Rank the Last Ten Winners!

[NUguy514]

I always loved doing this, and I don't think we did this last year with the site change. I'm going to rank the last ten winners in the top six categories, but feel free to rank as many as you want!

Best Picture
1. Birdman
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. The Hurt Locker
4. Spotlight
5. Argo
6. No Country for Old Men
7. The Departed
8. The King's Speech
9. Twelve Years a Slave
10. The Artist

I love the first seven, think the eighth is a fine, uninspired movie, and really didn't like the last two.

Best Director
1. Alfonso Cuarón
2. Alejandro González Iñárritu #1
3. Danny Boyle
4. Kathryn Bigelow
5. Ang Lee
6. Alejandro González Iñárritu #2
7. Ethan and Joel Coen
8. Martin Scorsese
9. Michel Hazanavicius
666. Tom Hooper

Aside from the last two, the latter of whom is possibly the worst win in this category ever, this list is fucking amazing. The top eight are all incredible.

Best Actor
1. Sean Penn
2. Forest Whitaker
3. Jeff Bridges
4. Colin Firth
5. Leonardo DiCaprio
6. Matthew McConaughey
7. Eddie Redmayne
8. Daniel Day-Lewis #2
9. Daniel Day-Lewis #3
10. Jean Dujardin

By contrast, this list sucks. I only really love the top two, think the next three are all good, and thought the sixth was fine. The last four...




Best Actress
1. Natalie Portman
2. Brie Larson
3. Julianne Moore
4. Helen Mirren
5. Sandra Bullock
6. Jennifer Lawrence
7. Kate Winslet
8. Cate Blanchett
9. Marion Cotillard
10. Meryl Streep

I find the first four transcendent, have great affection for the next two, don't like #7, and hate the last three.

Best Supporting Actor
1. Heath Ledger
2. Christoph Waltz #1
3. Javier Bardem
4. Christoph Waltz #2
5. Christopher Plummer
6. J.K. Simmons
7. Jared Leto
8. Alan Arkin
9. Christian Bale
10. Mark Rylance

The first six are incredible, the next two are fine, and the final two are awful.

Best Supporting Actress
1. Mo'Nique
2. Tilda Swinton
3. Penélope Cruz
4. Anne Hathaway
5. Alicia Vikander
6. Patricia Arquette
7. Octavia Spencer
8. Lupita Nyong'o
9. Jennifer Hudson
10. Melissa Leo

The top two are phenomenal, the next three are wonderful, the next three are very good, #9 won because of a very well-sung song, and I can't with the last one.

[tonygoldenemmy]

Best Picture
1. Spotlight
2. 12 Years a Slave
3. The Departed
4. Argo
5. No Country for Old Men
6. The Hurt Locker
7. The Artist
8. Birdman
9. Slumdog Millionaire
10. The King's Speech

Best Director
1. Kathryn Bigelow
2. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu #2
3. Ang Lee
4. Alfonso Cuaron
5. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu #1
6. Martin Scorsese
7. Danny Boyle
8. Joel and Ethan Coen
9. Michel Hazanavicius
10. Tom Hooper

Best Leading Actor
1. Eddie Redmayne
2. Sean Penn
3. Matthew McConaughey
4. Daniel Day-Lewis #2
5. Daniel Day-Lewis #3
6. Jeff Bridges
7. Leonardo DiCaprio
8. Jean Dujardin
9. Forest Whitaker
10. Colin Firth

Best Leading Actress
1. Helen Mirren
2. Natalie Portman
3. Julianne Moore
4. Brie Larson
5. Sandra Bullock
6. Cate Blanchett
7. Meryl Streep
8. Jennifer Lawrence
9. Marion Cotillard
10. Kate Winslet

Best Supporting Actor
1. Christopher Plummer
2. J.K. Simmons
3. Jared Leto
4. Christoph Waltz #2
5. Health Ledger
6. Mark Rylance
7. Christian Bale
8. Javier Bardem
9. Christoph Waltz #1
10. Alan Arkin

Best Supporting Actress
1. Melissa Leo
2. Tilda Swinton
3. Alicia Vikander
4. Patricia Arquette
5. Mo'Nique
6. Octavia Spencer
7. Jennifer Hudson
8. Lupita Nyong'o
9. Penelope Cruz
10. Anne Hathaway

[eurocheese]

Wow, interesting to see how opinions vary on these.

