If I Picked the Oscar Nominees…

With Oscar nominations being released in just a few days (Tuesday to be exact), I’ve decided to give what I feel should be nominated, since each year the Academy seems to slip up in someway.

DISCLAIMER: I feel it’s important to say that I haven’t had the chance to see: Blaze, Border or Shoplifters, so they weren’t considered for nominations here. Also these are preferences for most but not all of the categories. And I as well will be giving my choice for the winner for each category and for some categories I’ll give a “just missed” section, which basically serves as a place for honorable mentions.

Best Visual Effects

• Annihilation 
• Aquaman
• Winner: Avengers: Infinity War
• First Man
• Ready Player One

Best Costume Design

• Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter
• BlacKkKlansman – Marci Rodgers
• Bohemian Rhapsody – Julian Day
• Winner: The Favourite – Sandy Powell
• If Beale Street Could Talk – Caroline Eselin

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

• Black Panther
• Suspiria
• Winner: Vice

Best Film Editing

• Winner: First Man – Tom Cross
• The Other Side of the Wind – Bob Murawski & Orson Welles
• Roma – Alfonso Cuarón & Adam Gough
• Vice – Hank Corwin
• You Were Never Really Here – Joe Bini

Best Production Design

• Bad Times at the El Royale – Martin Whist
• If Beale Street Could Talk – Mark Friedberg
• The Favourite – Fiona Crombie
• First Man – Nathan Crowley
• Winner: Roma – Eugenio Caballero

Best Original Score

• At Eternity’s Gate – Tatiana Lisovskaya
• Winner: First Man – Justin Hurwitz
• If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell
• Mandy – Jóhann Jóhannsson
• You Were Never Really Here – Jonny Greenwood

Best Cinematography

• At Eternity’s Gate – Benoît Delhomme
• Cold War – Łukasz Żal
• Winner: First Man – Linus Sandgren
• If Beale Street Could Talk – James Laxton
• Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

Just Missed:

• Burning – Hong Kyung-pyo
• Hereditary – Pawel Pogorzelski
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Rob Hardy

Best Documentary Feature

• Crime + Punishment
• Free Solo
• John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
• Winner: Minding the Gap
• Shirkers

Best Foreign Language Film

• Winner: Burning
• Cold War
• Happy as Lazzaro
• Roma
• Zama

Best Animated Feature

• Early Man
• Have a Nice Day
• Incredibles 2
• Isle of Dogs
• Winner: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Winner: Burning – Oh Jung-mi & Lee Chang-dong (Based on the short story Barn Burning by Haruki Murakami)
• The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin & Peter Fellows (Based on the graphic novel of the same title by Fabien Nury)
• If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins (Based on the novel of the same title by James Baldwin)
• The Sisters Brothers – Jacques Audiard & Thomas Bidegain (Based on the novel of the same title by Patrick deWitt)
• Wildlife – Paul Dano & Zoe Kazan (Based on the novel of the same title by Richard Ford)

Just Missed:

• First Man – Josh Singer (Based on the biography of the same title by James R. Hansen)
• Leave No Trace – Debra Granik (Based on the novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock)

Best Original Screenplay

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Joel & Ethan Coen
• The Favourite – Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara
• Winner: First Reformed – Paul Schrader
• Happy as Lazzaro – Alice Rohrwacher
• Vice – Adam McKay

Just Missed:

• Eighth Grade – Bo Burnham
• Hereditary – Ari Aster
• Private Life – Tamara Jenkins

Best Supporting Actor

• Mahershala Ali – Green Book
• Jake Gyllenhaal – Wildlife
• Brian Tyree Henry – If Beale Street Could Talk
• Alex Wolff – Hereditary
• Winner: Steven Yeun – Burning

Just Missed:

• Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy
• Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Nicholas Hoult – The Favourite 

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams – Vice
• Elizabeth Debicki – Widows
• Winner: Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
• Emma Stone – The Favourite
• Rachel Weisz – The Favourite

Just Missed:

• Claire Foy – First Man
• Zoe Kazan – The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Marina de Tavira – Roma

Best Actor

• Christian Bale – Vice
• Jim Cummings – Thunder Road
• Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate
• Ethan Hawke – First Reformed
• Winner: Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here

Just Missed:

• Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born
• Ben Foster – Leave No Trace
• Ryan Gosling – First Man

Best Actress

• Olivia Colman – The Favourite
• Winner: Toni Collette – Hereditary 
• Helena Howard – Madeline’s Madeline
• Joanna Kulig – Cold War
• Carey Mulligan – Wildlife

Just Missed:

• Yalitza Aparicio – Roma
• Lady Gaga – A Star is Born
• Kathryn Hahn – Private Life
• Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Director

• Lee Chang-dong – Burning 
• Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
• Paweł Pawlikowski – Cold War
• Winner: Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
• Julian Schnabel – At Eternity’s Gate

Just Missed:

• Ari Aster – Hereditary
• Damien Chazelle – First Man
• Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
• Paul Schrader – First Reformed
• Chloe Zhao – The Rider

Best Picture

• At Eternity’s Gate
• Burning
• Cold War
• First Man
• Winner: First Reformed
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Minding the Gap
• Roma
• Vice
• You Were Never Really Here