One of the apparent locks all Oscar season has been James Ivory. The “Call Me by Your Name” scribe has been the favorite to win his first Oscar in an atypically weak Best Adapted Screenplay field, but is the renowned Merchant Ivory filmmaker as secure as we all think?
Ivory is still the overwhelming favorite to take home the Oscar, standing at 1/5 combined odds in our predictions, but two scripts have their ardent supporters to pull the upset. “Mudbound,” penned by Dee Rees and Virgil Williams, has the backing of two of our participating 18 experts — Thelma Adams (Gold Derby) and Erik Davis (Fandango) — and one of our Top 24 Users, Priti, who scored the best predicting last year’s Oscars. Meanwhile, Aaron Sorkin’s “Molly’s Game” is the selection of two experts — Jack Matthews (Gold Derby) and Adnan Virk (ESPN) — and one of our All-Star Top 24 Users, Sean Cotter, who...
Ivory is still the overwhelming favorite to take home the Oscar, standing at 1/5 combined odds in our predictions, but two scripts have their ardent supporters to pull the upset. “Mudbound,” penned by Dee Rees and Virgil Williams, has the backing of two of our participating 18 experts — Thelma Adams (Gold Derby) and Erik Davis (Fandango) — and one of our Top 24 Users, Priti, who scored the best predicting last year’s Oscars. Meanwhile, Aaron Sorkin’s “Molly’s Game” is the selection of two experts — Jack Matthews (Gold Derby) and Adnan Virk (ESPN) — and one of our All-Star Top 24 Users, Sean Cotter, who...
- 1/30/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
Just like a (lady) bird, Saoirse Ronan can swoop in and swipe the Best Actress Oscar from Frances McDormand. Two of our Top 24 Users are backing the “Lady Bird” star to pull off the upset on her “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri” rival.
Ronan has the support of movie2187 and compossible, who ranked 14th and 48th, respectively, out of more than 5,400 people who predicted the Oscars at Gold Derby last year. Ronan is also the pick of two of our All-Star Top 24 Users who earned the highest scores from the past two years: beauseph and Sean Cotter (movie2187 and compossible are also in our All-Star Top 24).
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In our combined odds, tabulated from predictions from our Users, Experts and Editors, Ronan sits in second with 4/1 odds behind McDormand, who has 8/5 odds. Sally Hawkins (“The Shape of Water”) is in third with 9/2 odds,...
Ronan has the support of movie2187 and compossible, who ranked 14th and 48th, respectively, out of more than 5,400 people who predicted the Oscars at Gold Derby last year. Ronan is also the pick of two of our All-Star Top 24 Users who earned the highest scores from the past two years: beauseph and Sean Cotter (movie2187 and compossible are also in our All-Star Top 24).
See 2018 Oscar nominations: Full list of Academy Awards nominees in all 24 categories
In our combined odds, tabulated from predictions from our Users, Experts and Editors, Ronan sits in second with 4/1 odds behind McDormand, who has 8/5 odds. Sally Hawkins (“The Shape of Water”) is in third with 9/2 odds,...
- 1/26/2018
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
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