating a Best Picture Nominee

It’s back, the Build by Guild: Creating a Best Picture nominee. Certain guilds will carry more weight than others; PGA, DGA, SAG over CSA for example. Placements will change, tiers will alter. Once the Best Picture Oscar nominees are announced the Build by Guild: Creating a Best Picture Winner will roll out.

Check back here as guilds continue to announce their nominees this month as they will be coming in fast and furious. Here are the Key Dates and Deadlines for many of these guilds.

TIER 1

The Big Sick – SAG, MUAH, PGA, WGA
Dunkirk – ACE, ADG, ASC, CAS, CDG, CSA, DGA, MPSE, PGA, VES
Get Out – ACE, ADG, CDG, CSA, DGA, PGA, SAG, WGA
Lady Bird – ACE, ADG, CDG, CSA, DGA, PGA, SAG, WGA
The Shape of Water – ACE, ADG, ASC, CAS, CDG, CSA, DGA, MPSE, MUAH, PGA, WGA
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri – ACE, ADG, CDG, DGA, CSA, MPSE, MUAH, PGA, SAG

TIER 2

I, Tonya – ACE, CDG, CSA, MUAH, PGA, WGA
The Post – ACE, ADG, CSA, PGA

TIER 3

Call Me By Your Name – PGA, WGA
Molly’s Game – ACE, PGA, WGA
Mudbound – ASC, SAG, WGA
Wonder Woman – CAS, CDG, CSA, ADG, PGA

TIER 4

Baby Driver – ACE, CAS, CSA, MPSE, MUAH
Beauty and the Beast – ADG, CDG, CSA, MUAH
Blade Runner 2049 – ACE, ADG, ASC, CDG, MPSE, MUAH, VES
Darkest Hour – ADG, ASC, MUAH, VES
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – CAS, CDG, ADG, MPSE, MUAH, VES

TIER 5

Battle of the Sexes – CSA
Detroit – CSA, MPSE
The Disaster Artist – CSA
Downsizing – ADG, VES
The Florida Project – CSA
Gifted – CSA
Girls Trip – CSA
The Greatest Showman – CDG, CSA, NPSE, MUAH
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – CSA, MUAH, VES
Logan – ADG, MPSE, WGA
Logan Lucky – CSA
Murder on the Orient Express – ADG, CDG
Phantom Thread – CDG
Split – CSA
War for the Planet of the Apes – ADG, MPSE, VES
Wonder – CSA, MUAH

Legend

ACE – American Cinema Editors
ADG – Art Directors Guild
ASC – American Society of Cinematographers
CAS – Cinema Audio Society
CDG – Costume Designers Guild
CSA – Casting Society of America
DGA – Directors Guild of America
MPSE – Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild (1/22)
MUAH – Makeup and Hairstyling Guild
PGA – Producers Guild of America
SAG – Screen Actors Guild of America
WGA – Writers Guild of America
VES – Visual Effects Society

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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