Previous Years: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010
Best Film - I'm not cutting this off. This was such a fucking amazing year in film:
The Rider
I am Not a Witch
Leave No Trace
Beast
Suspiria
You Were Never Really Here
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Burning
The Favourite
Support the Girls
Vox Lux
Free Solo
Roma
Madeline's Madeline
Blindspotting
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Guardians (Les Gardiennes)
Blackkklansman
Best Popcorn Flick:
Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse
Mission Impossible: Fallout
Revenge
Annihilation
Paddington 2
In a Quiet Place
Hereditary
Black Panther
Bad Times at the El Royale
Ant Man and the Wasp
Ravenous
Film I'm Most Looking Forward To That I Missed:
Wildlife
Disobedience
The Tale
Thoroughbreds
Mandy
Lean On Pete
On Chesil Beach
Hale County This Morning This Evening
McQueen
Let the Sunshine In
Monrovia, IN
Shoplifters
We the Animals
Best Debut Film:
Sorry to Bother You
Eighth Grade
Beast
A Star is Born
Hereditary
Blindspotting
I Am Not A Witch
Notable Omissions: Wildlife, Searching, Thoroughbreds, Blockers, mid90s, Cam, Skate Kitchen
Best Actress
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Jessie Buckley, Beast
Charlize Theron, Tully
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Helena Howard, Madeline's Madeline
Regina Hall, Support the Girls
Zoey Deutch, Set It Up
Notable Omissions: Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me, Carey Mulligan - Wildlife, Rosamund Pike - A Private War, Keira Knightley - Colette, Rachel Weisz - Disobedience, Nicole Kidman - Destroyer
Best Actor
Ben Foster, Leave No Trace
Brady Jandreau, The Rider
Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Daveed Diggs, Blindspotting
Lakeith Stanfield, Sorry to Bother You
Johnny Flynn, Beast
Notable Omissions: Charlie Plummer - Lean On Pete, Rupert Everett - The Happy Prince, Jake Gyllenhaal - Wildlife
Best Supporting Actress
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Elizabeth Debicki, Widows
Natalie Portman, Vox Lux
Tilda Swinton, Suspiria
Cynthia Erivo, Bad Times at the El Royale and Widows
Miranda July, Madeline's Madeline
Shayna McHayle, Support the Girls
Haley Lu Richardson, Support the Girls
Zoe Kazan, Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Tessa Thompson, Annihilation and Sorry to Bother You
Iris Bry, The Guardians
Notable Omissions: Rachel McAdams - Disobedience, Michelle Yeoh - Crazy Rich Asians, Nicole Kidman - Boy Erased,
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Bettany, Journey's End
Nicholas Hoult, The Favourite
Rafael Casal, Blindspotting
Steven Yuen, Burning
Adam Driver, Blackkklansman
Steve Buscemi, Death of Stalin
Alex Wolff, Hereditary
Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade
Evan Peters, American Animals
Hugh Grant, Paddington 2
Brian Tyree Henry, If Beale Street, Widows, and Spiderman
Harry Melling, Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Notable Omissions: Sam Rockwell - Vice, Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me, Steve Buscemi - Lean On Pete, Alessandro Nivola - Disobedience, Dominic West - Colette, Raul Castillo - We the Animals, Ed Oxenbould - Wildlife
Best Ensemble
The Favourite
Suspiria
Black Panther
Widows
If Beale Street
Blackkklansman
Madeline's Madeline
Support the Girls
Vox Lux
Annihilation
The Guardians
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Hereditary
Bad Times at the El Royale
Notable Omissions: Crazy Rich Asians
Best Documentary
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
Won't You Be My Neighbor
Three Identical Strangers
Matangi/Maya/MIA
Purge This Land
Shirkers
The Other Side of Everything
Notable Omissions: Hale County This Morning This Evening (IT'S ON MY TIVO I'M GOING TO GET TO IT THIS WEEK), Of Fathers and Sons, Bisbee '17, Dark Money, On Her Shoulders, Silence of Others, The Distant Barking of Dogs, RBG, Crime + Punishment, They Shall Not Grow Old, Into the Okavango, Anthropocene (may be coming out this year), McQueen, Amazing Grace, Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
Best Animated Film:
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
Best Foreign Film:
I Am Not a Witch
Roma
Burning
The Guardians (Les Gardiennes)
Revenge
Sweet Country
The Favourite
The Sower
Ravenous
Suleiman Mountain
Notable Omissions: Capernaum, Shoplifters, Cold War, Birds of Passage (coming out this year?), Sunset (coming out this year?), Rafiki, The Wild Pear Tree, Happy as Lazarro, Border, Zama, Jeannette, Never Look Away