Best Picture
1. The Departed
2. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
3. Slumdog Millionaire, which has grown on me considerably since 2008
4. 12 Years a Slave
5. The Artist
6. The Hurt Locker
7. Spotlight
8. No Country For Old Men
9. Argo
10. The King's Speech

I've seen every BP winner and the top seven are all in my Top 30, so that's a damn impressive group. No Country For Old Men is in my top half, too. The other two are meh but not horrible. Either The Revenant or The Big Short would have been the bottom here, and TBS would have certainly been in my bottom ten of all time. Very happy they went with Spotlight.

Best Director
1. Alfonso Cuarón
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)
4. Danny Boyle
5. Ang Lee
6. Kathryn Bigelow
7. Ethan and Joel Coen
8. Michel Hazanavicius
9. Alejandro González Iñárritu (Revenant)
10. Tom Hooper

This year has the only split in the last decade where I liked the Picture winner better than Director. The top seven or eight, depending on my mood, are pretty great.

Best Actor
1. Daniel Day-Lewis (Blood)
2. Sean Penn
3. Jean DuJardin
4. Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
5. Matthew McConaughey
6. Eddie Redmayne
7. Leonardo DiCaprio
8. Forest Whitaker
9. Jeff Bridges
10. Colin Firth

Love the top five. Fine with the other five.

Best Actress
1. Natalie Portman
2. Julianne Moore
3. Cate Blanchett
4. Brie Larson
5. Helen Mirren
6. Kate Winslet
7. Meryl Streep
8. Sandra Bullock
9. Marion Cotillard
10. Jennifer Lawrence

I need to give Cotillard another shot one of these days. Stellar top five and with the bottom five, I can at least appreciate the woman winning.
Best Supporting Actor
1. Heath Ledger
2. Christian Bale
3. Alan Arkin
4. Javier Bardem
5. Jared Leto
6. Christopher Plummer
7. Christoph Waltz (Basterds)
8. J.K. Simmons
9. Mark Rylance
10. Christoph Waltz (Django)

The last three are real bummers considering the top six are so great. Ah well. Stallone would have been seventh here, so it's not the end of the world.

Best Supporting Actress
1. Jennifer Hudson
2. Anne Hathaway
3. Patricia Arquette
4. Mo'Nique
5. Lupita Nyong'o
6. Penélope Cruz
7. Tilda Swinton
8. Octavia Spencer
9. Alicia Vikander
10. Melissa Leo

Stellar top seven. No wonder I was so bummed by the supporting categories this year - they've been so great lately.

[teppo2]

How interesting that 5 of the last 10 Supporting Actress winners are women of color, which is 3 more than all other acting categories combined.

[JSMalahy]

BEST PICTURE
1. Birdman
2. The King’s Speech
3. Spotlight
4. 12 Years a Slave
5. Argo
6. No Country for Old Men
7. The Hurt Locker
8. Slumdog Millionaire
9. The Departed
10. The Artist

None of these are bad. The Artist is just really underwhelming and thin, especially on repeat viewings. The Departed is a perfectly fine adaptation of a movie that didn't need to be remade - that's been stuck in my craw ever since the movie was announced (and I haven't seen it since the theater, so perhaps I'd feel differently today). Slumdog is really good, but basically just an emotional roller coaster. I've always found The Hurt Locker a bit boring, though very well made. I could go either way on 3-6 - I admire them all, though none would make a top 10 list in its year.

The top two are personal favorites. The King's Speech is exceptionally well put together, and I do credit Hooper with much of that. Terrific script, too. Birdman is a masterpiece - I think it's one of my all-time favorite films.

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity
2. Ang Lee - Life of Pi
3. Alejandro Inarritu – Birdman
4. Ethan & Joel Coen - No Country for Old Men
5. Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
6. Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
7. Alejandro Inarritu – The Revenant
8. Martin Scorsese - The Departed
9. Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
10. Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

This is really hard to rank. Again, they're all good.

BEST ACTOR
1. Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
2. Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
3. Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
4. Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
5. Jean Dujardin – The Artist
6. Sean Penn – Milk
7. Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
8. Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
9. Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant

Haven't seen Crazy Heart. Day-Lewis is pretty much unmatched here, but among the remaining seven men, I responded most positively to Redmayne. I'll just pretend Leo won for a good performance.

