2018 Awards Season: Oscars Nominations: Final Look

February 24, 2019

It’s Oscar Day, and we will be live blogging the show. Before that, let’s take a last look at the nominations with a few annotations. in Italics are those that have received the most votes from our readers so far in our Oscar contest (which is open to new entries until noon, Pacific, today—enter now!). Bold films are those films I think will win. Meanwhile, those that are Underlined are those I want to win. Not all categories have underlined nominees, because not all categories have someone I’m cheering for, or because there are two nominees I couldn’t pick between. For example, I would be happy with half of the Best Picture nominees winning.

The categories and nominations are...

BEST PICTURE

DIRECTING

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Yalitza Aparicio for Roma
Glenn Close for The Wife
Olivia Colman for The Favourite
Lady Gaga for A Star is Born
Melissa McCarthy for Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Mahershala Ali for Green Book
Adam Driver for BlacKkKlansman
Sam Elliott for A Star is Born
Richard E. Grant for Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell for Vice

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Amy Adams for Vice
Maria de Tavira for Roma
Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk
Emma Stone for The Favourite
Rachel Weisz for The Favourite

BEST WRITING - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga, for Green Book
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara for The Favourite
Adam McKay for Vice
Paul Schrader for First Reformed

BEST WRITING - ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, and Eric Roth for A Star is Born
Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty for Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Barry Jenkins for If Beale Street Could Talk
Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, and Kevin Willmott for BlacKkKlansman

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Capernaum (Lebanon)
Cold War (Poland)
Never Look Away (Germany)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)

BEST DOCUMENTARY - FEATURE LENGTH

BEST DOCUMENTARY - SHORT FILM

Black Sheep
End Game
Lifeboat
A Night at the Garden
Period. End of Sentence.

SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION

Detainment
Fauve
Marguerite
Mother
Skin

SHORT FILM - ANIMATED

Animal Behaviour
Bao
Late Afternoon
One Small Step
Weekends

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION DESIGN

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG

“All the Stars” from Black Panther
“I'll Fight” from RBG
“The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns
“Shallow” from A Star is Born
“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

- C.S.Strowbridge

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