BEST OF THE DECADE AWARDS - 2010 - 2019

Here are my selections for the best films of the 2010's. For me personally it was a phenomenal decade and was hard to narrow down the choices.

WINNERS IN BOLD

Best Picture
Arrival
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Call Me By Your Name
Frances Ha
A Separation
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Xavier Dolan, Mommy
Greta Gerwig, Little Women
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Actress
Amy Adams, Arrival
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color
Anna Paquin, Margaret
Suzanne Clément, Laurence Anyways

Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Adam Driver, Marriage Story
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Logan Lerman, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Joaquin Phoenix, Her

Best Supporting Actress
Hong Chau, Downsizing
Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Lesley Manville, Another Year
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Molly Shannon, Other People
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

Best Supporting Actor
Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful Boy
James Franco, Spring Breakers
Garrett Hedlund, On the Road
Dwight Henry, Beasts of  the Southern Wild
Ben Whishaw, Cloud Atlas
Steven Yeun, Burning

Year In Advance Predictions...predicting next year's Oscar nominations.

(Frances McDormand in Chloé Zhao's Nomadland)

A whole whopping 30 hours or so have passed since the 2019 Oscar nominations were announced and so obviously it's time to move on to next year. Last year I went about .500 with my predictions so it will be interesting to see how this coming year unfolds because there seems to be a lot less obvious picks.

Predicted winner in BOLD.

Best Picture

Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)

Dune (Denis Villenueve)

The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)

In The Heights (Jon Chu)

Mank (David Fincher)

Next Goal Wins (Taika Waititi)

Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)

Tenet (Christopher Nolan)

West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)

Best Director

Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch

Jon Chu, In The Heights

David Fincher, Mank

Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods

Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Actor

Tom Hanks, News of the World

Gary Oldman, Mank

Joaquin Phoenix, C'mon, C'mon

Denzel Washington, Macbeth

Steven Yeun, Minari

Best Actress

Ana de Armas, Blonde

Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy

Jennifer Hudson, Respect

Jennifer Lawrence, Untitled Lila Neugebauer Project

Frances McDormand, Nomadland

Best Supporting Actor

Timothée Chalamet, The French Dispatch

Brian Tyree Henry, Untitled Lila Neugebauer Project

Richard Jenkins, The Humans

Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods

LaKeith Stanfield, Jesus Was My Homeboy

Best Supporting Actress

Toni Collette, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Gaby Hoffmann, C'mon, C'mon

Jayne Houdyshell, The Humans

Olga Merediz, In The Heights

Marisa Tomei, Untitled Judd Apatow Project

2019 Film Awards

This morning the nominations for the Academy Awards were announced. This event always brings along excitement, mourning, annoyance and a little happiness. Anyway what it really means is that it is time for me to announce MY choices for the best of film for 2019. 

Overall, I found 2019 to be a tremendous year for film. After a disappointing 2018 perhaps I was desperate for a good year, but no matter what the reason I gave seventeen different films a five-star rating. In 2018 I gave two films that same rating. With that in mind, I found it extremely difficult to narrow each category to six nominees. Best Picture, Director and Actress were the hardest to decide upon, but I think I've finally collected a solid set of nominees. Without anymore blah, blah, blah from me, here are my nominees and winners for the best in film for 2019. Please enjoy the third grade images! 

*NOTE that Frankie and Portrait of a Lady on Fire was not yet available to me. When I'm able to see it, I will edit these awards if applicable.

**WINNERS ARE IN BOLD

BEST PICTURE

Climax 

Greener Grass

The Irishman

Little Women

1917

Parasite

BEST DIRECTOR

***Category changed after seeing Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe, Greener Grass

Greta Gerwig, Little Women

Marielle Heller, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Bong Joon-ho, Parasite

Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Martin Scorsese, The Irishman

BEST ACTRESS

Jillian Bell, Brittany Runs a Marathon

Jessie Buckley, Wild Rose

Elisabeth Moss, Her Smell

Lupita Nyong'o, Us

Florence Pugh, Midsommar

Saoirse Ronan, Little Women

BEST ACTOR

Antonio Banderas, Pain & Glory

Robert De Niro, The Irishman

Adam Driver, Marriage Story

Taron Egerton, Rocketman

Kelvin Harrison Jr., Luce

Brad Pitt, Ad Astra

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

*** Category changed after seeing Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Laura Dern, Little Women

Adèle Haenel, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers

Florence Pugh, Little Women

Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell

Marisa Tomei, Frankie

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Jamie Bell, Rocketman

Timothée Chalamet, Little Women

Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse

Skyler Gisondo, Booksmart

Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Joe Pesci, The Irishman

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Booksmart (Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, Katie Silberman)

The Farewell (Lulu Wang)

Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)

Pain & Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)

Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Noah Harpster, Micah Fitzerman-Blue)

Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria)

The Irishman (Steve Zaillian)

Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)

Little Women (Greta Gerwig)

Toy Story 4 (Andrew Stanton, Stephany Folsom)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Escape Room

Greener Grass

1917

Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

Parasite

BEST SCORE

A Hidden Life

Joker

The Lighthouse

Little Women

Parasite

Us 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Climax

The Lighthouse

Little Women

Midsommar

1917

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

BEST EDITING

Ford V Ferrari

The Irishman

Little Women

Parasite

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Uncut Gems

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"Glasgow" from Wild Rose

"I'm Gonna Love Me Again" from Rocketman

"I Punched Keanu Reeves" from Always Be My Maybe

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Echo in the Canyon

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins

Films with multiple nominations:

10 - Little Women

6 - The Irishman, Parasite

5 - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

4 - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

3 - Greener Grass, The Lighthouse, 1917, Rocketman

2 - Booksmart, Climax, The Farewell, Hustlers, Pain & Glory, Midsommar, Us, Wild Rose, Marriage Story

Films with wins:

Little Women - 3 (Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay)

The Irishman - 2 (Supporting Actor, Editing)

Parasite - 2 (Original Screenplay, Production Design)

Us - 2 (Actress, Score)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire - 1 (Supporting Actress)

Marriage Story - 1 (Actor)

1917 - 1 (Cinematography)

Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins - 1 (Documentary)

Wild Rose - 1 (Original Song)