Frontrunner Friday: Who’s On Top in the 2018 Oscar Race?
Best Actor
| BEST ACTOR | 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 | Gary Oldman - Darkest Hour | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
| 2 | Timothée Chalamet - Call Me by Your Name | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 90 |
| 3 | Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 76 |
| 4 | Daniel Day-Lewis - Phantom Thread | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 73 |
| 5 | James Franco - The Disaster Artist | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 60 |
| 6 | Tom Hanks - The Post | 7 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 47 |
| 7 | Denzel Washington - Roman J. Israel, Esq. | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 42 |
| 8 | Jake Gyllenhaal - Stronger | 8 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 32 |
| 9 | Robert Pattinson - Good Time | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 18 |
| 10 | Jeremy Renner - Wind River | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | |||||
| 11 | Jacob Tremblay - Wonder | 10 | 9 | 3 | ||||||||
| 12 | Chadwick Boseman - Marshall | 9 | 2 | |||||||||
| 12 | Hugh Jackman - Logan | 9 | 2 | |||||||||
| 14 | James McAvoy - Split | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| 14 | Christian Bale - Hostiles | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Andy Serkis - War for the Planet of the Apes |
Best Actress
| BEST ACTRESS | 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 | Frances McDormand - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
| 2 | Saoirse Ronan - Lady Bird | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 85 |
| 3 | Sally Hawkins - The Shape of Water | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 80 |
| 4 | Margot Robbie - I, Tonya | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 73 |
| 5 | Meryl Streep - The Post | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 62 |
| 6 | Jessica Chastain - Molly's Game | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 46 |
| 7 | Judi Dench - Victoria and Abdul | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 44 |
| 8 | Brooklynn Prince - The Florida Project | 9 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 20 | ||
| 9 | Michelle Williams - All the Money in the World | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 17 | |||
| 10 | Emma Stone - Battle of the Sexes | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 | ||
| 11 | Vicky Krieps - Phantom Thread | 9 | 10 | 8 | 6 | |||||||
| 11 | Annette Bening - Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | 9 | 8 | 10 | 6 | |||||||
| 13 | Salma Hayek - Beatriz at Dinner | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Daniela Vega - A Fantastic Woman | ||||||||||||
| Diane Kruger - In the Fade | ||||||||||||
| Vicky Krieps - Phantom Thread |
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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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