Final 2017 Oscar Predictions. Each section follows the same formula: first group is who I think will be nominated, in order of likelihood, then who I think has the best chance to upset, then the final group is who would be a surprise but not an entirely unexpected one. We’ll see early tomorrow morning how close this is.
BEST PICTURE
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Lady Bird
Dunkirk
Get Out
The Post
Call Me By Your Name
The Big Sick
The Florida Project
Serious Possibilities:
I, Tonya
Mudbound
Phantom Thread
Molly’s Game
Darkest Hour
Long Shots:
The Greatest Showman
The Disaster Artist
Wonder Woman
All the Money in the World
Blade Runner: 2049
BEST DIRECTOR
Guillermo Del Toro
Christopher Nolan
Martin McDonagh
Greta Gerwig
Jordan Peele
Serious Possibilities:
Luca Guadagnino
Steven Spielberg
Paul Thomas Anderson
Dee Rees
Sean Baker
Long shots:
Joe Wright
Patty Jenkins
Ridley Scott
Denis Villeneuve
Craig Gillespie
BEST ACTOR
Gary Oldman
Timothee Chalamet
Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Kaluuya
James Franco
Tom Hanks
Jake Gyllenhaal
Robert Pattinson
Denzel Washington
Andrew Garfield
Christian Bale
Hugh Jackman
Harry Dean Stanton
Steve Carrell
Matt Damon
BEST ACTRESS
Frances McDormand
Saoirse Ronan
Sally Hawkins
Margot Robbie
Meryl Streep
Jessica Chastain
Judi Dench
Michelle Williams
Emma Stone
Vicky Krieps
Annette Bening
Brooklyn Prince
Cynthia Nixon
Lois Smith
Jennifer Lawrence
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sam Rockwell
Willem Dafoe
Richard Jenkins
Woody Harrelson
Michael Stuhlbarg
Armie Hammer
Ray Romano
Christopher Plummer
Steve Carrell
Mark Rylance
Michael Shannon
Jason Mitchell
Dustin Hoffman
Idris Elba
Bob Odenkirk, Bruce Greenwood, or someone else from The Post
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alison Janney
Laurie Metcalf
Holly Hunter
Mary J Blige
Hong Chau
Octavia Spencer
Lesley Manville
Tiffany Haddish
Melissa Leo
Kristin Scott Thomas
Carrie Coon
Michelle Williams
Claire Foy
Tatiana Maslany
Michelle Pfeiffer
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Get Out
The Post
The Big Sick
Phantom Thread
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
Darkest Hour
The Florida Project
The Meyerowitz Stories
Downsizing
Coco
Wind River
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Call Me By Your Name
Mudbound
Molly’s Game
The Disaster Artist
All the Money in the World
The Beguiled
Wonder Woman
Blade Runner 2049
First They Killed My Father
Wonder
It
Logan
Hostiles
Wonderstruck
Last Flag Flying
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Call Me By Your Name
Mudbound
Phantom Thread
Darkest Hour
Get Out
The Post
The Florida Project
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Beguiled
Wonder Wheel
BEST EDITING
The Shape of Water
Dunkirk
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Get Out
I, Tonya
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
The Post
Darkest Hour
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Call Me By Your Name
Lady Bird
The Florida Project
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Blade Runner 2049
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Post
Phantom Thread
Mudbound
The Greatest Showman
All the Money in the World
Darkest Hour
Wonder Woman
Call Me By Your Name
War for the Planet of the Apes
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Phantom Thread
The Post
Darkest Hour
Blade Runner 2049
War for the Planet of the Apes
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Greatest Showman
Coco
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Call Me By Your Name
Wonder Woman
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Foxtrot
Loveless
A Fantastic Woman
The Square
In the Fade
The Insult
Felicite
The Wound
On Body and Soul
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Jane
Faces Places
LA 92
City of Ghosts
Strong Island
Icarus
Ex Libris: New York Public Library
Last Men in Aleppo
Chasing Coral
Human Flow
An Inconvenient Sequel
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Long Strange Trip
One of Us
Unrest
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coco
The Breadwinner
Loving Vincent
The Lego Batman Movie
Mary and the Witches Flower
In This Corner of the World
Ferdinand
