2018 Oscar Predictions: End of 2017 Predictions in ALL Categories
As we end this year, and really only the first half of awards season, I offer my Oscar predictions in all 24 categories. Keep an eye out for new and updated predictions next week as the Producers Guild of America announces their nominations (January 5) and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gives out the Golden Globe Awards on January 7.
BEST PICTURE
Get Out
Lady Bird
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Shape of Water
The Post
Dunkirk
Call Me By Your Name
The Florida Project
Darkest Hour
The Big Sick
BEST DIRECTOR
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Guillermo Del Toro – The Shape of Water
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Steven Spielberg – The Post
NEXT
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sean Baker – The Florida Project
Ridley Scott – All the Money in the World
Luca Guadagnino – Call Me By Your Name
Dee Rees – Mudbound
BEST ACTOR
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
James Franco – The Disaster Artist
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
NEXT
Tom Hanks – The Post
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Jake Gyllenhaal – Stronger
Chadwick Boseman – Marshall
Jacob Tremblay – Wonder
BEST ACTRESS
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Meryl Streep – The Post
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
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Judi Dench – Victoria and Abdul
Jessica Chastain – Molly’s Game
Michelle Williams – All the Money in the World
Emma Stone – Battle of the Sexes
Salma Hayek – Beatriz at Dinner
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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Armie Hammer – Call Me By Your Name
Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me By Your Name
Steve Carell – Battle of the Sexes
Michael Shannon – The Shape of Water
Mark Rylance – Dunkirk
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Holly Hunter – The Big Sick
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
NEXT
Hong Chau – Downsizing
Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip
Catherine Keener – Get Out
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread
Julia Roberts – Wonder
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Call Me By Your Name
Mudbound
The Disaster Artist
Molly’s Game
Wonder
NEXT
The Lost City of Z
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
All the Money in the World
Logan
Wonder Woman
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Get Out
Lady Bird
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Post
The Shape of Water
NEXT
Phantom Thread
The Big Sick
I, Tonya
The Florida Project
Darkest Hour
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Darkest Hour
The Post
NEXT
Mudbound
Call Me By Your Name
The Florida Project
The Lost City of Z
Wonderstruck
FILM EDITING
Dunkirk
Get Out
The Shape of Water
The Post
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
NEXT
All the Money in the World
I, Tonya
Baby Driver
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Call Me By Your Name
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Blade Runner 2049
The Shape of Water
Dunkirk
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
NEXT
The Greatest Showman
The Post
Victoria and Abdul
Downsizing
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
COSTUME DESIGN
Phantom Thread
Darkest Hour
The Shape of Water
Victoria and Abdul
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
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The Greatest Showman
Blade Runner 2049
Wonderstruck
Murder on the Orient Express
The Post
ORIGINAL SCORE
The Shape of Water
Dunkirk
The Post
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
NEXT
Victoria and Abdul
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Mudbound
Wonderstruck
ORIGINAL SONG
Coco, “Remember Me”
Call Me By Your Name, “Mystery of Love”
Beauty and the Beast, “Evermore”
Mudbound, “Mighty River”
Marshall, “Stand Up For Something”
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Call Me By Your Name, “Visions of Gideon”
The Greatest Showman, “This Is Me”
Cries from Syria, “Prayers for this World”
Fifty Shades Darker, “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever”
Detroit, “It Ain’t Fair”
SOUND EDITING
Dunkirk
Blade Runner 2049
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Baby Driver
Get Out
NEXT
The Shape of Water
Coco
Transformers: The Last Knight
Wonder Woman
War for the Planet of the Apes
SOUND MIXING
Dunkirk
Blade Runner 2049
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Shape of Water
Get Out
NEXT
Baby Driver
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
Coco
The Greatest Showman
The Post
VISUAL EFFECTS
Blade Runner 2049
War for the Planet of the Apes
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Dunkirk
Okja
NEXT
The Shape of Water
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Kong: Skull Island
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
Alien: Covenant
MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Darkest Hour
Bright
I, Tonya
NEXT
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Wonder
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Victoria and Abdul
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Jane
Faces Places
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
City of Ghosts
NEXT
Chasing Coral
Icarus
LA 92
One of Us
Human Flow
ANIMATED FEATURE
Coco
The Breadwinner
The Lego Batman Movie
Loving Vincent
The Boss Baby
NEXT
Cars 3
Mary and the Witch’s Flower
Despicable Me 3
In This Corner of the World
Window Horses The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Israel – Foxtrot
Russia – Loveless
Sweden – The Square
South Africa – The Wound
Chile – A Fantastic Woman
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Lebanon – The Insult
Germany – In the Fade
Hungary – On Body and Soul
Senegal – Félicité
SHORT – ANIMATED
In a Heartbeat
Dear Basketball
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
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Fox and the Whale
Lost Property Office
Garden Party
Cradle
Life Smartphone
SHORT – DOCUMENTARY
Edith+Eddie
Ram Dass, Going Home
Alone
Kayayo – The Living Shopping Baskets
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
NEXT
Heroine(e)
Knife Skills
116 Cameras
Ten Meter Tower
Traffic Stop
SHORT – LIVE ACTION
The Eleven O’Clock
Watu Wote/All of Us
Icebox
Facing Mecca
The Silent Child
NEXT
DeKalb Elementary
Lost Face
My Nephew Emmett
Rise of a Star
Witnesses
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