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2018 Oscar Nomination Predictions


I have to be quite honest. It is going to be an unpredictable awards season since there is no consensus as to what movie will take the Best Picture Oscar. I do believe, except for Best Actress, that all the people who have been getting awards are set for getting their deserved award. Getting back to the Best Picture race, I do believe it is between three movies and we'll see if they will get nominated. (I think they will.) So, I will predict who will get nominated in the top categories and may potentially get nominated and also for the first time, I will predict some hopeful, wild card nominees in other categories.


Best Picture (The committee can pick 5-10 nominees.)
Call Me By Your Name
Dunkirk
Get Out
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Potential nominees: All the Money in the World, The Big Sick, Darkest Hour, The Florida Project, Logan, Mudbound, Phantom Thread, Wonder Woman


Best Director:
Guillermo Del Toro - The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
Luca Guadagnino - Call Me By Your Name
Martin McDonagh - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk

Potential nominees: Jordan Peele - Get Out, Steven Spielberg - The Post, Dee Rees - Mudbound, Paul Thomas Anderson - Phantom Thread, Ridley Scott - All the Money in the World, Denis Villeneuve - Blade Runner 2049, Patty Jenkins - Wonder Woman


Best Actor:
Timothée Chalamet - Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis - Phantom Thread
James Franco - The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out
Gary Oldman - Darkest Hour

Potential nominees: Tom Hanks - The Post, Hugh Jackman - Logan, Denzel Washington - Roman J. Israel, Esq., Jake Gyllenhaal - Stronger


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

Potential nominees: Jessica Chastain - Molly's Game, Judi Dench - Victoria and Abdul, Michelle Williams - All the Money in the World, Emma Stone - Battle of the Sexes


Best Supporting Actor:
Willem Dafoe - The Florida Project
Richard Jenkins - The Shape of Water
Sam Rockwell - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Plummer - All the Money in the World
Michael Stuhlbarg - Call Me By Your Name

Potential nominees: Armie Hammer - Call Me By Your Name, Woody Harrelson - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Michael Shannon - The Shape of Water, Patrick Stewart - Logan


Best Supporting Actress:
Holly Hunter - The Big Sick
Allison Janney - I, Tonya
Lesley Manville - Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf - Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer - The Shape of Water

Potential nominees: Hong Chau - Downsizing, Mary J. Blige - Mudbound, Tiffany Haddish - Girls Trip, Kristin Scott Thomas - Darkest Hour


Best Animated Feature:
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
The Lego Batman Movie
Loving Vincent

Potential nominees: The Boss Baby, Despicable Me 3, Mary and the Witch's Flower


Best Documentary Feature:
City of Ghosts
Faces Places
Icarus
Jane
Strong Island

Potential nominees: Last Men in Aleppo, LA 92


Hopeful nominations:

 I really want Logan to get some recognition and even though it does not have a chance to be nominated for Best Picture, I am really hopeful that Patrick Stewart gets a surprise nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Baby Driver should get some film editing and sound editing/mixing nominations.

Call Me By Your Name had two terrific songs and I am hoping that Mystery of Love and Visions of Gideon could sneak in the top five nominations.

There are a lot of good contenders for Best Score but if I were to choose a person of recognition: Michael Giacchino for Coco or War for the Planet of the Apes. It would still be awesome if Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallsfich gets a score nomination for Blade Runner 2049, however, Zimmer will get nominated for Dunkirk.

For makeup, it'd be nice to see Wonder get nominated.

I don't like this movie but I have to say The Beguiled had pretty great costumes and I think that should be nominated.



Look out for my complete list of the Oscar nominations on Tuesday.


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