Best Director:
Spike Lee, Blackkklansman
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
Chloe Zhao, The Rider
Rungano Nyoni, I Am Not A Witch
Debra Granik, Leave No Trace
Paul Schrader, First Reformed
Lee Chang-Dong, Burning
Josephine Decker, Madeline's Madeline
Carlos Lopez Estrada, Blindspotting
Michael Pearce, Beast
Notable Omissions: Tamara Jenkins - Private Life, Karyn Kusama - Destroyer, Marielle Heller - Can You Ever Forgive Me, Jennifer Fox - The Tale, Andrew Haigh - Lean On Pete, Nicole Holofcener - The Land of Steady Habits, Claire Denis, Let the Sunshine In, Lucrecia Martel - Zama, Ashley McKenzie - Werewolf, Nadine Labiki - Capernaum, Sally Potter - The Party, Pawel Pawlikowski - Cold War
Best Screenplay - Original:
First Reformed
The Favourite
Sorry to Bother You
Eighth Grade
Beast
Support the Girls
The Rider
Madeline's Madeline
You Were Never Really Here
Also - WHY is Buster Scruggs competing in adapted, if the stories were written by the Coens themselves. I mean yes, two (the Gal Who Got Rattled and All Gold Canyon) are based off existing stories, but that's 1/3rd of the film HMMM??? (No I'm NOT over Leave No Trace being shutout of the Oscars, despite winning the USC Scripter, when the past 8 winners have gone on to win the Oscar, why do you ask?)
Notable Omissions: Cold War, Destroyer, Private Life, Let the Sunshine In, The Tale
Best Screenplay - Adapted:
Leave No Trace
Death of Stalin
If Beale Street Could Talk
Blackkklansman
Burning
Notable Omissions: Can You Ever Forgive Me, Disobedience, Thoroughbreds
Best Editing:
The Favourite
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
You Were Never Really Here
Madeline's Madeline
Roma
Blackkklansman
Matangi/Maya/MIA
Mission Impossible Fallout
Notable Omissions: Vice, The Tale
Best Cinematography:
The Favourite
The Rider
Roma
You Were Never Really Here
Madeline's Madeline
Suspiria
Burning
Leave No Trace
First Reformed
Jupiter's Moon
Notable Omissions: Lean On Pete, Wildlife, Mandy, We the Animals, Never Look Away, First Man, Cold War
Best Costumes:
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Black Panther
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Mary Queen of Scots
A Simple Favor
Blackkklansman
Oceans 8
A Star is Born
Widows
Paddington 2
Sorry to Bother You
Vox Lux
Notable Omissions: Colette, Peterloo, Fantastic Beasts, Crazy Rich Asians, Mamma Mia, Nutcracker, Wrinkle in Time
Best Makeup:
Suspiria
Blackkklansman
Black Panther
The Favourite
Widows
Vox Lux
Of note: the team did an excellent job on Margot Robbie's makeup in Mary Queen of Scots, but James McArdle's hair is SO HILARIOUSLY BAD, they cancel each other out
Notable Omissions: Vice, Border, Colette, Stan & Ollie, Crazy Rich Asians,
Best Production Design:
The Favourite
Roma
Mary Poppins Returns
Black Panther
Buster Scruggs
A Quiet Place
Isle of Dogs
Notable Omissions: First Man, Fantastic Beasts, Crazy Rich Asians
Best Visual Effects:
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Black Panther
Mary Poppins Returns
Paddington 2
A Quiet Place
Notable Omissions: Christopher Robin, Ready Player One, First Man, Mortal Engines, the Nutcracker, Welcome to Marwen (the film looks terrible, but the documentary it is based on is fantastic.)
Best Score:
If Beale Street Could Talk
Black Panther
Blackkklansman
Isle of Dogs
The Green Fog
Annihilation
The Rider
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
You Were Never Really Here
Paddington 2
Suspiria
Hereditary
Mary Queen of Scots
Notable Omissions: First Man, Vice, Crazy Rich Asians, the Old Man & the Gun, Mandy
Best Song/Musical Moment:
Shallow, Star is Born
The Dance, Annihilation
The Dance, Madeline's Madeline
The Dance, The Favourite
The Dance (Générique - Miles Davis), Burning
All the Stars, Black Panther
Surly Joe, Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Suspirium, Suspiria
OYAHYTT, Sorry to Bother You
The Big Unknown, Widows
Ashes, Deadpool 2
The Rain on the Roof, Paddington 2
A Conversation, Mary Poppins
The Cover is Not the Book, Mary Poppins
Act III, Vox Lux
Too Late to Turn Back Now, Blackkklansman
Volk, Suspiria (narrowly beating out the audition)
I've Never Been To Me, You Were Never Really Here
Way Up, Spiderman (I know, I know. But it's great for running)
Miles' slang, Blindspotting
What's Up, Miseducation of Cameron Post
This Old Heart of Mine, Bad Times at the El Royale (Here's a playlist of Cynthia. The scene with You Can't Hurry Love is also amazing.)
