2018 Oscar Predictions: ALL BELOW THE LINE CATEGORIES (December Part 2)
| VISUAL EFFECTS | ERIK ANDERSON |
BRYAN BONAFEDE | GREG HOWARD | EVAN KOST |
JASON OSIASON | KENNETH POLISHCHUK |
DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ | RICHARD ANTHONY |
ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT | MATT DINN | TOTAL POINTS |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blade Runner 2049 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 97 |
| 2 | War for the Planet of the Apes | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 88 |
| 3 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 83 |
| 4 | Dunkirk | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 64 |
| 5 | The Shape of Water | 5 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 58 |
| 6 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 47 |
| 7 | Okja | 6 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 17 | ||||||
| 8 | Kong: Skull Island | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 15 | ||
| 9 | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | 7 | 7 | 6 | 13 | |||||||
| 10 | Alien: Covenant | 10 | 10 | 10 | 3 |
| MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING | ERIK ANDERSON |
BRYAN BONAFEDE | GREG HOWARD | EVAN KOST |
JASON OSIASON | KENNETH POLISHCHUK |
DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ | RICHARD ANTHONY |
ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT | MATT DINN | TOTAL POINTS |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darkest Hour | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
| 2 | I, Tonya | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 67 | ||
| 3 | Bright | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 34 | ||||||
| 4 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | 3 | 8 |
OTHER CONTENDERS
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Victoria and Abdul
Wonder
| ANIMATED FEATURE | ERIK ANDERSON |
BRYAN BONAFEDE | GREG HOWARD | EVAN KOST |
JASON OSIASON | KENNETH POLISHCHUK |
DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ | RICHARD ANTHONY |
ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT | MATT DINN | TOTAL POINTS |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coco | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 50 |
| 2 | The Breadwinner | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 33 |
| 3 | The Lego Batman Movie | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 19 | ||
| 4 | Mary and the Witch’s Flower | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | |||||
| 5 | Loving Vincent | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | ||||
| 6 | The Boss Baby | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | ||||
| 7 | Ferdinand | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
| 7 | In This Corner of the World | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
OTHER CONTENDERS
The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children
Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie
Cars 3
Cinderella the Cat
Despicable Me 3
The Emoji Movie
Ethel & Ernest
The Girl without Hands
In This Corner of the World
The Lego Ninjago Movie
Moomins and the Winter Wonderland
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea
Napping Princess
A Silent Voice
Smurfs: The Lost Village
The Star
Sword Art Online: The Movie – Ordinal Scale
Window Horses The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
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.
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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