My Personal Oscar Ballot

This long awards season ends this coming Sunday with the 90th Academy Awards. After a prolonged period between nominations and ceremony, the deadline for voters to send in their final ballots is tomorrow. In that spirit, below would be my ballot if I was one of the lucky Oscar voters.

Note: For Best Picture, Academy voters are asked to rank their choices. For the other categories, they are only asked to pick their choice of winner, which is exactly what I've done.

Best Picture
1 - Lady Bird
2 - Get Out
3 - Call Me By Your Name
4 - Dunkirk
5 - Shape of Water
6 - Phantom Thread
7 - The Post
8 - Three Billboards
9 - Darkest Hour

Best Director: Jordan Peele, Get Out
Best Lead Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Best Lead Actress: Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Best Supporting Actor: Willen Dafoe, The Florida Project
Best Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Best Animated Film: Coco
Best Original Screenplay: Lady Bird
Best Adapted Screenplay: Call Me By Your Name
Best Foreign Language Film: A Fantastic Woman
Best Documentary: Icarus
Best Original Score: The Shape of Water
Best Original Song: "Mystery of Love," Call Me By Your Name
Best Editing: Baby Driver
Best Production Design: The Shape of Water
Best Cinematography: Blade Runner
Best Costume Design: Phantom Thread
Best Makeup and Hair: Wonder
Best Sound Editing: Dunkirk
Best Sound Mixing: Dunkirk
Best Visual Effects: War of the Planet of the Apes
Best Live Action Short: Dekalb Elementary
Best Animated Short: Negative Space
Best Documentary Short: Heroin(e)

So looks like Lady Bird would be my biggest winner with 4 awards including Picture and Actress. Call Me By Your Name would be next with 3 awards including Actor and Adapted Screenplay. Get Out gets just 1 win for me, but it's a big one with Best Director. For the other awards, I spread the love a bit and really made to to give my theoretical vote to a film that I truly think deserve it. For the shorts, I voted based on summary.

Best Picture Tweets

One week away until the Oscars. So I thought I'd look back to see what my first impressions were of the Best Picture nominess this year via my twitter reactions after seeing the films. It's clear which films I immediately loved and which films I didn't have much to say about. So in the order of when I saw the movies/tweeted about them...

GET OUT is nuts you guys. And I think m seeing it in a theater with lots of people certainly added to the experience.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) March 4, 2017

DUNKIRK was a thrill. Was on edge throughout. So visceral by design. Must see on the biggest, loudest screen.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) July 22, 2017

LADY BIRD is exquisite. A must watch for all. Gerwig, Ronan, and Metcalf astound.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) November 4, 2017

Wasn't sold on Lucas Hedges last year but love his lived-in and quiet turns in two of this year's best films, Lady Bird & Three Billboards.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) November 19, 2017

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME is fantastic. Chamalet is so SO GOOD. Stuhlbarg's final speech is everything.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) December 2, 2017

I've just seen Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour. He's excellent. That said... these two were better. https://t.co/YOtbrgZtsJ

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) December 10, 2017

As for the two other films I saw yesterday, I saw The Disaster Artist and The Shape of Water. Both VERY different and both VERY VERY good. There were certain elements in both that truly pleasantly surprised me.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) December 17, 2017

THE POST is kind of exquisite. I know it's "baity," but it's so timely it hurts. And Streep is so damn good in it regardless and seeing ALL of the TV faces made me really happy.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) January 6, 2018

PHANTOM THREAD was both exactly what I thought it'd be and nothing at all like I imagined. I don't know how. DDL and Krieps are great but my nation to Lesley Manville's razor sharp performance.

— Ryan (@sortathatguy) January 27, 2018

The Academy Awards are next week on ABC.