BEST ACTRESS
1. Julianne Moore – Still Alice
2. Helen Mirren – The Queen
3. Kate Winslet – The Reader
4. Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
5. Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
6. Marion Cotillard – La Vie en Rose
7. Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
8. Natalie Portman – Black Swan
9. Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
10. Brie Larson – Room

This year's winners in Actor and Actress are very underwhelming to me. I don't begrudge Brie Larson her win, but I didn't get much out of it. Love the top three here.

[Woolfville]

Best Picture
1. No Country for Old Men
2. The Departed
3. The Hurt Locker
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. Twelve Years a Slave
6. Birdman
7. Argo
8. The King's Speech
9. The Artist

This one is quite a good set of winners. I thoroughly enjoy seven of them, don't mind the other two.

Best Director
1. Ethan and Joel Coen
2. Ang Lee
3. Kathryn Bigelow
4. Martin Scorsese
5. Danny Boyle
6. Alfonso Cuarón
7. Alejandro González Iñárritu #1
8. Michel Hazanavicius
9. Tom Hooper

Not as excited with these winners, but the top five are great. The first two are among my favorites.

Best Actor
I'll refrain from ranking here until I watch more of the winners.

Best Actress
1. Marion Cotillard
2. Cate Blanchett
3. Helen Mirren
4. Julianne Moore
5. Brie Larson
6. Natalie Portman
7. Kate Winslet
8. Sandra Bullock

Cotillard is one of my favorite wins alongside Blanchett. Mirren and Moore are great. I'm fine with Larson. Portman and Winslet are ok, but not deserving. Bullock will return her Oscar eventually.

Best Supporting Actor
1. Javier Bardem
2. Alan Arkin
3. Christoph Waltz #1
4. Heath Ledger
5. J.K. Simmons
6. Christian Bale
7. Mark Rylance

It's so hard for me to get excited by this category. None of these winners excite me, though I like the first three. Though in retrospective, Waltz's acting tends to repeat.

Best Supporting Actress
1. Tilda Swinton
2. Patricia Arquette
3. Mo'Nique
4. Lupita Nyong'o
5. Penélope Cruz
6. Octavia Spencer
7. Melissa Leo
8. Jennifer Hudson

The top three are amazing. I get so excited when I remember Swinton won for that performance. The other four are decent winners.

[eurocheese]

Best Picture
1. Moonlight
2. The Departed
3. Parasite
4. Birdman
5. Chicago
6. 12 Years a Slave
7. The Shape of Water
8. Slumdog Millionaire
9. Spotlight
10. The Hurt Locker
11. The Artist
12. No Country For Old Men
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13. A Beautiful Mind
14. Green Book
15. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
16. Argo
17. Million Dollar Baby
18. The King's Speech
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19. Crash
20. Gladiator

The top 12 are excellent picks, with the top four being my actual favorites of their year. The next group I consider middling. I can't imagine sitting through the last two again - and I remember thinking Crash wasn't *that* bad before that disgusting win. Revisited it recently and wow is it terrible.

Director
1. Lee #1
2. Cuarón #2
3. Cuarón #1
4. Chazelle
5. Scorsese
6. Bong
7. Iñárritu #1
8. Boyle
9. Soderbergh
10. Del Toro
11. Lee #2
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12. Bigelow
13. Coens
14. Hazanavicius
15. Jackson
16. Polanski
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17. Howard
18. Eastwood
19. Iñárritu #2
20. Hooper

The entire top 11 made my all time top 20 for the category. Easily the strongest category of the decade. I just wish Jenkins and Chazelle could have tied in '16.

Actress
1. Portman
2. Roberts
3. Moore
4. Stone
5. Larson
6. Theron
7. Blanchett
8. Kidman
9. Colman
10. Mirren
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11. Winslet
12. Witherspoon
13. Zellwegger
14. Bullock
15. Streep
16. Cotillard
17. Berry
18. Swank
19. McDormand
20. Lawrence

The top half are excellent, and there was quite a run in the mid-10s. Berry needs a revisit but I'm confident the rest belong in this order. I will say that while I don't love Cotillard's win, she's perhaps a perfect example of what someone can do with an Oscar win, launching her into an incredible last decade.

