2019 Oscar Predictions: FILM EDITING and CINEMATOGRAPHY (November)
ROMA bumps First Man in Film Editing and keeps the top spot in Cinematography this month, further pushing the Netflix film on its way to Best Picture.
A Star Is Born also moves up, jumping over The Favourite, while the rest of If Beale Street Could Talk stays in a holding pattern at #5. Spots 6-10 don’t budge either.
Cinematography sees a locked in top four of ROMA, If Beale Street Could Talk, First Man and A Star Is Born but finds Cold War in the top 5 for the first time. This could be the first time ever that two black and white foreign language films are nominated in this category in the same year. Amazon has been ramping up the screenings and Q&As for the film, bringing Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lucasz Zal along to many of them. The last black and white film nominated here was Zal’s nominated work in 2014’s Ida.
Here are my 2019 Oscar predictions in Film Editing and Cinematography for November 21, 2018.
FILM EDITING
Green – moves up; Red – moves down; Blue – chart debut/re-entry
1. ROMA (Netflix)
2. First Man (Universal)
3. A Star is Born (Warner Bros)
4. The Favourite (Fox Searchlight)
5. If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna)
6. Vice (Annapurna)
7. Black Panther (Disney)
8. BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)
9. Widows (20th Century Fox)
10. Green Book (Universal)
NEXT UP
Beautiful Boy (Amazon)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight)
Destroyer (Annapurna)
The Mule (Warner Bros)
A Quiet Place (Paramount)
OTHER CONTENDERS
Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)
Boy Erased (Focus Features)
Capharnaüm (Sony Classics)
Cold War (Amazon)
Mary Poppins Returns (Disney)
Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Green – moves up; Red – moves down; Blue – chart debut/re-entry
1. ROMA (Netflix)
2. If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna)
3. First Man (Universal)
4. A Star is Born (Warner Bros)
5. Cold War (Amazon)
6. The Favourite (Fox Searchlight)
7. Black Panther (Disney)
8. BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)
9. Widows (20th Century Fox)
10. Green Book (Universal)
NEXT UP
Capharnaüm (Sony Classics)
Mary Poppins Returns (Disney)
Vice (Annapurna)
OTHER CONTENDERS
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix)
Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)
Destroyer (Annapurna)
Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features)
A Quiet Place (Paramount)
Suspiria (Amazon)
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