2018 Oscar Predictions: THE SCREENPLAYS (July) – Call Me By Your Name, The Papers Still Tops

Erik Anderson July 7, 2017

These are the official 2018 Oscar Predictions for July 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.

Adapted Screenplay keeps the same top 5 as last month but with some small but important placement changes; Last Flag Flying moves up to #2 and Mudbound moves up to #3. Below the line adds a handful of new entries, including The 15:17 to Paris, Annihilation and The Disaster Artist. Call Me By Your Name retains the top spot with a strong 98 points.

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	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	98
2	Last Flag Flying	2	2	4	3	2	3	2	2	2	1	87
3	Lean on Pete	3	3	1	7	3	6		5	3	3	65
3	Mudbound	6	5	3	4	7	4	4	3	4	5	65
5	Wonderstruck	5	6		2	4	2	3	4	5	4	64

6	The Death of Stalin	4	4	10	6	6	8	5	8	6	7	46
7	Molly’s Game	8		5	10		9	7	9	7	6	27
8	Disobedience		8	8		5		9	6	10	10	21
9	Victoria and Abdul			6	9		10	6		8	8	19
9	Beguiled, The				5		5	8	7			19
11	Blade Runner 2049	9		9	8		7					11
12	Leisure Seeker, The			7				10	10	9	9	10
13	15:17 to Paris, The	10	9			9						5
13	Annihilation (possibly 2018)		7			10						5
15	Thoroughbred					8						3
16	The Disaster Artist		10									1

	OTHER CONTENDERS
	Glass Castle, The
	How to Talk to Girls at Parties
	Mountain Between Us, The
	Snowman, The
	Stronger
	Thank You For Your Service
	Wonder
	You Were Never Really Here

Five out of the six titles in last month’s top 5 stay this month as well; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri gets bumped down to #6. Get Out moves up and enters the top 3. The Shape of Water, Breathe and The Big Sick enter the chart this month as The Greatest Showman and Brad’s Status leave it. The Papers remains a solid #1.

	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	The Papers	1	2	2	2	3	1	2	1	1	3	92
2	Detroit	2	6	1	5	5	3	4	2	2	2	78
3	Get Out	3	1	6	1	1	4	5	5	5	4	75
4	Darkest Hour	5	10	3	6	6	6	3	4	3	5	59
5	Roman Israel, Esq. (possibly 2018)		4		4	2		1	3	4	1	58

6	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	6	3	5	7	8	8	6	6	6	6	49
7	The Florida Project	4	9		3	7	2	7	7	7	7	46
8	Suburbicon	10		4	9		5	9		10		19
8	Shape of Water, The	7	5			4			9			19
10	Killing of a Sacred Deer, The	9		8	8		7			9	8	17
11	Downsizing	8		9			9			8		10
12	The Big Sick		7			10			8		10	9
13	Phantom Thread		8		9		10			9		8
14	mother!			7				8				7
15	Wonder Wheel				10		10					2
16	Current War, The			10								1
16	Breathe								10			1

	OTHER CONTENDERS
	All the Money in the World
	Baby Driver
	Brad’s Status
	Dunkirk
	Greatest Showman, The
	Goodbye Christopher Robin
	Happy End
	Hostiles
	I, Tonya (possibly 2018)
	Kings
	Marshall
	Mary Magdalene
	Meyerowitz Stories, The
	Novitiate
	Under the Silver Lake
	Wind River

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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.