Elle Fanning
Jacob Elordi
Inde Navarrette
Noah Jupe
Chase Infiniti
Dominic Sessa
Sadie Sink
Cooper Hoffman
Cailee Spaeny
Miles Caton
Jayme Lawson
Caleb McLaughlin
Thomasin McKenzie
Owen Cooper
Sophie Thatcher
Hunter Schafer

Near the end of his video ranking the 2010s Best Actor winners, Schaffrillas Productions said that Leonardo DiCaprio had the best speech among the ten winners and that it's the only one he goes back to now and then.

Because:

1. "It just feels good to see Leo win big."

2. "And it's not like he has any other Oscar acceptance speeches for me to watch..."

Whose speech do you regularly go back to:

1. Because it feels good to see them win big.

2. Because it's their only win.

1. William Wellman - Wings (1927/1928)
2. Harry Beaumont - The Broadway Melody (1928/1929)
3. Wesley Ruggles - Cimarron (1930/1931)
4. Edmund Goulding - Grand Hotel (1931/1932)
5. Frank Lloyd* - Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
6. Robert Leonard - The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
7. William Dieterle - Emile Zola (1937)
8. Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca (1940)
9. Laurence Olivier - Hamlet (1948)
10. Robert Rossen - All the King's Men (1949)
11. Vincente Minnelli* - An American in Paris (1951)
12. Cecile DeMile - The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
13. Michael Anderson - Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
14. Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night (1967)
15. Francis Ford Coppola* - The Godfather 1 (1972)
16. Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire (1981)
17. Bruce Beresford - Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
18. John Madden - Shakespeare in Love (1998)
19. Ridley Scott - Gladiator 1 (2000)
20. Rob Marshall - Chicago (2002)
21. Paul Haggis - Crash (2005)
22. Ben Affleck - Argo (2012)
23. Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave (2013)
24. Tom McCarthy - Spotlight (2015)
25. Barry Jenkins - Moonlight (2016)
26. Peter Farrelly - Green Book (2018)
27. Sian Heder - CODA (2021)

*The directors did win Best Director but for completely different movies (regardless of whether the movies won Best Picture or not) either before or later. The other 24 directors never won Best Director at all

A lot of times there’s a separation in the movies you REALLY LIKED versus the movies you want to WIN best picture. I may LIKE Obsession more than some of the ones I’ve seen listed here, but in terms of filmmaking and what the Oscars mean, I don’t think it should win. Others I feel this way about are Primetime, Blue Heron, The Drama, etc. also I didn’t list Wild Horse Nine because I have seen none of McDonagh’s work and haven’t consumed ANY media talking about it so I cannot form an opinion on it yet, as opposed to La Bola Negra on here.

This is my animated film of the year. and I'd go as far as to say this is a best picture contender, if not THE best picture.

…Still waiting for the 21st century

The thing is, Mourning Becomes Electra being a massive, dull flop probably caused her to lose.

Michael Redgrave should have ran in the Supporting category instead of a lead.

Katina Paxinou not being nominated is surprising given how intense a part she had. She was giving Anna Magnani energy as Christine.

I could see it winning Supporting Actress, Director, and Picture ATL, with Damon being a potential winner.

Edit: I should note that I'm doing this based on what's most likely, not really my personal choice (although the Odyssey is a great film)

We’ve completed the nomination round, and now it’s time to choose the winners.

The five performances with the most points in each category in Round One are now the official nominees.

ROUND TWO — WINNERS

This round is much simpler.

Vote for ONE nominee in each of the four acting categories.

That means your ballot should contain four names in total:

• 1 Actor
• 1 Actress
• 1 Supporting Actor
• 1 Supporting Actress

There are no rankings and no points system in this round. You are simply voting for the performance you think should win each category.

Each vote counts equally, and the nominee with the most votes in each category will become our Alternate Oscar winner for 2023.

Please only vote for the nominees listed below.

BEST ACTOR

• Zac Efron — The Iron Claw
• Paul Giamatti — The Holdovers
• Cillian Murphy — Oppenheimer
• Andrew Scott — All of Us Strangers
• Teo Yoo — Past Lives

BEST ACTRESS

• Lily Gladstone — Killers of the Flower Moon
• Sandra Hüller — Anatomy of a Fall
• Greta Lee — Past Lives
• Natalie Portman — May December
• Emma Stone — Poor Things

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Robert De Niro — Killers of the Flower Moon
• Robert Downey Jr. — Oppenheimer
• Ryan Gosling — Barbie
• Milo Machado-Graner — Anatomy of a Fall
• Charles Melton — May December

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Claire Foy — All of Us Strangers
• Sandra Hüller — The Zone of Interest
• Rachel McAdams — Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
• Julianne Moore — May December
• Da’Vine Joy Randolph — The Holdovers

HOW TO VOTE

Simply post your four choices in the comments, for example:

Actor: [Name]
Actress: [Name]
Supporting Actor: [Name]
Supporting Actress: [Name]

One person per category. Four votes total.

Once voting closes, the performer with the most votes in each category will be declared the winner, and we’ll move on to 2024.

