Best Picture

Will win: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

If there was ever a film that could excite middle brow political minds of
the Academy voters by convincing them they were voting for
something radical and edgy, it's British director Martin McDonagh's
very angry, confused and artfully grotesque film about a mother's
quest to find her daughter's killer.
Forget the fact that for all Frances McDormand beats her magnificent
head against the brick wall of small town misogyny, racism and
ineptitude, it takes a white man's letter from the grave to trigger the
film's major turning point.
Forget that an open ending masquerading as ambiguity is actually
proof that the female protagonist has no real agency in the film.
What the Academy will see is a southern drama bristling with a
contempt and outrage that feels very "now" and resonates with the
widespread, justifiable anger of the #MeToo and #timesup
movements.
Should win: Get Out