FINAL Oscar Winner Predictions for the 90th Academy Awards
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| CINEMATOGRAPHY | Erik Anderson | Bryan Bonafede | Greg Howard | Evan Kost | Jason Osiason | Kenneth Polishchuk | Denizcan Sürücü | Richard Anthony | Şükrü Söğüt | Matt Dinn | TOTAL POINTS |
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| 1 | Blade Runner 2049 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 97 |
| 2 | The Shape of Water | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 93 |
| 3 | Dunkirk | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 77 |
| 4 | Mudbound | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 72 |
| 5 | Darkest Hour | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 61 |
| FILM EDITING | Erik Anderson | Bryan Bonafede | Greg Howard | Evan Kost | Jason Osiason | Kenneth Polishchuk | Denizcan Sürücü | Richard Anthony | Şükrü Söğüt | Matt Dinn | TOTAL POINTS |
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| 1 | Dunkirk | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 99 |
| 2 | Baby Driver | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 84 |
| 3 | The Shape of Water | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 82 |
| 4 | I, Tonya | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 69 |
| 5 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 66 |
| PRODUCTION DESIGN | Erik Anderson | Bryan Bonafede | Greg Howard | Evan Kost | Jason Osiason | Kenneth Polishchuk | Denizcan Sürücü | Richard Anthony | Şükrü Söğüt | Matt Dinn | TOTAL POINTS |
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| 1 | The Shape of Water | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 98 |
| 2 | Blade Runner 2049 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 92 |
| 3 | Beauty and the Beast | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 80 |
| 4 | Darkest Hour | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 67 |
| 5 | Dunkirk | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 63 |
| COSTUME DESIGN | Erik Anderson | Bryan Bonafede | Greg Howard | Evan Kost | Jason Osiason | Kenneth Polishchuk | Denizcan Sürücü | Richard Anthony | Şükrü Söğüt | Matt Dinn | TOTAL POINTS |
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| 1 | Phantom Thread | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
| 2 | Beauty and the Beast | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 87 |
| 3 | The Shape of Water | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 82 |
| 4 | Darkest Hour | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 67 |
| 5 | Victoria and Abdul | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 64 |
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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), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) 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.
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), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) 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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