The 90th Academy Awards ceremony airs Sunday night at 9 p.m. on ABC. Here are Post film critic Sara Stewart’s predictions for the movies and artists that will take home the top trophies:
Best Picture
“Call Me by Your Name”
“Darkest Hour”
“Dunkirk”
“Get Out,”
“Lady Bird”
“Phantom Thread”
“The Post”
“The Shape of Water”
“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Winner: Get Out: With “Three Billboards” and “The Shape of Water” splitting the safe-contender bet, this prize is ripe for another upset (hello, “Moonlight”).
niversal Pictures/Everett CollectionBest Actor
Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”
Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread”
Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour”
Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”
Winner: Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour.” Oldman’s brilliant performance as Winston Churchill should lead to a long-overdue award in a career full of Oscar-worthy performances.
APBest Actress
Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”
Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,”
Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”
Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
Meryl Streep, “The Post”
Winner: Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” McDormand simply blows away the competition in this category with her blazing performance as an avenging mother.
Everett CollectionBest Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
Woody Harrelson, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”
Christopher Plummer, “All the Money in the World”
Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
Winner: Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” Rockwell’s controversial but Golden Globe- and BAFTA-winning turn will put him over the edge.
Everett CollectionBest Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”
Allison Janney, “I, Tonya.”
Lesley Manville, “Phantom Thread”
Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”
Winner: Allison Janney, “I, Tonya.”Janney’s Oscar for her bleakly comic turn as Tonya Harding’s mom will serve as a voter nod to the otherwise ignored film.
Everett CollectionBest Director
Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk”
Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Phantom Thread”
Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water”
Winner: Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water.” A fan and voter favorite, the geeky auteur should win this prize even if he falls short of catching the Best Picture big fish.
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