2018 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (July) – Denzel Washington, Bryan Cranston, Jake Gyllenhaal Rise

Erik Anderson July 5, 2017

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No change in the top 3 this month; Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) still holds the top spot with a perfect score, Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread) is at #2 (with an 8-point increase) and Tom Hanks (The Papers) is at #3 (with a point decrease).

The rest of the list sees lots of red and green though. Denzel Washington (Roman Israel, Esq.) is back in the top 5 and Bryan Cranston (Last Flag Flying) lands there for the first time this season. This pushes Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) down to #6 despite his film and its director finding themselves both moving up on their respective charts. Andrew Garfield (Breathe), who was tied at #4 with Chalamet last month, also tumbles. Benedict Cumberbatch (The Current War) drops three spots, Ben Stiller (Brad’s Status) dips one and, after a #11 debut last month, Joaquin Phoenix (You Were Never Really Here) doesn’t seem long for the chart. Benefiting from those drops are Jake Gyllenhaal (Stronger), who moves up four spots to land in the top 10 and Donald Sutherland (The Leisure Seeker), up 2. Chadwick Boseman (Marshall) and Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman) remain in the same spots as last month.

John Boyega (Detroit)and Javier Bardem (mother!) are the debuts this month. With the size of their roles unknown, they each find themselves on both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor charts. Matt Damon (Downsizing) returns to the chart with a single #10 mention.

Here are the 2018 Oscar predictions for Best Actor for July from the Gold Rush Gang. Keep an eye on all of the Gold Rush Gang’s 2018 Oscar predictions updated LIVE throughout the month.

Green – moves up from last month
Red – moves down from last month
Blue – debut/new entry
Orange – re-entry

	BEST ACTOR	ERIK ANDERSON	BRYAN BONAFEDE	GREG HOWARD	EVAN KOST	JASON OSIASON	KENNETH POLISHCHUK	DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ	RICHARD ANTHONY	ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT	MATT DINN	TOTAL POINTS

1	Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	100
2	Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread	2	3	2	2	5	2	3	4	2	3	82
3	Tom Hanks – The Papers	3	7	5	4	6	3	5	6	3	5	63
4	Denzel Washington – Roman Israel, Esq.		2		3	4		2	2	4	2	58
5	Bryan Cranston – Last Flag Flying	7	5		7	2	5	4	3	6	4	56

6	Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name	5	4	8	5	2	7	7	7	7	7	51
7	Andrew Garfield – Breathe	8	6	9	6	6	4	6	5	8	6	46
8	Chadwick Boseman – Marshall	4		4	8	7	6		9	9	10	31
9	Jake Gyllenhaal – Stronger	6	9			8		8			8	16
10	Hugh Jackman – The Greatest Showman			9	9		9			5		12
11	Donald Sutherland – The Leisure Seeker			7				9	8			9
12	Benedict Cumberbatch – The Current War	10		6	10					10		8
13	Ben Stiller – Brad’s Status					9		10			9	5
13	John Boyega – Detroit	9	8									5
15	Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here						8					3
16	Charlie Plummer – Lean on Pete		10			10						2
17	Javier Bardem – mother!								10			1
17	Matt Damon – Downsizing						10					1

	OTHER CONTENDERS
	Adam Sandler – The Meyerowitz Stories
	Ali Fazal – Victoria and Abdul
	Ben Foster – Galveston
	Benicio Del Toro – Soldado
	Billy Howle – On Chesil Beach
	Chiwetel Ejiofor – Come Sunday
	Christian Bale – Hostiles
	Colin Farrell – The Killing of a Sacred Deer
	Colin Firth – The Mercy
	Daniel Craig – Kings
	Domhnall Gleeson – Goodbye Christopher Robin
	Fionn Whitehead – Dunkirk
	Geoffrey Rush – Final Portrait
	James McAvoy – Submergence
	Jamie Bell – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
	Javier Bardem – Escobar
	Jonathan Pryce – The Wife
	Kevin Spacey – All the Money in the World
	Liam Neeson – The Silent Man
	Mark Wahlberg – All the Money in the World
	Matt Damon – Suburbicon
	Michael Douglas – Head Full of Honey
	Michael Fassbender – The Snowman
	Michael Shannon – The Current War
	Ryan Gosling – Blade Runner 2049
	Steve Carell – Battle of the Sexes

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Erik Anderson

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.