Notable Omissions: Quincy, Dumplin, Boy Erased, Hate U Give, Beautiful Boy, Ralph Breaks the Internet, A Private War, The Strangers: Prey at Night, Let the Sunshine In, Climax (although I think that's being released properly this year)
Best Sound - both Editing & Mixing
Black Panther
You Were Never Really Here
A Star is Born
A Quiet Place
The Favourite
Mission Impossible Fallout
Suspiria
Vox Lux
Normally I'd put in Mary Poppins for being a musical, but I can't tell if the sound mix was off, or if it were the sound system in the Castro.
Notable Omissions: First Man, Bohemian Rhapsody, A Prayer Before Dawn
Best Short - Live Action/Doc:
Zion
Shadow Animals
It's older, but I only just saw it, so: Vertigo Sea
49 Mile Scenic Drive
Graven Image
Made in Iowa
Crisanto Street
Palenque
Skywards
.TV
Atomkraftwerk Zwentendorf
Best Short - Animated:
Weekends
Age of Sail
Pepe le Morse
I hadn't seen the 2017 roundup when I did last year's awards, so I'm including Garden Party here because I love it so much. It should have won the Oscar. (I mean, World of Tomorrow 2 shoulda been up, but...)
Citipati
I Am Here
73 Questions
Seine's Breath
ハネムーン Hanemun Honeymoon
Framed
The Servant
When Comes the Rain
Best poster:
McQueen
Shoplifters
Zama
Hale County This Morning This Evening
Leave No Trace (both variants)
The Favourite (both variants)
American Animals
Blackkklansman
Madeline's Madeline
Mandy
Burning
The Land of Steady Habits
Bisbee '17
Her Smell
Tully
The Meg
Under the Silver Lake
A Simple Favor
Hereditary
Red Sparrow
The Old Man & The Gun
The Sisters Brothers
Suspiria
First Reformed
Shirkers
You Were Never Really Here
Let the Corpses Tan
Isle of Dogs
Spiderman
Deadpool 2
Best animal:
The dog, Widows (the same dog was in Game Night and Insatiable, too)
The psychic dog Oracle, Isle of Dogs
The turtle, Madeline's Madeline
The crow, Support the Girls
The bunny, Leave No Trace (narrowly beating out the bees)
The bear, Annihilation
The owl, Buster Scruggs
The white horse, The Rider
The horses, Sorry to Bother You
The seagulls, Ant-Man & the Wasp
Horatio, The Favourite
Notable omissions: the diamond-encrusted tortoise in Colette
Best Trailer:
Vice (It almost convinced me to go see it!)
Under the Silver Lake (well, it was *going* to be a 2018 film when this was released)
Madeline's Madeline
The Favourite
Bad Times at the El Royale
Sorry to Bother You
Hereditary
A Quiet Place teaser
Won't You Be My Neighbor
Halloween (trick r' treating trailer)
Overlord
Mission Impossible Fallout
First Man IMAX teaser (Of course, then I didn't really feel like I needed to see it (I can't find the exact clip, but this is closest.)
Suspiria teaser
Tully
If Beale Street
A Star is Born
Bohemian Rhapsody teaser (Seriously; golden fleece award right here)
Also - I had never seen this one before, but this is amazing. Actual comments from men about Revenge trailer.
Best Quote
I am Steve Rogers - Avengers, Infinity War
Without question - Black Panther
I believe God gives each of us a purpose. To the horse, it's to run across the prairie. For a cowboy, it's to ride. - The Rider
Oh no he died - Game Night
It wasn’t destroying. It was changing everything. It was making something new. - Annihilation
I'm Batman - Deadpool 2
Ain’t this a bitch. If I would have known this was a Klan meeting, I wouldn’t have taken this motherfucking gig. Goddamn. - Blackkklansman
Sometimes a lady likes to have some fun. - The Favourite
Hey. I did it. - Miseducation of Cameron Post
I'd like to make a toast. To my family. For everything you have done for me... I forgive you. - Beast
If you’ve trusted love this far, don’t panic now. Trust it all the way. - If Beale Street Could Talk
Can God forgive us for what we’ve done to this world? - First Reformed
I mean, your 20s are great. They are, but then your 30s come around the corner like a garbage truck at 5:00 a.m. - Tully
I can’t remember who’s alive and who isn’t. - Death of Stalin
I'll see y'all there. And we can sing together and shake our heads over all the meanness in the used to be. - Buster Scruggs
If you beautiful perversions don’t shut the fuck up, I will turn you all into glue! - Sorry to Bother You
Wherever I go, the wind follows. And the wind smells like rain. - Spiderman
If we're kind and polite, the world will be right. - Paddington 2
Joe, wake up. It's a beautiful day. - You Were Never Really Here
Unforgettable Moment (Arr. There be spoilers here:)
The furniture store, Roma (Much as I describe Boston as a collection of towns, rather than a city, I think Roma is more a series of vignettes than a complete film. It's a short story collection. And while I love the lead actress, I have hard time with it being his recollections and from his perspective. But it is beautifully made, and several sequences could be in this category: the birth, the ocean, the fire.)
