2018 Oscar Predictions: VISUAL EFFECTS and MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING (November)

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The top three in Visual Effects remain the same from last month: Blade Runner 2049, War for the Planet of the Apes and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Dunkirk falls to 5th and The Shape of Water makes its top 5 debut this month, moving up two spots to #4. Elsewhere it’s just small moves up for Wonder Woman, Kong: Skull Island, Okja and mother! and equally small moves down for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 and Spider-Man: Homecoming. The Academy’s official VFX bakeoff list won’t land until late December.

We take our first stab at the always difficult to predict Makeup and Hairstyling category with Darkest Hour the clear frontrunner here. This group loves its old people makeup and fat suits and Darkest Hour has them both for Gary Oldman’s transformation into Winston Churchill. The Shape of Water has strong support but have some of us wondering if the fishman’s look will fall more into costume and/or visual effects. Then we have I, Tonya with its plethora of 80s and 90s wigs, a fat suit for Margot Robbie and impressive old age makeup for Allison Janney. The team behind I, Tonya is also the Oscar-winning team behind Dallas Buyers Club. Last year the Academy’s official Makeup and Hairstyling finalists were revealed on December 21st.

These are the official 2018 Oscar Predictions in Visual Effects and Makeup & Hairstyling for 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 The Shape of Water 4 5 4 5 2 5 4 8 4 6 63
5 Dunkirk 5 6 6 4 6 4 5 4 5 5 60
6 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 9 4 5 6 5 8 7 6 6 4 50
7 Beauty and the Beast (2017) 6 7 7 7 10 6 6 9 7 7 38
8 Thor: Ragnarok 7 9 9 9 9 8 5 8 8 27
9 Wonder Woman 8 10 8 8 7 9 7 9 10 23
10 Kong: Skull Island 10 8 10 10 10 10 10 9 11
11 Transformers: The Last Knight 7 4
12 Okja 8 3
13 mother! 9 2
14 Spider-Man: Homecoming 10 1

OTHER CONTENDERS
Alien: Covenant
Colossal
The Dark Tower
Downsizing
The Fate of the Furious
Geostorm
Ghost in the Shell
Great Wall, The
Greatest Showman, The
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Justice League
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Logan
The Mummy (2017)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Power Rangers
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 50
4 All the Money in the World 3 3 3 3 32
5 Beauty and the Beast (2017) 3 8

OTHER CONTENDERS
Blade Runner 2049
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
The Greatest Showman
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
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

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.

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