ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Austin Butler, Elvis
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Bill Nighy, Living
Wants: Brendan Fraser
Guess: Brendan Fraser
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Want: Ke Huy Quan
Guess: Judd Hirsch
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Want: Michelle Yeoh
Guess: Michelle Yeoh
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau, The Whale
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Want: Angela Bassett
Guess: Jamie Lee Curtis
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red
Want: Turning Red
Guess: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Actual Winner: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
CINEMATOGRAPHY
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár
Want: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Guess: All Quiet on the Western Front
COSTUME DESIGN
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Want: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Guess: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
DIRECTING
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Todd Field, Tár
Ruben Ostlund, Triangle of Sadness
Want: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Guess: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny
Want: A House Made of Splinters
Guess: All That Breathes
Actual Winner: Navalny
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
"The Elephant Whisperers" -Yeah, it's gorgeous. This has the Richard Attenborough / Planet Earth vibe all over it. It is moving and is more about the culture of a people than it necessarily has to do with saving animals. But ultimately, I had a hard time connecting with this one. Perhaps it's because I'm not a pet person or because it seemed so removed from my schema, but it just is a pretty movie to me.
"Haulout" -Here's my contradiction: It's an important movie, but it's also just a photograph that you are showing over and over. Yes, the movement of the walruses is haunting. But this is a 25 minute movie that is entirely based on seeing just a deluge of walruses crushing each other.
"How Do You Measure a Year?"
"The Martha Mitchell Effect" -See, so far, this is the movie that's up my alley. I learned something about history. I now have a cultural talking point. I went from knowing nothing about Martha Mitchell to now being able to work her into conversations about gaslighting and the insidiousness of the GOP.
"Stranger at the Gate" -Part of me loves this. Part of me hates this. Fundamentally, it has to be about the myth about terrorism while also talking about the reality of domestic terrorism. That stuff is there. But also, there's a really weird message that kind of places the onus on non-radicalized folks to de-radicalize terrorists. It kind of comes across as unfair to those people who failed to stop a bomber.
Want: "The Martha Mitchell Effect"
Guess: "The Martha Mitchell Effect"
Actual Winner: "The Elephant Whisperers"
FILM EDITING
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Want: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guess: Elvis
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Close [PENDING]
EO
The Quiet Girl
Want: All Quiet on the Western Front
Guess: All Quiet on the Western Front
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale
Want: The Whale
Guess: The Whale
ORIGINAL SCORE
All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Want: Babylon
Guess: The Fabelmans
Actual Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front
ORIGINAL SONG
"Applause", Tell It like a Woman
"Hold My Hand", Top Gun: Maverick
"Lift Me Up", Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
"Naatu Naatu", RRR
"This is a Life", Everything Everywhere All at Once
Want: RRR
Guess: RRR
BEST PICTURE
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking
Want: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guess: Everything Everywhere All at Once
PRODUCTION DESIGN
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Want: Babylon
Guess: All Quiet on the Western Front
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
"The Boy, the Mole, The Fox and the Horse" -Okay, visually very pretty. But I might be the only one to say this, but it feels like I'm walking down the aisles of a Hobby Lobby or a Michael's. Everything just reads like a platitude written in a fleurish script that someone saw on TikTok. Let us absorb the message. Every sentence said doesn't have to be the theme.
"The Flying Sailor" -There's going to be a theme of falling animation. I'll tell you, if it wasn't for the tag "Based on a True Story, I might have written this one off. But because of that tag, I loved it. It's so simple and oddly beautiful, despite mainly focusing on an overweight nude gentleman gracefully falling two kilometers.
"Ice Merchants" -And it's the other movie that has a bunch of falling and the animation that comes with falling. In terms of art design, top notch. But there's something oddly forgettable considering how gorgeous of a short film this is.
"My Year of Dicks" -Yeah. Now I have this movie title on my blog. This is both the most controversial and the most personal of the films. Because it was originally a video diary then animated, it has an earnestness to it. But also, it dares you to cringe or tout any kind of moral outrage towards it.
