Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Picture: Three Billboards
Animated: Coco
Directing: Guillermo del Toro
Actor: Gary Oldman
Actress: Frances McDormand
Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell
Supporting Actress: Allison Janney
Original Screenplay: Three Billboards
Adapted Screenplay: Call Me by Your Name
Original Song: "Remember Me"
Original Score: The Shape of Water
Film Editing: Dunkirk
Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049
Production Design: The Shape of Water
Costume Design: Beauty and the Beast
Makeup & Hairstyling: Darkest Hour
Sound Mixing: Dunkirk
Sound Editing: Dunkirk
Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2049
Foreign Film: A Fantastic Woman
Documentary Feature: Faces Places
Documentary Short: Heroin(e)
Animated Short: Garden Party
Live Action Short: DeKalb Elementary

01. Get Out, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, The Post

02. Jonathan Demme

Best Picture: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Directing: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Original Screenplay: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Adapted Screenplay: Call Me by Your Name

Best Film Editing: Dunkirk
Best Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049
Best Production Design: The Shape of Water
Best Costume Design: Phantom Thread
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Darkest Hour
Best Sound Mixing: Dunkirk
Best Sound Editing: Dunkirk
Best Visual Effects: War for the Planet of the Apes
Best Original Score: The Shape of Water
Best Original Song: ''This is Me”, The Greatest Showman

Best Foreign Language Film: A Fantastic Woman
Best Animated Feature Film: Coco
Best Documentary Feature: Faces/Places
Best Documentary Short Subject: Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Best Live Action Short: The Silent Child
Best Animated Short: Revolting Rhymes

BONUS TIE BREAKER

1. The Post, Get Out
2. Harry Dean Stanton
3. Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, James Ivory, Agnès Varda, Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway

I'll add Short Films later. There's a few other categories I haven't really thought about a lot yet, so I might change those, but here's how I'm thinking today. For once, I don't want to be the last person to add his predictions.

Film: The Shape of Water
Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Actor: Gary Oldman
Actress: Frances McDormand
Supp. Actor: Sam Rockwell
Supp. Actress: Allison Janney

Original Screenplay: Get Out
Adapted Screenplay: Call Me By Your Name
Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049
Editing: Baby Driver
Art Direction: The Shape of Water
Costume Design: Phantom Thread

Original Score: The Shape of Water
Original Song: "Remember Me", Coco
Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2049
Sound Mixing: Dunkirk
Sound Editing: Dunkirk
Make-Up: Darkest Hour

Foreign Language Film: A Fantastic Woman
Animated Feature: Coco
Documentary Feature: Faces Places
Animated Short Film: Dear Basketball
Documentary Short Film: Heroin(e)
Live Action Short Film: DeKalb Elementary

TIE BREAKER:

1. Lady Bird, The Post
2. Jerry Lewis
3. Intentionally left blank

Changelog:

March 4th 11:45 AM EST: Added Shorts and Tie Breaker 2. For Song: Replaced Mudbound with Coco.

Picture: The Shape of Water
Direction: Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water
Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Adapted Screenplay: James Ivory - Call Me by Your Name
Lead Actress: Frances McDormand - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Lead Actor: Gary Oldman - Darkest Hour
Supporting Actress: Allison Janney - I, Tonya
Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Foreign Language Film: The Square - Sweden
Documentary Feature: Faces Places
Animated Feature: Coco
Live Action Short Subject: Watu Wote/All of Us
Documentary Short Subject: Traffic Stop
Animated Short Subject: Garden Party

Original Song: "Remember Me" - Coco
Original Score: The Shape of Water
Film Editing: Dunkirk
Cinematography: The Shape of Water
Sound Mixing: Dunkirk
Sound Editing: Dunkirk
Production Design: The Shape of Water
Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2049
Costume Design: Phantom Thread
Makeup And Hairstyling: Darkest Hour

Tie Breakers:
1: Lady Bird, Get Out, and The Post
2: Jerry Lewis

Film: Three Billboards..... (The Shape Of Water)
Actor: Gary Oldman
Actress: Frances McDormand
Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell
Supporting Actress: Allison Janney
Director: Guillermo del Toro
O. Screenplay: Lady Bird (Get Out)
A. Screenplay: Call Me By Your Name
Editing: The Shape of Water
Cinematography: Blade Runner 2047
Production Design: The Shape of Water
Costume Design: Phantom Thread
Score: The Shape of Water
Song: "This is Me" The Greatest Showman
Sound Mixing: Dunkirk
Sound Editing: Dunkirk
Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2047
Makeup: Darkest Hour
Animated: Coco
Foreign Film: A Fantastic Woman
Doc Feature: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Doc Short Subject: Edith+Eddie
Animated Short: Garden Party
Live Action Short: DeKalb Elementary