Actor
1. Day-Lewis (Blood)
2. Penn (Milk)
3. Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
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4. McConaughey
5. Dujardin
6. Redmayne
7. Oldman
8. Whitaker
9. DiCaprio
10. Malek
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11. Penn (Mystic)
12. Phoenix
13. Brody
14. Bridges
15. Affleck
16. Firth
17. Foxx
18. Washington
19. Hoffman
20. Crowe

Love the first three only. Like the second group. After that... they've all been better in other things.

Supporting Actress
1. Hudson
2. Zeta-Jones
3. Hathaway
4. Davis
5. Arquette
6. Mo'Nique
7. Dern
8. Nyong'o
9. Cruz
10. Swinton
11. Blanchett
12. Weisz
13. King
14. Janney
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15. Spencer
16. Vikander
17. Harden
18. Leo
19. Connelly
20. Zellwegger

Obviously I'm a biased musical lover but wow, didn't realize I liked so many of these. Plus, some from the Aughts have aged much better than I expected. I consider all of the top 14 pretty great wins.

Supporting Actor
1. Ledger
2. Ali (Moonlight)
3. Bale
4. Arkin
5. Bardem
6. Del Toro
7. Leto
8. Plummer
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9. Cooper
10. Ali (Green)
11. Freeman
12. Waltz (Inglorious)
13. Pitt
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14. Robbins
15. Broadbent
16. Simmons
17. Rylance
18. Rockwell
19. Clooney
20. Waltz (Django)

Love the first eight. The next five, deserved. The last group is really not great, and again, these actors have been better in other things.

[malcolm1980]

I'll only do films:

01. Parasite
02. No Country for Old Men
03. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
04. Moonlight
05. 12 Years a Slave
06. The Departed
07. The Shape of Water
08. Chicago
09. Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
10. Argo
11. The Hurt Locker
12. Spotlight
13. Slumdog Millionaire
14. Million Dollar Baby
15. The Artist
16. Gladiator
17. The King's Speech
18. Green Book
19. A Beautiful Mind
20. Crash

[Culturegeek]

Why not?

Best Picture
01. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
02. Moonlight
03. 12 Years a Slave
04. Parasite
05. The Hurt Locker
06. Slumdog Millionaire
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07. Birdman
08. No Country for Old Men
09. The Departed
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10. Spotlight
11. Chicago
12. The King’s Speech
13. Million Dollar Baby
14. The Shape of Water
15. The Artist
16. Argo
17. Gladiator
18. A Beautiful Mind
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19. Green Book
20. Crash

The first batch of six are films I’m really enthusiastic about. All but maybe 1 would’ve been my number one of the category and remain winners I smile about when recollecting their win. The next three I admire more for context and ambition than overall. In 2006, I felt AMPAS fucked up the nominations deeply, so the Scorsese was the only possible outcome. The other two weren’t my favourites, but their wins are on the plus side. The next nine just kinda exist for me. Wish they hadn’t won, had clear favourites (and often two or three others, in the case of the expanded line-up, I preferred). The last two make me hate cinema.

Best Director
01. Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
02. Bong Joon-Ho, Parasite
03. Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
04. Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
05. Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
06. Steven Soderbergh, Traffic
07. Damian Chazelle, La La Land
08. Roman Polanski, The Pianist
09. Martin Scorsese, The Departed
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10. Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
11. Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
12. Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu, Birdman
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13. Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
14. Ang Lee, The Life of Pi
15. Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
16. Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
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17. Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
18. Alejandros Gonzales Innaritu, The Revenant
19. Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
20. Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind

More excellence, fewer true mediocrities. The final group is mostly there because the gap between what they did and the best of their competitors is huge. I imagine David Lynch, Robert Altman and Peter Jackson get together annually and laugh their assess off (they invite Scott every so often out of pity).

Best Actress
01. Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
02. Olivia Coleman, The Favourite
03. Natalie Portman, Black Swan
04. Helen Mirren, The Queen
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05. Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
06. Brie Larson, Room
07. Emma Stone, La La Land
08. Julianne Moore, Still Alice
09. Nicole Kidman, The Hours
10. Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich
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11. Frances McDormand, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
12. Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
13. Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
14. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Lining’s Playbook
15. Charlize Theron, Monster
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16. Halle Berry, Monster’s Ball
17. Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
18. Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
19. Renee Zellweger, Judy
20. Kate Winslet, The Reader

I know it’s uncool to rate Streep as highly as a do, but whatever. The bottom quintet…. shudder. All have given great performances that I’d be happy to see nominated and/or win. But these weren’t among them

Best Actor
01. Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood
02. Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln
03. Adrien Brody, The Pianist
04. Sean Penn, Milk
05. Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
06. Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
07. Denzel Washington, Training Day
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08. Sean Penn, Mystic River
09. Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
10. Jamie Foxx, Ray
11. Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
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12. Jean Dujardin, The Artist
13. Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
14. Russell Crowe, Gladiator
15. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
16. Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
17. Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
18. Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
19. Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
20. Gary Oldman, The Darkest Hour

Nothing outright egregious. Daniel Day-Lewis’ 21st century double could easily grace an all time top ten list.