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
The Boss Baby
The Girl Without Hands
Despicable Me 3
Cars 3
The Star
A Silent Voice
Ethel and Ernest
BEST PICTURE
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Lady Bird
Dunkirk
Get Out
The Post
Call Me By Your Name
The Big Sick
The Florida Project
Serious Possibilities:
I, Tonya
Mudbound
Phantom Thread
Molly’s Game
Darkest Hour
Long Shots:
The Greatest Showman
The Disaster Artist
Wonder Woman
All the Money in the World
Blade Runner: 2049
BEST DIRECTOR
Guillermo Del Toro
Christopher Nolan
Martin McDonagh
Greta Gerwig
Jordan Peele
Serious Possibilities:
Luca Guadagnino
Steven Spielberg
Paul Thomas Anderson
Dee Rees
Sean Baker
Long shots:
Joe Wright
Patty Jenkins
Ridley Scott
Denis Villeneuve
Craig Gillespie
BEST ACTOR
Gary Oldman
Timothee Chalamet
Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Kaluuya
James Franco
Tom Hanks
Jake Gyllenhaal
Robert Pattinson
Denzel Washington
Andrew Garfield
Christian Bale
Hugh Jackman
Harry Dean Stanton
Steve Carrell
Matt Damon
BEST ACTRESS
Frances McDormand
Saoirse Ronan
Sally Hawkins
Margot Robbie
Meryl Streep
Jessica Chastain
Judi Dench
Michelle Williams
Emma Stone
Vicky Krieps
Annette Bening
Brooklyn Prince
Cynthia Nixon
Lois Smith
Jennifer Lawrence
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sam Rockwell
Willem Dafoe
Richard Jenkins
Woody Harrelson
Michael Stuhlbarg
Armie Hammer
Ray Romano
Christopher Plummer
Steve Carrell
Mark Rylance
Michael Shannon
Jason Mitchell
Dustin Hoffman
Idris Elba
Bob Odenkirk, Bruce Greenwood, or someone else from The Post
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alison Janney
Laurie Metcalf
Holly Hunter
Mary J Blige
Hong Chau
Octavia Spencer
Lesley Manville
Tiffany Haddish
Melissa Leo
Kristin Scott Thomas
Carrie Coon
Michelle Williams
Claire Foy
Tatiana Maslany
Michelle Pfeiffer
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Get Out
The Post
The Big Sick
Phantom Thread
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
Darkest Hour
The Florida Project
The Meyerowitz Stories
Downsizing
Coco
Wind River
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Call Me By Your Name
Mudbound
Molly’s Game
The Disaster Artist
All the Money in the World
The Beguiled
Wonder Woman
Blade Runner 2049
First They Killed My Father
Wonder
It
Logan
Hostiles
Wonderstruck
Last Flag Flying
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Call Me By Your Name
Mudbound
Phantom Thread
Darkest Hour
Get Out
The Post
The Florida Project
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Beguiled
Wonder Wheel
BEST EDITING
The Shape of Water
Dunkirk
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Get Out
I, Tonya
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
The Post
Darkest Hour
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Call Me By Your Name
Lady Bird
The Florida Project
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Blade Runner 2049
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Post
Phantom Thread
Mudbound
The Greatest Showman
All the Money in the World
Darkest Hour
Wonder Woman
Call Me By Your Name
War for the Planet of the Apes
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Phantom Thread
The Post
Darkest Hour
Blade Runner 2049
War for the Planet of the Apes
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Greatest Showman
Coco
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Call Me By Your Name
Wonder Woman
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Foxtrot
Loveless
A Fantastic Woman
The Square
In the Fade
The Insult
Felicite
The Wound
On Body and Soul
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Jane
Faces Places
LA 92
City of Ghosts
Strong Island
Icarus
Ex Libris: New York Public Library
Last Men in Aleppo
Chasing Coral
Human Flow
An Inconvenient Sequel
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Long Strange Trip
One of Us
Unrest
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coco
The Breadwinner
Loving Vincent
The Lego Batman Movie
Mary and the Witches Flower
In This Corner of the World
Ferdinand
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
The Boss Baby
The Girl Without Hands
Despicable Me 3
Cars 3
The Star
A Silent Voice
Ethel and Ernest
Last edited by Kilgore Trout; 01-23-18 at 12:35 AM.