Who I Would've Nominated - 2018 Edition

The final round of voting for the 91st Academy Awards begins today. In this post you'll get to see which films the Academy members would've been able to vote for had I been the only human being in control of selecting the nominees. Fun, right? 

This is my fifth straight year posting my personal nominations, and each time I've come to the same conclusion: the Academy is capable of getting it very right and very wrong at the same time. This year, for example, I agreed with the Academy on the film with the highest number of nominations: The Favourite. They have it at the top with 10 total nominations, and I have it as my most nominated film with 9 total nominations. On the flip side, the films tied for the 2nd most nominations on my list, The Death of Stalin and Paddington 2 (8 each), received a grand total of 0 nominations from the Academy. And vice-versa, two of their Best Picture nominees, BlackKklansman and Green Book, didn't get a single nomination from me.

Speaking of Best Picture, that is one of four categories you won't see here (Live-Action, Animated, and Documentary shorts being the others), since I like to post my list of the 10 Best Movies of the year on Oscars weekend. From the 20 remaining categories, though, you can get a pretty good idea of which movies appear in my Top 10. You can also see some of the year's best hidden gems, which get regularly overlooked by the Academy, getting plenty of love from me. Other examples of those with multiple nominations from me and zero from the Academy include: Eighth Grade, Madeline's Madeline, Sorry to Bother You, Private Life, Hearts Beat Loud, Leave No Trace, and Annihilation. 

But nobody's perfect, right? So on that note, here's who I would've nominated for the movie year of 2018 ...

Best Actor in a Leading Role

5. Christian Bale - Vice

4. Bradley Cooper - A Star is Born

3. Steve Buscemi - The Death of Stalin

2. Ben Foster - Leave No Trace

1. Simon Russell Beale - The Death of Stalin

Best Actress in a Leading Role

5. Olivia Colman - The Favourite

4. Kathryn Hahn - Private Life

3. Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me?

2. Helena Howard - Madeline's Madeline

1. Sakura Ando - Shoplifters

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

5. Evan Peters - American Animals

4. Michael B. Jordan - Black Panther

3. Hugh Grant - Paddington 2

2. Nicholas Hoult - The Favourite

1. Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

5. Elizabeth Debicki - Widows

4. Emma Stone - The Favourite

3. Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk

2. Andrea Riseborough - The Death of Stalin

1. Thomasin McKenzie - Leave No Trace

Best Achievement in Directing

5. Josephine Decker - Madeline's Madeline

4. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite

3. Armando Iannucci - The Death of Stalin

2. Alfonso Cuarón - Roma

1. Hirokazu Kore-eda - Shoplifters

Best Original Screenplay

5. Hereditary - Ari Aster

4. Eighth Grade - Bo Burnham

3. Sorry to Bother You - Boots Riley

2. The Favourite - Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

1. Shoplifters - Hirokazu Kore-eda

Best Adapted Screenplay

5. Love, Simon - Elizabeth Berger, Isaac Aptaker

4. If Beale Street Could Talk - Barry Jenkins

3. Can You Ever Forgive Me? - Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty

2. Paddington 2 - Simon Farnaby, Paul King

1. The Death of Stalin - Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, David Schneider

Best Achievement in Cinematography

5. Cold War - Lukasz Zal

4. The Favourite - Robbie Ryan

3. If Beale Street Could Talk - James Laxton

2. Shoplifters - Ryuto Kondo

1. Roma - Alfonso Cuarón

Best Achievement in Film Editing

5. Private Life - Brian A. Kates

4. Mission Impossible: Fallout - Eddie Hamilton

3. The Death of Stalin - Peter Lambert

2. Paddington 2 - Jonathan Amos, Mark Everson

1. Madeline's Madeline - Harrison Atkins, Josephine Decker, Elizabeth Rao

Best Achievement in Production Design

5. First Man - Nathan Crowley

4. Bad Times at the El Royale - Martin Whist

3. Sorry to Bother You - Jason Kisvarday

2. Roma - Eugenio Caballero

1. Paddington 2 - Gary Williamson

Best Achievement in Costume Design

5. Mary, Queen of Scots - Alexandra Byrne

4. Paddington 2 - Lindy Hemming

3. The Favourite - Sandy Powell

2. Black Panther - Ruth E. Carter

1. If Beale Street Could Talk - Caroline Eselin

Best Achievement in Makeup & Hairstyling

5. Vice

4. Suspiria

3. Bohemian Rhapsody

2. Mary, Queen of Scots

1. The Favourite

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

5. First Man

4. Ready Player One

3. Paddington 2

2. Annihilation

1. Mary Poppins Returns

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

5. Avengers: Infinity War

4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

3. Mary Poppins Returns

2. First Man

1. Annihilation

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

5. Mary Poppins Returns

4. A Quiet Place

3. Bohemian Rhapsody

2. A Star is Born

1. Roma

Best Original Score

5. Eighth Grade - Anna Meredith

4. The Death of Stalin - Christopher Willis

3. If Beale Street Could Talk - Nicholas Britell

2. Paddington 2 - Dario Marianelli

1. Black Panther - Ludwig Goransson

Best Original Song

5. "Everything Must Go" from Hearts Beat Loud - Keegan DeWitt, Jeremy Bullock

4. "Shallow" from A Star is Born - Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, Andrew Wyatt

3. "OYAHYTT" from Sorry to Bother You - Boots Riley, Ryan Christopher Parks, Damion Gallegos

2. "Always Remember Us This Way" from A Star is Born - Lady Gaga, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna

1. "Hearts Beat Loud" from Hearts Beat Loud - Keegan DeWitt

Best Foreign Language Film

5. Zama

4. Burning

3. Cold War

2. Roma

1. Shoplifters

Best Documentary Feature

5. Nuyorican Basquet

4. Shirkers

3. Won't You Be My Neighbor?

2. Free Solo

1. Minding the Gap

Best Animated Feature

5. Ralph Breaks the Internet

4. The Grinch

3. Teen Titans Go! to the Movies

2. The Incredibles 2

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse