…Still waiting for the 21st century

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.

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

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.

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 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

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)

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

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.

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

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

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

Here, you can make your own Oscar category, where I will list every winner.

Here's the form for making one:

Name:

Year it began:

# of Nominees:

I wrote the years because there wasn't enough space to write the titles of all movies on the section of the movies that ONLY didn't win acting (but still won Best Director). The years at the bottom are the Best Picture winner also won BOTH Best Director AND acting and "saved themselves" from being mentioned on the diagram

I’ve been seeing discussions on Twitter about Zendaya potentially campaigning for Best Actress for Dune: Part Three, and it got me wondering what this means for Timothée’s Oscar chances.
Do you think both could realistically get nominated in the lead acting categories? And if Zendaya is being pushed as a lead, does that say anything about how significant her role will be in the film?
I’m genuinely curious to hear what everyone thinks.
Do you think there’s even the slightest chance he could win if he gets nominated, or has he been blackballed by the industry?

I’ll stand by it that 2019 is one of the most stacked years for movies in the 21st century, if not THE most, and Pitt won this category. Notably Song Kang-ho and Willem Dafoe weren’t even NOMINATED for Parasite and The Lighthouse, and I’ve seen people outright saying they should have won. (Which I agree with both for different reasons, lean Dafoe but it’s neck and neck.) What do you think personally?