But you have to try to justify the win in the context of those years!

My picks are Michael Fassbender and Gena Rowlands.

Fassbender is my personal winner in both 2012 for Shame. I would’ve given him the win over Dujardin that year, and i think he’s better than all the other nominees. And in 2016, he gets a second win for Steve Jobs. He gets the win here over Leo for sure, but in this alternate universe, Leo already won in 2014 for Wolf of Wall Street.

Rowlands takes the oscar in 1975 for Woman Under the Influence. She’s way better than Ellen Burstyn that year, so i give her the award, but Burstyn would’ve already won the year before for The Exorcist. Also, in 1978, Rowlands gets the oscar for Opening Night over Diane Keaton in Annie Hall (in this alternate universe, unfortunately Diane Keaton is a four-time nominee with no competitive win. she gets an honorary oscar down the line though, but joins all the other veteran actors that people complain should’ve gotten an award lol)

What are your picks?

It more than made up for Jane Fonda losing for They Shoot Horses Don't They.

The Invite is a well written movie. I loved it. The performances are amazing and excellent especially Penelope Cruz. How many nominations who i think will get nominated is Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and maybe Best Casting. For Best Actress, i don't think Olivia Wilde is getting nominated for Actress. She could but idk. I would love it if she did. What I think will win at the oscars is Best Adapted Screenplay. This movie should win Oscars. So what you think the Oscar chances are for The Invite?

Outstanding Lead Performance

- Mahershala Ali, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

- Gillian Anderson, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

- Jeon Do-yeon, Possible Love

- John Early, Maddie’s Secret

- John Malkovich, Wild Horse Nine

- Ian McKellen, The Christophers

- Julianne Moore, The Debut

- Sophie Okonedo, Clarissa

- Andrew Scott, Elsinore

- John Turturro, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

Pictured are Soderbergh, Zemeckis, Boyle, and Howard

• Anthony Hopkins number 2 for The Father (2020)
• Frances McDormand number 3 for Nomadland (2020)
• Emma Stone number 2 for Poor Things (2023)
• Adrien Brody number 2 for The Brutalist (2024)
• Sean Penn number 3 for One Battle After Another (2025)

Kerry Condon is one my favorite performances in The Banshees Of Inisherin. She was excellent and give a standout performance. She is the one who should’ve won Best Supporting Actress in 2023 at the oscars. She deserved an Oscar. But happy she won BAFTA award though which she deserves it. Her character did quiet scenes in the movie. Loved her character too. I wish she won. it would be a well deserved win. So what you think of her performance in The Banshees Of Inisherin?

I’ve seen people say this will sweep the oscars but I’m really skeptical !is this being overhyped?

I Just watched Bugonia. Wow it’s terrifying and the ending… wow. The perforomances were excellent especially Jesse Plemons. God, he should’ve got nominated for that. He only has GG, SAG, and BAFTA nominations. Not the Oscar which he deserved it. Emma Stone is great too. Also the score is haunting and was masterful. I enjoyed it. The Oscar Nominations it has are Best Picture, Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score. I rate the movie 8/10. So what you think of Bugonia?

We’ve finished 2024, so we’re now moving on to 2025.

For anyone joining the game for the first time, we’re doing all four acting categories for one year together, with the results decided over two rounds.

You can see all of the previous lineups here: Alternate Oscars - Reddit Game

ROUND ONE — NOMINATIONS

For each category, rank your five favourite performances from the year from 1–5.

Your rankings will be worth:

1st — 5 points
2nd — 4 points
3rd — 3 points
4th — 2 points
5th — 1 point

The five performances with the most points in each category will become the official nominees.

You do not have to name five if you don’t want to. If you only want to vote for three performances, for example, they’ll receive 5, 4 and 3 points respectively.

Please make sure your choices are ranked — order matters in this round.

You can vote in as many or as few of the four categories as you like.

ROUND TWO — WINNERS

Once the nominations have been determined, I’ll make a second thread containing the five nominees in each category.

In that round, simply choose ONE nominee per category to win.

