2018 Oscar Predictions (June): BLADE RUNNER 2049 Tops Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Production Design
The original Blade Runner had one of cinema’s most memorable and indelible scores from Vangelis but wasn’t nominated for it. Jóhann Jóhannsson takes over the reigns here as a two-time Oscar nominee. This is a much closer race with Dunkirk, Wonderstruck and Darkest Hour in tight quarters with The Papers rounding out the top 5 if John Williams scores it. Watch out for newly minted Original Score Oscar winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land) joined by Oscar nominee John Debney to make a play here for The Greatest Showman. That is, if the music branch of the Academy deems the input of all three composers as equal.
| ORIGINAL SCORE | ERIK ANDERSON |
BRYAN BONAFEDE | GREG HOWARD | EVAN KOST |
JASON OSIASON | KENNETH POLISHCHUK |
DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ | RICHARD ANTHONY |
ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT | MATT DINN | TOTAL POINTS |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blade Runner 2049 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 74 | |
| 2 | Dunkirk | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 72 | |
| 2 | Wonderstruck | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 72 | |
| 4 | Darkest Hour | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 68 | |
| 5 | The Papers | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 58 | |
| 6 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 48 | |
| 7 | Detroit | 2 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 34 | |||
| 7 | Greatest Showman, The | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 34 | |
| 9 | Shape of Water, The | 7 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 15 | ||||
| 10 | Current War, The | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | |||||
| 11 | mother! | 10 | 9 | 10 | 4 | |||||||
| 12 | Coco | 9 | 2 | |||||||||
| 12 | Inner City | 9 | 2 | |||||||||
| 12 | Mary Magdalene | 10 | 10 | 2 | ||||||||
| 15 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Based on a True Story | ||||||||||||
| Battle of the Sexes | ||||||||||||
| Beguiled, The | ||||||||||||
| Downsizing | ||||||||||||
| Ferdinand | ||||||||||||
| Killing of a Sacred Deer, The | ||||||||||||
| Last Flag Flying | ||||||||||||
| Lean on Pete | ||||||||||||
| Mudbound | ||||||||||||
| Suburbicon | ||||||||||||
| Phantom Thread |
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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), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) 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.
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), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) 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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