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Instep Oscar predictions 100 per cent accurate

By Instep Desk
Tue, 03, 18

The 90th Academy Awards concluded in Los Angeles on Sunday and it looks like Instep’s predictions about Hollywood’s biggest night were right on the money.

Every year pundits dissect the nominations across the world but really it’s about how accurate those predictions are. Instep managed to get the major predictions right in the categories of Best Picture; Best Director; Best Actor; Best Actress; Best Supporting Actor and BestSupporting Actress.

As Instep’s resident critic, Khusro Mumtaz rightly pointed out in a piece that was published on Sunday, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, by writer/director Martin McDonagh, had already picked up the BAFTA Best Picture and Golden Globe for Best Film (Drama) and looked like being the Oscar winner just a few weeks ago, but in recent weeks the momentum has shifted to The Shape Of Water, a dark modern fable, by director Guillermo del Toro. So, The Shape of Water is likely to take home the Best Picture Oscar.”

Mumtaz also wrote that “the Mexican director (Guillermo del Toro) is likely come out on top” and in the end, The Shape of Water emerged victorious, winning the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director.

As for the acting nods, they too proved to be 100 per cent accurate. Explaining the Best Actor category, the piece noted, “There is only one winner in this category. Gary Oldman is a lock for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.”

“Frances McDormand will win for steely-eyed, no-nonsense portrayal of a grieving mother who takes matters into her own hand when she feels that no progress is being made in the murder-rape case of her daughter,” explained the Instep piece and that’s exactly what happened.

Expanding on the supporting nods, the piece noted, “The award (Best Supporting Actor) is likely to go to Sam Rockwell, for his violent, racist deputy in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” and that “Allison Janney will win for her arch, blackly funny performance as Tonya Harding’s mother in I, Tonya who thinks tough love and ritual humiliation are the only way to get the best out of her ice-skating daughter.”