2018 Oscar Predictions

Picture
Untitled Kathyrn Bigelow Project
The Glass Castle
The Mercy
The Death of Stalin
Wonderstruck
Darkest Hour
Mudbound
The Snowman
The Greatest Showman
Mary Magdalene

Alternates
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Dinner
You Were Never Really Here
The Florida Project
The Current War
Annihilation
Happy End
Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?
Mother
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Montara
Molly’s Game

Dark Horses
Battle of the Sexes
Lean on Pete
Inner City
Tully
The Beguiled
Star Wars: Episode VIII
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missourie
Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Film

Director
Kathyrn Bigelow – Untitled Kathryn Bigelow Project
Destin Cretton – The Glass Castle
Todd Haynes – Wonderstruck
Joe Wright – Darkest Hour
Denis Villeneuve – Blade Runner 2049

Alternates
James Marsh – The Mercy
Armando Iannucci – The Death of Stalin
Dee Rees – Mudbound
Tomas Alfredson – The Snowman
Dan Gilroy – Inner City
Garth Davis – Mary Magdalene
Alex Garland – Annihilation
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk

Dark Horses
Darren Aronofsky – Mother
Paul Thomas Anderson – Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Film
Sean Baker – The Florida Project
Steven Spielberg – The Kidnapping of Edgardo Montara
Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
Rian Johnson – Star Wars: Episode VIII
Michael Gracey – The Greatest Showman
Alexander Payne – Downsizing
Oren Moverman – The Dinner
Lee Daniels – Richard Pryor: Is it Something I Said?
Damian Szifron – The Six Billion Dollar Man
Aaron Sorkin – Molly’s Game

Lead Actor
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour
Daniel Day-Lewis – Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Film
Colin Firth – The Mercy
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Denzel Washington – Inner City

Alternates
Hugh Jackman – The Greatest Showman
Donald Sutherland – The Leisure Seeker
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Current War
Mike Epps – Richard Pryor: Is it Something I Said?
Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here
Tom Hardy – Fonzo
Javier Bardem – Escobar

Dark Horses
Jack O’Connell – Untitled Alexander McQueen Project
Michael Shannon – The Current War
Brad Pitt – War Machine
Louis Garrel – Redoubtable
Michael Fassbender – The Snowman
Mark Wahlberg – The Six Billion Dollar Man
Ben Foster – Galveston
Oscar Isaac – The Kidnapping of Edgardo Montara

Lead Actress
Brie Larson – The Glass Castle
Rooney Mara – Mary Magdalene
Helen Mirren – The Leisure Seeker
Jennifer Lawrence – Mother
Emma Stone – Battle of the Sexes

Alternates
Jessica Chastain – Molly’s Game
Viola Davis – The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
Jessica Chastain – Woman Walks Ahead
Michelle Pfeiffer – Where is Kyra?
Judi Dench – Victoria and Abdul
Sandy Kane – The Florida Project
Isabelle Huppert – Happy End

Dark Horses
Rachel Weisz – My Cousin Rachel
Tilda Swinton – Okja
Elizabeth Olsen – Wind River
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird
Helena Bonham Carter – 55 Steps
Eliabeth Moss – The Square
Charlize Theron – Tully
Penelop Cruz – Untitled Asghar Farhdi Project

Supporting Actor
Ben Mendelsohn – Darkest Hour
Woody Harrelson – The Glass Castle
Jonathan Banks – Mudbound
Javier Bardem – Mother
Mark Rylance – The Kidnapping of Edgardo Montara

Alternates
Jon Bernthal – Wind River
Jason Mitchell – Untitled Kathyrn Bigelow Project
Ben Foster – Hostiles
Nicholas Hoult – The Current War
Zac Efron – The Greatest Showman
Steve Buscemi – The Death of Stalin
Sterling K. Brown – Marshall

Dark Horses
Christoph Waltz – Downsizing
Cillian Murphy – Dunkirk
Kevin Costner – Molly’s Game
Steve Buscemi – Lean on Pete
Kiefer Sutherland – Where is Kyra?
Mathie Kassovitz – Happy End
Ed Harris – Mother
Joaquin Phoenix – Mary Magdalene

Supporting Actress
Julianne Moore – Wonderstruck
Katherine Waterston – The Current War
Naomi Watts – The Glass Castle
Michelle Williams – The Greatest Showman
Carey Mulligan – Mudbound

Alternates
Kristin Scott Thomas – Darkest Hour
Michelle Pfeiffer – Mother
Margot Robbie – Goodbye Christopher Robin
Nicole Kidman – The Beguiled
Rebecca Hall – The Dinner
Rachel Weisz – The Mercy

Dark Horses
Ekaterina Samsonov – You Were Never Really Here
Alicia Vikander – Submergence
Emily Watson – On Chesil Beach
Olga Kurylenko – The Death of Stalin
Rebecca Ferguson – The Snowman
Stacy Martin – Redoubtable
Chloe Sevigny – The Snowman
Michelle Williams – Wonderstruck
Nicole Kidman – The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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