There will be no preferential voting or points in Round Two. Each vote counts equally, and whoever receives the most votes wins.

So essentially:

Round One = Who should be nominated?
Round Two = Who should win?

ELIGIBILITY

Performances will be eligible according to the year in which their film was eligible at the real-life Academy Awards.

So, rather than going strictly by festival premiere or first release date, a performance belongs to whichever Oscar year the film itself competed in with the Academy.

If you’re unsure whether a film was eligible for a particular year, this Academy reminder-list archive is a good place to check eligibility.

A few other rules:

• Maximum of five ranked choices per category.
• Anything listed after your fifth choice won’t be counted.
• Honourable mentions won’t count as votes.
• Please include both the actor and film so there’s no ambiguity.
• In cases where there may be disagreement or confusion over whether a performance is lead or supporting, your vote will count only in the category in which you place that performance. Points will not be transferred or combined between categories.
• A performer cannot receive two nominations in the same acting category for different films. If that happens, their higher-scoring performance will be kept and the next eligible performance will move into the top five.
• If there’s a tie for the final nomination spot, I’ll break it by comparing #1 votes first, then #2 votes, #3 votes, etc.

For example:

Actor

1. Person A — Film A
2. Person B — Film B
3. Person C — Film C
4. Person D — Film D
5. Person E — Film E

That ballot would give them 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points respectively.

The idea is that Round One rewards performances with broad support across people’s ballots, while Round Two gives everyone a straight choice between the five nominees.

Previous Lineup — 2024

Actor

Adrien Brody — The Brutalist
Kieran Culkin — A Real Pain
Colman Domingo — Sing Sing (winner)
Ralph Fiennes — Conclave
Sebastian Stan — A Different Man

Actress

Marianne Jean-Baptiste — Hard Truths
Nicole Kidman — Babygirl
Mikey Madison — Anora (winner)
Demi Moore — The Substance
Fernanda Torres — I’m Still Here

Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov — Anora
Clarence Maclin — Sing Sing
Adam Pearson — A Different Man
Guy Pearce — The Brutalist (winner)
Jeremy Strong — The Apprentice

Supporting Actress

Michele Austin — Hard Truths
Danielle Deadwyler — The Piano Lesson
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor — Nickel Boys
Ariana Grande — Wicked (winner)
Margaret Qualley — The Substance

I have read "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears ― A Lively History of Hollywood's Oscar Rivalries" by Michael Schulman , very fulfulling and full of tidbits ..

But a major question remains : In which precise time in its 100 course, the Oscars became the "Oscars" , you know that single thing that can be named first thing in your epitaph , cement a legend and completely change a life ?

1. Lewis Milestone - 2 Arabian Knights (1927/1928) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/1930)
2. Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady (1928/1929) and Cavalvade (1932/1933)
3. Norman Taurog* - Skippy (1930/1931)
4. Frank Borzage* - Bad Girl (1931/1932)
5. Frank Capra* - Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and You Can't Take It with You (1938)
6. Leo McCarey* - The Awful Truth (1937)
7. Michael Curtiz* - Casablanca (1943)
8. Joseph Mankiewicz* - A Letter to 3 Wives (1949)
9. George Stevens* - A Place in the Sun (1951) and Giant (1956)
10. John Ford* - The Quiet Man (1952)
11. Vincente Minnelli* - Gigi (1958)
12. Billy Wilder* - The Apartment (1960)
13. David Lean* - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
14. Tony Richardson* - Tom Jones (1963)
15. Robert Wise* - The Sound of Music (1965)
16. Mike Nichols* - The Graduate (1967)
17. John Schlesinger* - Midnight Cowboy (1969)
18. George Roy Hill - The Sting (1973)
19. John Avildsen* - Rocky 1 (1976)
20. Sydney Pollack* - Out of Africa (1985)
21. Oliver Stone* - Platoon (1986) and Born on the 4th of July (1989)
22. Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor (1987)
23. Kevin Costner** - Dances with Wolves (1990)
24. Steven Spielberg* - Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998)
25. Mel Gibson** - Braveheart (1995)
26. James Cameron - Titanic (1997)
27. Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings 3 (2003)
28. Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Life of Pi (2012)
29. Martin Scorsese* - The Departed (2006)
30. Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
31. Kathryn Bigelow - Hurt Locker (2009)
32. Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018)
33. Alejandro Iñárritu* - Birdman (2014)
34. Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water (2017)
35. Bong Joon Ho - Parasite (2019)
36. Jane Campion* - The Power of the Dog (2021)