Dad by the fire, Eighth Grade (This year's CMBYN dad speech!)
The HALO jump, Mission Impossible Fallout
The car ride, Widows
The goodbye, Leave No Trace
Daniel's monologue, If Beale Street
The brothel, You Were Never Really Here
Waiting in the Car, Minding the Gap
The finale in The Gal Who Got Rattled, Buster Scruggs
Harry Belafonte/Birth of a Nation - Blackkklansman
Josie's transformation, Annihilation
Peter in the car, Hereditary
X-Force, Deadpool 2
The bloody chase, Revenge
The early morning ride, The Rider
Notable Omissions: Shakespeare in Vice, Joke in Mandy, the ending in Wildlife, Elizabeth Debicki in The Tale, Jack Jack in Incredibles 2
Other superlatives:
Best trailer for a 2019 film: Rocketman (I'm hoping this will be everything Bohemian Rhapsody wasn't. Runners Up: Captain Marvel, The Aftermath)
2019 Film I'm Most Looking Forward to: Captain Marvel (Runners Up: High Life, Under the Silver Lake, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Peterloo, Sunset, Climax, Anthropocene, Hail Satan?, The Mustang, The Aftermath, the new Miranda July film, Transit)
Movie You Wanted to Love but Just Couldn't: Widows
Most Wasted Potential of an Idea: The faultiness of memory, American Animals. This was such a great idea that never went far enough. (Runner Up: Sorry to Bother You. So many ideas! So didn't stick the landing.)
Best surprise Mary-Louise Parker detour: Red Sparrow
Best Villain: Killmonger, Black Panther
Best Female Action Star: Danai Gurira, Black Panther
Best Action Scene: Really, just all of Mission Impossible. I can't pick.
Best Musical Manager: Sam Elliott, A Star is Born
Worst Musical Manager: Jude Law, Vox Lux
Biggest Waste of a Cast: Cloverfield Paradox (Runner Up: Mary Queen of Scots (Sorry Josie))
Best Music Cue: Hush, Bad Times at the El Royale (Runner Up: Helplessly Hoping - Annihilation. Eighth Grade tries hard with Orinoco Flow, but that was used as a better cue in both Moone Boy and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.)
Movie which best highlights that all our professional projectionists are gone: Solo
Most WTF: Charlotte Rampling's blowjob lesson, Red Sparrow
Best scene in an otherwise okay film: Paul Bettany preparing to go over the trench, Journey's End (Runner Up: the fight in A Kid Like Jake)
Actor Having the Most Fun While Earning a Paycheck: I'm gonna guess Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic World
Best Kiss: [SPOILER/REDACTED: First Reformed] (Runners Up: Beast, Beale Street, Deadpool 2 (So which: WHY.), Set It Up)
Most On-point Cocktail: First Reformed
Best New to Me: The Apartment (Runners Up: Pather Panchali, Down By Law, Battle of Algiers, Ran, The Lodger, The Thing, The Middleman, Aparajito, I Can't Sleep, 35 Shots of Rum, Battleship Potemkin)
Best Hair: Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Worst Hair: James McArdle, Mary Queen of Scots.
Best Wig: Tie: Okoye, Black Panther and Harley, The Favourite
Worst Wig: Suspiria
Best Cameo: Watsky, Blindspotting (Runners Up: Michael C. Hall - Game Night, Brad Pitt/Alan Tudyk/Matt Damon - Deadpool 2)
Best Breakthrough: Jessie Buckley, Beast
Best Ending (the McKayla Maroney award): First Reformed
Best opening: Blindspotting (Runner Up: Free Solo)
Best credits: Deadpool 2. (It doesn't fix the fridging, but they're well done)
Most overrated: Avengers Infinity War. I've never been so bored in my life. Who wants a 3 hour Newhart episode?
Best TV Show: STILL HANNIBAL.
