2018 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE, ANIMATED FEATURE, VISUAL EFFECTS (September)
No changes in the top spots; Dunkirk leads Original Score once again, Coco is #1 in Animated Feature and Blade Runner 2049 holds onto Visual Effects.
These are the official 2018 Oscar Predictions in Original Score, Animated Feature and Visual Effects for September 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 | Dunkirk | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 93 |
| 2 | Post, The | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 86 |
| 3 | Shape of Water, The | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 83 |
| 4 | Darkest Hour | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 67 |
| 5 | Wonderstruck | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 65 |
| 6 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 8 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 40 |
| 7 | Blade Runner 2049 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 22 | |||||
| 8 | Greatest Showman, The | 6 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 21 | ||||
| 9 | mother! | 10 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 16 | |||
| 10 | Phantom Thread | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 15 | ||||||
| 10 | Coco | 7 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 15 | |||
| 12 | Detroit | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 11 | ||||||
| 13 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 5 | 9 | 8 | ||||||||
| 14 | Roman J. Israel, Esq. | 9 | 10 | 10 | 4 | |||||||
| 15 | War for the Planet of the Apes | 8 | 3 | |||||||||
| 16 | Victoria and Abdul | 10 | 10 | 2 | ||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| All the Money in the World | ||||||||||||
| Current War, The | ||||||||||||
| Downsizing | ||||||||||||
| Ferdinand | ||||||||||||
| Killing of a Sacred Deer, The | ||||||||||||
| Last Flag Flying | ||||||||||||
| Mudbound | ||||||||||||
| Murder on the Orient Express (2017) |
| ANIMATED FEATURE | ERIK ANDERSON |
BRYAN BONAFEDE | GREG HOWARD | EVAN KOST |
JASON OSIASON | KENNETH POLISHCHUK |
DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ | RICHARD ANTHONY |
ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT | MATT DINN | TOTAL POINTS |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coco | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 97 |
| 2 | Breadwinner, The | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 91 |
| 3 | Lego Batman Movie, The | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 55 | |||
| 4 | Boss Baby, The | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 53 | ||
| 5 | Mary and the Witch’s Flower | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 47 | |||
| 6 | Ferdinand | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 44 | ||||
| 7 | My Little Pony: The Movie | 5 | 7 | 10 | ||||||||
| 8 | Lego Ninjago Movie, The | 5 | 8 | 9 | ||||||||
| 9 | In This Corner of the World | 5 | 6 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Animal Crackers | ||||||||||||
| Blazing Samurai | ||||||||||||
| Captain Underpants | ||||||||||||
| Cars 3 | ||||||||||||
| Despicable Me 3 | ||||||||||||
| Emoji Movie, The | ||||||||||||
| Girl Without Hands, The | ||||||||||||
| Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature | ||||||||||||
| Rock Dog | ||||||||||||
| Smurfs: The Lost Village | ||||||||||||
| Son of Bigfoot, The | ||||||||||||
| Star, The | ||||||||||||
| Stork’s Journey, A |
| VISUAL EFFECTS | 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 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 96 |
| 2 | War for the Planet of the Apes | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 90 |
| 3 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 82 |
| 4 | Dunkirk | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 59 |
| 5 | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 57 |
| 6 | Shape of Water, The | 10 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 52 |
| 7 | Beauty and the Beast (2017) | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 38 |
| 8 | Kong: Skull Island | 9 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 21 | |
| 9 | Thor: Ragnarok | 4 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 19 | ||
| 10 | Wonder Woman | 8 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 17 | |||
| 11 | Transformers: The Last Knight | 7 | 10 | 5 | ||||||||
| 12 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | 7 | 4 | |||||||||
| 13 | Okja | 8 | 3 | |||||||||
| 14 | mother! | 9 | 2 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Alien: Covenant | ||||||||||||
| Colossal | ||||||||||||
| Dark Tower, The | ||||||||||||
| Downsizing | ||||||||||||
| Fate of the Furious, The | ||||||||||||
| Geostorm | ||||||||||||
| Ghost in the Shell | ||||||||||||
| Great Wall, The | ||||||||||||
| Greatest Showman, The | ||||||||||||
| John Wick: Chapter 2 | ||||||||||||
| Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | ||||||||||||
| Justice League | ||||||||||||
| King Arthur: Legend of the Sword | ||||||||||||
| Kingsman: The Golden Circle | ||||||||||||
| Logan | ||||||||||||
| Mummy, The | ||||||||||||
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | ||||||||||||
| Power Rangers | ||||||||||||
| Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets |
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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