2018 Academy Awards – Who Will and Should Win

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It’s Oscar night!  The most prestigious night in Hollywood, when a who’s-who of famous people come together to be awarded for their work for the previous year.  This year’s Oscar race is particularly interesting, as there is no clear-cut Best Picture frontrunner, and there are a few categories that could offer up some surprises.  Here are my predictions for will win and my choices for who should win the 2018 Academy Awards.

 

 

 

 

BEST PICTURE:

Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

WILL WIN – THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

SHOULD WIN – GET OUT

 

BEST ACTOR:

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis  – Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya  – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq.

WILL WIN – GARY OLDMAN – DARKEST HOUR

SHOULD WIN – TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET – CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

 

 

BEST ACTRESS:

Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Meryl Streep – The Post

WILL/SHOULD WIN – FRANCIS MCDORMAND – THREE BILLBOARDS 

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

WILL/SHOULD WIN – SAM ROCKWELL – THREE BILLBOARDS

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Allison Janney – I, Tonya
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water

WILL/SHOULD WIN – ALLISON JANNEY – I, TONYA

 

BEST DIRECTOR:

Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water

WILL WIN – GUILLERMO DEL TORO – THE SHAPE OF WATER

SHOULD WIN – CHRISTOPHER NOLAN – DUNKIRK

 

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:

The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

WILL/SHOULD WIN – COCO

 

BEST ANIMATED SHORT:

Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes

WILL/SHOULD WIN – DEAR BASKETBALL

 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY :

Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Logan
Molly’s Game
Mudbound

WILL WIN – CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

SHOULD WIN – MOLLY’S GAME

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

The Big Sick
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

WILL/SHOULD WIN – GET OUT

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Mudbound
The Shape of Water

WILL/SHOULD WIN – BLADE RUNNER 2049

 

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:

Edith+Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop

WILL/SHOULD WIN – HEROIN(E)

 

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT:

DeKalb Elementary
The Eleven O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote/All of Us

WILL WIN – DEKALB ELEMENTARY

SHOULD WIN – THE ELEVEN O’CLOCK 

 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)

WILL WIN – A FANTASTIC WOMAN

SHOULD WIN – THE SQUARE

 

BEST FILM EDITING:

Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

WILL/SHOULD WIN – DUNKIRK

 

BEST SOUND EDITING:

Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

WILL/SHOULD WIN – DUNKIRK

 

BEST SOUND MIXING:

Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

WILL WIN – DUNKIRK

SHOULD WIN – BABY DRIVER

 

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:

Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

WILL/SHOULD WIN – THE SHAPE OF WATER 

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriWILL WIN – THE SHAPE OF WATER SHOULD WIN – PHANTOM THREAD

 

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

“Mighty River” from Mudbound
“Mystery of Love” from Call Me by Your Name
“Remember Me” from Coco
“Stand Up for Something” from Marshall
“This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman

WILL/SHOULD WIN – “REMEMBER ME” from COCO

 

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIR:

Darkest Hour
Victoria and Abdul
Wonder

WILL/SHOULD WIN – DARKEST HOUR 

 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Victoria and Abdul

WILL/SHOULD WIN – PHANTOM THREAD

 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

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