2019 Oscar Predictions: PRODUCTION and COSTUME DESIGN (November)
The Favourite overtakes First Man in Production Design for November and holds onto the #1 spot in Costume Design.
These two categories often go hand in hand, especially when they’re elaborate period concoctions. This decade alone has seen the same film win both awards four times including The Great Gatsby and Mad Max: Fury Road.
Sandy Powell is all but locked to earn another set of double nominations this year with The Favourite and Mary Poppins Returns. Ironically, Powell’s main Oscar rival, Colleen Atwood, was set to dress MPR but was too busy with Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald at the time. The two have gone head to head at the Academy Awards five times with Atwood winning three of those matchups to Powell’s one. Both have been nominated 12 times with Atwood ahead with four wins to Powell’s three. We’ll definitely be seeing another matchup this season.
Here are my 2019 Oscar predictions in Production Design and Costume Design for November 21, 2018.
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Green – moves up; Red – moves down; Blue – chart debut/re-entry
1. The Favourite (Fox Searchlight)
2. First Man (Universal)
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)
Colette (Bleecker Street)
Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features)
Mortal Engines Universal)
OTHER CONTENDERS
All is True (Sony Classics)
Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)
Crazy Rich Asians (Warner Bros)
Isle of Dogs (Fox Searchlight)
On the Basis of Sex (Focus Features)
Ready Player One (Warner Bros)
A Star is Born (Warner Bros)
Welcome to Marwen (Universal)
COSTUME DESIGN
Green – moves up; Red – moves down; Blue – chart debut/re-entry
1. The Favourite (Fox Searchlight)
2. Mary Poppins Returns (Disney)
3. Black Panther (Disney)
4. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (Warner Bros)
5. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Disney)
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
All is True (Sony Classics)
BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)
Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)
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)
On the Basis of Sex (Focus Features)
ROMA (Netflix)
The Sisters Brothers (Annapurna)
Suspiria (Amazon)
Vox Lux (Neon)
A Wrinkle in Time (Disney)
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