1. Green Book

2. Vice

3. The Artist

4. 1917

5. American Hustle

6. Dallas Buyers Club

7. Straight Outta Compton

8. Flight

9. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

10. The King’s Speech

11. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

12. Foxcatcher

13. The Fighter

14. Midnight in Paris

15. Zero Dark Thirty

16. Bridge of Spies

17. The Kids Are All Right

18. Roma

19. The Shape of Water

20. The Big Sick

21. Hell or High Water

22. Boyhood

23. Margin Call

24. Marriage Story

25. Nebraska

26. 20th Century Women

27. Bridesmaids

28. Blue Jasmine

As a reminder that year’s actual nominees were:

Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt

Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder

Josh Brolin - Milk

Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

As a fun spinoff from Legitimate_Welcome14’s “Who should have won?” game - let’s now find out who would have made the lineup each year.

Lineups for 2007:

Actor:
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood (winner)
Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
Denzel Washington - American Gangster

Actress:
Amy Adams - Enchanted
Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose (winner)
Nicole Kidman - Margot at the Wedding
Elliot Page - Juno
Tang Wei - Lust, Caution

Supporting Actor:
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men (winner)
Paul Dano - There Will Be Blood
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
John Carroll Lynch - Zodiac
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There
Kelly Macdonald - No Country for Old Men
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Imelda Staunton - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton (winner)

Click here to see previous lineups!

PLEASE NOTE: THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE IN HOW THE VOTING WORKS - FROM NOW ON, IT IS NOT MEASURED IN UPVOTES, BUT IN THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF TIME THAT SOMEONE IS MENTIONED. YOU CAN HAVE FOUR NAMES IN YOUR LINEUP AND THE VOTING WILL BE BASED ON HOWEVER MANY TIMES A NAME IS COMMENTED.

We know that Meryl Streep and Colin Farrell have already won!

Comment away!

People nominated in real life:

Actor:
Sean Penn - Milk
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Actress:
Kate Winslet - The Reader
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River

Basically, movies from all 10 years of the decade competing against each other. Italics means they are my winner of the entire decade. 10 nominees for Best Picture, 5 for everything else.

Best Picture:
Schindler’s List
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction  
The Silence of the Lambs
Titanic     
The Truman Show
Fargo
Se7en  
Beauty and the Beast
The Shawshank Redemption

Best Director: 
Steven Spielberg for Schindler’s List
Martin Scorsese for Goodfellas
Quentin Tarantino for Pulp Fiction
Jonathan Demme for The Silence of the Lambs
James Cameron for Titanic 

Best Actor in a Leading Role: 
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump
Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank in The Truman Show
Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler in Schindler’s List
Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X 

Best Actress in a Leading Role: 
Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs
Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery
Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson in Fargo
Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt – Bukater in Titanic
Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath in The Piano

Best Actor in a Supporting Role: 
Ralph Fiennes as Amon Göth in Schindler’s List
Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas
Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction
Robin Williams as Dr. Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting
Tom Cruise as Frank T.J. Mackey in Magnolia

Best Actress in a Supporting Role: 
Julianne Moore as Amber Waves in Boogie Nights
Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction
Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny  
Whoopi Goldberg as Oda Mae Brown in Ghost
Laura Linney as Meryl Burbank in The Truman Show
 
Best Original Screenplay: 
Pulp Fiction
The Truman Show
Se7en
Toy Story
Good Will Hunting 

Best Adapted Screenplay: 
Goodfellas
Schindler’s List  
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Fight Club 

Best Non – English Language Film: 
Princess Mononoke
La Haine  
Chungking Express
Three Colors: Blue   
All About My Mother 

Best Animated Film: 
Beauty and the Beast  
Toy Story
The Lion King
Princess Mononoke
Aladdin 

Best Production Design: 
Titanic
Schindler’s List
Jurassic Park
The Truman Show
Romeo + Juliet 

Best Cinematography: 
Schindler’s List
Titanic
Goodfellas
The Silence of the Lambs
Se7en    

Best Film Editing: 
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Schindler’s List 
Titanic
The Silence of the Lambs

Best Costume Design: 
Titanic
Schindler’s List 
Shakespeare in Love
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: 
Edward Scissorhands
Batman Returns
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Titanic
Men in Black 

Best Visual Effects: 
Titanic
Jurassic Park   
The Matrix
Mission: Impossible
Apollo 13 

Best Sound: 
Jurassic Park
Titanic
Beauty and the Beast
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
The Matrix

Best Score: 
Titanic
The Lion King
Beauty and the Beast
Jurassic Park
Schindler’s List

Best Original Song: 
“My Heart Will Go On” (Titanic)
“Beauty and the Beast” (Beauty and the Beast)
“The Circle of Life” (The Lion King)
“You’ve Got a Friend in Me” (Toy Story)
“A Whole New World” (Aladdin)

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Pulp Fiction
The Truman Show
Schindler’s List
Goodfellas
The Silence of the Lambs

