15 Early Predictions For 2019 Oscars

5. The Miseducation Of Cameron Post Is The Year's Sundance Favourite

It's fair to say that this year's Sundance Film Festival didn't deliver as many sure-fire awards contenders as in recent years, especially after last year saw Call Me by Your Name, Get Out and Mudbound all ending up in fierce contention for Oscars.

The narrative feature film to emerge from this year's Sundance with the strongest Oscar prospects is undeniably The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a young woman sent to a gay conversion therapy center.

The film, directed by Desiree Akhavan (Appropriate Behaviour), won the festival's most prestigious award, the Grand Jury Prize for US Drama, which in recent years has been awarded to Oscar success stories such as Precious, Winter's Bone, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Whiplash.

Akhavan's film is the only palpable Oscar bet coming out of Sundance this year, and could certainly score nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress (Moretz) and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Then again, it could follow in the footsteps of some promising recent Grand Jury Prize winners (namely Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and fizzle out long before awards season. Wait and see.