OSCAR PREDICTIONS FROM PAID PROMOS...

2018 may have been the first year that produced films that I've not seen, yet....none of them!.....Yet, I venture to cast my opinions into my Blog....  Money talks, and Netflix has shelled out over $20,000,000 to 'advance and promote' its chances to garner the Man With The Golden Veneer Trophy......So....will that be for Buster Scruggs?.....more, more likely, the more humorous...and mainstream....costume period piece, The Favourite?:  And, to be considered...before it is largely forgotten, like its predecessors...all three of them.....as Americans' popular movie tastes change like skirt/hair/fingernail lengths and belt/hips/shoulder widths....to accommodate the latest big screen fads and fashionabilitys....in response to massive advertising campaigns,  Yorgos Lanthimos  and Alfonso Cuarón?   One thing, for sure, the list of 'next year potentials' hinges on the diving platforms of last year's goods, before they hit the sales tables and racks of Showtime, HBO and the bargain basements of afternoon TNT showings and the narcissistic inundations of humor and glamor on early morning and late night shows......Anyway, and 'back on 'nubulata' track'.....with a reference to 'tracking' shots.....which may, incidentally, finally fetch up a statuette for Glenn Close.....and it's about Time, isn't it, for that!........all those intimate, sensitive closeups will focus the attentions of 'voters'......like any other Political Scenario.....Time for 'Black', perhaps....with two 'Black''s in the titles, even?  I'm certain that Spike's 'gotta have it', after all........Roma seems to be the my choice, although I've not seen any other than artsy B/W clips with totally unknown actors.....which I like so much more than Parades Of Stars in concealment or enhancement makeups.......Will this 'year' be the Year of European-looking movies?......'Social Statement' flicks?........'WOMEN!".....'BLACK" + "WOMEN"..... Gay Glitter Rock-n-rolling?   Has Richard Grant finally been on screen enough in Hellraiser Reruns?......  I'm for Bale, who will do 'anything' to do it his way......and his way is 'many ways'.....right, Mr. DeNiro?  Will the "EURO-but 'we love MEXICO'"  stamp ..up the prestige of "OSCARS" with a toss-up between the films that have been seen the least.....