2018 Oscar Predictions: Blade Runner, Detroit, Dunkirk, Phantom Thread Top Tech Predictions (July)
| FILM EDITING | ERIK ANDERSON |
BRYAN BONAFEDE | GREG HOWARD | EVAN KOST |
JASON OSIASON | KENNETH POLISHCHUK |
DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ | RICHARD ANTHONY |
ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT | MATT DINN | TOTAL POINTS |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Detroit | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 92 |
| 2 | Dunkirk | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 87 |
| 3 | Blade Runner 2049 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 83 |
| 4 | The Papers | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 62 |
| 5 | Get Out | 9 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 37 | ||
| 6 | Roman Israel, Esq. | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 34 | |||
| 7 | Darkest Hour | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 33 | ||
| 8 | Florida Project, The | 5 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 31 | |||
| 9 | Shape of Water, The | 8 | 3 | 1 | 21 | |||||||
| 10 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 9 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 18 | ||
| 10 | Call Me By Your Name | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 18 | ||||
| 12 | Wonderstruck | 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 | |||||||
| 13 | mother! | 10 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 7 | ||||||
| 14 | Lean on Pete | 6 | 5 | |||||||||
| 15 | Suburbicon | 9 | 2 | |||||||||
| 15 | Last Flag Flying | 9 | 2 | |||||||||
| 17 | Current War, The | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| 17 | Greatest Showman, The | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| 15:17 to Paris, The | ||||||||||||
| Aftermath, The | ||||||||||||
| All the Money in the World | ||||||||||||
| Breathe | ||||||||||||
| Downsizing | ||||||||||||
| Goodbye Christopher Robin | ||||||||||||
| Happy End | ||||||||||||
| Killing of a Sacred Deer, The | ||||||||||||
| Lost City of Z, The | ||||||||||||
| Marshall | ||||||||||||
| Mary Magdalene | ||||||||||||
| Snowman, The | ||||||||||||
| Phantom Thread | ||||||||||||
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| ORIGINAL SCORE | ERIK ANDERSON |
BRYAN BONAFEDE | GREG HOWARD | EVAN KOST |
JASON OSIASON | KENNETH POLISHCHUK |
DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ | RICHARD ANTHONY |
ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT | MATT DINN | TOTAL POINTS |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dunkirk | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 82 |
| 2 | Wonderstruck | 1 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 79 |
| 3 | Blade Runner 2049 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 76 |
| 4 | The Papers | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 72 |
| 5 | Darkest Hour | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 70 |
| 6 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 8 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 49 |
| 7 | Shape of Water, The | 5 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 38 | |
| 8 | Detroit | 8 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 31 | ||
| 9 | Greatest Showman, The | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 29 | ||
| 10 | Current War, The | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | |||||
| 11 | Coco | 9 | 7 | 6 | ||||||||
| 12 | Roman Israel, Esq. | 10 | 9 | 3 | ||||||||
| 12 | mother! | 10 | 10 | 10 | 3 | |||||||
| 12 | Mary Magdalene | 9 | 10 | 3 | ||||||||
| 15 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| All the Money in the World | ||||||||||||
| Based on a True Story | ||||||||||||
| Battle of the Sexes | ||||||||||||
| Beguiled, The | ||||||||||||
| Downsizing | ||||||||||||
| Ferdinand | ||||||||||||
| Killing of a Sacred Deer, The | ||||||||||||
| Last Flag Flying | ||||||||||||
| Lean on Pete | ||||||||||||
| Mudbound | ||||||||||||
| Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | ||||||||||||
| Suburbicon | ||||||||||||
| Phantom Thread |
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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