*We have a new record. 21 of the 36 directors of this list (7/12 of it) did direct at least 1 movie that did win acting awards (either movies that won Best Director that aren't mentioned here or movies that didn't even win Best Director). Only 15 directors of this list never directed a movie that won an acting award

**Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson also acted in those movies. Kevin Costner is however the only one of the 2 who was nominated for acting

This article contains spoilers about a surprise appearance in this film.

In two weeks of release, “You Can See Everything” has grossed $45 million at the box office. Directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, the documentary has a near-perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and audiences alike. And its take on Elizabeth Holmes, the confounding founder of Theranos who was convicted of fraud, has everyone talking.

Now the question is, what are its Oscar chances?

The film’s distributor, A24, isn’t commenting but two people close to the production with knowledge of the studio’s thinking expect it to campaign for best picture, best supporting actress and best documentary. It may also make a showing in the editing, cinematography, score and director categories.

Should Amanda Seyfried land a nomination for playing Holmes in the recreations within the film, it would be the first time an actress has been nominated in the supporting category for a role in a documentary.

And no documentary has ever been nominated for best picture. “Fahrenheit 9/11,” the 2004 film directed by Michael Moore that currently holds the title for highest-grossing nonconcert documentary, may have come the closest, considering its effect on the cultural conversation that year, but it was shut out. More surprising: it was also shut out of the best documentary race, a fate that has befallen many a popular documentary.

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This is the 23rd instalment of a series on my wishlist of Oscar Nominations and Winners. (Previous editions linked at the end of the post!)

Here we go... Here are my nominees and winners for the 92nd Academy Awards:
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BEST PICTURE

Soul

Another Round

First Cow

Judas and the Black Messiah 

Minari

Nomadland

Palm Springs

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

The Father

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BEST DIRECTOR

Chloe Zhao – Nomadland

Charlie Kauffman - I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Darius Marder - Sound of Metal

Eliza Hittman - Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Kelly Reichardt - First Cow

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BEST ACTRESS

Carey Mulligan - Promising Young Woman

Haley Bennett - Swallow

Sidney Flanigan - Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Vanessa Kirby - Pieces of a Woman

Wunmi Mosaku - His House

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BEST ACTOR

Riz Ahmed - Sound of Metal (TIE)

Anthony Hopkins - The Father (TIE)

Chadwick Boseman - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round

Steven Yeun - Minari

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Youn Yuh-Jung – Minari

Amanda Seyfried - Mank

Carrie Coon - The Nest

Maria Bakalova - Borat 2

Olivia Colman - The Father

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Paul Raci - Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman - Da 5 Bloods

Dan Stevens - Eurovision Song Contest

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah

Leslie Odom Jr - One Night in Miami

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BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

Another Round

And Then We Danced

Bacurau

Collective

Quo Vadis Aida

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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Soul

Onward

The Willoughbys

The Wolf House

Wolfwalkers

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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Palm Springs

Minari

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Father

First Cow

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Nomadland

One Night in Miami

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BEST CASTING

Minari

Judas and the Black Messiah

One Night in Miami

Promising Young Woman

Sound of Metal

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BEST FILM EDITING

Sound of Metal

Palm Springs

The Father

The Invisible Man

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Nomadland

First Cow

Mank

Possessor

Vitalina Varela

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BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Mank

Birds of Prey

Emma

The Father

Tenet

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BEST COSTUME

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Birds of Prey

Mank

Pinocchio

Promising Young Woman

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BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Birds of Prey

Pinocchio

Possessor

Promising Young Woman

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BEST SOUND DESIGN 

Sound of Metal

His House

Soul

The Invisible Man

The Vast of Night

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BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Tenet

