And here we are! After my first round of predictions covering the acting categories and Best Director, we arrive at Best Picture. The Telluride and Venice Film Festivals have shed light on some potentials heavyweights (Darkest Hour, Battle of the Sexes, The Shape of Water, MAYBE Downsizing) while others (Suburbicon, Victoria and Abdul, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool) have mostly fallen by the wayside. Obviously there’s many pictures left to screen, but here’s my first blush round of Best Picture nominees.
As you may know, the number of nominated movies can be anywhere from 5-10, but nine has seemed to be the magic number in most years so we’ll go with that. On Thursday, I’ll post my first weekly column where potential nominees in Picture, Director, all four acting races, and both screenplay categories are ranked as to possibility of nomination in this blogger’s mind.
Here goes –
TODD’S EARLY OSCAR PREDICTIONS – BEST PICTURE
Battle of the Sexes
Call My by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Downsizing
Dunkirk
The Greatest Showman
Mudbound
The Post
The Shape of Water
Other Possibilities:
The Big Sick
Blade Runner 2049
Coco
Detroit
Get Out
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Lady Bird
Last Flag Flying
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Phantom Thread
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Wind River
Wonderstruck
Wonder Wheel
Wonder Woman
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