Best Film - I'm not cutting this off. This was such a fucking amazing year in film:
The Rider
I am Not a Witch
Leave No Trace
Beast
Suspiria
You Were Never Really Here
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Burning
The Favourite
Support the Girls
Vox Lux
Free Solo
Roma
Madeline's Madeline
Blindspotting
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Guardians (Les Gardiennes)
Blackkklansman
Best Popcorn Flick:
Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse
Mission Impossible: Fallout
Revenge
Annihilation
Paddington 2
In a Quiet Place
Hereditary
Black Panther
Bad Times at the El Royale
Ant Man and the Wasp
Ravenous
Film I'm Most Looking Forward To That I Missed:
Wildlife
Disobedience
The Tale
Thoroughbreds
Mandy
Lean On Pete
On Chesil Beach
Hale County This Morning This Evening
McQueen
Let the Sunshine In
Monrovia, IN
Shoplifters
We the Animals
Best Debut Film:
Sorry to Bother You
Eighth Grade
Beast
A Star is Born
Hereditary
Blindspotting
I Am Not A Witch
Notable Omissions: Wildlife, Searching, Thoroughbreds, Blockers, mid90s, Cam, Skate Kitchen
Best Actress
Yalitza Aparicio, Roma
Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Jessie Buckley, Beast
Charlize Theron, Tully
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Helena Howard, Madeline's Madeline
Regina Hall, Support the Girls
Zoey Deutch, Set It Up
Notable Omissions: Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me, Carey Mulligan - Wildlife, Rosamund Pike - A Private War, Keira Knightley - Colette, Rachel Weisz - Disobedience, Nicole Kidman - Destroyer
Best Actor
Ben Foster, Leave No Trace
Brady Jandreau, The Rider
Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Daveed Diggs, Blindspotting
Lakeith Stanfield, Sorry to Bother You
Johnny Flynn, Beast
Notable Omissions: Charlie Plummer - Lean On Pete, Rupert Everett - The Happy Prince, Jake Gyllenhaal - Wildlife
Best Supporting Actress
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Elizabeth Debicki, Widows
Natalie Portman, Vox Lux
Tilda Swinton, Suspiria
Cynthia Erivo, Bad Times at the El Royale and Widows
Miranda July, Madeline's Madeline
Shayna McHayle, Support the Girls
Haley Lu Richardson, Support the Girls
Zoe Kazan, Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Tessa Thompson, Annihilation and Sorry to Bother You
Iris Bry, The Guardians
Notable Omissions: Rachel McAdams - Disobedience, Michelle Yeoh - Crazy Rich Asians, Nicole Kidman - Boy Erased,
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Bettany, Journey's End
Nicholas Hoult, The Favourite
Rafael Casal, Blindspotting
Steven Yuen, Burning
Adam Driver, Blackkklansman
Steve Buscemi, Death of Stalin
Alex Wolff, Hereditary
Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade
Evan Peters, American Animals
Hugh Grant, Paddington 2
Brian Tyree Henry, If Beale Street, Widows, and Spiderman
Harry Melling, Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Notable Omissions: Sam Rockwell - Vice, Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me, Steve Buscemi - Lean On Pete, Alessandro Nivola - Disobedience, Dominic West - Colette, Raul Castillo - We the Animals, Ed Oxenbould - Wildlife
Best Ensemble
The Favourite
Suspiria
Black Panther
Widows
If Beale Street
Blackkklansman
Madeline's Madeline
Support the Girls
Vox Lux
Annihilation
The Guardians
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Hereditary
Bad Times at the El Royale
Notable Omissions: Crazy Rich Asians
Best Documentary
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
Won't You Be My Neighbor
Three Identical Strangers
Matangi/Maya/MIA
Purge This Land
Shirkers
The Other Side of Everything
Notable Omissions: Hale County This Morning This Evening (IT'S ON MY TIVO I'M GOING TO GET TO IT THIS WEEK), Of Fathers and Sons, Bisbee '17, Dark Money, On Her Shoulders, Silence of Others, The Distant Barking of Dogs, RBG, Crime + Punishment, They Shall Not Grow Old, Into the Okavango, Anthropocene (may be coming out this year), McQueen, Amazing Grace, Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
Best Animated Film:
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
Best Foreign Film:
I Am Not a Witch
Roma
Burning
The Guardians (Les Gardiennes)
Revenge
Sweet Country
The Favourite
The Sower
Ravenous
Suleiman Mountain
Notable Omissions: Capernaum, Shoplifters, Cold War, Birds of Passage (coming out this year?), Sunset (coming out this year?), Rafiki, The Wild Pear Tree, Happy as Lazarro, Border, Zama, Jeannette, Never Look Away
