Thought – 2018 Oscar Update

Three months ago I posted a list of 30 potential Best Picture Oscar contenders, plus a list of snubbed films that deserved consideration.  Since then, I’ve updated the list with reviews as I’ve seen the movies, including any personal favorites that hadn’t previously made the list.  As the Academy Awards draw closer, let’s take a look at an updated watchlist, a list that has taken into consideration those undervalued films that have risen up the ranks and those over-hyped movies that have taken a tumble.

This is the AwardsCircuit.com

ranking of top possible Academy Award contenders:

1. The Post
2. Dunkirk
3. Lady Bird
4. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
5. The Shape of Water
6. Call Me By Your Name
7. Mudbound
8. Darkest Hour
9. Phantom Thread
10. The Florida Project
11. Blade Runner 2049
12. I, Tonya
13. Get Out
14. Last Flag Flying
15. Detroit
16. Battle of the Sexes
17. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
18. Coco
19. Molly’s Game
20. Downsizing
21. Stronger
22. Wonderstruck
23. Mother!
24. Victoria and Abdul
25. The Beguiled
26. Logan
27. The Greatest Showman
28. All the Money in the World
29. Wind River
30. Wonder Wheel
31. The Big Sick
32. Hostiles
33. Wonder Woman
34. War for the Planet of the Apes
35. The Disaster Artist
36. Novitiate
37. The Meyerowitz Stories
38. Beauty and the Beast
39. Breathe
40. First They Killed My Father

Snubbed: The Current War, Frantz, Split, A Cure for Wellness, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Good Time, The Square, Brad’s Status, BPM, A Ghost Story, Cars 3, Wakefield, The Glass Castle, From the Land of the Moon, Jane, It Comes at Night, Okja, The Little Hours, The Lovers, The Foreigner, Thor:Ragnarok, Betting on Zero, Take Me, The Lost City of Z, Berlin Syndrome, Crown Heights, Lucky, Baby Driver, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Graduation, Win It All, The Trip to Spain, War Machine, Life (2017), The Boss Baby.

Bumped Off: Suburbicon, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Mary Magdalene, Murder on the Orient Express.