Best Supporting Actor
01. Christopher Plummer, Beginners
02. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
03. Chris Cooper, Adaptation
04. Benicio del Toro, Traffic
05. Christian Bale, The Fighter
06. Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
07. Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
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08. Tim Robbins, Mystic River
09. Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
10. JK Simmons, Whiplash
11. Jim Broadbet, Iris
12. George Clooney, Syriana
13. Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
14. Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds
15. Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri/i]
16. Brad Pitt, [i]Once upon a Time…. In Hollywood
17. Mahershala Ali, Green Book
18. Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
19. Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
20. Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine

AMPAS fucks this category up more than most, but I look at this slate and recall the wit and warmth of Plummer; the savage eloquence of del Toro or the ferocity of Ledger and why I’m disappointed sorta melts away.

Best Supporting Actress
01. Lupita N’yongo, 12 Years a Slave
02. Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
03. Viola Davis, Fences
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04. Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
05. Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
06. Mo’Nique, Precious
07. Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
08. Marcia Gay Harden, Pollock
09. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago
10. Laura Dern, Marriage Story
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11. Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
12. Octavia Spencer, The Help
13. Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
14. Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind
15. Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
16. Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
17. Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
18. Melissa Leo, The Fighter
19. Allison Janney, I, Tonya
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20. Renee Zellweger, Cold Mountain

Fewer peaks, broader valleys. Interesting to see who’s serving their film vs who’s served by their film.

Best Original Screenplay
01. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
02. Talk to Her
03. Parasite
04. Gosford Park
05. Her
06. Manchester by the Sea
07. The Hurt Locker
08. Get Out
09. Milk
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10. Lost in Translation
11. Juno
12. Almost Famous
13. Spotlight
14. Birdman
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15. Django Unchained
16. The King’s Speech
17. Little Miss Sunshine
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18. Midnight in Paris
19. Green Book
20. Crash

I hated Midnight in Paris. That this shallow toss off earned Allen his third Oscar is disastrous. But let’s talk about the best.

Best Adapted Screenplay
01. Moonlight
02. Brokeback Mountain
03. Call Me By Your Name
04. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
05. 12 Years a Slave
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06. The Pianist
07. No Country for Old Men
08. Traffic
09. Slumdog Millionaire
10. The Departed
11. Sideways
12. BlacKkKlansman
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13. The Social Network
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14. The Big Short
15. Precious
16. The Descendants
17. Argo
18. Jojo Rabbit
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19. The Imitation Game
20. A Beautiful Mind

Clearly more GLBTQ films need to win Oscars. Films that are scared of their subject should not.

[emmygrammyoscartony]

Because what else is there to do??

Best Picture
BRILLIANT AND WATCH REPEATEDLY
01. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
02. Birdman
03. Moonlight
04. Slumdog Millionaire
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WONDERFUL AND FULFILLING
05. Million Dollar Baby
06. Chicago
07. The Shape of Water
08. No Country for Old Men
09. The Departed
10. A Beautiful Mind
11. Parasite
12. 12 Years a Slave
13. Spotlight
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GOOD, NOT GREAT
14. Green Book
15. The Artist
16. Gladiator
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MAKE IT STOP
17. The Hurt Locker
18. The King’s Speech
19. Argo
20. Crash

Honestly, this is not a good list of movies. Only 1 - 4 above for me are absolutely brilliant and ones that I can watch over and over.

Best Director
01. Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
02. Roman Polanski, The Pianist
03. Damian Chazelle, La La Land
04. Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
05. Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
06. Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu, Birdman
07. Ang Lee, The Life of Pi
08. Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
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09. Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
10. Bong Joon-Ho, Parasite
11. Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
12. Martin Scorsese, The Departed
13. Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
14. Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
15. Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind
16. Steven Soderbergh, Traffic
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17. Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
18. Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
19. Alejandros Gonzales Innaritu, The Revenant
20. Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech

This is so much better. GOD. Thank God for Pic/Dir splits.

