BAFTA 2018: My predictions & winners

Tonight is the night – the BAFTAs, aka the biggest awards ceremony for the British movie industry! Here’s who I want to win versus who I think will win.

It takes place at London’s Royal Albert Hall tonight and I’ll be heading down there, updating the winners list as it goes. But first, I’m stating my predictions and who I want to win!

Here are the main list of nominees (winners in bold):

Best Film:
Call Me by Your Name – WANT TO WIN
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water – WILL WANT/WANT TO WIN
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – COULD WIN

Outstanding British Film:
Darkest Hour – COULD WIN
The Death of Stalin
God’s Own Country
Lady Macbeth
Paddington 2 – WANT TO WIN
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WILL WIN

Best Actress:
Annette Bening – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WILL WIN
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya – WANT TO WIN
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird – WANT TO WIN

Best Actor:
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour – WILL WIN
Jamie Bell – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Timothee Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name – WANT TO WIN (SO BAD!)

Supporting Actress:
Allison Janney – I, Tonya – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Kristin Scott Thomas – Darkest Hour
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water

Supporting Actor:
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World
Hugh Grant – Paddington 2 – WANT TO WIN
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WILL WIN
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

EE Rising Star:
Daniel Kaluuya – COULD WIN
Florence Pugh
Josh O’Connor
Tessa Thompson – COULD WIN
Timothee Chalamet – WANT TO WIN

Best Animated Film:
Coco – WANT TO WIN/WILL WIN
Loving Vincent
My Life as a Courgette

Best Director:
Denis Villeneuve – Blade Runner 2049
Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water – WILL WIN/WANT TO WIN
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Original Screenplay:
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Steven Rogers – I, Tonya
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird – WANT TO WIN
Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor – The Shape of Water
Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WANT TO WIN/WILL WIN

Adapted Screenplay:
James Ivory – Call Me by Your Name – WANT TO WIN/COULD WIN
Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, David Schneider – The Death of Stalin
Matt Greenhalgh – Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Aaron Sorkin – Molly’s Game – WANT TO WIN/COULD WIN
Simon Farnaby, Paul King – Paddington 2