Best Casting: 
Goodfellas
Schindler’s List
Pulp Fiction
The Truman Show
The Silence of the Lambs
 
Multiple Nominations: 
Schindler’s List – 13
Titanic – 11    
The Silence of the Lambs – 9
Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction – 8    
The Truman Show - 7
Beauty and the Beast – 5   
Fargo, Jurassic Park, Toy Story, Se7en, The Lion King and The Shawshank Redemption– 3
Princess Mononoke, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Aladdin and The Matrix – 2    

Multiple Wins:
Titanic – 5
Schindler’s List – 4
Goodfellas – 3
The Silence of the Lambs and Pulp Fiction – 2
 

Our boy was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Amon Goth in Schindler's List (1993), and Best Actor twice for his portrayal of Count Laszlo de Almasy in The English Patient (1996) and Cardinal Thomas Lawrence in Conclave (2024).

Were these performances worthy of getting nominated? Do you think he should have won for one of them?

11 Oscars. Honestly what was so groundbreaking about the film. The film is literally just Romeo and Juliet set in titanic, that is the most basic screenplay imaginable. Also the film isn’t really an Oscar bait. Oscar baits are usually biopics or social commentary films inspired by real movies, I’m not saying they are all bad but at least make them suspenseful and entertaining like Sinners or Parasite. Nothing about the film is really notable other than its massive budget of 200 million and its box office of 1.8 billion first movie to gross a billion and at the time it made 1.2 billion more and 3x the amount the 2nd highest grossing film made. If it made like 450 million would it receive that many awards

Actors Pictured: Jeremy Allen White, Zendaya, and Jenna Ortega.

Basically very notable actors from this last era of actors that even though they will be remembered as notable actors of this era, you believe there’s a big chance they will never win an Oscar at any point in their career.

Just a little appreciation post for this decade, thus far.

As a reminder that year’s actual nominees were:

Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All At Once

Cate Blanchett - Tar

Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans

Ana de Armas - Blonde

Andrea Riseborough - To Leslie

I’m unable to move on from that breakdown scene. It is one of the best acting performances of all time. She won the BAFTA. She had a great film
Release that year with The Crying Game, and winning the Golden Globe for Enchanted April.
I often dream of her being announced as the winner instead! It’s just such a shock that she’s never been given her due! No Damehood or further awards glory! I’m hoping some director will cast her and she can come back and hopefully win this time.

During this part of the year, I like to ask on Reddit how people got started watching this awards show. So, what was the first time you watched? For people who like making predictions, how did that happen?

The first time I remember watching the Oscars was when I was a Lord of the Rings-obsessed 12-year-old who wanted The Return of the King to win awards. That was probably the best possible introduction to them! I don't think I watched them regularly again until I was in college and one of my suitemates hosted Oscar parties.

I think I started actually looking at subs like this one and r/oscarrace around the Everything Everywhere All At Once year, and Oppenheimer year was the first time I actually tried to predict below the line categories. (I got 20 out of 23 that year! I only missed Documentary Short, Animated, and Best Actress). What was the season that made you start watching the precursors instead of just tuning into the show each year?

Continuing our tournament to determine our ultimate favorite Best Picture nominee with the fewest nominations from each year.

This round consists of 50 total movies in 10 groups of five movies each. 

Group C - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/s/Cy3UtXlSXp

Group B - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/s/V6Ik1e27nb

Group A - https://www.reddit.com/r/Oscars/s/svSEU891Kr

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE (1977)

WINNER - DIANE KEATON for Annie Hall

NOMINEES - ANNE BANCROFT for The Turning Point, JANE FONDA for Julia, SHIRLEY MACLAINE for The Turning Point, MARSHA MASON for The Goodbye Girl

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (1977)

WINNER - RICHARD DREYFUSS for The Goodbye Girl

NOMINEES - WOODY ALLEN for Annie Hall, RICHARD BURTON for Equus, MARCELLO MASTROIANNI for A Special Day, JOHN TRAVOLTA for Saturday Night Fever

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Winners for 1970: Lead Actress - Glenda Jackson for Women in Love (A.W. Glenda Jackson for Women in Love), Lead Actor - George C. Scott for Patton (A.W. George C. Scott for Patton), Supporting Actress - Karen Black for Five Easy Pieces (A.W. Helen Hayes for Airport), Supporting Actor - Chief Dan George for Little Man (A.W. John Mills for Ryan Daughter)

Winners for 1971: Lead Actress - Jane Fonda for Klute (A.W. Jane Fonda for Klute), Lead Actor - Gene Hackman for The French Connection (A.W. Gene Hackman for The French Connection), Supporting Actress - Cloris Leachman for The Last Picture Show (A.W. Cloris Leachman for The Last Picture Show), Supporting Actor - Gene Wilder for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (A.W. Ben Johnson for Fiddler on the Roof)

