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The listings below reflect how The Hollywood Reporter's awards columnist Scott Feinberg believes the Oscar nominations would look if the race ended today. They are formulated using a combination of personal impressions (from advance screenings), publicly available information (release dates, genres, talent rosters and teasers/trailers often offer valuable clues), historical considerations (how other films with similar pedigrees have resonated), precursor awards (some groups have historically correlated with the Academy more than others) and consultations with industry insiders (including fellow members of the press, awards strategists, filmmakers and voters). Please note that the companies listed alongside film titles are their U.S. distributors according to IMDB.com.
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Best Picture
Image Credit: Courtesy of Niko Tavernise/Twentieth Century Fox FRONTRUNNERS
The Post (Fox)
Dunkirk (Warner Bros.)
The Shape of Water (Fox Searchlight)
Get Out (Universal)
Call Me By Your Name (Sony Classics)
Lady Bird (A24)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Fox Searchlight)
The Florida Project (A24)
The Big Sick (Lionsgate)
I, Tonya (Neon/30WEST)MAJOR THREATS
Wonder Woman (Warner Bros.)
Darkest Hour (Focus Features)
Mudbound (Netflix)
Molly's Game (STX)
Downsizing (Paramount)POSSIBILITIES
Phantom Thread (Focus Features)
Wonder (Lionsgate)
Wind River (Acacia)
Battle of the Sexes (Fox Searchlight)
Beauty and the Beast (Disney)LONG SHOTS
Mother! (Paramount)
Blade Runner 2049 (Warner Bros.)
War for the Planet of the Apes (Fox)
Detroit (Annapurna)
Victoria & Abdul (Focus Features)STILL TO COME (alphabetical)
All the Money in the World (Sony)
The Greatest Showman (Fox)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Disney) -
Best Director
Image Credit: Harryson Thevenin/A24 FRONTRUNNERS
Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)
Steven Spielberg (The Post) — podcast
Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) — podcast
Jordan Peele (Get Out) — podcast
Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) — podcastMAJOR THREATS
Sean Baker (The Florida Project) — podcast
Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name)
Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Joe Wright (Darkest Hour)
Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman)POSSIBILITES
Alexander Payne (Downsizing)
Aaron Sorkin (Molly's Game)
Dee Rees (Mudbound)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread)
Darren Aronofksy (Mother!)LONG SHOTS
Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049)
Kathryn Bigelow (Detroit)
Todd Haynes (Wonderstruck)
Matt Reeves (War for the Planet of the Apes)
Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya)STILL TO COME (alphabetical)
Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman)
Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
Ridley Scott (All the Money in the World) -
Best Actor
Image Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate FRONTRUNNERS
Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)
Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name)
Tom Hanks (The Post)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)
James Franco (The Disaster Artist) — podcastMAJOR THREATS
Jake Gyllenhaal (Stronger)
Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
Jamie Bell (Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool)
Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.) — podcastPOSSIBILITIES
Robert Pattinson (Good Time) — podcast
Jeremy Renner (Wind River)
Matt Damon (Downsizing)
Andrew Garfield (Breathe) — podcastLONG SHOTS
Christian Bale (Hostiles)
Jacob Tremblay (Wonder)
Andy Serkis (War for the Planet of the Apes)
Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) — podcastSTILL TO COME (alphabetical)
Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman)
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Best Actress
Image Credit: IMDB FRONTRUNNERS
Margot Robbie (I, Tonya) — podcast
Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird) — podcast
Meryl Streep (The Post) — podcast
Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Jessica Chastain (Molly's Game) — podcastMAJOR THREATS
Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water)
Kate Winslet (Wonder Wheel) — podcast
