Over the past couple of days, you’ve seen my first round of Oscar predictions for the 2018 season. If you didn’t, here’s a reminder of my estimates for the four acting categories, Best Director, and the controversial new race Best Popular Film.
https://toddmthatcher.com/2018/08/25/todds-early-2018-oscar-predictions-best-director/
https://toddmthatcher.com/2018/08/24/todds-early-2018-oscar-predictions-best-popular-film/
https://toddmthatcher.com/2018/08/24/todds-early-2018-oscar-predictions-best-actor/
https://toddmthatcher.com/2018/08/24/todds-early-2018-oscar-predictions-best-actress/
https://toddmthatcher.com/2018/08/23/todds-early-2018-oscar-predictions-best-supporting-actor/
https://toddmthatcher.com/2018/08/23/todds-early-2018-oscar-predictions-best-supporting-actress/
Which brings me to Best Picture. For the biggest race of all, I’m listing 25 possibilities and these inaugural estimates selects 9 films being honored.
As previous posts have pointed out, the Film Festival season that begins in earnest next week with Venice and then Toronto. The feats will tremendously shape my weekly predictions. They start August 30.
For now, my initial take on Best Picture:
Todd’s Early Oscar Predictions: Best Picture
A Star Is Born
Beautiful Boy
BlacKkKlansman
Boy, Erased
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Mary Queen of Scots
Peterloo
Roma
Other Possibilities:
A Quiet Place
At Eternity’s Gate
Backseat
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Crazy Rich Asians
Destroyer
Eighth Grade
The Favourite
The Front Runner
Life Itself
Mary Poppins Returns
Old Man & The Gun
On the Basis of Sex
Widows
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