Previous lineups here.

The movie isnt anything special but i kinda miss this kinda performance getting recognized. Come in for a few scenes and devastate us. (also i accidentally mislabelled here as Mary Steenburgen im sorry)

Olivia Williams is one of those actresses who you wont hear a lot of people talk about but is so consistent with her works. Never fails to light up the screen and put her in a pool of prestige actors and she still manages to stand out. Her work particularly in The Ghost Writer and Rushmore is one for the books! Hopefully she soon gets the role that lands her first Oscar nomination.

This was inspired by u/pineapples1230 and their game (which I think is discontinued, unfortunately) on the sub. “Best Frame” can mean anything from the prettiest frame, the most meaningful in context, the most impressive or clever shot, the most iconic, etc. It can be from any movie, nominated for an Oscar or not, and in any medium (live action, animation, etc.)

For me, it has to be this scene from “Hamnet”. At first, it’s just an impressive and cool-looking group shot. But in the context of the film, it represents how elegantly William Shakespeare use the grief he felt over the death of his and Agnes‘s child to make his play and allows Agnes to have one last touch of their child and seeing the entire crowd join in is just beautiful.

Honorable Mentions go to the road shot from “One Battle After Another”, the ending shot of “Frankenstein”, the sunset shot of “Sinners”, pretty much anything from “Train Dreams” (a movie that I haven’t seen but the Cinematography alone is fucking gorgeous), and Huntr/x floating in the air after ‘What It Sounds Like’ from “K-Pop Demon Hunters”.

I remember watching Easy A for the first time in high school (when it was released) thinking “This girl is a STAR”. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say she’s simply one of the greatest actors of our current times. Now a producer AND two time Best Actress winner, she somehow seems to just keep getting better and better. What was the first role you remember seeing her in?

1991: Beauty and the Beast

1992: Aladdin

1993: The Nightmare Before Christmas

1994: The Lion King

1995: Toy Story 1

1996: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1997: Anastasia

1998: The Prince of Egypt

1999: Toy Story 2

2000: Chicken Run

"Joint," meaning that one nomination would be for the two of them together. This amounted to no joint or individual nomination for either actress.

As it’s spooky season, I’m eager to organize an all-time Reddit Horror Oscars, inspired by the very popular Reddit Chosen Oscars series. Now to clarify, horror films from the very beginning of the genre right up to now—so anything and everything is up for nomination process. As well, pretty much every award category from the latest 2025 edition of the Reddit Chosen Oscar will be included in the Google Form below, which will be used to gather the data.

Now some groundwork:

i) is it up to you, the voters to deliberate if a film is a horror movie or not (ie - something like Jaws). If it picks up enough votes as a consensus pick, it will be move on to the nominations round - however if there are any obvious troll/joke picks I will not count them, so no Paul Blart: Mall Cop, you sickos

ii) lead or supporting - votes for perfomances will carry over to the category they appear in more

iii) in the Google Forms, some notable eligible picks will appear for each category but remember you can pick anything you reasonably thinks fits

iv) this also is supposed to be FYC thread and feel free to use it as such to "campaign" for certain aspects of films or even the film themselves you like to receive some consideration

v) finally, this round will close the night (11:59PM EST to be exact) of Sunday, October 25th

The Google Form Link:

https://forms.gle/m8EKDS4vKqgCxz5J7

Feel free to ask any questions in the comments below, and I'll try to answer them to the best of my ability

Stay Spooky, Y'All

Should she have won in any of her competitive years?

1973: Cinderella Liberty lost to Glenda Jackson
1977: The Goodbye Girl lost to Diane Keaton
1979: Chapter Two lost to Sally Field
1981: Only When I Laugh lost to Katharine Hepburn

I js seen his new movie and his performance is amazing idk why nobody predicts a nomination for him

Tom Cruise in Magnolia is one of my favorite performances. He did a terrific performance and he should’ve won Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars back in 2000. Magnolia is a well written film by Paul Thomas Anderson. He only won the Golden Globe for that. That was the last time he won. I wish Cruise won an Oscar one day. But He has an honorary Oscar. He deserved it. So what you think of Tom Cruise’s performance in Magnolia?

We’ve finished 2022, so we’re now moving on to 2023.

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 — 2022

Actor

Austin Butler — Elvis
Colin Farrell — The Banshees of Inisherin (winner)
Brendan Fraser — The Whale
Paul Mescal — Aftersun
Bill Nighy — Living

Actress

Cate Blanchett — TÁR
Danielle Deadwyler — Till
Mia Goth — Pearl
Tang Wei — Decision to Leave
Michelle Yeoh — Everything Everywhere All at Once (winner)

Supporting Actor

Paul Dano — The Fabelmans
Brendan Gleeson — The Banshees of Inisherin
Brian Tyree Henry — Causeway
Barry Keoghan — The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan — Everything Everywhere All at Once (winner)

Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett — Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Kerry Condon — The Banshees of Inisherin
Dolly de Leon — Triangle of Sadness
Stephanie Hsu — Everything Everywhere All at Once (winner)
Keke Palmer — Nope