2018 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING and CINEMATOGRAPHY (December Part 1)

Erik Anderson December 7, 2017

Dunkirk remains the strong frontrunner for Film Editing (but Get Out is gaining fast) and increases its lead in Cinematography over Blade Runner 2049 just a bit the first half of this month. The Florida Project, Lady Bird and Baby Driver pop up in Film Editing as debuts this month. Very little movement in Cinematography this month; The Post moves up and Phantom Thread is removed from the list as director Paul Thomas Anderson did his own camerawork uncredited and therefore is ineligible for a nomination.

Here are the official 2018 Oscar Predictions in Film Editing and Cinematography for first half of December 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

	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	Dunkirk	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	100
2	Get Out	2	2	8	4	2	2	2	2	3	2	81
3	The Shape of Water	6	5	2	2	3	4	4	4	4	3	73
4	The Post	3	4	3	3	7	3	3	7	2	8	67
5	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	5	8	6	6	8	6	5	3	6	4	53

6	Call Me By Your Name	4	3	9	7	4	7	6	5		5	49
7	Blade Runner 2049	8	10	4	5	9	9	7	6	5	6	41
8	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	10	9	5	10	6	10	8	9	10	7	26
9	I, Tonya		7			5	5	9	10	9	10	22
10	The Florida Project	9		7	9	10			8	8		15
11	Lady Bird		6				8					8
11	Baby Driver	7								7		8
13	Darkest Hour			10	8			10			9	7

OTHER CONTENDERS
All the Money in the World
Detroit
Downsizing
The Greatest Showman
Hostiles
Last Flag Flying
mother!
Phantom Thread
Wonderstruck

	CINEMATOGRAPHY	ERIK ANDERSON	BRYAN BONAFEDE	GREG HOWARD	EVAN KOST	JASON OSIASON	KENNETH POLISHCHUK	DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ	RICHARD ANTHONY	ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT	MATT DINN	TOTAL POINTS
1	Dunkirk	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	96
2	Blade Runner 2049	2	1	1	2	3	2	2	1	1	2	93
3	The Shape of Water	3	3	4	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	80
4	Darkest Hour	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	71
5	Call Me By Your Name	6	5	5	5	5	6	5	5	6	5	57

6	The Florida Project	7	6	6	6	7	9	6	7	7	6	43
7	The Post	5	10	8	8	6	5	7		5		34
8	Wonder Wheel	10	9	10	7	8	7	9	8	9	7	26
9	Wonderstruck	9	8	9			8	10	6	8	9	21
10	The Lost City of Z			7	10	9		8	10	10	8	15
11	Mudbound	8	7									7
12	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri					10	10				10	3

OTHER CONTENDERS
The Beguiled
Breathe
Detroit
Downsizing
Get Out
The Greatest Showman
Hostiles
mother!
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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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.