2018 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR – del Toro in the driver’s seat

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Just as The Shape of Water leads in Best Picture, Guillermo del Toro is unanimously out in front for Best Director.

del Toro has earned the most directing wins from critics this season, plus the Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice. He is heavily predicted to win the Directors Guild prize next weekend. With Three Billboards‘ Martin McDonagh out of the running at the Oscars, the path for del Toro gets even clearer.

Here are the Best Director winner predictions from the Gold Rush Gang for Monday, January 29, 2018.

BEST DIRECTOR ERIK
ANDERSON
BRYAN BONAFEDE GREG HOWARD EVAN
KOST
JASON OSIASON KENNETH
POLISHCHUK
DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ RICHARD
ANTHONY
ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT MATT DINN TOTAL
POINTS
1 Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 100
2 Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk 4 2 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 86
3 Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird 2 3 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 3 78
4 Jordan Peele – Get Out 3 5 3 4 5 3 3 3 5 4 72
5 Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread 5 4 5 5 4 5 5 5 3 5 64
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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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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