Frontrunner Friday: Who’s On Top in the 2018 Oscar Race?

Erik Anderson March 24, 2017

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

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

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

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.