The Academy Awards are here again, and they couldn’t come soon enough! It has been a whirlwind year in film full of surprises, snubs, and first times. Below, we at mxdwn Movies have made our predictions on who will win on the big night, including some predictions that we hope will accomplish the big upset – as you’ll see, we’re really pulling for Get Out and Jordan Peele this year.
Our predictions will be put to the test this Sunday, March 4 when Jimmy Kimmel hosts. The 90th Academy Awards will air at 5:00pm PST on ABC.
BEST PICTURE
‘Call Me By Your Name’
‘Darkest Hour’
‘Dunkirk’
‘Get Out’
‘Lady Bird’
‘Phantom Thread’
‘The Post’
‘The Shape of Water’ – WINNER/SHOULD WIN
‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’
BEST ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet, ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Daniel Day-Lewis, ‘Phantom Thread’
Daniel Kaluuya, ‘Get Out’
Gary Oldman, ‘Darkest Hour’ – WINNER/SHOULD WIN
Denzel Washington, ‘Roman J. Israel Esq.’
BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, ‘The Shape of Water’
Frances McDormand, ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ – WINNER/SHOULD WIN
Margot Robbie, ‘I, Tonya’
Saoirse Ronan, ‘Lady Bird’
Meryl Streep, ‘The Post’
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe, ‘The Florida Project’ – SHOULD WIN
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
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mary J. Blige, ‘Mudbound’
Allison Janney, ‘I, Tonya’ – WINNER
Lesley Manville, ‘Phantom Thread’
Laurie Metcalf, ‘Lady Bird’ – SHOULD WIN
Octavia Spencer, ‘The Shape of Water’
BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan, ‘Dunkirk’
Guillermo del Toro, ‘The Shape of Water’ – WINNER
Greta Gerwig, ‘Lady Bird’
Paul Thomas Anderson, ‘Phantom Thread’
Jordan Peele, ‘Get Out’ – SHOULD WIN
ANIMATED FEATURE
‘The Boss Baby’
‘The Breadwinner’
‘Coco’ – WINNER
‘Loving Vincent’
‘Ferdinand’
ANIMATED SHORT
‘Dear Basketball’
‘Revolting Rhymes’
‘Negative Space’
‘Lou’ – WINNER
‘Garden Party’
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
‘Call Me By Your Name,’ James Ivory – WINNER
‘The Disaster Artist,’ Michael H. Weber & Scott Neustadter
‘Logan,’ Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green
‘Molly’s Game,’ Aaron Sorkin
‘Mudbound,’ Virgil Williams & Dee Rees
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
‘The Big Sick,’ Emily V. Gordan & 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
CINEMATOGRAPHY
‘Blade Runner,’ Richard Deakins – WINNER
‘Darkest Hour,’ Bruno Delbonell
‘Dunkirk,’ Hoyt van Hoytema
‘Mudbound,’ Rachel Morrison
‘The Shape of Water,’ Dan Laustsen
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
‘Abacus: Small Enough to Jail’
‘Faces Places’
‘Icarus’ – WINNER
‘Last Men in Aleppo’
‘Strong Island’
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
‘Edith + Eddie’
‘Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405’ – WINNER
‘Heroin(e)’
‘Knife Skills’
‘Traffic Stop’
LIVE-ACTION SHORT
‘Dekalb Elementary’
‘The Eleven O’Clock’ – WINNER
‘My Nephew Emmett’
‘The Silent Child’
‘Watu Wote/All of Us’
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
‘I, Tonya’, Tatiana S. Riegel
‘Dunkirk’, Lee Smith – WINNER
‘The Shape of Water’, Sidney Wolinski
‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’, Jon Gregory
SOUND EDITING
‘Baby Driver’, Julian Slater – WINNER
‘Dunkirk’, Alex Gibson, Richard King
‘Blade Runner 2049’, Mark Mangini, Theo Green
‘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 – WINNER
‘Dunkirk’, Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
‘Darkest Hour’, Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
‘The Shape of Water’, Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau
ORIGINAL SCORE
‘Dunkirk,’ Hans Zimmer
‘Phantom Thread,’ Johnny 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
MAKEUP & 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
‘The Shape of Water’, Luis Sequeira
‘Phantom Thread’, Mark Bridges – WINNER
‘Victoria and Abdul’, Consolata Boyle
VISUAL EFFECTS
‘Blade Runner 2049’, John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover, Gerd Nefzer – WINNER
‘Kong: Skull Island’, Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Mike Meinardus
”Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2′, Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner, Dan Sudick
‘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
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