Judi Dench (Victoria & Abdul) — podcast
Annette Bening (Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool)POSSIBILITIES
Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) — podcast
Emma Stone (Battle of the Sexes) — podcast
Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project) — podcast
Jennifer Lawrence (Mother!) — podcastLONG SHOTS
Diane Kruger (In the Fade)
Salma Hayek (Beatriz at Dinner)
Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread)STILL TO COME (Alphabetical)
Michelle Williams (All the Money in the World)
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Best Supporting Actor
Image Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. FRONTRUNNERS
Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)
Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name)
Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name)
Ray Romano (The Big Sick)MAJOR THREATS
Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water)
Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water) — podcast
Sebastian Stan (I, Tonya)
Bob Odenkirk (The Post) — podcast
Woody Harrelson (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)POSSIBILITIES
Tracy Letts (Lady Bird)
Mark Rylance (Dunkirk)
Bradley Whitford (Get Out)
Steve Carell (Battle of the Sexes)
Jim Belushi (Wonder Wheel)LONG SHOTS
John Boyega (Detroit) — podcast
Ben Mendelsohn (Darkest Hour) — podcast
Idris Elba (Molly's Game) — podcast
Patrick Stewart (Logan)
Bill Skarsgard (It)STILL TO COME (alphabetical)
Christopher Plummer (All the Money in the World)
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Best Supporting Actress
Image Credit: Courtesy of Fox Searchlight FRONTRUNNERS
Allison Janney (I, Tonya) — podcast
Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)
Holly Hunter (The Big Sick)
Hong Chau (Downsizing)
Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water)MAJOR THREATS
Bria Vinaite (The Florida Project)
Mary J. Blige (Mudbound)
Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip)
Catherine Keener (Get Out)POSSIBILITIES
Julia Roberts (Wonder)
Lois Smith (Marjorie Prime)
Melissa Leo (Novitiate)
Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread)LONG SHOTS
Carey Mulligan (Mudbound)
Kristin Scott Thomas (Darkest Hour)
Tatiana Maslany (Stronger)
Julianne Moore (Wonderstruck)STILL TO COME (alphabetical)
Carrie Fisher (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
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Best Adapted Screenplay
Image Credit: Courtesy of Netflix FRONTRUNNERS
Call Me By Your Name (James Ivory)
Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin)
Mudbound (Dee Rees & Virgil Williams)
The Disaster Artist (Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber)
Wonder (Stephen Chbosky, Steve Conrad & Jack Thorne)MAJOR THREATS
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (Matt Greenhalgh)
Wonderstruck (Brian Selznick)
Victoria & Abdul (Lee Hall)POSSIBILITIES
Wonder Woman (Jason Fuchs, Allan Heinberg & Zack Snyder)
First They Killed My Father (Angelina Jolie & Loung Ung) — podcast (Jolie)
Beauty and the Beast (Stephen Chbosky & Evan Spiliotopoulos)LONG SHOTS
War for the Planet of the Apes (Mark Bomback & Matt Reeves)
The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)STILL TO COME (alphabetical)
All the Money in the World (David Scarpa)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson) -
Best Original Screenplay
Image Credit: Courtesy of Amazon Studios FRONTRUNNERS
Get Out (Jordan Peele)
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) — podcast
The Post (Liz Hannah & Josh Singer)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
The Big Sick (Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani) — podcast (Nanjiani)
MAJOR THREATS
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor)
I, Tonya (Steven Rogers)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch)
Darkest Hour (Anthony McCarten)
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)POSSIBILITIES
Downsizing (Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor)
Detroit (Mark Boal)
Wind River (Taylor Sheridan)
Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen)
Coco (Matthew Aldrich, Adrian Molina & Lee Unkrich)LONG SHOTS
Mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
Battle of the Sexes (Simon Beaufoy)
Hostiles (Scott Cooper & Donald E. Stewart)
The Square (Ruben Ostlund)STILL TO COME (alphabetical)
