Oscar predictions
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”
*This is risky but Get Out is my final answer. Three Billboards is a safer pick
Lead 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.”
Lead 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”
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”
*Dafoe is my final answer. I will get this wrong because Rockwell will win.
Supporting Actress:
- Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”
- >> Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
- Lesley Manville, “Phantom Thread”
- Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
- Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”
Director:
- “Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan
- “Get Out,” Jordan Peele
- “Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig
- “Phantom Thread,” Paul Thomas Anderson
- >> “The Shape of Water,” Guillermo del Toro
Animated Feature:
- “The Boss Baby,” Tom McGrath, Ramsey Ann Naito
- “The Breadwinner,” Nora Twomey, Anthony Leo
- >> “Coco,” Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson
- “Ferdinand,” Carlos Saldanha
- “Loving Vincent,” Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Sean Bobbitt, Ivan Mactaggart, Hugh Welchman
Adapted Screenplay:
- >> “Call Me by Your Name,” James Ivory
- “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 Rees
Original Screenplay:
- “The Big Sick,” Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
- “Get Out,” Jordan Peele
- “Lady Bird,” Greta Gerwig
- “The Shape of Water,” Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor
- >> “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Martin McDonagh
Cinematography:
- >> “Blade Runner 2049,” Roger Deakins
- “Darkest Hour,” Bruno Delbonnel
- “Dunkirk,” Hoyte van Hoytema
- “Mudbound,” Rachel Morrison
- “The Shape of Water,” Dan Laustsen
Original Score:
- “Dunkirk,” Hans Zimmer
- “Phantom Thread,” Jonny Greenwood
- >> “The Shape of Water,” Alexandre Desplat
- “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” John Williams
- “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Carter Burwell
Costume Design:
- “Beauty and the Beast,” Jacqueline Durran
- “Darkest Hour,” Jacqueline Durran
- >> “Phantom Thread,” Mark Bridges
- “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
- “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
2017 fave albums
- Sampha - Process
- Dictaphone - Poems from a Rooftop
- Karyyn - Quanta (series of EPs)
- Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
- Forest Swords - Compassion
- Bonobo - Migration
- Arca - Arca
- 21 Savage, Offset, and Metro Boomin - Without Warning
- Four Tet - New Energy
- Portico Quartet - Art in the Age of Automation
Honorable mention:
Dictaphone - APR 70
SZA - Ctrl
Tyler - Scum Fuck Flower Boy
Yaeji - EP2
Thundercat - Drunk
Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
UMFANG - Symbolic Use of Light
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
BROCKHAMPTON - Saturation I and II
Mono/Poly and Alyss - Union
2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
Grizzly Bear - Painted Ruins
Deradoorian - Eternal Recurrence
Fever Ray - Plunge
Corbin – Mourn
Lapalux - The End of Industry
King Krule - The Ooz
Jay Z - 4:44
Dauwd - Theory of Colours
Clark - Death Peak
Joey Bada$$ - All-Amerikkkan Badass
Freddie Gibbs - You Only Live 2wice
Syd - Fin
Gucci Mane/ Metro Boomin - Drop Top Wop
Shigeto - The New Moday
