So how do we feel about the Oscar nominations coming out on Monday? I’ll have my final predictions tomorrow, but I always love to compare what the Academy does to what I would honor. This year, 36 movies found themselves with nominations in my Oscar ballot and the top winner this year was Parasite, tying the all time record for wins in my personal awards with seven wins including best picture. It shares the record with Cloud Atlas, mother!, and last year’s Burning. Not terrible company to be in. If you were given the power to vote for the Oscars, who would you vote for?
Best Picture
Apollo 11
Avengers: Endgame
Giant Little Ones
Pain & Glory
Parasite
Ready or Not
Sauvage
Shadow
Uncut Gems
Waves
Best Director
Pedro Almodovar, Pain & Glory
Bong Joon-ho, Parasite
Todd Douglas Miller, Apollo 11
Trey Edward Shults, Waves
Zhang Yimou, Shadow
Best Actor
Antonio Banderas, Pain & Glory
Deng Chao, Shadow
Kelvin Harrison, Luce
Felix Meritaud, Sauvage
Brad Pitt, Ad Astra
Best Actress
Sun Li, Shadow
Lupita Nyong’o, Us
Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
Tylor Russell, Waves
Samara Weaving, Ready or Not
Best Supporting Actor
Eric Bernard, Sauvage
Sterling K. Brown, Waves
Tracy Letts, Ford v. Ferrari
James Ransone, It Chapter 2
Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pain & Glory
Best Supporting Actress
Andrea Bang, Luce
Renee Elise Goldsberry, Waves
Taylor Hickson, Giant Little Ones
Yeo-jeong Jo, Parasite
Diana Lin, The Farewell
Original Screenplay
Giant Little Ones
Parasite
Pain & Glory
Ready or Not
Waves
Adapted Screenplay
Avengers: Endgame
Dora the Explorer and the Lost City of Gold
Hustlers
Luce
Shadow
Film Editing
Apollo 11
Avengers: Endgame
Shadow
Parasite
Waves
Cinematography
1917
Ad Astra
The Farewell
Shadow
Waves
Production Design
1917
Avengers: Endgame
Little Women
Parasite
Ready or Not
Costume Design
Aladdin
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Rocketman
Shadow
Us
Makeup and Hair
1917
Avengers: Endgame
Hustlers
Shadow
Rocketman
Visual Effects
1917
Ad Astra
Avengers: Endgame
Detective Pikachu
Shadow
Sound Mixing
1917
Amazing Grace
Apollo 11
Uncut Gems
Waves
Sound Editing
1917
Avengers: Endgame
Ford v. Ferrari
Shadow
The Wandering Earth
Original Score
1917
Ad Astra
Avengers: Endgame
Us
Waves
Original Song
“Anthem” – Us
“Glasgow” – Wild Rose
“I Punched Keanu” – Always Be My Maybe
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” – Rocketman
“The Next Right Thing” – Frozen II
Animated Feature
Batman v Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Justice League v Fatal Five
Missing Link
Reign of the Supermen
Teen Titans Go vs Teen Titans
Foreign Language Film
Pain & Glory
Parasite
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Sauvage
Shadow
Documentary Feature
Apollo 11
Amazing Grace
Fyre
Fyre Fraud
Nominations / Wins
Shadow: 12 / 1
Waves: 10 / 0
Avengers: Endgame: 8 / 0
Parasite: 7 / 7
1917: 7 / 1
Pain & Glory: 6 / 0
Apollo 11: 5 / 1
Ad Astra: 4 / 4
Ready or Not: 4 / 0
Sauvage: 4 / 0
Rocketman: 3 / 1
Us: 3 / 1
Giant Little Ones: 3 / 0
Luce: 3 / 0
Ford v Ferrari: 2 /1
Amazing Grace: 2 / 0
The Farewell: 2 / 0
Hustlers: 2 / 0
Little Women: 2 / 0
Uncut Gems: 2 / 0
Aladdin: 1 / 1
It Chapter 2: 1 / 1
Reign of the Supermen: 1 / 1
Always Be My Maybe: 1 / 0
Batman v Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 1 / 0
Detective Pikachu: 1 / 0
Dora the Explorer and the Lost City of Gold: 1 / 0
Frozen II: 1 / 0
Fyre: 1 / 0
Fyre Fraud: 1 / 0
Justice League v Fatal Five: 1 / 0
Missing Link: 1 / 0
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: 1 / 0
Teen Titans Go vs Teen Titans: 1 / 0
The Wandering Earth: 1 / 0
Wild Rose: 1 / 0