This years Academy Award®-Winners were quite different than what I had anticipated but what and who won was hardly disappointing. 2018 was a good year in film and in several catagories, it was hard to choose who I thought was the more worthy of the gold. Here are my pics for some of the best. My ultimate choice for the winner in these categories will be in bold type and italics following a list of four others, in order of best to worst, that I sent to the Phoenix Critics Circle to be widdled down for our Oscar nominations.
Under my choice will be the selections that were in the envelopes on awards night. How’d I do?? Keep in mind these are sent in early.
*Again, my choices are listed below but HERE is a link to the Phoenix Critics Circle and the winners we sent to the Academy this year. You’ll notice that some groups are ours and ours alone.Â
Best Film – BlacKkKlansman, Roma, First Reformed, A Star Is Born, Leave No Trace
Academy Award®-Winner: Green Book
Best Director – Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman, Alfonso Cuaron for Roma, Yorgos Lanthimos for The Favourite, Bradley Cooper for A Star is Born, Paul Dano for Wildlife
Academy Award®-Winner: Alfonso Cuaron
Best Film Based on a Graphic Novel or Comic Book – Black Panther, Venom, Deadpool 2, Avengers: Infinity War, Ant-Man and the Wasp
Best Documentary – Free Solo, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, RBG, Active Measures, McQueen
Academy Award®-Winner: Free Solo
Best Foreign Language Film – Roma, Cold War, Shoplifters, The Interpreter, Burning
Academy Award®-Winner: Roma
Best Animated Feature – Isle of Dogs, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Incredibles 2, The Grinch, Ralph Breaks the Internet
Academy Award®-Winner: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Horror Features – A Quiet Place, Halloween, The First Purge, Hereditary, Upgrade
Best Science Fiction Film – Ready Player One, Solo, The Predator, The Meg, Annihilation
Best Comedy – The Favourite, Game Night, Eighth Grade, Crazy Rich Asians, Sorry to Bother You