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Mid-Year Oscars Predictions - 2018 Movies

Movie list created by Stehako

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394

7.1

7.6

A Star Is Born (2018)

Reasons for Prediction: There is a lot of pre-premiere buzz for this movie. It's a much-needed music-filled movie, something the academy still loves. Eric Roth penned the script and is loved by the academy. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga are very popular. If it's treated like the three previous iterations it will be loved by the academy.

Stehako's rating:

108

6.9

7.3

Beautiful Boy

Reasons for Prediction: I can see the academy loving a serious Steve Carell role. Timothy Chalamet is primed for an acting nomination, bringing light to a best picture nom. It's based on two critically successful books, and directed by Felix Van Groeningen, who seems to be in the correct trajectory with a best director and best picture nomination.

Stehako's rating:

6.7

6.8

Ben Is Back

Reasons for Prediction: Julia Roberts has had a bit of a critical renaissance and this seems like the movie to get her another nomination and her film one, too. Lucas Hedges has an agent who seems to only show him future award winning movies.

114

6.7

6.9

Boy Erased (2018)

Reasons for Prediction: Lucas Hedges, again. The academy loves a current topic representing an aspect American society lead by prestige British/Australian actors. Joel Edgerton is just the kind of director who is hot will have best picture nominated movie on his resume.

257

7.3

First Man (2018)

Reasons for Prediction: Damien Chazelle already did it twice, why wouldn't the very American story of Neil Armstrong get a best picture nomination? The cast and crew are top-notch.

Stehako's rating:

101

7.5

7.1

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Reasons for Prediction: Barry Jenkins has a short resume but is overwhelmingly loved. Based on a critically loved book, topic still applies to today's societal race issues. It seems like a shoe-in.

211

6.7

The Mule (2018)

Reasons for Prediction: Not every Eastwood movie gains critical attention, but enough do and he seems due. Plus, he is starring in it and it seems like an important allegory on our modern American world, something the academy loves.

Stehako's rating:

6.6

7.1

On the Basis of Sex (2018)

Reasons for Prediction: RGB is so hot right now. With such a cast and crew involved, along with the obvious academy-baiting topic, this seems like a sure bet.

Stehako's rating:

185

6.5

7.2

Vice (2018)

Reasons for Prediction: Director Adam McKay has such a refreshing take on horribly dull topics that he just may make Dick Cheney interesting, and the academy looks for such things. The cast is insane and all past academy award-winners/nominees.

Stehako's rating:

185

6.7

6.8

Widows (2018)

Reasons for Prediction: This is director McQueen's long-awaited follow-up to the best picture winning, "12 Years a Slave" (2013). That's really all I need, I think, for this justification, haha.

Stehako's rating:

This list was created by and in the opinion of Stephen H. Koontz

Created AUGUST 2018
Updated July 2020

Listed in alphabetical order

I did terrible this year, guessing 2 out of 8 correctly (last year I was 6 for 9)

The Actual Nominees (8total):

“A Star is Born”
“BlacKkKlansman”
“Black Panther”
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“The Favourite”
“Greenbook”
“Roma”
“Vice”

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