OSCARS BEST PICTURE: '3 Billboards' zooms ahead

  [GoldDerby]( News & Prediction Updates Feb 28, 2018   [[Secret Oscar Voter #1: Ballot exposed with 'Dunkirk' for Best Picture, Jordan Peele for Best Director]( Gold Derby has been interviewing several Oscar voters throughout February to find out their selections in the top eight categories for the 2018 Academy Awards. Now that voting has concluded, we can start exposing these secret ballots. Voter #1 is an acting branch member who has been a Screen Actors Guild Awards nominee and has been a star in multiple Best Picture Oscar nominees. The comments below in each category are part of the thought process ... [Read More »]( [[GOLD DERBY'S OSCAR ODDS: '3 Billboards' (13/10) zooms ahead of 'Shape of Water' (21/10) in Best Picture race]( See in-depth data based upon the predictions of our Experts, Editors, Top 24 Users (best accuracy scores last year), Top 24 All Stars (best scores over 2 years) and all Users. See how the prediction groups differ or agree. Keep coming back to this page. Data updates automatically once per hour. [Read More »]( [[EXPERTS' BEST PICTURE PREDICTIONS: 11 pick '3 Billboards,' 9 choose 'Shape of Water,' 5 say 'Get Out,' 1 backs 'Lady Bird']( Experts include Thelma Adams (Gold Derby), Kyle Buchanan (Vulture), Erik Davis (Fandango), Ed Douglas (The Tracking Board), Grae Drake (Rotten Tomatoes), Joyce Eng (Gold Derby), Bonnie Fuller (Hollywood Life), Tim Gray (Variety), Pete Hammond (Deadline), Michael Hogan (Vanity Fair), Matthew Jacobs (HuffPo), Tariq Khan (Fox News), Andrea Mandell (USA Today), Jack Mathews (Gold Derby), Michael Musto (Out), Tom O'Neil (Gold Derby), Kevin Polowy (Yahoo), Christopher Rosen (EW), Keith Simanton (IMDb), Krista Smith (Vanity Fair), Sasha Stone (Awards Daily), Anne Thompson (Indiewire), Peter Travers (Rolling Stone), Brian Truitt (USA Today), Sara Vilkomerson (EW), Adnan Virk (ESPN), Jeff Wells (Hollywood Elsewhere), Glenn Whipp (LA Times). [Read More »]( [2018 Oscars Best Picture by the numbers: 'Three Billboards' vs. 'The Shape of Water']( Following an impressive sweep at the BAFTA Awards, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" is currently out front to win Best Picture at the Oscars according to our Gold Derb… [Read More »]( [When co-stars collide at Oscars: Does one win or do they split the vote? Sam Rockwell, pay attention!]( It's the dream of most actors and actresses to receive an Oscar nomination and, if they're lucky, to win. But what happens when you're up against a co-star from the same movie? Does one triumph… [Read More »]( [[Jack Mathews remembers 'the time Streisand wore next to nothing to the Oscars and I wore a brown suit']( Jack's had an impressive career covering the Oscars for the L.A. Times, USA Today, New York Daily News and the Detroit Free-Press. Now here for Gold Derby he recalls the first time he covered the awards show on site at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion when he was a cub reporter for the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "Streisand, of course, was the star of that show, not just because she was nearly naked, but also because of the historical significance of her win," he recalls. "She was named 1968’s Best Actress for 'Funny Girl,' but so was Katharine Hepburn for 'The Lion in Winter.'" [Read More »]( [[Come on, Derbyites! It's time for you to jump off that cliff and make your predictions for Oscar winners NOW! Also Indie Spirits, Razzies and ...]( Change your picks & rankings as often as you wish. Your predictions influence Gold Derby's official Oscar racetrack odds. [Read More »]( [Oscar poll results: You're dying for an upset in Best Actor]( Sorry, Gary Oldman, but everyone wants you to lose -- well, most of our readers do. In our recent poll asking which of the top six ostensibly locked races you want an upset in, 35 percent of yo… [Read More »]( [[So if it's not Gary Oldman for Best Actor, who would it be? Timothee Chalamet & Daniel Day-Lewis are his closest challengers]( Gary Oldman ('Darkest Hour') has a huge lead in our predictions with 2/13 odds, but if our readers get their wish for an upset in the Best Actor race, Timothee Chalamet ('Call Me by Your Name') and Daniel Day-Lewis ('Phantom Thread') appear to have the best chance of catching him. [Read More »]( ['Dark City' 20th anniversary: The underrated sci-fi classic was released in 1998, but got no love from the Oscars]( "Dark City" was released on February 27, 1998, and it helped me fall in love with movies. It also sparked my interest in awards. During the same period I was wrestling with continued Emmy snubs… [Read More »]( [GoldDerby] This email was sent to {EMAIL} by GoldDerby. 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