2018 Oscar Predictions: THE SCREENPLAYS (December Part 2)
These are the official 2018 Oscar Predictions for the second half of December in Adapted and Original Screenplay from the Gold Rush Gang. Keep an eye on all of the Gold Rush Gang’s 2018 Oscar predictions updated LIVE throughout the month.
2018 Oscar Predictions (December Part 2): BEST PICTURE | BEST DIRECTOR | BEST ACTOR | BEST ACTRESS | SUPPORTING ACTOR I SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Green – moves up from last month
Red – moves down from last month
Blue – debut/new entry
| ADAPTED SCREENPLAY | ERIK ANDERSON |
BRYAN BONAFEDE | GREG HOWARD | EVAN KOST |
JASON OSIASON | KENNETH POLISHCHUK |
DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ | RICHARD ANTHONY |
ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT | MATT DINN | TOTAL POINTS |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call Me By Your Name | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
| 2 | Mudbound | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 87 |
| 3 | The Disaster Artist | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 81 |
| 4 | Molly’s Game | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 72 |
| 5 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 55 |
| 6 | Wonder Woman | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 30 | |
| 7 | All the Money in the World | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 29 | ||
| 8 | Wonder | 5 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 24 | |||
| 9 | Stronger | 5 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 22 | ||||
| 10 | Last Flag Flying | 8 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 17 | |||
| 11 | Blade Runner 2049 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 13 | ||||
| 12 | Logan | 9 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 11 | ||||||
| 13 | The Lost City of Z | 6 | 5 | |||||||||
| 14 | Victoria and Abdul | 9 | 9 | 4 | ||||||||
| 15 | The Beguiled | 10 | 1 |
OTHER CONTENDERS
First They Killed My Father
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Wonderstruck
| ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY | ERIK ANDERSON |
BRYAN BONAFEDE | GREG HOWARD | EVAN KOST |
JASON OSIASON | KENNETH POLISHCHUK |
DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ | RICHARD ANTHONY |
ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT | MATT DINN | TOTAL POINTS |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Get Out | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 96 |
| 2 | Lady Bird | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 90 |
| 3 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 83 |
| 4 | The Post | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 70 |
| 5 | The Shape of Water | 5 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 55 |
| 6 | Phantom Thread | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 50 |
| 7 | The Big Sick | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 45 |
| 8 | I, Tonya | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 28 |
| 9 | The Florida Project | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 18 |
| 10 | Darkest Hour | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 17 |
OTHER CONTENDERS
Baby Driver
Battle of the Sexes
Downsizing
Dunkirk
Wind River
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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