OPTIONAL BONUS

1. Get Out & The Post

2. Jerry Lewis

MORE BONUS POINTS

3. Best Actress (Frances McDormand), Screenplay Adaptation (James Ivory)

Film: The Shape Of Water
Actor: Gary Oldman
Actress: Frances McDormand
Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell
Supporting Actress: Allison Janney
Director: Guillermo del Toro
O. Screenplay: Get Out
A. Screenplay: Call Me By Your Name
Editing: Baby Driver
Cinematography: Blade Runner 2047
Production Design: The Shape of Water
Costume Design: Phantom Thread
Score: The Shape of Water
Song: Coco
Sound Mixing: Baby Driver
Sound Editing: Dunkirk
Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2047
Makeup: Darkest Hour
Animated: Coco
Foreign Film: A Fantastic Woman
Doc Feature: Icarus
Doc Short Subject: Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Animated Short: Garden Party
Live Action Short: The Silent Child

Film: Three Billboards (Dunkirk)
Actor: Gary Oldman
Actress: Frances McDormand
Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe
Supporting Actress: Allison Janney
Director: Guillermo del Toro
O. Screenplay: Three Billboards (Lady Bird)
A. Screenplay: Call Me By Your Name
Editing: Baby Driver (Dunkirk)
Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049
Production Design: The Shape of Water
Costume Design: Beauty and the Beast (Phantom Thread)
Score: The Shape of Water
Song: "Mighty River" - Mudbound
Sound Mixing: Dunkirk
Sound Editing: Dunkirk
Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2049
Makeup: Darkest Hour
Animated: Coco
Foreign Film: The Insult (The Square)
Doc Feature: Faces Places
Doc Short Subject: Heaven is a Traffic Jam....
Animated Short: Dear Basketball
Live Action Short: The Silent Child

OPTIONAL BONUS

1. Get Out, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread & The Post
2. Jerry Lewis

MORE BONUS POINTS

Standing Ovation
3. Best Actor (Gary Oldman) / Best Actress (Frances McDormand) / the Honorary award winners (IF they are asked to come on stage), Adapted Screenplay (James Ivory), Cinematography (Roger Deakins), Doc Feature (Faces Places - Agnes Varda) & presenters Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway.

anonymous1980 wrote: Funny situation for me this year: As some of you know, I work as subtitle proof-reader for a production company and this year, I'm being asked by my office to come to work early on Oscar night, morning my time.....because HBO Asia is the official carrier of the Oscars and they're our clients so we're being assigned to work the close captions as the Oscars are being aired! It's nice to be able to get PAID to watch the Oscars for a change. Haha.

Nice! I hope the work doesn't get in the way of your enjoyment.

Here are the rules just in case you guys forgot them:

01. Predict the winners all 24 categories.

02. You can predict one winner and one OPTIONAL runner-up.

03. A correct prediction with a runner-up gets 2 points, a correct runner-up gets 1 point and a correct prediction with no runner-up gets 3 points.

04. If three or less people correctly predict a category, they will get DOUBLE the points (including runner-up predictions). If you're the ONLY one to correctly predict a category, you get TRIPLE the points. (NOTE: This rule is also applicable to the bonus tie-breaker questions as well)

05. Highest score wins!

06. Deadline for entries/changes would be the moment Jimmy Kimmel begins his opening number and/or monologue.

OPTIONAL BONUS TIE BREAKER POINTS! (3 points each)

01. Which Best Picture nominee/s will go home empty handed? (it has to be EXACTLY right)

02. Who will be the last person in the In Memoriam montage?

FOR MORE BONUS POINTS

03. Which of the presenters and winners of which categories will get FULL standing ovations? (each correct answer is one point...but each WRONG answer is a negative point)

(Funny situation for me this year: As some of you know, I work as subtitle proof-reader for a production company and this year, I'm being asked by my office to come to work early on Oscar night, morning my time.....because HBO Asia is the official carrier of the Oscars and they're our clients so we're being assigned to work the close captions as the Oscars are being aired! It's nice to be able to get PAID to watch the Oscars for a change. Haha.)