BEST PICTURE: THE POWER OF THE DOG
Other Nominees:
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WEST SIDE STORY
BEST PICTURE: THE POWER OF THE DOG
Other Nominees:
DRIVE MY CAR
LICORICE PIZZA
SPENCER
WEST SIDE STORY
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.
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
Best Actor – Ethan Hawke for First Reformed, Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody, Timothée Chalamet for Beautiful Boy, Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born, Joaquin Phoenix for You Were Never Really Here
Academy Award®-Winner: Rami Malek
Best Supporting Actor – Adam Driver for BlacKkKlansman, Richard E. Grant for Can You Ever Forgive Me? Steve Carell for Beautiful Boy, Michael B. Jordan for Black Panther, Stephan James for If Beale Street Could Talk
Academy Award®-Winner: Mahershala Ali — Green Book
Best Actress – Melissa McCarthy for Can You Ever Forgive Me? Lady Gaga for A Star is Born, Emily Blunt for Mary Poppins Returns, Yalitza Aparicio for Roma, Felicity Jones for On the Basis of Sex
Academy Award®-Winner: Olivia Colman
Best Supporting Actress – Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk, Emma Stone for The Favourite, Olivia Colman for The Favourite, Carey Mulligan for Wildlife, Meryl Streep for Mary Poppins Returns
Academy Award®-Winner: Regina King
Best Screenplay – Eighth Grade, First Reformed, Roma, The Favourite, Isle of Dogs
Academy Award®-Winner: Green Book by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
Best Score – First Man, If Beale Street Could Talk, Black Panther, Green Book, Mary Poppins Returns
Academy Award®-Winner: Black Panther, Ludwig Goransson
IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THESE MOVIES YET… DO!!!
They couldn’t all win but they could have. Yes. 2018 was a marvelous year in film!! Try and see as many of the listed as possible… even the documentaries. I promise you’ll be surprised and how good they are and thoroughly entertained.