2018 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE, ANIMATED FEATURE, VISUAL EFFECTS (September)

Erik Anderson September 8, 2017

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

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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.