25 February 2019

And the winners are...

Best Picture: Green Book
Best Director: Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Coleman, The Favourite (I had Glenn Close)
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody (I had Christian Bale)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Best Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee
Best Original Screenplay: Green Book, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, and Peter Farrelly (I had The Favourite)

Best Foreign Language Film: Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
Best Documentary Feature Film: Free Solo
Best Animated Feature Film: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Cinematography: Roma, Alfonso Cuarón
Best Film Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody, John Ottman
Best Production Design: Black Panther, Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor, Peter Devlin (I had The Favourite)
Best Costume Design: Black Panther, Ruth Carter (I had The Favourite)
Best Original Score: Black Panther, Ludwig Goransson
Best Sound Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody, John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone
Best Sound Mixing: Bohemian Rhapsody, Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali
Best Visual Effects: First Man, Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J.D. Schwalm
Best Original Song: Shallow’ from A Star Is Born by Lady Gaga, et al
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Vice
Live Action Short Subject: Skin (I had Marguerite)

Documentary Short Subject: Period. End of Sentence.
Animated Short Subject: Bao

My score: 18/24. I was wrong with Rami Malek and I chose The Favourite over Black Panther in Costume Design and Production Design. Others I could never have guessed.

Till next year!

24 February 2019

And here we go...

My predictions are:

Best Picture of the Year: Green Book
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Best Actor: Christian Bale, Vice
Best Actress: Glenn Close, The Wife
Best Supporting Actor: Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Best Supporting Actress: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Original Screenplay: The Favourite
Best Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman
Best Cinematography: Roma
Best Costume Design: The Favourite
Best Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Makeup and Hair Styling: Vice
Best Production Design: The Favourite
Best Visual Effects: First Man
Best Original Score: Black Panther
Best Original Song: "Shallow," A Star Is Born
Best Sound Mixing: Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Sound Editing: Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Documentary Feature: Free Solo
Best Foreign Language Film: Roma (Mexico)
Best Live Action Short: Marguerite
Best Documentary Short: Period. End of Sentence.

I chose Green Book over Roma. I think the Academy will not be ready to choose a Netflix film yet. One step at a time as the film got nominated. Of course it would be great if more boundaries would be broken. In best actor I don't see Rami Malek winning but of course he can. However, I have a feeling that Christian Bale will win. Finally this will be the day for Glenn Close!