Birds of Prey

Love and Monsters

The Invisible Man

The Midnight Sky

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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Soul

Minari

Possessor

Tenet

The Invisible Man

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BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga - Husavik

Judas and the Black Messiah - Fight for You

Minari - Rain Song

One Night in Miami - Speak Now

Sound of Metal - Green
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QUICK WINNER TALLY

Sound of Metal - 4

Soul - 3

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - 2

Minari - 2

Nomadland - 2

The Father - 2

Another Round - 1

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga - 1

Mank - 1

Palm Springs - 1

Promising Young Woman - 1

Tenet - 1

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QUICK NOMINEE TALLY

Sound of Metal - 9

Minari - 7

Promising Young Woman - 6

The Father - 6

Birds of Prey - 4

First Cow - 4

Judas and the Black Messiah - 4

Mank - 4

Nomadland - 4

One Night in Miami - 4

Soul - 4

The Invisible Man - 4

Another Round - 3

I’m Thinking of Ending Things - 3

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - 3

Never Rarely Sometimes Always - 3

Palm Springs - 3

Possessor - 3

Tenet - 3

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga - 2

His House - 2

Pinocchio - 2

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PREVIOUS EDITIONS -

70TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1s7s8hc/my_version_of_the_70th_academy_awards_1998_oscars/

71ST ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1sdbwfa/my_version_of_the_71st_academy_awards_1999_oscars/

72ND ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1soijq8/my_version_of_the_72nd_academy_awards_2000_oscars/

73RD ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1sr7mxn/my_version_of_the_73rd_academy_awards_2001_oscars/

74TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1stn92b/my_version_of_the_74th_academy_awards_2002_oscars/

75TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1svk347/my_version_of_the_75th_academy_awards_2003_oscars/

76TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1t14a6p/my_version_of_the_76th_academy_awards_2004_oscars/

77TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tepmte/my_version_of_the_77th_academy_awards_2005_oscars/

78TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tfh6aw/my_version_of_the_78th_academy_awards_2006_oscars/

79TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tgwuyj/my_version_of_the_79th_academy_awards_2007_oscars/

80TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1thpw1n/my_version_of_the_80th_academy_awards_2008_oscars/

81ST ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tjtmzn/my_version_of_the_81st_academy_awards_2009_oscars/

82ND ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tkh39s/my_version_of_the_82nd_academy_awards_2010_oscars/

83RD ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tsg61e/my_version_of_the_83rd_academy_awards_2011_oscars/

84TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1txxzdq/my_version_of_the_84th_academy_awards_2012_oscars/

85TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1tylecg/my_version_of_the_85th_academy_awards_2013_oscars/

86TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1u6s6o2/my_version_of_the_86th_academy_awards_2014_oscars/

87TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1ub250i/my_version_of_the_87th_academy_awards_2015_oscars/

88TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1uft4hr/my_version_of_the_88th_academy_awards_2016_oscars/

89TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1uk97cq/my_version_of_the_89th_academy_awards_2017_oscars/

90TH ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1ulbqf4/my_version_of_the_90th_academy_awards_2018_oscars/

91ST ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1usvia4/my_version_of_the_91st_academy_awards_2019_oscars/

92ND ACADEMY AWARDS - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/comments/1vnqa4g/my_version_of_the_92nd_academy_awards_2020_oscars/

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PS: A couple of rules of engagement… This is an entirely subjective exercise and I'd urge to keep the spirit of the forum positive. If you find someone’s choice baffling, why not ask them the reason behind it in the spirit of constructive discourse. Let's be curious about everyone's subjective opinions without dissing each other. Let's start conversations... and keep the positivity flowing!

PPS: This is a subjective exercise, but I'm trying to still follow as many of the Academy's rules as possible.

- The nominee list is as per the rules of 2026 Oscars, be it the number of nominees or the categores.

- Only doing Feature Film nominations, so leaving out shorts and docu categories, as I'm grossly behind wrt watching the possible contenders in each year.

