If you're planning on watching the Oscars tomorrow night, but you didn't have a chance to play catch-up with most of the nominees, I'm here to help. It's no fun when you watch an awards show but you know next to nothing about the movies that are up for the big awards. So, I've collected my reviews for all nine Best Picture nominees, and I've also ranked them in order of what I'd like to see win. Number one is what I most want to win, number nine is what I least want to win. I haven't provided any commentary besides the ranking, because if you want to know what I think of each one, you can just click the link and read my original review. I've also included links to my reviews for movies nominated in other categories. Happy reading, and happy viewing tomorrow night!
Best Picture:
Best Director:
Paweł Pawlikowski (Cold War)
Best Actress:
Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Best Supporting Actress:
Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Best Original Screenplay:
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
Best Costume Design:
Mary Poppins Returns (Sandy Powell)
Best Original Song:
I’ll Fight (RBG) - Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
Best Original Score:
Isle of Dogs (Alexandre Desplat)
Best Documentary Feature:
Best Sound Mixing:
First Man (Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis)
Best Sound Editing:
A Quiet Place (Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl)
Best Visual Effects:
Avengers: Infinity War (Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy)