The 93rd Annual Academy Awards a.k.a. Oscars

Absent Now the Dead
Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus
Alberto and the Concrete Jungle
All I Can Say
All In: The Fight for Democracy
All My Life
All Together Now
Alone
American Skin
Ammonite
And Then We Danced
Another Round
Antebellum
Anton
Apocalypse ’45
Apples
The Artist’s Wife
Assassins
The Assistant
Athlete A
Atlantis
Babyteeth
Bacurau
Bad Boys For Life
Bad Hair
The Banker
Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar
Be Water
Beastie Boys Story
Becoming
Belly Of The Beast
Belushi
Big Time Adolescence
The Big Ugly
Bill & Ted Face The Music
Billie
The Billionaire
Birds Of Prey
Black Bear
Blackbird
Blizzard Of Souls
Bloodshot
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Blue Story
Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island
Bombay Rose
The Booksellers
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
The Boys In The Band
Boys State
Brahms: The Boy Ii
Broken Keys
Buddy Games
Burden
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Calamity Jane
The Call Of The Wild
Canaan Land
Capone
Charm City Kings
Cherry
The Christmas Chronicles 2
Circus Of Books
Clementine
The Climb
Collective
Color Out Of Space
Come Away
Come Play
Coming Clean
Coronation
Coup 53
Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine Crip Camp
Crisis
The Croods: A New Age
The Cuban
Cut Throat City
Da 5 Bloods
Dads
Dara Of Jasenovac
The Dark And The Wicked
The Dark Divide
David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet
Dear Comrades!
Death Protocol
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu No Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Desert One
The Devil All The Time
Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
Dick Johnson Is Dead
The Dig
Disclosure
The Dissident
Dolittle
The Donut King
Downhill
Dreambuilders
Driveways
Earwig And The Witch
Echo Boomers
Effigy – Poison And The City
Emma
Emperor
The Empty Man
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga
Extraction
Faith Based
Falling
The Family Tree
Fandango At The Wall
Farewell Amor
Fatale
The Father
Father Soldier Son
Fatima
Feels Good Man
The Fight
Finding Hannah
Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds
First Cow
First Vote
Flannery
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Foster Boy
Freak Power: The Ballot Or The Bomb
Freaky
French Exit
Funny Boy
The Gentlemen
The Ghost Of Peter Sellers
Giving Voice
The Glorias
Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind
Greed
Greyhound
The Grizzlies
Gunda
Guns Akimbo
Half Brothers
The Half Of It
Happiest Season
Harry Chapin: When In Doubt, Do Something
Herself
The High Note
Hillbilly Elegy
His House
Hope Gap
Horse Girl
How To Build A Girl
The Human Factor
The Hunt
I Am Greta
I Care A Lot
I Carry You With Me (Te Llevo Conmigo)
I Hate New Year’s
I Still Believe
I Will Make You Mine
The Illegal
I’m No Longer Here (Ya No Estoy Aquí)
I’m Thinking Of Ending Things
I’m Your Woman
The Infiltrators
The Invisible Man
Irresistible
Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Journey To Royal: A Wwii Rescue Mission
Judas And The Black Messiah
Jungle Beat: The Movie
Juvenile Delinquents
Kajillionaire
Kalira Atita
A Kid From Coney Island
Kill It And Leave This Town