Best Director:
Spike Lee, Blackkklansman
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
Chloe Zhao, The Rider
Rungano Nyoni, I Am Not A Witch
Debra Granik, Leave No Trace
Paul Schrader, First Reformed
Lee Chang-Dong, Burning
Josephine Decker, Madeline's Madeline
Carlos Lopez Estrada, Blindspotting
Michael Pearce, Beast
Notable Omissions: Tamara Jenkins - Private Life, Karyn Kusama - Destroyer, Marielle Heller - Can You Ever Forgive Me, Jennifer Fox - The Tale, Andrew Haigh - Lean On Pete, Nicole Holofcener - The Land of Steady Habits, Claire Denis, Let the Sunshine In, Lucrecia Martel - Zama, Ashley McKenzie - Werewolf, Nadine Labiki - Capernaum, Sally Potter - The Party, Pawel Pawlikowski - Cold War
Best Screenplay - Original:
First Reformed
The Favourite
Sorry to Bother You
Eighth Grade
Beast
Support the Girls
The Rider
Madeline's Madeline
You Were Never Really Here
Also - WHY is Buster Scruggs competing in adapted, if the stories were written by the Coens themselves. I mean yes, two (the Gal Who Got Rattled and All Gold Canyon) are based off existing stories, but that's 1/3rd of the film HMMM??? (No I'm NOT over Leave No Trace being shutout of the Oscars, despite winning the USC Scripter, when the past 8 winners have gone on to win the Oscar, why do you ask?)
Notable Omissions: Cold War, Destroyer, Private Life, Let the Sunshine In, The Tale
Best Screenplay - Adapted:
Leave No Trace
Death of Stalin
If Beale Street Could Talk
Blackkklansman
Burning
Notable Omissions: Can You Ever Forgive Me, Disobedience, Thoroughbreds
Best Editing:
The Favourite
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
You Were Never Really Here
Madeline's Madeline
Roma
Blackkklansman
Matangi/Maya/MIA
Mission Impossible Fallout
Notable Omissions: Vice, The Tale
Best Cinematography:
The Favourite
The Rider
Roma
You Were Never Really Here
Madeline's Madeline
Suspiria
Burning
Leave No Trace
First Reformed
Jupiter's Moon
Notable Omissions: Lean On Pete, Wildlife, Mandy, We the Animals, Never Look Away, First Man, Cold War
Best Costumes:
The Favourite
Mary Poppins Returns
Black Panther
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Mary Queen of Scots
A Simple Favor
Blackkklansman
Oceans 8
A Star is Born
Widows
Paddington 2
Sorry to Bother You
Vox Lux
Notable Omissions: Colette, Peterloo, Fantastic Beasts, Crazy Rich Asians, Mamma Mia, Nutcracker, Wrinkle in Time
Best Makeup:
Suspiria
Blackkklansman
Black Panther
The Favourite
Widows
Vox Lux
Of note: the team did an excellent job on Margot Robbie's makeup in Mary Queen of Scots, but James McArdle's hair is SO HILARIOUSLY BAD, they cancel each other out
Notable Omissions: Vice, Border, Colette, Stan & Ollie, Crazy Rich Asians,
Best Production Design:
The Favourite
Roma
Mary Poppins Returns
Black Panther
Buster Scruggs
A Quiet Place
Isle of Dogs
Notable Omissions: First Man, Fantastic Beasts, Crazy Rich Asians
Best Visual Effects:
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Black Panther
Mary Poppins Returns
Paddington 2
A Quiet Place
Notable Omissions: Christopher Robin, Ready Player One, First Man, Mortal Engines, the Nutcracker, Welcome to Marwen (the film looks terrible, but the documentary it is based on is fantastic.)
Best Score:
If Beale Street Could Talk
Black Panther
Blackkklansman
Isle of Dogs
The Green Fog
Annihilation
The Rider
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
You Were Never Really Here
Paddington 2
Suspiria
Hereditary
Mary Queen of Scots
Notable Omissions: First Man, Vice, Crazy Rich Asians, the Old Man & the Gun, Mandy
Best Song/Musical Moment:
Shallow, Star is Born
The Dance, Annihilation
The Dance, Madeline's Madeline
The Dance, The Favourite
The Dance (Générique - Miles Davis), Burning
All the Stars, Black Panther
Surly Joe, Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Suspirium, Suspiria
OYAHYTT, Sorry to Bother You
The Big Unknown, Widows
Ashes, Deadpool 2
The Rain on the Roof, Paddington 2
A Conversation, Mary Poppins
The Cover is Not the Book, Mary Poppins
Act III, Vox Lux
Too Late to Turn Back Now, Blackkklansman
Volk, Suspiria (narrowly beating out the audition)
I've Never Been To Me, You Were Never Really Here
Way Up, Spiderman (I know, I know. But it's great for running)
Miles' slang, Blindspotting
What's Up, Miseducation of Cameron Post
This Old Heart of Mine, Bad Times at the El Royale (Here's a playlist of Cynthia. The scene with You Can't Hurry Love is also amazing.)