"An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It" -And then it appeared. For a while, I thought I was watching a weird bootleg of the movie. It was on Vimeo, which automatically makes me distrust it. Instead, it is supposed to look like that. For some reason, stop-motion shorts are meh to me, but adding the meta element helped.
Want: "An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It"
Guess: "The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and the Horse"
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
"An Irish Goodbye"
"Ivalu" -Part of me is torn. I acknowledge that indigenous people tend to disappear at a disproportionate level. That also being said, I'm watching this as a short film and it did almost nothing for me. The shock which should have outraged me was lost in quasi-artistic imagery.
"Le Pupille" -My goodness, this is a pretty movie. Based on the time of me writing this, I've seen two of the entries this year. But this feels like it is the least restricted by form that I've ever noticed in a short. Somehow, it channels post-war Italian Neorealism that I haven't seen in a movie in a while. It's gorgeous. It's fun. Despite being wrapped in pretention, it's unpretentious. I love it.
"Night Ride" -"Night Ride" feels like an Academy Award nominated short. Luckily, it has a clever premise, but it really needs that to tell the story. It hits a lot of beats a bit too hard, lacking subtlety when actually exploring what needs to be said. A longer version of this might solve some of the heavy-handedness.
"The Red Suitcase"
Want: "Le Pupille"
Guess: "Le Pupille"
Actual Winner: "An Irish Goodbye"
SOUND
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick
Want: Elvis
Guess: Top Gun: Maverick
VISUAL EFFECTS
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick
Want: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Guess: Avatar: The Way of Water
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking
Want: Living
Guess: Women Talking
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Triangle of Sadness
Want: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guess: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Austin Butler, Elvis
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Bill Nighy, Living
Wants: Brendan Fraser
Guess: Brendan Fraser
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway
Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Want: Ke Huy Quan
Guess: Judd Hirsch
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Want: Michelle Yeoh
Guess: Michelle Yeoh
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Hong Chau, The Whale
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Want: Angela Bassett
Guess: Jamie Lee Curtis
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
The Sea Beast
Turning Red
Want: Turning Red
Guess: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Actual Winner: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
CINEMATOGRAPHY
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Elvis
Empire of Light
Tár
Want: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Guess: All Quiet on the Western Front
COSTUME DESIGN
Babylon
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Want: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Guess: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
DIRECTING
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Todd Field, Tár
Ruben Ostlund, Triangle of Sadness
Want: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Guess: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Fire of Love
A House Made of Splinters
Navalny
Want: A House Made of Splinters
Guess: All That Breathes
Actual Winner: Navalny
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
"The Elephant Whisperers" -Yeah, it's gorgeous. This has the Richard Attenborough / Planet Earth vibe all over it. It is moving and is more about the culture of a people than it necessarily has to do with saving animals. But ultimately, I had a hard time connecting with this one. Perhaps it's because I'm not a pet person or because it seemed so removed from my schema, but it just is a pretty movie to me.
"Haulout" -Here's my contradiction: It's an important movie, but it's also just a photograph that you are showing over and over. Yes, the movement of the walruses is haunting. But this is a 25 minute movie that is entirely based on seeing just a deluge of walruses crushing each other.
"How Do You Measure a Year?"
"The Martha Mitchell Effect" -See, so far, this is the movie that's up my alley. I learned something about history. I now have a cultural talking point. I went from knowing nothing about Martha Mitchell to now being able to work her into conversations about gaslighting and the insidiousness of the GOP.
"Stranger at the Gate" -Part of me loves this. Part of me hates this. Fundamentally, it has to be about the myth about terrorism while also talking about the reality of domestic terrorism. That stuff is there. But also, there's a really weird message that kind of places the onus on non-radicalized folks to de-radicalize terrorists. It kind of comes across as unfair to those people who failed to stop a bomber.