Killer Raccoons! 2! Dark Christmas In The Dark
Killian & The Comeback Kids
The King Of Staten Island
Kingdom Of Silence
Kiss The Ground
La Llorona
Lance
Land
The Last Blockbuster
Last Call
The Last Full Measure
The Last Shift
The Last Thing He Wanted
The Last Vermeer
Let Him Go
Let Them All Talk
The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti A Se)
Like A Boss
Lingua Franca
The Little Things
Locked Down
The Lodge
Lost Girls
Love And Monsters
Lupin Iii: The First
Luxor
Mlk/Fbi
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Malcolm & Marie
Mank
Marjoun And The Flying
Headscarf
The Marksman
Martin Eden
Martin Margiela: In His Own Words
The Mauritanian
Max Winslow And The House Of Secrets
The Midnight Sky
Mighty Oak
Military Wives
Minari
Miss Americana
Miss Juneteenth
Mr. Jones
Mr. Soul!
Mmmmm (Sound Of Pain)
The Mole Agent
Monster Hunter
Mosley
Mosul
Mucho Mucho Amor: The
Legend Of Walter Mercado
Mulan
Music
My Favorite War
My Octopus Teacher
My Psychedelic Love Story
Nasrin
The Nest
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
News Of The World
Night Of The Kings
Nomadland
The Nose Or The Conspiracy Of Mavericks Notturno
No. 7 Cherry Lane
The Old Guard
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Olympia
On-Gaku: Our Sound
On The Record
On The Rocks
The One And Only Ivan
One Night In Miami…
Onward
Ordinary Love
The Other Lamb
Our Friend
Our Time Machine
The Outpost
Over The Moon
The Painter And The Thief
Palm Springs
Palmer
Pearl
Penguin Bloom
The Personal History Of David Copperfield
The Phenomenon
The Photograph
Pieces Of A Woman
Pinocchio
Possessor
Pray: The Story Of Patrick Peyton
Premature
Princess Of The Row
Project Power
The Prom
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Radioactive
The Real Exorcist
Rebecca
Rebuilding Paradise
Red Shoes And The Seven Dwarfs
Relic
The Rental
Resistance
The Rhythm Section
The Ride
Ride Your Wave
Rising Phoenix
River Tales
The Roads Not Taken
Roald Dahl’s The Witches Run
Saint Frances
Saint Maud
Save Yourselves!
Scoob!
Searching For Mr. Rugoff
The Secret Garden
The Secrets We Keep
76 Days
A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
She Dies Tomorrow
Shirley
Show Me What You Got
Sky Blossom
Snake White: Love Endures
The Social Dilemma
Son Of The South
Songs Of Solomon
Sonic The Hedgehog
Soorarai Pottru
Soul
Sound Of Metal
Spaceship Earth
Spell
Stand!
Standing Up, Falling Down
Stars And Strife
Supernova
Swallow
System K
Tenet
Terra Willy
This Is Not A Movie
A Thousand Cuts
Tiger Within
Tigertail
Time
Tom And Jerry
Tommaso
Totally Under Control
The Traitor
The Trial Of The Chicago 7
The Trip To Greece
Trolls World Tour
True History Of The Kelly Gang
The Truffle Hunters
The Truth
Tulsa
The Turning
Tuscaloosa
The Twentieth Century
Twiceborn
2 Hearts
Underneath The Same Moon
Underwater
The United States Vs. Billie Holiday
Used And Borrowed Time
Valley Girl
Wonder Woman 1984
Waiting For The Barbarians
Wander Darkly
The Way Back
The Way I See It
We Are Little Zombies
Welcome To Chechnya
Wendy
A Whisker Away
The White Tiger
Who Is Gatsby Randolph
Wild Daze
Wild Mountain Thyme
The Willoughbys
Wolfwalkers
Words On Bathroom Walls
Working Man
The World To Come
The Wretched
Yellow Rose
You Cannot Kill David Arquette

