2018 Oscar Predictions: CINEMATOGRAPHY, PRODUCTION DESIGN, COSTUME DESIGN (September)

Erik Anderson September 8, 2017

Blade Runner 2049 continues to top the Cinematography and Production Design charts and Phantom Thread still looms despite not even a single production still or stitch of clothing as evidence of its greatness. It’s an example of a great placeholder where it can change in an instant once we have something tangible to go on. The Shape of Water continues to rise, as it has in virtually every other category and Call Me By Your Name lands in the Cinematography top 5 for the first time. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri debuts in Cinematography and Hostiles debuts in the Other Contenders lists for Production Design and Costume Design.

These are the official 2018 Oscar Predictions in Cinematography, Production Design and Costume Design for September 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

	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	2	2	1	2	97
2	Dunkirk	2	2	2	2	3	2	1	1	2	1	92
3	Shape of Water, The	3	3	4	3	2	4	3	7	3	3	75
4	Darkest Hour	5	4	3	4	5	5	5	3	4	5	67
5	Call Me By Your Name	4	5	8	6	3	7	7	5	6	6	53

6	Wonderstruck	6		10	5	8	3	4	4	5	4	50
7	Lost City of Z, The	8	9	7	7	10	9	8		7	8	26
8	Florida Project, The					7	6	9	9	8	7	20
9	Phantom Thread		7	6	10	9						12
10	mother!	9		9	8		8			10		11
11	Wonder Wheel		6			6						10
12	Breathe	7			9		10	10	10			9
12	Detroit								6	9	9	9
12	Roman J. Israel, Esq.							6	8		10	9
12	Post, The		8	5								9
16	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri		10									1
16	Murder on the Orient Express (2017)	10										1

	OTHER CONTENDERS
	All the Money in the World
	Beguiled, The
	Current War, The
	Downsizing
	Get Out
	Greatest Showman, The
	Goodbye Christopher Robin
	Hostiles
	Killing of a Sacred Deer, The
	Star Wars: The Last Jedi

	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	2	2	5	2	2	2	2	4	82
3	Dunkirk	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	79
3	Shape of Water, The	4	1	3	4	1	4	4	4	4	2	79
5	Greatest Showman, The	5	7	5	5	7	5	6	5	6	6	53

6	Wonderstruck	6	9	9	7	7	6	5	6	5	5	45
7	Phantom Thread	7	4	7	9	4	10	7	7	7	7	41
8	Beauty and the Beast (2017)			6	8	6	7	9	10		8	23
9	Post, The		6		6	8	8	10	9	8		22
9	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	8	8	10	10	9	9	8	8	9	9	22
11	Current War, The	10	10							10	10	4
12	Beguiled, The			8								3
13	Downsizing	9										2
14	Call Me By Your Name					10						1

	OTHER CONTENDERS
	All the Money in the World
	Breathe
	Hostiles
	Lost City of Z, The
	Marshall
	Mudbound
	Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
	Roman J. Israel, Esq.
	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	1	1	1	3	1	2	3	2	1	1	94
2	Wonderstruck	2	3	9	1	3	1	1	3	2	2	83
3	Darkest Hour	4	2	2	4	2	6	2	1	3	3	81
4	Shape of Water, The	3	5	3	5	4	7	5	8	6	4	60
5	Beauty and the Beast (2017)	5	6	4	2	7	3	4	7	8	5	59

6	Blade Runner 2049	6	4	8	6	6	4	7	6	4	6	53
7	Greatest Showman, The	7	7	5	8	8	5	6	5	5	7	47
8	Victoria and Abdul	8		7	7	5	8	8	4	7	8	37
9	Murder on the Orient Express (2017)	9		6	9		9	10	9	9		16
10	Current War, The		8					9		10		6
10	Post, The		9		10	10	10				10	6
12	Beguiled, The					9					9	4
12	Dunkirk	10	10	10					10			4

	OTHER CONTENDERS
	All the Money in the World
	Breathe
	Hostiles
	Lost City of Z, The
	Marshall
	Mudbound
	Roman J. Israel, Esq.
	Star Wars: The Last Jedi
	Suburbicon
	Wonder Wheel
	Wonder Woman

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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), 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.