Here we go again. In my humble opinion, The Oscar will go to:
Best Picture: (Hope I am wrong, Get Out is satire, horror and comedy rolled into one)
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Threads
The Post
*The Shape of Water
Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri
Best Actor:
Timothée Chalamet: Call Me By Your Name (don't think so despite a superb performance)
Daniel Day-Lewis: Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya: Get Out
*Gary Oldman: Darkest Hour (because great past performances have been overlooked)
Denzel Washington: Roman J. Israel, Esq.
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 (favored to win, but I'm going out on a limb here with Dafoe since his performance was superb)
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
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
Best Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson: Phantom Thread
*Guillermo del Toro: The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig: Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan: Dunkirk (A++ job)
Jordan Peele: Get Out (another A++ job, but think its del Toro's year)
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold: Logan
*James Ivory: Call Me By Your Name
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber: The Disaster Artist
Aaron Sorkin: Molly's Game
Virgil William and Dee Rees: Mudbound
Best Original Screenplay:
Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, Story by Guillermo del Toro: The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig: Lady Bird
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani: The Big Stick
Martin McDonagh: Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri (may take it from Peele, but I hope not)
*Jordan Peele: Get Out
Best Original Song:
Mighty River (Mudbound)
Remember Me (Coco)
Stand Up For Something (Marshall)
The Mystery of Love (Call Me By Your Name)
*This is Me (The Greatest Showman)
Best Original Score:
*Alexandra Desplat, The Shape of Water
Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Johnny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Zedi
Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk
Best Animated Feature Film:
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
*Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
Best Animated Short:
*Dear Basketball
Garden City
Lou
Negative Space
Revolting Rhymes
Best Visual Efforts:
*Blade Runner 2049
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
Best Feature Documentary:
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
*Faces Places
Icarus
Last Men in Aleppo
Strong Island
Best Short Documentary:
*Edith + Eddie
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop (may be a surprise winner)
Best Foreign Language Film:
*A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
On Body and Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)