The Greatest Showman (Jenny Bicks & Bill Condon)
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Best Animated Feature
FRONTRUNNERS
Coco (Pixar)
The Breadwinner (GKIDS)
Loving Vincent (Good Deed Entertainment)
Cars 3 (Pixar)
The Lego Batman Movie (Warner Bros.)MAJOR THREATS
Despicable Me 3 (Universal)
The Girl Without Hands (GKIDS)
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (GKIDS)
Ethel & Ernest (Dada Films)POSSIBILITIES
Captain Underpants (Fox)
The Star (Sony)
The Boss Baby (Fox)
The Lego Ninjago Movie (Warner Bros.)LONG SHOTS
Cinderella the Cat (TBD)
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (GKIDS)
Smurfs: The Lost Village (Sony)
The Emoji Movie (Sony) -
Best Documentary Feature
Image Credit: Courtesy of National Geographic FRONTRUNNERS
Icarus (Netflix)
Jane (Abramorama)
Faces Places (Cohen Media Group)
LA 92 (National Geographic)
City of Ghosts (IFC Films)MAJOR THREATS
Long Strange Trip (Abramorama)
Human Flow (Amazon)
Strong Island (Netflix)
Chasing Coral (Netflix)
One of Us (Netflix)POSSIBILITIES
An Inconvenient Sequel (Paramount)
Last Men in Aleppo (Grasshopper Film)
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (PBS)
Ex-Libris: New York Public Library (Zipporah)
Unrest (Shella Films) -
Best Foreign Language Film
Image Credit: Courtesy of Sundance Institute/Urucu Media FRONTRUNNERS
Israel (Foxtrot)
Sweden (The Square)
France (BPM (Beats Per Minute))
Chile (A Fantastic Woman)
Lebanon (The Insult)MAJOR THREATS (Remainder of Shortlist)
Russia (Loveless)
Germany (In the Fade)
Cambodia (First They Killed My Father) — podcast (Angelina Jolie)
South Africa (The Wound) NEWPOSSIBILITIES
Switzerland (The Divine Order)
Hungary (On Body and Soul)
Czech Republic (Ice Mother) NEW
Norway (Thelma)
Poland (Spoor)
Austria (Happy End)LONG SHOTS
Italy (A Ciambra)
Thailand (By the Time It Gets Dark)
Nepal (White Sun)
Finland (Tom of Finland)
Hong Kong (Mad World)
South Korea (A Taxi Driver) -
Best Cinematography
Image Credit: Courtesy of Sundance FRONTRUNNERS
Dunkirk (Hoyte van Hoytema)
Blade Runner 2049 (Roger Deakins)
The Post (Janusz Kaminski)
The Shape of Water (Dan Laustsen)
Darkest Hour (Bruno Delbonnel)MAJOR THREATS
Wonderstruck (Ed Lachman)
Mudbound (Rachel Morrison)
Lady Bird (Sam Levy)
Detroit (Barry Ackroyd)
I, Tonya (Nicolas Karakatsanis)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Ben Davis)
Call Me By Your Name (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom)POSSIBILITIES
Beauty and the Beast (Tobias A. Schliessler)
Mother! (Matthew Libatique)
The Florida Project (Alexis Zabe)
Downsizing (Phedon Papamichael)
Wonder Woman (Matthew Jensen)
Wonder Wheel (Vittorio Storaro)LONG SHOTS
War for the Planet of the Apes (Michael Seresin)
Atomic Blonde (Jonathan Sela)
First They Killed My Father (Anthony Dod Mantle)
Hostiles (Masanobu Takayanagi)
Baby Driver (Bill Pope)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)STILL TO COME (alphabetical)
The Greatest Showman (Seamus McGarvey)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Steve Yedlin) -
Best Film Editing
Image Credit: Courtesy of TriStar Pictures FRONTRUNNERS
Dunkirk (Lee Smith)
The Post (Sarah Broshar & Michael Kahn)
The Shape of Water (Sidney Wolinsky)
Baby Driver (Jonathan Amos & Paul Machliss)
I, Tonya (Tatiana S. Riegel)MAJOR THREATS (Remainder of Shortlist)
Blade Runner 2049 (Joe Walker)
Darkest Hour (Valerio Bonelli)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Jon Gregory)
Lady Bird (Nick Houy)
Get Out (Gregory Plotkin)
Call Me By Your Name (Walter Fasano)POSSIBILITIES
Detroit (William Goldenberg & Harry Yoon)
Wonder Woman (Martin Walsh)
Mother! (Andrew Weisblum)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
Molly's Game (Alan Baumgarten, Elliot Graham & Josh Schaeffer)
War for the Planet of the Apes (William Hoy & Stan Salfas)LONG SHOTS
Beauty and the Beast (Virginia Katz)
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 (Fred Raskin & Craig Wood)
Okja (Yang Jinmo)
Downsizing (Kevin Tent)
Mudbound (Mako Kamitsuna)
Phantom Thread (Dylan Tichenor)STILL TO COME (alphabetical)
The Greatest Showman (Joe Hutshing)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Bob Ducsay) -
Best Original Score
Image Credit: Laurie Sparham/Focus Features FRONTRUNNERS
Dunkirk (Hans Zimmer)
The Shape of Water (Alexandre Desplat)
Darkest Hour (Dario Marianelli)
The Post (John Williams)
