2018 Oscar Predictions – CINEMATOGRAPHY, PRODUCTION DESIGN, COSTUME DESIGN (August)
These are the official 2018 Oscar Predictions in Cinematography, Production Design and Costume Design for August from the Gold Rush Gang. Keep an eye on all of the Gold Rush Gang’s 2018 Oscar predictions updated LIVE throughout the month.
Blade Runner 2049 still leads Cinematography and Production Design but Dunkirk has closed in on the former this month with debuts from Phantom Thread and Murder on the Orient Express (2017). High debuts from The Shape of Water in all categories pepper August predictions and moves up from The Papers, Breathe and Beauty and the Beast (2017).
Green – moves up from last month
Red – moves down from last month
Blue – debut/new entry
| CINEMATOGRAPHY | 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 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 98 |
| 2 | Dunkirk | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 91 |
| 3 | The Shape of Water | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 72 |
| 4 | Darkest Hour | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 67 |
| 5 | Wonderstruck | 4 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 59 |
| 6 | Call Me By Your Name | 6 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 50 |
| 7 | The Lost City of Z | 8 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 27 | |
| 8 | Detroit | 4 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 25 | ||||
| 9 | The Florida Project | 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 15 | |||||
| 10 | Breathe | 7 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | |||
| 11 | Roman Israel, Esq. | 6 | 8 | 10 | 9 | |||||||
| 12 | Phantom Thread | 7 | 7 | 8 | ||||||||
| 13 | The Papers | 5 | 6 | |||||||||
| 14 | The Greatest Showman | 9 | 8 | 5 | ||||||||
| 14 | mother! | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 5 | ||||||
| 14 | Wonder Wheel | 6 | 5 | |||||||||
| 17 | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| The Aftermath | ||||||||||||
| All the Money in the World | ||||||||||||
| The Beguiled | ||||||||||||
| The Current War | ||||||||||||
| Downsizing | ||||||||||||
| Get Out | ||||||||||||
| Goodbye Christopher Robin | ||||||||||||
| Happy End | ||||||||||||
| The Killing of a Sacred Deer | ||||||||||||
| Last Flag Flying | ||||||||||||
| Lean on Pete | ||||||||||||
| Marshall | ||||||||||||
| Mary Magdalene | ||||||||||||
| The Snowman | ||||||||||||
| Star Wars: The Last Jedi | ||||||||||||
| You Were Never Really Here |
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| 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 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 98 |
| 2 | Darkest Hour | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 81 |
| 3 | Dunkirk | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 79 |
| 4 | The Shape of Water | 4 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 76 |
| 5 | The Greatest Showman | 5 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 56 |
| 6 | Wonderstruck | 6 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 48 |
| 7 | Phantom Thread | 7 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 41 |
| 8 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 22 |
| 9 | The Papers | 10 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 20 | ||
| 10 | Beauty and the Beast (2017) | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 18 | ||||
| 11 | The Current War | 5 | 10 | 10 | 8 | |||||||
| 12 | The Beguiled | 8 | 3 | |||||||||
| 13 | Call Me By Your Name | 10 | 10 | 2 | ||||||||
| 13 | Downsizing | 9 | 2 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| The Aftermath | ||||||||||||
| All the Money in the World | ||||||||||||
| Breathe | ||||||||||||
| Detroit | ||||||||||||
| Goodbye Christopher Robin | ||||||||||||
| The Lost City of Z | ||||||||||||
| Marshall | ||||||||||||
| Mary Magdalene | ||||||||||||
| Mudbound | ||||||||||||
| Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | ||||||||||||
| Roman Israel, Esq. | ||||||||||||
| Wonder Wheel | ||||||||||||
| Wonder Woman |
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| 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 94 |
| 2 | Wonderstruck | 2 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 84 |
| 3 | Darkest Hour | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 77 |
| 4 | Beauty and the Beast (2017) | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 57 |
| 5 | Blade Runner 2049 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 54 |
| 6 | The Shape of Water | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 53 |
| 7 | The Greatest Showman | 8 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 50 |
| 8 | Victoria and Abdul | 9 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 40 |
| 9 | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | 3 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 24 | |||
| 10 | The Papers | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 6 | |||||
| 11 | The Beguiled | 9 | 9 | 4 | ||||||||
| 12 | The Current War | 9 | 10 | 3 | ||||||||
| 12 | Dunkirk | 10 | 10 | 10 | 3 | |||||||
| 14 | How to Talk to Girls At Parties | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| The Aftermath | ||||||||||||
| All the Money in the World | ||||||||||||
| Breathe | ||||||||||||
| Detroit | ||||||||||||
| Goodbye Christopher Robin | ||||||||||||
| The Lost City of Z | ||||||||||||
| Marshall | ||||||||||||
| Mary Magdalene | ||||||||||||
| Mudbound | ||||||||||||
| Roman Israel, Esq. | ||||||||||||
| The Snowman | ||||||||||||
| 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.
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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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