- Let's celebrate a tie if it has to be a tie 😄 It's our wishlist after all! Where else would we make such a thing happen!

- My take on Picture, International Film: The most impactful, important, innovating and/or memorable film

- My take on Director is about a unique, innovative and/or impactful vision for a film.

- My take on Score & Song is subjective, if it's largely original, then it's up for noms.

- My take on performances is about the depth of nuance, impact of the performance the the film and memorability of the performance.

- Performer rules are in play, for eg, one actor cannot receive more than 1 nomination in 1 category. I'd refrain from obvious category fraud and will nominate actors in lead or supporting as per my understanding of who the true lead was.

- My take on all craft & writing categories is about the impact of the craft on the film and the innovation/impact/meticulousness of vision.

1. Tom Hooper - The King’s Speech

2. Adam McKay - Vice

3. Todd Phillips - Joker

4. David O. Russell - American Hustle

5. Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris

6. Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild

7. Lenny Abrahamson - Room

8. Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game

9. Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

10. Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge

11. David O. Russell - The Fighter

12. Ang Lee - Life of Pi

13. Alexander Payne - Nebraska

14. Alexander Payne - The Descendants

15. David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook

16. Adam McKay - The Big Short

17. Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher 

18. Martin Scorsese - Hugo

19. Steven Spielberg - Lincoln

20. Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman

21. Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird

22. Tom McCarthy - Spotlight

23. Joel & Ethan Coen - True Grit

24. Guillermo Del Toro - The Shape of Water

25. Sam Mendes - 1917

26. Richard Linklater - Boyhood

27. Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave

28. Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel

29. Martin Scorsese - The Irishman

30. Paweł Pawlikowski - Cold War

31. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Yet another wacky elimination, what are you guys thinking?

1. William Wellman* - Wings (1927/1928)
2. Harry Beaumont - The Broadway Melody (1928/1929)
3. Lewis Milestone - All Quiet on the Western Front (1929/1930)
4. Edmund Goulding - Grand Hotel (1931/1932)
5. Frank Lloyd - Cavalcade (1932/1933) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
6. Robert Leonard - The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
7. Frank Capra* - You Can't Take It with You (1938)
8. Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca (1940)
9. John Ford* - How Green Was My Valley (1941)
10. Elia Kazan* - Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
11. Laurence Olivier** - Hamlet (1948)
12. Robert Rossen - All the King's Men (1949)
13. William Wyler* - Ben-Hur (1959)
14. Robert Wise - West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965)
15. Jerome Robbins - West Side Story (1961)
16. David Lean* - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
17. George Cuckor* - My Fair Lady (1964)
18. Carol Reed - Oliver (1968)
19. John Avildsen - Rocky 1 (1976)
20. Michael Cimino - Deer Hunter (1978)
21. Oliver Stone*** - Platoon (1986)
22. Clint Eastwood** - Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004)
23. Mel Gibson** - Braveheart (1995)
24. Anthony Minghella - The English Patient (1996)
25. James Cameron - Titanic (1997)
26. Ridley Scott* - Gladiator 1 (2000)
27. Rob Marshall - Chicago (2002)
28. Michel Havanicius - The Artist (2011)
29. Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water (2017)
30. Chloe Zhao - Nomadland (2020)
31. Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer (2023)

*William Wellman, Frank Capra, John Ford, Elia Kazan, William Wyler, David Lean, George Cuckor and Ridley Scott are the only 8 directors from this list who did direct movies that won screenplay awards. Some of them did win Best Picture but others not

**Laurence Olivier, Clint Eastwood and Mel Gibson also acted in those movies

***Oliver Stone HIMSELF did win Best Adapted Screenplay in 1978 as the writer of Midnight Express but no movie directed by him ever won a screenplay award

Which year do you choose and why? You can sit next to anyone you choose or just a seat in a specific area.

Unfortunately, front row at the Will Smith slap year comes to mind, but I think I’d go with a ceremony in the 1990s and might be too nervous to sit next to a star. “Seat filler” at the end of a front row seat would likely be my choice.