Want: "The Martha Mitchell Effect"
Guess: "The Martha Mitchell Effect"
Actual Winner: "The Elephant Whisperers"
FILM EDITING
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Want: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guess: Elvis
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Close [PENDING]
EO
The Quiet Girl
Want: All Quiet on the Western Front
Guess: All Quiet on the Western Front
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
The Whale
Want: The Whale
Guess: The Whale
ORIGINAL SCORE
All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Want: Babylon
Guess: The Fabelmans
Actual Winner: All Quiet on the Western Front
ORIGINAL SONG
"Applause", Tell It like a Woman
"Hold My Hand", Top Gun: Maverick
"Lift Me Up", Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
"Naatu Naatu", RRR
"This is a Life", Everything Everywhere All at Once
Want: RRR
Guess: RRR
BEST PICTURE
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick
Triangle of Sadness
Women Talking
Want: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guess: Everything Everywhere All at Once
PRODUCTION DESIGN
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
Babylon
Elvis
The Fabelmans
Want: Babylon
Guess: All Quiet on the Western Front
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
"The Boy, the Mole, The Fox and the Horse" -Okay, visually very pretty. But I might be the only one to say this, but it feels like I'm walking down the aisles of a Hobby Lobby or a Michael's. Everything just reads like a platitude written in a fleurish script that someone saw on TikTok. Let us absorb the message. Every sentence said doesn't have to be the theme.
"The Flying Sailor" -There's going to be a theme of falling animation. I'll tell you, if it wasn't for the tag "Based on a True Story, I might have written this one off. But because of that tag, I loved it. It's so simple and oddly beautiful, despite mainly focusing on an overweight nude gentleman gracefully falling two kilometers.
"Ice Merchants" -And it's the other movie that has a bunch of falling and the animation that comes with falling. In terms of art design, top notch. But there's something oddly forgettable considering how gorgeous of a short film this is.
"My Year of Dicks" -Yeah. Now I have this movie title on my blog. This is both the most controversial and the most personal of the films. Because it was originally a video diary then animated, it has an earnestness to it. But also, it dares you to cringe or tout any kind of moral outrage towards it.
"An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It" -And then it appeared. For a while, I thought I was watching a weird bootleg of the movie. It was on Vimeo, which automatically makes me distrust it. Instead, it is supposed to look like that. For some reason, stop-motion shorts are meh to me, but adding the meta element helped.
Want: "An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It"
Guess: "The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and the Horse"
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
"An Irish Goodbye"
"Ivalu" -Part of me is torn. I acknowledge that indigenous people tend to disappear at a disproportionate level. That also being said, I'm watching this as a short film and it did almost nothing for me. The shock which should have outraged me was lost in quasi-artistic imagery.
"Le Pupille" -My goodness, this is a pretty movie. Based on the time of me writing this, I've seen two of the entries this year. But this feels like it is the least restricted by form that I've ever noticed in a short. Somehow, it channels post-war Italian Neorealism that I haven't seen in a movie in a while. It's gorgeous. It's fun. Despite being wrapped in pretention, it's unpretentious. I love it.
"Night Ride" -"Night Ride" feels like an Academy Award nominated short. Luckily, it has a clever premise, but it really needs that to tell the story. It hits a lot of beats a bit too hard, lacking subtlety when actually exploring what needs to be said. A longer version of this might solve some of the heavy-handedness.
"The Red Suitcase"
Want: "Le Pupille"
Guess: "Le Pupille"
Actual Winner: "An Irish Goodbye"
SOUND
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Elvis
Top Gun: Maverick
Want: Elvis
Guess: Top Gun: Maverick
VISUAL EFFECTS
All Quiet on the Western Front
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Top Gun: Maverick
Want: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Guess: Avatar: The Way of Water
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
All Quiet on the Western Front
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Living
Top Gun: Maverick
Women Talking
Want: Living
Guess: Women Talking
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Tár
Triangle of Sadness
Want: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Guess: Everything Everywhere All at Once
