2018 Oscar Predictions: VISUAL EFFECTS and MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING (December Part 1)

Erik Anderson December 8, 2017

The 20 finalists for the Visual Effects Oscar race were announced this week and Blade Runner 2049 is still our leader. From our predictions last month only mother! failed to make the cut. Only Dunkirk and The Shape of Water swap spots this month but both Best Picture hopefuls remain in the top 5.

In Makeup & Hairstyling, there is no competing with Darkest Hour which should easily win this come next March. All the Money in the World strangely hangs on even after Spacey’s removal (methinks Matt hasn’t updated) and the only addition is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Makeup and Hairstyling finalists will be announced soon.

These are the official 2018 Oscar Predictions in Visual Effects and Makeup & Hairstyling 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

	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	1	1	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	97
2	War for the Planet of the Apes	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	3	2	1	89
3	Star Wars: The Last Jedi	3	3	1	3	4	3	3	2	3	3	82
4	Dunkirk	5	4	6	4	6	4	5	4	4	5	63
5	The Shape of Water	4	5	4	5	2	5	4	8	5	6	62

6	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2	9	6	5	6	5	9	6	6	7	4	47
7	Beauty and the Beast (2017)	6	8	7	7	10	7	7	9	6	7	36
8	Thor: Ragnarok	7	7	9	9		10	8	5	9	8	27
9	Wonder Woman	8	10	8	8		6	9	7	8	10	25
10	Kong: Skull Island	10	9	10	10		8	10		10	9	12
11	Transformers: The Last Knight					7						4
12	Okja					8						3
13	Spider-Man: Homecoming								10			1

OTHER CONTENDERS
Alien: Covenant
Ghost in the Shell
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Justice League
Logan
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

	MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING	ERIK ANDERSON	BRYAN BONAFEDE	GREG HOWARD	EVAN KOST	JASON OSIASON	KENNETH POLISHCHUK	DENIZCAN SÜRÜCÜ	RICHARD ANTHONY	ŞÜKRÜ SÖĞÜT	MATT DINN	TOTAL POINTS
1	Darkest Hour	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	100
2	The Shape of Water	2	3	2	2		2	2	2	2	2	80
3	I, Tonya	3	2		3	2	3	3	3	3		66

4	All the Money in the World										3	8
4	Beauty and the Beast (2017)			3								8
4	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2					3						8

OTHER CONTENDERS
Blade Runner 2049
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
The Greatest Showman
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Phantom Thread
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
The Post
Thor: Ragnarok
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Victoria and Abdul
War for the Planet of the Apes
Wonder
Wonderstruck

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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.