Best Picture
#1: The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
#2: Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
#3: If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
#4: Paddington 2 (Paul King)
#5: Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
#6: Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski)
#7: Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker)
#8: Widows (Steve McQueen)
#9: Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
#10: Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
Honorable mentions: BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee), The Rider (Chloé Zhao), The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier), Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski), Leave No Trace (Debra Granik), Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani), Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen), Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham), John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (Julien Faraut), Bisbee ’17 (Robert Greene), Western (Valeska Grisebach), Gemini (Aaron Katz), Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino), The Day After (Hong Sangsoo), You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay), Tyrel (Sebastián Silva), Hereditary (Ari Aster), Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman), Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson), Annihilation (Alex Garland), Three Identical Strangers (Tim Wardle), Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson), and Claire’s Camera (Hong Sangsoo).
Best Director
#1: Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)
#2: Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite)
#3: Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)
#4: Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)
#5: Paul King (Paddington 2)
Honorable mentions: Steve McQueen (Widows), Lucrecia Martel (Zama), Josephine Decker (Madeline’s Madeline), Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters), and Chloé Zhao (The Rider).
Best Actor
#1: Williem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate)
#2: Joaquin Phoenix (You Were Never Really Here)
#3: Tomasz Kot (Cold War)
#4: Daniel Giménez Cacho (Zama)
#5: Steve Buscemi (The Death of Stalin)
Honorable mentions: Christian Bale (Vice), Lily Franky (Shoplifters), Ben Mendelsohn (The Land of Steady Habits), Paul Giamatti (Private Life), and Gael García Bernal (Museo).
Best Actress
#1: Rachel Weisz (The Favourite) *
#2: Julianne Nicholson (Who We Are Now)
#3: Viola Davis (Widows)
#4: Regina Hall (Support the Girls)
#5: Yalitza Aparicio (Roma)
Honorable mentions: Sarah Adler (The Cakemaker), Helena Howard (Madeline’s Madeline), Juliette Binoche (Let the Sunshine In), Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born), and Joanna Kulig (Cold War).
* Yeah, I’m not buying the decision to treat Olivia Colman as the lead and Rachel Weisz (and Emma Stone) as supporting for The Favourite. If you’re stickler to the strategic categorizations the distributor is using for Academy consideration, feel free to switch around #1 for lead and #1 for supporting.
Best Supporting Actor
#1: Steven Yuen (Burning)
#2: Timothée Chalamet (Beautiful Boy)
#3: Raul Castillo (We the Animals)
#4: Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman)
#5: Simon Russell Beale (The Death of Stalin)
Honorable mentions: Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born), Alessandro Nivola (Disobedience), Mahershala Ali (Green Book), Jonah Hill (Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot), and Hugh Grant (Paddington 2).
Best Supporting Actress
#1: Olivia Colman (The Favourite) *
#2: Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
#3: Molly Parker (Madeline’s Madeline)
#4: Elizabeth Debicki (Widows)
#5: Claire Foy (First Man)
Honorable mentions: Haley Lu Richardson (Support the Girls), Amy Adams (Vice), Marina de Tavira (Roma), Tilda Swinton (Suspiria), and Margot Robbie (Mary Queen of Scots).
* See footnote for Best Actress.
Best Original Screenplay
#1: The Favourite (Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara)
#2: Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
#3: Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski and Janusz Glowacki)
#4: Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
#5: Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
Honorable mentions: Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker), Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda), Private Life (Tamara Jenkins), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman), and Summer 1993 (Carla Simón)
Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
#2: Paddington 2 (Paul King and Simon Farnaby)
#3: Widows (Gillian Flynn and Steve McQueen)
#4: Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
#5: Burning (Oh Jung-mi and Lee Chang-dong)
Honorable mentions: The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, and Peter Fellows), Leave No Trace (Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini), BlacKkKlansman (Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Wilmott, and Spike Lee), Disobedience (Sebastián Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz), and Border (Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklof, and John Ajvide Lindqvist)
Best Cinematography
#1: Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
#2: The Favourite (Robbie Ryan)
#3: Annihilation (Rob Hardy)
#4: Cold War (Lukasz Zal)
#5: Madeline’s Madeline (Ashley Connor)
Honorable mentions: The Rider (Joshua James Richards), If Beale Street Could Talk (James Laxton), Suspiria (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom), Widows (Sean Bobbitt), and Hereditary (Pawel Pogorzelski).
Best Film Editing
#1: Madeline’s Madeline
#2: Let the Corpses Tan
#3: If Beale Street Could Talk
#4: Suspiria
#5: The Favourite
Honorable mentions: Roma, The Rider, Widows, John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, and Hereditary.
Best Score
#1: If Beale Street Could Talk (Nicholas Britell)
#2: Suspiria (Thom Yorke)
#3: First Man (Justin Hurwitz)
#4: Annihilation (Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow)
#5: Madeline’s Madeline (Caroline Shaw)
Honorable mentions: Game Night (Clint Martinez), Isle of Dogs (Alexandre Desplat), Border (Christoffer Berg and Martin Derkov), Hereditary (Colin Stetson), and At Eternity’s Gate (Tatiana Lisovskaya)
Best Song
#1: “Shallow” (A Star Is Born)
#2: “Suspirium” (Suspiria)
#3: “Unmade” (Suspiria)
#4: “What’s Up Danger” (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
#5: “Ashes” (Deadpool 2)
Honorable mentions: “All the Stars” (Black Panther), “Hearts Beat Loud” (Hearts Beat Loud), “I’ll Never Love Again” (A Star Is Born), “Look What I Found (A Star Is Born), and “Home” (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse).
Best Production Design
#1: The Favourite
#2: Suspiria
#3: Isle of Dogs
#4: If Beale Street Could Talk
#5: Mary Queen of Scots
Honorable mentions: Annihilation, Black Panther, Hereditary, Ready Player One, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Best Costume Design
#1: The Favourite
#2: Mary Queen of Scots
#3: Suspiria
#4: Black Panther
#5: If Beale Street Could Talk
Honorable mentions: Bad Times at the El Royale, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Zama, Paddington 2, and Bohemian Rhapsody.
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
#1: Border
#2: Suspiria
#3: The Favourite
#4: Mary Queen of Scots
#5: Black Panther
Honorable mentions: Solo: A Star Wars Story, Annihilation, Bohemian Rhapsody, Hereditary, and Stan & Ollie.
Best Sound
#1: Annihilation
#2: Suspiria
#3: Mission: Impossible—Fallout
#4: Hereditary
#5: First Man
Honorable mentions: Black Panther, Bad Times at the El Royale, Bohemian Rhapsody, Ready Player One, and Paddington 2.
Best Visual Effects
#1: Black Panther
#2: Ready Player One
#3: Mission: Impossible—Fallout
#4: Annihilation
#5: Avengers: Infinity War
Honorable mentions: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Deadpool 2, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Ant-Man and The Wasp, and First Man.
Worst Film of the Year
The Misandrists (Bruce LaBruce)
Dishonorable Mentions: Slender Man (Sylvain White), The Happytime Murders (Brian Henson), Survivors Guide to Prison (Matthew Cooke), The Devil and Father Amorth (William Friedkin), Future World (James Franco & Bruce Thierry Cheung), Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (Tommy Wiklund & Sonny Laguna), Shock and Awe (Rob Reiner), Venom (Ruben Fleischer), and The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood).
