Feb 1, 2018

By: Matt Kahkonen
The 2018 Academy Awards Nominees have been announced, and it's
time to make some bold (and some pretty obvious) predictions as to
who will be taking home Oscars this year. While we'll go into more
detail on our selections in our February 1st episode of the
podcast, we wanted to get our picks put down in print as
well.
If you have any bold predictions of your own or just flat out
disagree with us, let us know in the comments. If you end up being
right we'll absolutely give you props in a future podcast episode,
and we all know there's nothing more valuable than a random podcast
host giving props to your anonymous internet self to the several
dozen subscribers we have.
Anyways, here's the nominees. Our picks are the bolded
titles:
Best
Picture
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
- The Shape of Water
- Call Me By Your Name
- Phantom Thread
- Darkest Hour
- Ladybird
- Dunkirk
- Get Out
- The Post
Lead
Actor
- Timothee Chalamet, "Call Me By Your Name"
- Denzel Washington, "Roman J. Israel, Esq"
- Gary Oldman, "Darkest Hour"
- Daniel-Day Lewis, "Phantom Thread"
- Daniel Kaluuya, "Get Out"
Lead
Actress
- Saoirse Ronan, "Ladybird"
- Frances McDormand, "Three Billboards"
- Sally Hawkins, "The Shape of Water"
- Margot Robbie, "I, Tonya"
- Meryl Streep, "The Post"
Supporting
Actor
- Willem Dafoe, "The Florida Project"
- Woody Harrelson, "Three Billboards"
- Sam Rockwell, "Three Billboards"
- Christopher Plummer, "All the Money in the World"
- Richard Jenkins, "The Shape of Water"
Supporting
Actress
- Octavia Spencer, "The Shape of Water"
- Mary J. Blige, "Mudbound"
- Allison Janney, "I, Tonya"
- Laurie Metcalfe, "Ladybird"
- Lesley Manville, "Phantom Thread"
Director
- Guillermo Del Toro, "The Shape of Water"
- Greta Gerwig, "Ladybird"
- Christopher Nolan, "Dunkirk"
- Jordan Peele, "Get Out"
- Paul Thomas Anderson, "Phantom Thread"
Animated
Feature
- Ferdinand
- Coco
- Boss Baby
- Loving Vincent
- The Breadwinner
Animated
Short
- Dear Basketball
- Lou
- Negative Space
- Garden Party
- Revolting Rhymes
Adapted
Screenplay
- Call Me By Your Name
- Logan
- Molly's Game
- Mudbound
- The Disaster Artist
Original
Screenplay
- The Big Sick
- Get Out
- Ladybird
- The Shape of Water
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Cinematography
- Blade Runner 2049
- The Shape of Water
- Mudbound
- Dunkirk
- Darkest Hour
Documentary
Feature
- Abacus
- Icarus
- Faces Places
- Strong Island
- Last Men in Aleppo
Documentary
Short
- Edith + Eddie
- Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
- Heroin(e)
- Knife Skills
- Traffic Stop
Live Action
Short
- DeKalb Elementary
- The Eleven O'Clock
- My Nephew Emmett
- The Silent Child
- Watu Wote
Foreign
Language Film
- A Fantastic Woman
- The Insult
- Loveless
- The Square
- On Body and Soul
Film
Editing
- Baby Driver
- Dunkirk
- The Shape of Water
- I, Tonya
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Sound
Editing
- Blade Runner 2049
- Baby Driver
- Dunkirk
- The Shape of Water
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Sound
Mixing
- Blade Runner 2049
- Baby Driver
- Dunkirk
- The Shape of Water
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Production
Design
- Beauty and the Beast
- Blade Runner 2049
- Darkest Hour
- Dunkirk
- The Shape of Water
Original
Score
- Dunkirk
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
- The Shape of Water
- Phantom Thread
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Original
Song
- "Mighty River" - Mudbound
- "Mystery of Love" - Call Me By Your Name
- "Remember Me" - Coco
- "Stand Up for Something" - Marshall
- "This Is Me" - The Greatest Showman
Makeup &
Hair
- Darkest Hour
- Victoria and Abdul
- Wonder
Costume
Design
- Beauty and the Beast
- Phantom Thread
- The Shape of Water
- Darkest Hour
- Victoria and Abdul
Visual
Effects
- Blade Runner 2049
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- War for the Planet of the Apes
- Kong: Skull Island
For those keeping count, here are the leading Oscar winners if
by some miracle we're actually right on all of our picks.
4 - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
3 - The Shape of Water
2 - Darkest Hour, Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk
1 - All the other winners