2019 Oscar Predictions: THE TECHS (October)

Erik Anderson October 16, 2018

This is the first month of official predictions for all below the line technical categories (although they have been live in the updating chart of predictions here) that will include: Film Editing, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Makeup & Hairstyling and Visual Effects.

At the moment First Man, ROMA, A Star Is Born and If Beale Street Could Talk are frontrunners in multiple categories like Film Editing, Cinematography, Original Song and Original Score with Black Panther, The Favourite and Vice leading Visual Effects, Costume Design and Makeup & Hairstyling, respectively.

2019 Oscar Predictions – October

In the coming weeks some of these categories will get individual attention but for now here are my 2019 Oscar predictions in the above listed categories for October 16, 2018.

FILM EDITING

1. First Man (Universal)
2. ROMA (Netflix)
3. The Favourite (Fox Searchlight)
4. A Star is Born (Warner Bros)
5. If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna)

6. Vice (Annapurna)
7. BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)
8. Black Panther (Disney)
9. Widows (20th Century Fox)
10. Green Book (Universal)

NEXT UP

12 Strong (Warner Bros)
Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)
Destroyer (Annapurna)
The Mule (Warner Bros)
A Quiet Place (Paramount)

OTHER CONTENDERS

Beautiful Boy (Amazon)
Boy Erased (Focus Features)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight)
Capharnaüm (Sony Classics)
Cold War (Amazon)
Mary Poppins Returns (Disney)
Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Paramount)

CINEMATOGRAPHY

1. ROMA (Netflix)
2. If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna)
3. First Man (Universal)
4. A Star is Born (Warner Bros)
5. The Favourite (Fox Searchlight)

6. Cold War (Amazon)
7. Black Panther (Disney)
8. BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)
9. Mary Poppins Returns (Disney)
10. Green Book (Universal)

NEXT UP

At Eternity’s Gate (CBS Films)
Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)
Capharnaüm (Sony Classics)
Vice (Annapurna)
Widows (20th Century Fox)

OTHER CONTENDERS

Annihilation (Paramount)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix)
Boy Erased (Focus Features)
Destroyer (Annapurna)
Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features)
A Quiet Place (Paramount)
Suspiria (Amazon)
The Front Runner (Sony)
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Disney)
The Sisters Brothers (Annapurna)
Welcome to Marwen (Universal)

PRODUCTION DESIGN

1. First Man (Universal)
2. The Favourite (Fox Searchlight)
3. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Disney)
4. Mary Poppins Returns (Disney)
5. Black Panther (Disney)

6. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Warner Bros)
7. If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna)
8. ROMA (Netflix)
9. Green Book (Universal)
10. Vice (Annapurna)

NEXT UP

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix)
BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)
Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)
Colette (Bleecker Street)
Isle of Dogs (Fox Searchlight)
Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features)
Mortal Engines Universal)

OTHER CONTENDERS

Crazy Rich Asians (Warner Bros)
On the Basis of Sex (Focus Features)
Ready Player One (Warner Bros)
A Star is Born (Warner Bros)
Welcome to Marwen (Universal)

COSTUME DESIGN

1. The Favourite (Fox Searchlight)
2. Mary Poppins Returns (Disney)
3. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Disney)
4. Black Panther (Disney)
5. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Warner Bros)

6. First Man (Universal)
7. Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features)
8. If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna)
9. Colette (Bleecker Street)
10. Green Book (Universal)

NEXT UP

BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)
Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)
The Sisters Brothers (Annapurna)
A Star is Born (Warner Bros)
Vice (Annapurna)

OTHER CONTENDERS

At Eternity’s Gate (CBS Films)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix)
Crazy Rich Asians (Warner Bros)
ROMA (Netflix)
Suspiria (Amazon)
Vox Lux (Neon)
A Wrinkle in Time (Disney)

Next up…Original Score, Original Song, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing

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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.