2018 Tony Nomination Predictions: Angels in America, Harry Potter, SpongeBob Should Reign

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The 2018 Tony Award nominations will be announced tomorrow and…it’s kind of unexciting. While we have the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations from last week to tip us off it still looks like a relatively lackluster list of possibilities with some categories (like Actor in a Musical) struggling to fill out slots.

Here are my predictions for this year’s Tony Nominations, come back tomorrow when official nominations are announced.

Best Musical
The Band’s Visit
Frozen
Mean Girls
Prince of Broadway
SpongeBob SquarePants

Best Play
The Children
Farinelli and the King
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Junk
Meteor Shower

Best Revival of a Musical
Carousel
My Fair Lady
Once on This Island

Best Revival of a Play
Angels in America
The Iceman Cometh
Lobby Hero
Three Tall Women
Travesties

Best Actor (Musical)
Henry Hadden-Paton, My Fair Lady
Joshua Henry, Carousel
Tony Shalhoub, The Band’s Visit
Ethan Slater, SpongeBob SquarePants

Best Actress (Musical)
Lauren Ambrose, My Fair Lady
Hailey Kilgore, Once on This Island
Katrina Lenk, The Band’s Visit
Taylor Louderman, Mean Girls
Jessie Mueller, Carousel

Best Actor (Play)
Andrew Garfield, Angels in America
Tom Hollander, Travesties
Jamie Parker, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Mark Rylance, Farinelli and the King
Denzel Washington, The Iceman Cometh

Best Actress (Play)
Glenda Jackson, Three Tall Women
Condola Rashad, Saint Joan
Lauren Ridloff, Children of a Lesser God
Lili Taylor, Marvin’s Room
Uma Thurman, The Parisian Woman

Best Featured Actor (Musical)
Norbert Leo Butz, My Fair Lady
Grey Henson, Mean Girls
Gavin Lee, SpongeBob SquarePants
Alex Newell, Once on This Island
Ari’el Statchel, The Band’s Visit

Best Featured Actor (Play)
Anthony Boyle, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Brian Tyree Henry, Lobby Hero
James McArdle, Angels in America
Nathan Lane, Angels in America
Lee Pace, Angels in America

Best Featured Actress (Musical)
Kerry Butler, Mean Girls
Lindsay Mendez, Carousel
Ashley Park, Mean Girls
Dame Diana Rigg, My Fair Lady
Lea Salonga, Once on This Island

Best Featured Actress (Play)
Laura Benanti, Meteor Shower
Noma Dumezweni, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Denise Gough, Angels in America
Laurie Metcalf, Three Tall Women
Alison Pill, Three Tall Women

Best Director (Musical)
The Band’s Visit
Carousel
Mean Girls
My Fair Lady
Once on This Island

Best Director (Play)
Angels in America
The Children
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
The Iceman Cometh
Three Tall Women

Best Book of a Musical
The Band’s Visit
Frozen
Mean Girls
SpongeBob SquarePants

Best Score of a Musical
The Band’s Visit
Frozen
Mean Girls
SpongeBob SquarePants

Best Choreography
Carousel
Frozen
Mean Girls
Once on This Island
SpongeBob SquarePants

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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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