[We updated the makeup category, please enter contest again for those who already did]
We all have to plan something special for our 20th year doing this, which will officially be next year. This year, we have a contest – the prizes will be announced later but we’ll have some good stuff for you for sure. Here is your chance to show us how good you are at predicting the Oscars! You can enter this contest more than once but we’ll only keep your last entry.
And away we go!
Right I am finally ready to do my final predictions: I tend to enter slightly different predictions here and goldderby. Mine here skew slightly more towards what I want (though keeping with what I think will happen).
Picture: 3 Billboards
Acting: The 4
Director: del Toro
OSP: 3 Billboards
ASP: CMBYN
Editing: Baby Driver (mostly because the rest of these felt too safe)
Sounds: Dunkirk
Cinematography: BR 2049 (not confident in this at all but Deakins)
Visual Effects: Apes (this is really the only place I am choosing to be optimistic here – I’ll probably be wrong)
Makeup/Hair: Darkest Hour
Costumes: Phantom Thread (though I am so tempted to change, I just wouldn’t know who to)
Production: Shape
Score: Shape
Song: This is me
Animated: Coco
Animated Short: Garden Party
Documentary: Icarus
Documentary short: Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Foreign Film: A Fantastic Woman
Live Action Short: Watu Wote
I found the shorts quite interesting this year so I will chat about them briefly. I chose my favorites for shorts because how the hell else do I predict them? Go for the animal in animated short? I have covered that base anyway. In general they were (in my opinion) quite a bit weaker than usual.
Watu Wote is a pretty hopeful pick , my favourite by a very large margin but nobody else is picking it so it’s probably wrong… I seriously think this is one of the weakest fields in a long time, I just hope it’s not the 11 o’clock – about 10 seconds in I could have told you exactly how it would end and what jokes would be told along the way, it didn’t feel original or clever at all. I think its just there because Americans aren’t used to tacky Australian humour so it feels original to them (that isn’t knocking Australian humour in general, just this specific style that is always done in exactly the same way). I like Dekalb enough (though it feels like a cheap student film and its really stagey – still its pretty affecting all the same and the girl is great), my eyes hurt after watching the silent child from facing in an upwards direction too much, my nephew Emitt was fine (though I honestly hardly remember it and I watched it about 2 hours ago).
Documentaries on the other hand were great all around but I loved heaven is a traffic jam. I would be pretty happy with heroin(e) too. I think if there is one I would rather avoid it would be E+E but even that is decent.
Animated I have spoken about in another post, I loved Garden Party, Lou is cute but pretty typical for pixar, Negative space was great but its kind of just a setup for a single (albeit fantastic) joke. Dear basketball did nothing for me but maybe that’s because I don’t know who kobe is. Revolting Rhymes shouldn’t be here.