Oscar night saw the triumph of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, a movie which I would rank as his 8th best movie, behind Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love, There Will be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread, and Licorice Pizza). I have seen all of his movies and not enough of his Haim music videos. I do not think it was the best movie of the year, and definitely not his best, but I certainly won't object to watching Mr. Anderson hoist the gold trophy for the first time in his career. He is one of our best.
I had a good run of three years picking as my best movie of the year what would eventually win Best Picture (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, Oppenheimer, and then Anora). That streaks ends this year with a pick that, to me, was a surprise. I believed it was a very good movie when I had watched it but I thought by the time I had watched fifty movies, it would have been superseded. But then it was stubborn and kept sticking with me. The Smashing Machine is my pick for Best Picture of the Year.
Best Original Screenplay
Ari Aster - EddingtonWes Anderson and Roman Coppola - The Phoenician Scheme
Rian Johnson - Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
David Koepp - Black Bag
Dan Gregor, Doug Man, Akiva Schaffer - The Naked Gun
Best Adapted Screenplay
Candice Millar, Mike Makowsky - Death by Lightning
Benny Safdie - The Smashing Machine
Craig Brewer, Greg Kohs - Song Sung Blue
Charlie Huston - Caught Stealing
Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon - One Battle After Another
Best Documentary
Becoming Led Zeppelin
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
Best Stunt Direction
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
The Phoenician Scheme
Caught Stealing
One Battle After Another
The Smashing Machine
Best Costumes
Frankenstein
Sinners
The Phoenician Scheme
Marty Supreme
Superman
Best Makeup/Hairstyling
Marty Supreme
The Smashing Machine
Frankenstein
The Phoenician Scheme
Death by Lightning
Best Production Design
Caught Stealing
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
The Phoenician Scheme
Marty Supreme
Frankenstein
Best Use of Cultural Appropriation
K-Pop Demon Hunters - K-Pop
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues - Stonehenge
One Battle After Another - French 75, Christmas Adventurers Club
Hamnet - Hamlet
Song Sung Blue - Solaaiman
Best Film Editing
A House of Dynamite
The Phoenician Scheme
Caught Stealing
The Smashing Machine
One Battle After Another
Best Original Score
Hamnet
Sinners
The Phoenician Scheme
One Battle After Another
Bugonia
Best Sound Design
F1
Sinners
One Battle After Another
Frankenstein
Best Use of a Song
K-Pop Demon Hunters - "Golden"
Sinners - Rocky Road to Dublin
K-Pop Demon Hunters - "Your Idol"
K-Pop Demon Hunters - "Soda Pop"
Song Sung Blue - "Forever in Blue Jeans"
Best Supporting Actress
Pamela Anderson - The Naked Gun
Amy Madigan - Weapons
Teyana Taylor - One Battle After Another
Carol Kane - Caught Stealing
Gwyneth Paltrow - Marty Supreme
Best Supporting Actor
Sean Penn - One Battle After Another
Harrison Ford - Captain America: Brave New World
Jeremy Strong - Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Michael Cera - The Phoenician Scheme
Conan O'Brien - If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You
Best Casting
The Phoenician Scheme
Marty Supreme
Eddington
Caught Stealing
One Battle After Another
Best Visual Effects
Superman
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
F1
Fantastic Four: First Steps
The Minecraft Movie
Best Cinematography
Sinners
Train Dreams
One Battle After Another
The Phoenician Scheme
Caught Stealing
Best Actress
Kate Hudson - Song Sung Blue
Emily Blunt - The Smashing Machine
Rose Byrne - If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You
Emma Stone - Bugonia
Jessie Buckley - Hamnet
Best ActorDwayne "The Rock" Johnson - The Smashing Machine Jesse Plemons - Bugonia
Joaquin Phoenix - Eddington
Benicio Del Toro - The Phoenician Scheme
Hugh Jackman - Song Sung Blue
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson - One Battle After Another
Benny Safdie - The Smashing Machine
Ryan Coogler - Sinners
Craig Brewer - Song Sung Blue
Best Picture
The Smashing Machine
Sinners
K-Pop Demon Hunters
Death by Lightning
Song Sung Blue
The Phoenician Scheme
Eddington
One Battle After Another
Superman
The Naked Gun
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