Notable Omissions: Quincy, Dumplin, Boy Erased, Hate U Give, Beautiful Boy, Ralph Breaks the Internet, A Private War, The Strangers: Prey at Night, Let the Sunshine In, Climax (although I think that's being released properly this year)
Best Sound - both Editing & Mixing
Black Panther
You Were Never Really Here
A Star is Born
A Quiet Place
The Favourite
Mission Impossible Fallout
Suspiria
Vox Lux
Normally I'd put in Mary Poppins for being a musical, but I can't tell if the sound mix was off, or if it were the sound system in the Castro.
Notable Omissions: First Man, Bohemian Rhapsody, A Prayer Before Dawn
Best Short - Live Action/Doc:
Zion
Shadow Animals
It's older, but I only just saw it, so: Vertigo Sea
49 Mile Scenic Drive
Graven Image
Made in Iowa
Crisanto Street
Palenque
Skywards
.TV
Atomkraftwerk Zwentendorf
Best Short - Animated:
Weekends
Age of Sail
Pepe le Morse
I hadn't seen the 2017 roundup when I did last year's awards, so I'm including Garden Party here because I love it so much. It should have won the Oscar. (I mean, World of Tomorrow 2 shoulda been up, but...)
Citipati
I Am Here
73 Questions
Seine's Breath
ハネムーン Hanemun Honeymoon
Framed
The Servant
When Comes the Rain
Best poster:
McQueen
Shoplifters
Zama
Hale County This Morning This Evening
Leave No Trace (both variants)
The Favourite (both variants)
American Animals
Blackkklansman
Madeline's Madeline
Mandy
Burning
The Land of Steady Habits
Bisbee '17
Her Smell
Tully
The Meg
Under the Silver Lake
A Simple Favor
Hereditary
Red Sparrow
The Old Man & The Gun
The Sisters Brothers
Suspiria
First Reformed
Shirkers
You Were Never Really Here
Let the Corpses Tan
Isle of Dogs
Spiderman
Deadpool 2
Best animal:
The dog, Widows (the same dog was in Game Night and Insatiable, too)
The psychic dog Oracle, Isle of Dogs
The turtle, Madeline's Madeline
The crow, Support the Girls
The bunny, Leave No Trace (narrowly beating out the bees)
The bear, Annihilation
The owl, Buster Scruggs
The white horse, The Rider
The horses, Sorry to Bother You
The seagulls, Ant-Man & the Wasp
Horatio, The Favourite
Notable omissions: the diamond-encrusted tortoise in Colette
Best Trailer:
Vice (It almost convinced me to go see it!)
Under the Silver Lake (well, it was *going* to be a 2018 film when this was released)
Madeline's Madeline
The Favourite
Bad Times at the El Royale
Sorry to Bother You
Hereditary
A Quiet Place teaser
Won't You Be My Neighbor
Halloween (trick r' treating trailer)
Overlord
Mission Impossible Fallout
First Man IMAX teaser (Of course, then I didn't really feel like I needed to see it (I can't find the exact clip, but this is closest.)
Suspiria teaser
Tully
If Beale Street
A Star is Born
Bohemian Rhapsody teaser (Seriously; golden fleece award right here)
Also - I had never seen this one before, but this is amazing. Actual comments from men about Revenge trailer.
Best Quote
I am Steve Rogers - Avengers, Infinity War
Without question - Black Panther
I believe God gives each of us a purpose. To the horse, it's to run across the prairie. For a cowboy, it's to ride. - The Rider
Oh no he died - Game Night
It wasn’t destroying. It was changing everything. It was making something new. - Annihilation
I'm Batman - Deadpool 2
Ain’t this a bitch. If I would have known this was a Klan meeting, I wouldn’t have taken this motherfucking gig. Goddamn. - Blackkklansman
Sometimes a lady likes to have some fun. - The Favourite
Hey. I did it. - Miseducation of Cameron Post
I'd like to make a toast. To my family. For everything you have done for me... I forgive you. - Beast
If you’ve trusted love this far, don’t panic now. Trust it all the way. - If Beale Street Could Talk
Can God forgive us for what we’ve done to this world? - First Reformed
I mean, your 20s are great. They are, but then your 30s come around the corner like a garbage truck at 5:00 a.m. - Tully
I can’t remember who’s alive and who isn’t. - Death of Stalin
I'll see y'all there. And we can sing together and shake our heads over all the meanness in the used to be. - Buster Scruggs
If you beautiful perversions don’t shut the fuck up, I will turn you all into glue! - Sorry to Bother You
Wherever I go, the wind follows. And the wind smells like rain. - Spiderman
If we're kind and polite, the world will be right. - Paddington 2
Joe, wake up. It's a beautiful day. - You Were Never Really Here
Unforgettable Moment (Arr. There be spoilers here:)
The furniture store, Roma (Much as I describe Boston as a collection of towns, rather than a city, I think Roma is more a series of vignettes than a complete film. It's a short story collection. And while I love the lead actress, I have hard time with it being his recollections and from his perspective. But it is beautifully made, and several sequences could be in this category: the birth, the ocean, the fire.)