Best Actress
01. Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
She became her. The Marcel scene wrecks me.
02. Julianne Moore, Still Alice
She did not win for a period film, and it is for her best performance to date. Brilliant.
03. Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Such innocence and fierceness.
04. Charlize Theron, Monster
I will never forget watching this and thinking, "THIS is masterful acting."
05. Brie Larson, Room
GOD. She became Joy.
06. Emma Stone, La La Land
"Audition." That's all.
07. Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
I love this performance and she made me laugh and cry.
08. Renee Zellweger, Judy
More subtle than I was expecting, and it is Judy Garland.
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09. Nicole Kidman, The Hours
Not nearly as bad as I remember. A lot of depth.
10. Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich
Fun. Has held up, even though she has had many other better perfs. since then.
11. Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Overrated performance, and Bullock should have won.
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12. Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Something in the way she said, "It's for my dog," in that southern drawl.
13. Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Fun. I know she is too high, but I love her.
14. Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Not nearly as bad as I remember it being after re-watching it.
15. Halle Berry, Monster’s Ball
Even though Kidman and Spacek were better, historic win and not a bad performance.
16. Helen Mirren, The Queen
Such an overrated performance.
17. Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Forgettable, though she was impressive at the time.
18. Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Good, but supporting.
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19. Frances McDormand, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Same as below, but I have much less emotional attachment to her than Winslet.
20. Kate Winslet, The Reader
Pains me to put her this low, but what a terrible movie that brought down the perf./

Best Actor
01. Adrien Brody, The Pianist
02. Sean Penn, Milk
03. Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
04. Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
05. Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood
06. Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
07. Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
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08. Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln
09. Sean Penn, Mystic River
10. Jean Dujardin, The Artist
11. Russell Crowe, Gladiator
12. Gary Oldman, The Darkest Hour
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13. Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
14. Jamie Foxx, Ray
15. Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
16. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
17. Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
18. Denzel Washington, Training Day
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19. Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
20. Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody

Only 1 - 7 are great. I absolutely despise the last two, but 13 - 18 are pretty bad as well.

Best Supporting Actor
01. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
02. Christopher Plummer, Beginners
03. Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
04. Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
05. JK Simmons, Whiplash
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06. Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
07. Chris Cooper, Adaptation.
08. Jim Broadbent, Iris
09. Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
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10. Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
11. Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
12. Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
13. Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
14. Brad Pitt, Once upon a Time…. In Hollywood
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15. Mahershala Ali, Green Book
16. Tim Robbins, Mystic River
17. Benicio del Toro, Traffic
18. Christian Bale, The Fighter
19. George Clooney, Syriana
20. Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri/i]

Best Supporting Actress
01. Patricia Arquette, [i]Boyhood
02. Mo’Nique, Precious
03. Lupita N’yongo, 12 Years a Slave
04. Viola Davis, Fences
05. Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
06. Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
07. Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
08. Renee Zellweger, Cold Mountain
09. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago
10. Octavia Spencer, The Help
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11. Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
12. Marcia Gay Harden, Pollock
13. Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
14. Laura Dern, Marriage Story
15. Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
16. Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
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17. Jennifer Connelly, A Beautiful Mind
18. Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
19. Allison Janney, I, Tonya
20. Melissa Leo, The Fighter

Best Original Screenplay
01. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
02. Milk
03. Little Miss Sunshine
04. Birdman
05. Her
06. Get Out
07. Django Unchained
08. Parasite
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09. Juno
10. Spotlight
11. Lost in Translation
12. Green Book
13. Midnight in Paris
14. Almost Famous
15. Manchester by the Sea
16. Talk to Her
17. Gosford Park
18. The Hurt Locker
19. The King’s Speech
20. Crash

Best Adapted Screenplay
01. The Social Network
02. Brokeback Mountain
03. Jojo Rabbit
04. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
05. BlacKkKlansman
06. Moonlight
07. Call Me By Your Name
08. The Pianist
09. Slumdog Millionaire
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10. A Beautiful Mind
11. No Country for Old Men
12. The Departed
13. 12 Years a Slave
14. Sideways
15. Precious
16. The Big Short
17. The Imitation Game
18. The Descendants
19. Traffic
20. Argo