Wonderstruck (Carter Burwell)MAJOR THREATS
Phantom Thread (Jonny Greenwood)
Blade Runner 2049 (Benjamin Wallfisch & Hans Zimmer)
Victoria and Abdul (Thomas Newman)
Detroit (James Newton Howard)POSSIBILITIES
Wonder Woman (Rupert Gregson-Williams)
War for the Planet of the Apes (Michael Giacchino)
Molly's Game (Daniel Pemberton)
Battle of the Sexes (Nicholas Britell)LONG SHOTS
Mudbound (Tamar-kali)
Okja (Jaeil Jung)
Breathe (Nitin Sawhney)
Jane (Philip Glass) — podcastSTILL TO COME (alphabetical)
The Greatest Showman (John Debney, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (John Williams) -
Best Original Song
Image Credit: Courtesy of HBO FRONTRUNNERS
"Stand Up for Something" — performed by Andra Day & Common; written by Diane Warren (Marshall) — podcast (Common) & podcast (Warren)
"Evermore" — performed by Dan Stevens; written by Alan Menken & Tim Rice (Beauty and the Beast)
"It Ain't Fair" — performed by The Roots, ft. Bilal; written by The Roots (Detroit)
"I Don't Wanna Live Forever" — performed by Taylor Swift & Zayn Malik; written by Jack Antonoff, Sam Drew & Taylor Swift (Fifty Shades Darker)
"Jump" — performed by Cynthia Erivo; written by Raphael Saadiq, Taura Stinson, & Laura Karpman (Step)MAJOR THREATS
"This Is Me" — performed by Keala Settle; written by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman)
"Remember Me" — written by Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson Lopez; performed by Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade (Coco)
"Truth to Power" — performed by One Republic; written by Ryan Tedder & T-Bone Burnett (An Inconvenient Sequel)
"The Mystery of Love" — performed by Sufjan Stevens; written by Sufjan Stevens (Call Me By Your Name)
"Prayers for This World" — performed by Cher; written by Diane Warren (Cries from Syria) — podcast (Warren)
"You Shouldn't Look at Me That Way" — performed by Elvis Costello; written by Elvis Mitchell (Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool)
"There’s Something Special" — performed by Pharrell Williams; written by Pharrell Williams (Despicable Me 3)
"To Be Human" — performed by Sia; written by Florence Welch & Rick Nowels (Wonder Woman)
"The Promise" — performed by Chris Cornell; written by Chris Cornell (The Promise)
"Dancing Through the Wreckage" — performed by Pat Benatar; written by Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo & Linda Perry (Served Like a Girl)POSSIBILITIES
"If I Dare" performed by Sara Bareilles; written by Sara Bareilles & Nicholas Britell (Battle of the Sexes)
"The Star" — performed by Mariah Carey; written by Mariah Carey & Marc Shaiman (The Star)
"Home" — performed by Nick Jonas; written by Nick Jonas, Nick Monson & Justin Tranter (Ferdinand)
"Hold the Light" — performed by Dierks Bentley; written by Sean Carey, Dierks Bentley, Jon Randall & Joseph Trapanese (Only the Brave)
"Visions of Gideon" — performed by Sufjan Stevens; written by Sufjan Stevens (Call Me By Your Name)
"Mighty River" — performed by Mary J. Blige; written by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq & Taura Stinson (Mudbound)
"Tell Me How Long" — performed by Kristen Bell; written by Dan Romer & Terry Geiger (Chasing Coral)
"How Does a Moment Last Forever" — performed by Emma Watson; written by Alan Menken & Tim Rice (Beauty and the Beast)
"Days in the Sun" — performed by Emma Watson, Audra McDonald, et al; written by Alan Menken & Tim Rice (Beauty and the Beast) -
Best Production Design
Image Credit: Courtesy of Fox Entertainment Group FRONTRUNNERS
Dunkirk (Warner Bros.)
Blade Runner 2049 (Warner Bros.)
Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
The Shape of Water (Fox Searchlight)
Wonderstruck (Amazon)MAJOR THREATS (Remainder of Shortlist)
The Post (Fox)
Phantom Thread (Focus Features)
Downsizing (Paramount)
Murder on the Orient Express (Fox) NEW
Wonder Woman (Warner Bros.)POSSIBILITIES
Get Out (Universal)
Darkest Hour (Focus Features)
Mother! (Paramount)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Fox Searchlight)
Okja (Netflix)
Wonder Wheel (Amazon)LONG SHOTS
Baby Driver (Sony)
War for the Planet of the Apes (Fox)
Battle of the Sexes (Fox Searchlight)
Breathe (Bleecker Street)
Mudbound (Netflix)
Call Me By Your Name (Sony Classics)STILL TO COME (alphabetical)
The Greatest Showman (Fox)
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Disney)
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