2018 Oscar Predictions: Blade Runner, Detroit, Dunkirk, Phantom Thread Top Tech Predictions (July)
| PRODUCTION DESIGN | 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
| 2 | Darkest Hour | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 84 |
| 3 | Dunkirk | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 72 |
| 4 | Greatest Showman, The | 3 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 63 |
| 5 | Wonderstruck | 4 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 61 |
| 6 | Shape of Water, The | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 36 | ||||
| 7 | Beauty and the Beast (2017) | 10 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 30 | ||
| 8 | Current War, The | 9 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 29 | ||
| 9 | Phantom Thread | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 25 | |||
| 10 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 8 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 22 | ||
| 11 | The Papers | 8 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 16 | |||||
| 12 | Beguiled, The | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 6 | ||||||
| 13 | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | 6 | 5 | |||||||||
| 14 | Annihilation | 9 | 2 | |||||||||
| 15 | Call Me By Your Name | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| 15 | Mudbound | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Aftermath, The | ||||||||||||
| All the Money in the World | ||||||||||||
| Breathe | ||||||||||||
| Detroit | ||||||||||||
| Downsizing | ||||||||||||
| Goodbye Christopher Robin | ||||||||||||
| Inner City | ||||||||||||
| Lost City of Z, The | ||||||||||||
| Marshall | ||||||||||||
| Mary Magdalene | ||||||||||||
| Snowman, The | ||||||||||||
| Wonder Wheel | ||||||||||||
| Wonder Woman |
| COSTUME DESIGN | ERIK ANDERSON |
BRYAN BONAFEDE | GREG HOWARD | EVAN KOST |
JASON OSIASON | KENNETH POLISHCHUK |
DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ | RICHARD ANTHONY |
ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT | MATT DINN | TOTAL POINTS |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phantom Thread | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 91 |
| 2 | Wonderstruck | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 87 |
| 3 | Darkest Hour | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 75 |
| 4 | Beauty and the Beast (2017) | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 62 |
| 5 | Greatest Showman, The | 5 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 60 |
| 6 | Blade Runner 2049 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 53 |
| 7 | Victoria and Abdul | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 32 | |
| 8 | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | 3 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 31 | ||
| 9 | Beguiled, The | 10 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 20 | |||
| 9 | Shape of Water, The | 5 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 20 | ||||||
| 11 | Current War, The | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 9 | |||||
| 12 | Dunkirk | 8 | 10 | 9 | 6 | |||||||
| 13 | Papers, The | 9 | 10 | 10 | 4 | |||||||
| 14 | How to Talk to Girls At Parties | 9 | 10 | 3 | ||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Aftermath, The | ||||||||||||
| All the Money in the World | ||||||||||||
| Breathe | ||||||||||||
| Detroit | ||||||||||||
| Goodbye Christopher Robin | ||||||||||||
| Lost City of Z, The | ||||||||||||
| Marshall | ||||||||||||
| Mary Magdalene | ||||||||||||
| Mudbound | ||||||||||||
| Roman Israel, Esq. | ||||||||||||
| Snowman, The | ||||||||||||
| Star Wars: The Last Jedi | ||||||||||||
| Suburbicon | ||||||||||||
| Wonder Wheel | ||||||||||||
| Wonder Woman |
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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