I have not seen all of these movies (for not all have been released yet), nor am I interested in seeing all of them. In fact, there are plenty that I am iffy about. Even so, I like to write lists anyway. Additionally, the bullet point predictions I made exceed the minimum of five nominations. Nevertheless, these are just possibilities, not the actual nominations.

This is going to be a strange yet interesting year due to the slow box-office. Although I think the Academy Awards can be superficial, I still like to write lists of what I think could win or get nominated because I have such a strong passion for movies. That is why many of the “prediction” lists I made tend to be a hybrid of what I wish would get nominated and what will get nominated.

Best Actor

• Timothee Chalamet for Call Me By Your Name
• James Franco for The Disaster Artist
• Richard Gere for Norman
• Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out
• Daniel Day Lewis for Phantom Thread
• Kumail Nanjiani for The Big Sick
• Gary Oldman for The Darkest Hour
• Robert Pattinson for Good Time

Best Actress

• Jessica Chastain for Molly’s Game
• Gal Gadot for Wonder Woman

• Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water
• Lesley Manville for Phantom Thread
• Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Brooklynn Prince for The Florida Project
• Margot Robbie for I, Tonya
• Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird
• Meryl Streep for The Post

Best Supporting Actor

• Willem Dafoe for The Florida Project
• Idris Elba for Molly’s Game
• Armie Hammer for Call Me By Your Name
• Jason Mitchell for Mudbound

• Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri*
• Michael Shannon or Richard Jenkins for The Shape of Water
• Michael Stuhlbarg for Call Me By Your Name or Shape of Water

Best Supporting Actress

• Mary J. Blige for Mudbound

• Allison Janney for I, Tonya
• Vicky Krieps for Phantom Thread
• Lesley Manville for Phantom Thread
• Laurie Metcalf for Lady Bird
• Elisabeth Moss for The Square
• Octavia Spencer for The Shape of Water
• Kristin Scott Thomas for The Darkest Hour
• Bria Vitiate for The Florida Project

Best Director

• Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread
• Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water
• Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
• Luca Guadagnino for Call Me By Your Name
• Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
• Jordan Peele for Get Out

Best Original Screenplay

• The Big Sick
• The Florida Project
• Get Out
• Lady Bird
• Phantom Thread
• The Shape of Water
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Beguiled

• Blade Runner 2049

• Call Me By Your Name
• The Disaster Artist
• Molly’s Game
• Wonderstruck

Editing

• Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss for Baby Driver
• Joe Walker for Blade Runner 2049
• Lee Smith for Dunkirk
• Gregory Plotkin for Get Out
• Sidney Wolinsky for The Shape of Water
• Jon Gregory for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Cinematography

• Ben Davis for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Roger Deakins for Blade Runner 2049
• Dan Laustsen for The Shape of Water
• Rachel Morrison for Mudbound
• Swayambhu Mukdeeprom for Call Me By Your Name
• Hoyte Van Hoytema for Dunkirk

Production Design

• Dennis Gassner for Blade Runner 2049
• Sarah Greenwood for Darkest Hour
• Nathan Crowley for Dunkirk
• Mark Tildesley for Phantom Thread
• Paul D. Austerberry for The Shape of Water
• Inbal Weinberg for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Foreign Language Film

• Alya: The Daughter of War (Turkey)
• BPM Beats Per Minute (France)
• Bingo: The King of the Mornings (Brazil)
• A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
• Loveless (Russia)
• On Body and Soul (Hungary)
• Pop Aye (Singapore)
• The Square (Sweden)

• The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (France)
• The Breadwinner (Ireland)
• Coco (US)
• Ethel and Ernest (UK)
• The Girl Without Hands (France)
• Loving Vincent (Poland/UK)
• My Entire School is Sinking Into the Sea (US)

Best Original Score

• Carter Burwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Alexandre Desplat for The Shape of Water
• Michael Giacchino for Coco
• Jonny Greenwood for Phantom Thread
• Clint Mansell for Loving Vincent
• Dario Marianelli for Darkest Hour
• Arnaud Rebotini for BPM (Beats Per Minute)
• Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch for Dunkirk or Blade Runner 2049

Best Original Score

• “Evermore” or any original song from Beauty and the Beast
• “Almost Human” by Laura Daigle from Blade Runner 2049
• “Mystery of Love” or “Visions of Gideon” from Call Me By Your Name
• “Remember Me” from Coco
• “The Pure and the Damned” by Iggy Pop from Good Time
• "To Be Human" by Sia

As for the films I have seen on this list, my favorites are The Big Sick, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, Get Out, and Good Time. The films I am most looking forward to seeing are Phantom Thread, The Shape of Water, The Square, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Please let me know what you think in the comments.