AwardsWatch - 2018 Oscar Predictions (June): BLADE RUNNER 2049 Tops Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Production Design

2018 Oscar Predictions (June): BLADE RUNNER 2049 Tops Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Production Design

The first official 2018 Oscar predictions for the tech categories from the Gold Rush Gang and Blade Runner 2049 takes a clear lead on multiple categories. Dominating Cinematography with a perfect score of 100, could this finally be Roger Deakins’ ticket to Oscar gold or is it merely a replicant? Dunkirk isn’t too far behind here and with Hoyte Van Hoytema managing multiple film stocks and IMAX, he’s assured his first Oscar nomination. Wonderstruck‘s Edward Lachman, a two-time Oscar nominee for Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven and Carol, also looks very good for a nomination even if the film falters in the top of the line categories. Darkest Hour‘s Bruno Delbonnel is a four-time Oscar nominee and lensing a film that has risen month to month in all top of the line categories so he’s to be taken very seriously as a contender. The riskiest prediction at the moment lands at #5 and that is Call Me By Your Name‘s Sayombhu Mukdeeprom. After Moonlight scored here (as well as in other major categories) on the way to its eventual Best Picture win, the cinematographer of recent visual spectacles Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and the Arabian Nights trilogy could very well be a player here. In all, 18 films receive votes this month, one of the largest sets of any of our predictions.

	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	1	1	1	100
2	Dunkirk	3	3	2	2	2	3	2	3	2	2	86
3	Wonderstruck	2	5	9	3	6	2	3	4	3	3	70
4	Darkest Hour	5	2	3	4	4	4	7	2	4	7	68
5	Call Me By Your Name	9	4	8	5	3	7		5	6	9	43

6	Detroit	4		4	9		6	6	6	7	8	38
7	Lost City of Z, The	8	10	7	7	10	10	5		5	5	32
8	Inner City							4	8		6	15
8	mother!		9	6	10			8	9	9		15
10	Greatest Showman, The	6					8		7	10	10	14
11	The Papers	7		5				9				12
12	Beguiled, The	10		10	6	9	9					11
13	Breathe		8		8	7						10
13	Florida Project, The		6			5	5			8	4	9
15	Mary Magdalene		7									4
16	Current War, The					8						3
17	Star Wars: The Last Jedi							10				1
17	Wonder Wheel								10			1

	OTHER CONTENDERS
	Aftermath, The
	Downsizing
	Get Out
	Goodbye Christopher Robin
	Happy End
	Killing of a Sacred Deer, The
	Last Flag Flying
	Lean on Pete
	Marshall
	Murder on the Orient Express
	Shape of Water, The
	Snowman, The
	Phantom Thread
	You Were Never Really Here

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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.