2018 Oscar Predictions (June): BLADE RUNNER 2049 Tops Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, Production Design
This is Blade Runner 2049‘s fourth top spot, and by a decent margin. The Academy doesn’t always shine to sci-fi production design but the work here by Oscar winner Dennis Gassner seems solid. Interestingly, this was one of only two categories the original Blade Runner was nominated in (the other was Visual Effects). It might start to sound repetitive but Darkest Hour, Dunkirk and Wonderstruck find themselves in the top 5 here as well joined by The Greatest Showman. We’ll be keeping an eye on other period and fantasy pieces like Beauty and the Beast (2017), The Current War and Murder on the Orient Express (2017) here.
| PRODUCTION DESIGN | 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 90 | |
| 2 | Darkest Hour | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 77 | |
| 3 | Greatest Showman, The | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 62 | |
| 4 | Dunkirk | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 60 | |
| 5 | Wonderstruck | 5 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 56 | |
| 6 | Current War, The | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 36 | |
| 7 | Beauty and the Beast (2017) | 9 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 26 | ||||
| 8 | Phantom Thread | 7 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 21 | |||
| 9 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 8 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 20 | ||
| 10 | Shape of Water, The | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 17 | |||||
| 11 | Murder on the Orient Express | 3 | 6 | 10 | 14 | |||||||
| 12 | The Papers | 5 | 8 | 9 | ||||||||
| 13 | Beguiled, The | 8 | 10 | 10 | 5 | |||||||
| 14 | Call Me By Your Name | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| 14 | Downsizing | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
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| Detroit | ||||||||||||
| Goodbye Christopher Robin | ||||||||||||
| Inner City | ||||||||||||
| Lost City of Z, The | ||||||||||||
| Marshall | ||||||||||||
| Mary Magdalene | ||||||||||||
| Snowman, The | ||||||||||||
| Wonder Wheel | ||||||||||||
| Wonder Woman |
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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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