This Oscar season has been crazy, and as I’ve covered before, there were a lot of egregious snubs this year. So here is how my nominations ballot would have looked. For the purposes of this, I’ve limited myself to the Academy’s rules, guidelines and shortlists. So that means I can’t honor Mandy in the Original Score category, I have to put Thomasin McKenzie in the Supporting Actress category, and my beloved “Hearts Beat Loud” isn’t even a nominee in the Original Song category. But I have seen a lot more films this year, so I’ve added some categories I typically haven’t seen enough films to fill out.
BEST PICTURE
Annihilation
Black Panther
Blindspotting
The Favourite
First Man
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Roma
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
BEST DIRECTOR
Alex Garland, Annihilation
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite
Damien Chazelle, First Man
Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale, Vice
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
Ryan Gosling, First Man
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here
BEST ACTRESS
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Rosamund Pike, A Private War
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther
Jesse Plemons, Game Night
Steven Yeun, Burning
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Tilda Swinton, Suspiria
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Blindspotting
Eighth Grade
The Favourite
First Reformed
Sorry to Bother You
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Annihilation
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The Death of Stalin
If Beale Street Could Talk
Widows
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Free Solo
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Birds of Passage (Colombia)
Burning (South Korea)
Cold War (Poland)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Queen of Scots
Roma
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
The Favourite
Mary Queen of Scots
A Simple Favor
BEST MAKE-UP & HAIRSTYLING
Mary Queen of Scots
Suspiria
Vice
BEST FILM EDITING
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Minding the Gap
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
You Were Never Really Here
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
First Man
Ready Player One
Solo
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Favourite
First Man
Free Solo
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma
BEST SOUND MIXING
Cold War
First Man
A Quiet Place
A Star Is Born
Suspiria
BEST SOUND EDITING
First Man
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
A Quiet Place
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Suspiria
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Annihilation
Black Panther
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Quiet Place
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs)
“All the Stars” (Black Panther)
“OYAHYTT” (Sorry to Bother You)
“Shallow” (A Star Is Born)
“Suspirium” (Suspiria)
Nominations count:
Annihilation (4)
At Eternity’s Gate (1)
Avengers: Infinity War (1)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (3)
Birds of Passage (1)
Black Panther (6)
Blindspotting (2)
Burning (2)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (3)
Cold War (2)
The Death of Stalin (1)
Eighth Grade (2)
The Favourite (9)
First Man (10)
First Reformed (3)
Free Solo (2)
Game Night (1)
Green Book (1)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (1)
Hereditary (1)
If Beale Street Could Talk (7)
Incredibles 2 (1)
Isle of Dogs (1)
Leave No Trace (1)
Mary Queen of Scots (3)
Minding the Gap (2)
Mirai (1)
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (3)
A Private War (1)
A Quiet Place (3)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (1)
Ready Player One (1)
Roma (5)
Shoplifters (1)
A Simple Favor (1)
Solo (1)
Sorry to Bother You (2)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (3)
A Star Is Born (2)
Suspiria (5)
Three Identical Strangers (1)
Vice (2)
Widows (1)
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (1)
You Were Never Really Here (2)