2018 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE and ORIGINAL SONG (December Part 1)

Erik Anderson December 8, 2017

As was with November, The Shape of Water leads the Original Score race and “Remember Me” from Coco is ahead in Original Song.

In Original Score, while the top 4 remains the same, Phantom Thread rockets up into the top 5. Victoria and Abdul makes a move up and there are two debuts – Get Out and Mudbound.

In Original Song, Sufjan Stevens (“Mystery of Love” from Call Me By Your Name) moves up over Beauty and the Beast‘s “Evermore” over to take the #2 spot and two songs debut – “Jump” from the documentary Step and Stevens’ other song from CMBYN, “Visions of Gideon.”

The official lists for Original Score and Original Song should be here in the next week so we’ll see if anything on our lists is disqualified or if something new might need to be added.

These are the official 2018 Oscar Predictions in Original Score and Original Song for the first half of November 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

	ORIGINAL SCORE	ERIK ANDERSON	BRYAN BONAFEDE	GREG HOWARD	EVAN KOST	JASON OSIASON	KENNETH POLISHCHUK	DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ	RICHARD ANTHONY	ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT	MATT DINN	TOTAL POINTS

1	The Shape of Water	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	97
2	Dunkirk	2	4	2	2	3	2	1	2	1	1	90
3	The Post	3	2	3	3	5	3	3	4	3	4	77
4	Darkest Hour	4	3	4	5	4	4	5	3	4	5	69
5	Phantom Thread	5	5	8	9	2	5	4		5	3	53

6	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	7	6	5	7	7	7	6	7	7	8	43
7	Wonderstruck	9	9	7	4	10	6	9	6	6	7	37
8	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	6	7	9	8	9	8	7	5	9	6	36
9	Coco			10	6		9	8	8	8	9	19
10	Victoria and Abdul	10	8		10	6						10
11	The Greatest Showman			6					9	10		8
12	Get Out		10			8						4
13	Blade Runner 2049						10	10	10			3
13	Mudbound	8										3
15	War for the Planet of the Apes										10	1

OTHER CONTENDERS
All the Money in the World
Detroit
Downsizing
Ferdinand
mother!
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

	ORIGINAL SONG	ERIK ANDERSON	BRYAN BONAFEDE	GREG HOWARD	EVAN KOST	JASON OSIASON	KENNETH POLISHCHUK	DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ	RICHARD ANTHONY	ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT	TOTAL POINTS
1	Coco, “Remember Me”	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	44
2	Call Me By Your Name, “Mystery of Love”	2	2	4	3	1	3	2	2	3	32
3	Beauty and the Beast, “Evermore”	3	3	2	2	4	2	3	3	2	30
4	Fifty Shades Darker, “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever”		4		4		5	4	4	5	10
5	Cries from Syria, “Prayers for this World”	5	5		5		4	5	5	4	9

6	The Greatest Showman, “Come Alive”			3		3					6
7	Step, “Jump”	4									2
8	Battle of the Sexes, “If I Dare”			5							1
8	Call Me By Your Name, “Visions of Gideon”					5					1

OTHER CONTENDERS
Beauty and the Beast, “Days in the Sun”
Beauty and the Beast, “How Does a Moment Last Forever”
City of Ghosts, “Broken Wing”
Coco, “The World es Mi Familia”
Coco, “Un Poco Loco”
Detroit, “It Ain’t Fair”
The Greatest Showman, “From Now On”
The Greatest Showman, “Rewrite the Stars”
The Greatest Showman, “The Other Side”
The Greatest Showman, “This Is Me”
The Lego Batman Movie, “Friends are Family”
Marshall, “Stand Up For Something”
Mudbound, “Mighty River”
Murder on the Orient Express, “Never Forget”
The Star, “The Star”

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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.