Awards season in Tinsel Town is drawing to a close and as usual ends with what some consider to be the biggest of them all – the Oscars.
As always my predictions will have a 🌟 next to them and the winners will be in bold.
Animated Short
Dear Basketball – Glen Keane, Kobe Bryant — Winner
Garden Party – Victor Caire, Gabriel Grapperon
Lou – Dave Mullins, Dana Murray 🌟
Negative Space – Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata
Revolting Rhymes – Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer
Animated Feature
The Boss Baby – Tom McGrath, Ramsey Ann Naito
The Breadwinner – Nora Twomey, Anthony Leo
Coco – Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson 🌟 — Winner
Ferdinand – Carlos Saldanha
Loving Vincent – Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Sean Bobbitt, Ivan Mactaggart, Hugh Welchman
Adapted Screenplay
Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory — Winner
The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Logan – Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green
Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound – Virgil Williams and Dee Ree 🌟
Original Screenplay
The Big Sick – Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out – Jordan Peele 🌟 — Winner
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh
Best Documentary Feature
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail – Steve James, Mark Mitten, Julie Goldman
Faces Places – JR, Agnès Varda, Rosalie Varda
Icarus – Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan — Winner
Last Men in Aleppo – Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed, Soren Steen Jepersen 🌟
Strong Island – Yance Ford, Joslyn Barnes
Best Documentary Short Subject
Edith+Eddie – Laura Checkoway, Thomas Lee Wright
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405 – Frank Stiefel — Winner
Heroin(e) – Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Kerrin Sheldon 🌟
Knife Skills – Thomas Lennon
Traffic Stop – Kate Davis, David Heilbroner
Best Live Action Short Film
DeKalb Elementary – Reed Van Dyk
The Eleven O’Clock – Derin Seale, Josh Lawson
My Nephew Emmett – Kevin Wilson, Jr.
The Silent Child – Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton — Winner
Watu Wote/All of Us – Katja Benrath, Tobias Rose 🌟
Best Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman (Chile) 🌟 — Winner
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)
Film Editing
Baby Driver – Jonathan Amos, Paul Machliss
Dunkirk – Lee Smith 🌟 — Winner
I, Tonya – Tatiana S. Riegel
The Shape of Water – Sidney Wolinsky
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Jon Gregory
Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins — Winner
Darkest Hour – Bruno Delbonnel
Dunkirk – Hoyte van Hoytema
Mudbound – Rachel Morrison 🌟
The Shape of Water – Dan Laustsen
Sound Editing
Baby Driver – Julian Slater
Blade Runner 2049 – Mark Mangini, Theo Green
Dunkirk – Alex Gibson, Richard King 🌟 — Winner
The Shape of Water – Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Ren Klyce, Matthew Wood
Sound Mixing
Baby Driver – Mary H. Ellis, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin
Blade Runner 2049 – Mac Ruth, Ron Bartlett, Doug Hephill 🌟
Dunkirk – Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo — Winner
The Shape of Water – Glen Gauthier, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Stuart Wilson, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick
Production Design
Beauty and the Beast – Sarah Greenwood; Katie Spencer
Blade Runner 2049 – Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola
Darkest Hour – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
Dunkirk – Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
The Shape of Water – Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau 🌟 -Winner
Makeup and Hair
Darkest Hour – Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick 🌟 — Winner
Victoria and Abdul – Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
Wonder – Arjen Tuiten
Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast – Jacqueline Durran
Darkest Hour – Jacqueline Durran
Phantom Thread – Mark Bridges 🌟 — Winner
The Shape of Water – Luis Sequeira
Victoria and Abdul – Consolata Boyle
Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049 – John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover, Gerd Nefzer 🌟 — Winner
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, Dan Sudick
Kong: Skull Island – Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Mike Meinardus
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Chris Corbould, Neal Scanlan
War for the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Joel Whist
Original Score
Dunkirk – Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread – Jonny Greenwood
The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat 🌟 — Winner
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – John Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Carter Burwell
Original Song
“Mighty River” from Mudbound – Mary J. Blige
“Mystery of Love” from Call Me by Your Name – Sufjan Stevens
“Remember Me” from Coco – Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez — Winner
“Stand Up for Something” from Marshall – Diane Warren, Common
“This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman – Benj Pasek, Justin Paul 🌟
Director
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water 🌟 — Winner
Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound
Allison Janney – I, Tonya 🌟 — Winner
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water
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 🌟 — Winner
Lead Actress
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 🌟 — Winner
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Meryl Streep – The Post
Lead Actor
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour 🌟 — Winner
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Best Picture
Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water — Winner
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 🌟
15 / 24
Definitely a few surprises. I fully expected “This Is Me” to win Original Song, I thought there was no other competition there. No surprises in any of the acting categories nor Director. With the exception of McDormand I think the other actors have cleaned up this season so their wins were to be expected. It does get a little easier to predict the winners at this stage of awards season as you do get a pretty good idea of what the panels vote for by this stage.
You can see my how I faired with my prediction at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs
Emma Canning 
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