Oscars 2018: Predicting All The Nominees

4. Actor In A Leading Role

Gary Oldman has been the frontrunner for this award ever since the first image of his transformation into Winston Churchill dropped, and after release that's only strengthened - it's really just a question of who else will be nominated.

Daniel Day-Lewis, in reportedly his final ever role, is surely a dead cert even if voters don't love Phantom Thread. Timothée Chalamet, while very young for this category, has the right nods so far and plenty of buzz behind him. The other two spots, as it stands, look like going to two very untypical Oscar films: James Franco for The Disaster Artist (a comedy? GASP) and Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out (a horror/comedy?! Holy...). The spoilers are two stalwarts of the category, Tom Hanks (The Post) and Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq). Washington has a SAG nom, but not much else, and Hanks is being overlooked in Post chatter, but could squeeze in over Franco.

Nominees:

Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name)

Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)

James Franco (The Disaster Artist)

Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)

Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)