Edgar Wright Predicted 'Baby Driver' Oscar Noms In 2014, Won Awards Bet With Kumail Nanjiani

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The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced earlier this week, and while Edgar Wright's music-driven heist film Baby Driver didn't end up with any nods in the major categories, the film did end up with a few technical awards, including Best Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Design. That's certainly a great honor, and it's exactly what Edgar Wright predicted would happen in one of his earliest drafts of the script.

And that's not all of the awards-related good luck Edgar Wright has found this week. The filmmaker happened to make a bet a little while back with The Big Sick co-writer and star Kumail Nanjiani about the romantic comedy getting nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Since the film indeed ended up with a nomination in that category, Wright won the bet. So what does Nanjiani have to do? Find out below.

First up, here's Edgar Wright chiming in with evidence of predicting the Baby Driver Oscar nominations:

Okay, this is spooky. My producer Nira Park just resent me my 2nd draft of 'Baby Driver' from 2014. And check out my directors statement on Page 2. A premonition no less! pic.twitter.com/UGfCO3HMH9

— edgarwright (@edgarwright) January 23, 2018

The important part of Edagr Wright's note at the beginning of the second draft of Baby Driver says, "This is a movie about someone who cannot function without music, so this screenplay is just the road map to a film which should, at the very least, be nominated for one of the sound categories at the 2016 Oscars. I don't mind which." And here we are with Baby Driver getting a nomination in both sound categories, which is pretty damn awesome.

That's not the only time Edgar Wright made such a prediction either, as the filmmaker explained:

And finally, my sound wizard Julian Slater reminded me (I had forgotten this) that in 2015 after a screening of 'Pride' in Beverly Hills, I ran into him and said a) Baby Driver was definitely happening and b) he was going to get nominated for his Sound work. Call me Nostra-Edgar.

— edgarwright (@edgarwright) January 23, 2018

It should be noted that this isn't Edgar Wright being cocky about the film, but moreso illustrating how important sound was going to be in the movie and how much meticulous attention was going to be paid to that element of the film because of how important the idea of hearing was in the movie. And the hard work has clearly paid off.