February 9 Note: The following entry is incomplete. Only the ranking for Best Picture is complete.
Here are my preferences and comments for the top eight categories for the 92nd Academy Awards in a table format. For the first time since, I believe, the 85th Academy Awards (for movies released in 2012), I was not able to watch all the nominees for the Academy Award for Best Picture prior to the ceremony, which is today, February 9 2019. There were four main reasons for me not being able to do so: 1. The ceremony having been moved up to earlier in February as opposed to the last Sunday in February, when it used to be, 2. A lot going on in my own personal life that kept me from watching more movies, 3. The Irishman and Marriage Story were not given a very wide theatrical release, 4. Problems with my laptop that make it difficult for me to use the Internet. So for this year, given that I haven’t seen four of the nine Best Picture nominees, which also produced a lot of the nominees for the other categories, there are a lot of cases where I’ve only seen one movie in a given category, in which case my preference ranking isn’t really meaningful.
Nonetheless, for what it’s worth, I’ll put the movies and performances I haven’t seen at the bottom, separate from the actual rankings. For the predictions, rather than try to formulate my own as in previous years, I just put GoldDerby’s; you can find all their predictions here
Best Picture
| Nominees by alphabetical order (the titles in bold were the ones I watched before the nominations were announced on January 13) | Nominees by my preference, from highest to lowest | GoldDerby’s predicted winner |
| Ford v Ferrari | Parasite | |
| The Irishman | 1917 | |
| Jojo Rabbit | Joker | |
| Joker | Ford v Ferrari | |
| Little Women | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | |
| Marriage Story | Haven’t seen:
The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Little Women Marriage Story |
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| 1917 | ||
| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | ||
| Parasite | ||
Best Director
| Nominees by alphabetical order | Nominees by my preference, from highest to lowest | GoldDerby’s predicted winner |
Best Actor
| Nominees by alphabetical order | Nominees by my preference, from highest to lowest | GoldDerby’s predicted winner |
Best Actress
| Nominees by alphabetical order | Nominees by my preference, from highest to lowest | GoldDerby’s predicted winner |
Best Supporting Actor
| Nominees by alphabetical order | Nominees by my preference, from highest to lowest | GoldDerby’s predicted winner |
Best Supporting Actress
| Nominees by alphabetical order | Nominees by my preference, from highest to lowest | GoldDerby’s predicted winner |
Best Original Screenplay
| Nominees by alphabetical order | Nominees by my preference, from highest to lowest | GoldDerby’s predicted winner |
Best Adapted Screenplay
| Nominees by alphabetical order | Nominees by my preference, from highest to lowest | GoldDerby’s predicted winner |
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