I finally watched it just now (it was added to HBO Max in my country 3 weeks ago). It's probably one of the weirdest things I ever watched. I won't go as far as to say it deserved a Best Picture nomination but I wish it had been nominated for Best Actor for Robert Pattinson, Best Actress for Jennifer Lawrence (something I almost always wish whenever I watch stuff where Jennifer Lawrence appears), Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing

Not necessarily the worst movie to ever win Best Picture, but the one where you genuinely believe another nominated film should have won instead.

I'm curious to see which wins people still disagree with years later.

For me, I think Crash winning over Brokeback Mountain in 2006 is one of the most questionable decisions in Oscar history.

What is your pick, and which film should have won instead?

Spoilers. I didn't do pre 1970s mainly because I haven't seen most of them; I haven't seen most of these films period. This took way too long lol. Any help, what's your thoughts?

Also I'm not putting Natalie Portman in, it's never shown if she actually dies or not

Best Actor

Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather (via heart attack)

Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (via murder)

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (via murder)

Ben Kingsley as Gandhi in Gandhi (via murder)

William Hurt as Luis Molina in Kiss of a Spider Woman (via murder)

Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia (via illness)

Nicolas Cage as Ben Sanderson in Leaving Los Vegas (via complications)

Roberto Benigni as Guido Orefice in Life is Beautiful (via execution)

Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham in American Beauty (via murder)

Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (via murder)

Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris in Training Day (via murder)

Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk (via murder)

Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln in Lincoln (via murder)

Brendan Fraser as Charlie in The Whale (not sure if he dies or not, but it's heavily implied)

Michael B. Jordan as Smoke and Stack (only Smoke dies) in Sinner (via murder)

Best Actress

Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawistowska in Sophie’s Choice (via suicide)

Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery (via murder)

Hilary Swank as Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry (via murder)

Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in The Hours (via suicide)

Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster (via execution)

Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald in Million Dollar Baby (via assisted suicide)

Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf in La Vie En Rose (via illness)

Emma Stone as Victoria Blessington in Poor Things (via suicide, revived)

Best Supporting Actor

Ben Johnson as Sam the Lion in The Last Picture Show (via stroke)

Christopher Walken as Nick Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter (via suicide)

Melvyn Douglas as Ben Rand in Being There (via illness)

John Gielgud as Hobson in Arthur (via illness)

Sean Connery as Jimmy Malone in The Untouchables (via murder)

Denzel Washington as Private Trip in Glory (via murder)

Joe Pesci as Tommy Devito in Goodfellas (via murder)

Jack Palance as Curly Washburn in City Slickers (via heart attack)

Gene Hackman as Little Bill in Unforgiven (via murder)

Martin Landau as Béla Lugosi in Ed Wood (via illness)

James Coburn as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction (via murder)

Michael Caine as Dr. Wilbur Larch in The Cider House Rules (via accidental overdose)

Chris Cooper as John Laroche in Adaptation (via crocodile attack)

George Clooney as Bob Barnes in Syriana (via terrorist attack)

Alan Arkin as Edwin Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (via drug overdose)

Christopher Plummer as Hal Fields in Beginners (via illness)

Christoph Waltz as King Schultz in Django Unchained (via murder)

Jared Leto as Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club (via illness)

Mahershala Ali as Juan in Moonlight (unspecified)

Daniel Kaluyya as Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah (via murder)

Sean Penn as Steven J. Lockjaw in One Battle After Another (via murder)

Best Supporting Actress

Vanessa Redgrave as Julia in Julia (via murder)

Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (via murder)

Peggy Ashcroft as Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India (via heart attack)

Rachel Weisz as Tessa Abbott in The Constant Gardener (via murder)

Anne Hathaway as Fantine in Les Miserables (via illness)

Amy Madigan as Aunt Gladys in Weapons (via murder)

Digger

The Odyssey

Werwulf

Michael

Clayface

Likely winner: Odyssey/Werwulf

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

But obviously, as we all know, only one of those movies deserved to win the three awards it did. (Hint: It ain't Green Book.)