WRITER, woman in her 40s

Picture: This is such a stacked category this year. I would be happy for “Minari,” “Nomadland” or “Sound of Metal” to win. If I’m going by my own standards of what makes a best picture — excellent craft, spectacle and a deep well of emotion — I think perhaps “Minari” might be the top choice. But it’s not that I didn’t love the other movies nominated. “Mank” was well made but didn’t feel timely to me. It seemed like it was being made off a playbook from a few years ago. “Judas and the Black Messiah” had tremendous performances but was not as tight as my favorites. “The Trial of the Chicago 7" was fun and again had great performances but felt a bit conscious that it was trying to be an awards movie at times. And “The Father” was truly moving and had imaginative production design, but I read a review that called it “ruthless,” and that felt exactly right. And I can’t have a ruthless movie win best picture.

Director: This one is a toss-up between “Promising Young Woman” [Emerald Fennell] and “Nomadland” [Chloé Zhao] for me. Both were directed so skillfully and confidently, and both directors have such a distinctive stamp on their work that excites me. I’d love to give it to “Another Round,” but the directing wasn’t what I loved most about that movie. Side note: I wish “Another Round” had gotten more nominations.

Actress: I love all the actresses in this category, and it’s always tough to judge when several actresses are playing real people. But I was so pleasantly shocked by the range of Carey Mulligan’s performance. And Andra Day is such a revelation as Billie Holiday. Frances McDormand is a perennial Oscar favorite and could take it, and I’d be OK with that, but I’d rather someone new get the gold. That’s unfair to Frances’ amazing performance, and I know that. I’m going to go with Carey Mulligan here.

Actor: This is between Riz Ahmed and Anthony Hopkins for me. Both performances were deeply moving and satisfying and had so many layers. I think I’m going to go with Riz, though. That was a role well outside of many of his comfort zones — being a metal drummer and being deaf — and he completely nailed it.

Supporting actress: Maria Bakalova was positively revelatory in “Borat.” I didn’t think anyone could match Sacha Baron Cohen’s energy, but she matches and exceeds it. However, this is Yuh-Jung Youn’s. Her performance as that grandmother was surprising, fun and heartbreaking. It knocked me off my feet and was a big part of the reason I loved “Minari” so much.

Supporting actor: It is so bizarre that both Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield are nominated for supporting actor. This for me is between Leslie Odom Jr. and Paul Raci. Leslie really shines in the second half of “One Night in Miami ....” He is so amazing at playing Sam Cooke’s frustrations bubbling just below the surface. Paul Raci gave such a heartbreaking and charming performance in “Sound of Metal.” Completely authentic and lived-in. I think I’m going to say Paul Raci, partially because I want to watch him win.

PRODUCER, man in his 40s

Picture: “Minari.” It’s normally not one I would vote for for picture. But something about it, maybe because I didn’t know anything about it going in ... it felt like a perfect, charming drama about America.

Director: “Nomadland” wasn’t my favorite movie this year, but I think what Chloé Zhao did as a director, to create that thing out of thin air and mix real characters with actors and move around and make a road movie that had a restrained emotion, was superb.

Actress: Andra Day as Billie Holiday ... I started skeptical because Billie Holiday is so well-known, but she became the character. Viola Davis was solid too. Frances McDormand is always amazing. And it was fun to see Carey Mulligan in that role. But it’s hard to portray a legend, so Andra Day.

Actor: Anthony Hopkins was so good in “The Father.” I was completely devastated by that one. As someone who has parents getting older, that one really affected me. It’s a good category, though I thought Chadwick Boseman was terrible in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” I didn’t understand that one. The movie was too theatrical and too over-the-top in a way that just wasn’t landing.

Supporting actress: Right when I was watching it, I thought Yuh-Jung Youn is going to be my supporting actress choice. She was just so good.

Supporting actor: I don’t know how they decided supporting for “Judas and the Black Messiah.” I liked them both. I’m voting for Daniel [Kaluuya]. LaKeith Stanfield was really good too, but I thought that was more a lead role. In terms of movies covering that era, I thought that movie was much better by far than “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”

ACTOR, Woman in her 50s

Picture: I adore all these movies and could rank them one way today and a different way tomorrow. I’m leaning toward “Nomadland” for its beauty and the way it captured this woman’s journey of discovery. It felt like something we’ve all been going through in some fashion the past year.

Director: Chloé Zhao for the reasons I’m voting for “Nomadland” and for the way she blended the fictional narrative and the true stories of the nomads in such a powerful way.

Actress: Frances McDormand has always been an inspiration, and I love all the subtle things she does in “Nomadland.” That last scene of her going through the house just moved me to tears.

Actor: Anthony Hopkins is another inspiration, and there’s nothing sentimental in the way he depicts this man’s descent into dementia. Still through all the bravado, the vulnerability seeps through and breaks your heart. Just astonishing what he does.

Supporting actress: I love “Minari.” Maybe I’ll change my mind and vote for it for best picture! Anyway, Yuh-Jung Youn is so good in that movie, funny and warm and wise. She’s the grandmother I aspire to be someday!

Supporting actor: The whole cast of “The Trial of the Chicago 7" is superb, so I feel like someone should be recognized from that movie. Sacha Baron Cohen really captured the essence of Abbie Hoffman, so he gets my vote.