Dad by the fire, Eighth Grade (This year's CMBYN dad speech!)
The HALO jump, Mission Impossible Fallout
The car ride, Widows
The goodbye, Leave No Trace
Daniel's monologue, If Beale Street
The brothel, You Were Never Really Here
Waiting in the Car, Minding the Gap
The finale in The Gal Who Got Rattled, Buster Scruggs
Harry Belafonte/Birth of a Nation - Blackkklansman
Josie's transformation, Annihilation
Peter in the car, Hereditary
X-Force, Deadpool 2
The bloody chase, Revenge
The early morning ride, The Rider
Notable Omissions: Shakespeare in Vice, Joke in Mandy, the ending in Wildlife, Elizabeth Debicki in The Tale, Jack Jack in Incredibles 2
Other superlatives:
Best trailer for a 2019 film: Rocketman (I'm hoping this will be everything Bohemian Rhapsody wasn't. Runners Up: Captain Marvel, The Aftermath)
2019 Film I'm Most Looking Forward to: Captain Marvel (Runners Up: High Life, Under the Silver Lake, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Peterloo, Sunset, Climax, Anthropocene, Hail Satan?, The Mustang, The Aftermath, the new Miranda July film, Transit)
Movie You Wanted to Love but Just Couldn't: Widows
Most Wasted Potential of an Idea: The faultiness of memory, American Animals. This was such a great idea that never went far enough. (Runner Up: Sorry to Bother You. So many ideas! So didn't stick the landing.)
Best surprise Mary-Louise Parker detour: Red Sparrow
Best Villain: Killmonger, Black Panther
Best Female Action Star: Danai Gurira, Black Panther
Best Action Scene: Really, just all of Mission Impossible. I can't pick.
Best Musical Manager: Sam Elliott, A Star is Born
Worst Musical Manager: Jude Law, Vox Lux
Biggest Waste of a Cast: Cloverfield Paradox (Runner Up: Mary Queen of Scots (Sorry Josie))
Best Music Cue: Hush, Bad Times at the El Royale (Runner Up: Helplessly Hoping - Annihilation. Eighth Grade tries hard with Orinoco Flow, but that was used as a better cue in both Moone Boy and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.)
Movie which best highlights that all our professional projectionists are gone: Solo
Most WTF: Charlotte Rampling's blowjob lesson, Red Sparrow
Best scene in an otherwise okay film: Paul Bettany preparing to go over the trench, Journey's End (Runner Up: the fight in A Kid Like Jake)
Actor Having the Most Fun While Earning a Paycheck: I'm gonna guess Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic World
Best Kiss: [SPOILER/REDACTED: First Reformed] (Runners Up: Beast, Beale Street, Deadpool 2 (So which: WHY.), Set It Up)
Most On-point Cocktail: First Reformed
Best New to Me: The Apartment (Runners Up: Pather Panchali, Down By Law, Battle of Algiers, Ran, The Lodger, The Thing, The Middleman, Aparajito, I Can't Sleep, 35 Shots of Rum, Battleship Potemkin)
Best Hair: Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
Worst Hair: James McArdle, Mary Queen of Scots.
Best Wig: Tie: Okoye, Black Panther and Harley, The Favourite
Worst Wig: Suspiria
Best Cameo: Watsky, Blindspotting (Runners Up: Michael C. Hall - Game Night, Brad Pitt/Alan Tudyk/Matt Damon - Deadpool 2)
Best Breakthrough: Jessie Buckley, Beast
Best Ending (the McKayla Maroney award): First Reformed
Best opening: Blindspotting (Runner Up: Free Solo)
Best credits: Deadpool 2. (It doesn't fix the fridging, but they're well done)
Most overrated: Avengers Infinity War. I've never been so bored in my life. Who wants a 3 hour Newhart episode?
Best TV Show: STILL HANNIBAL.
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