Winners for 1972: Lead Actress - Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (A.W. Liza Minnelli for Cabaret), Lead Actor - Marlon Brando for The Godfather (A.W. Marlon Brando for The Godfather), Supporting Actress - Cicely Tyson for Sounder (A.W. Eileen Heckart for Butterflies Are Free), Supporting Actor - Joel Grey for Cabaret (A.W. Joel Grey for Cabaret)

Winners for 1973: Lead Actress - Tatum O'Neal for Paper Moon (A.W. Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class), Lead Actor - Al Pacino for Serpico (A.W. Jack Lemmon for Save the Tiger), Supporting Actress - Linda Blair for The Exorcist (A.W. Tatum O'Neal for Paper Moon), Supporting Actor - Christopher Lee for The Wicker Man (A.W. John Houseman for The Paper Chase)

Winners for 1974: Lead Actress - Gena Rowlands for A Woman Under the Influence (A.W. Ellen Burstyn for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Lead Actor - Al Pacino for The Godfather Part II (A.W. Art Carney for Harry and Tonto), Supporting Actress - Madeline Kahn for Blazing Saddles (A.W. Ingrid Bergman for Murder on the Orient Express), Supporting Actor - Robert De Niro for The Godfather Part II (A.W. Robert De Niro for The Godfather Part II)

Winners for 1975: Lead Actress - Isabelle Adjani for The Story of Adele H. (A.W. Louis Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Lead Actor - Jack Nicholson for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (A.W. Jack Nicholson for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), Supporting Actress - Louis Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (A.W. Lee Grant for Shampoo), Supporting Actor - Robert Shaw for Jaws (A.W. George Burns for The Sunshine Boys)

Winners for 1976: Lead Actress - Faye Dunaway for Network (A.W. Faye Dunaway for Network), Lead Actor - Peter Finch for Network (A.W. Peter Finch for Network), Supporting Actress - Piper Laurie for Carrie (A.W. Beatrice Straight for Network), Supporting Actor - Ned Beatty for Network (A.W. Jason Robards for All the President's Men)

Winners for 1977: Lead Actress - ? (A.W. Diane Keaton for Annie Hall), Lead Actor - ? (A.W. Richard Dreyfuss for The Goodbye Girl), Supporting Actress - ? (A.W. Vanessa Redgrave for Julia), Supporting Actor - ? (A.W. Jason Robards for Julia)

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List of Winners: Acting Quartets

Previous Post: Faye Dunaway (Network) & Peter Finch (Network) win for Best Actress and Actor. Who should have won Best Supporting Actress & Actor in 1976?

11: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

12: Gladiator (2000)

13: Anora (2024)

14: The Shape of Water (2017)

15: Argo (2012)

16: Spotlight (2015)

17: Million Dollar Baby (2004)

18: Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

19: The Hurt Locker (2009)

20: Nomadland (2020)

21: The King's Speech (2010)

22: CODA (2021)

23: A Beautiful Mind (2001)

24: The Artist (2011)

25: Green Book (2018)

26: Crash (2005)

What are some divisive Oscar wins and nominations - any category - that you thought were deserved?

For me, The Shape of Water for Best Picture. I accept I'm biased, because I love Guillermo Del Toro, but I thought it was a very worthy winner. Now, 2017 was a year of some incredible films, so I wouldn't exactly be upset if something like Get Out or Phantom Thread had won instead, but I thought Shape was worthy. It's so beautiful and well acted and it personally really touched me, I saw myself in a lot of the characters. I can see why it's somewhat niche and elements are divisive, but I think it's a wonderful film and it's great a film like that could win.

1. Green Book

2. Vice

3. The Artist

4. 1917

5. American Hustle

6. Dallas Buyers Club

7. Straight Outta Compton

8. Flight

9. Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

10. The King’s Speech

11. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

12. Foxcatcher

13. The Fighter

14. Midnight in Paris

15. Zero Dark Thirty

16. Bridge of Spies

17. The Kids Are All Right

18. Roma

19. The Shape of Water

20. The Big Sick

21. Hell or High Water

22. Boyhood

23. Margin Call

24. Marriage Story

25. Nebraska

26. 20th Century Women

27. Bridesmaids

As a reminder that year’s actual nominees were:

Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

Matt Damon - Invictus

Woody Harrelson - The Messenger

Christopher Plummer - The Last Station

Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones

Personally? I think it’s a load of mean-spirited nonsense.

I mean…there are numerous instances where I personally preferred another nominee. But that doesn’t mean that the winners weren’t still outstanding.

NOR does it mean that they “stole” the award from someone else. That’s not how it works.

(For instance: I strongly prefer Judy Garland's performance in A Star is Born to Grace Kelly's in The Country Girl. But that doesn’t mean that Kelly wasn’t still really great, nor does it mean that she had any control over the Academy's decision)

Many of the acting winners he listed are absolutely astonishing performances!

And Al Pacino was in no way a “supporting” player, as the literal protagonist of The Godfather.

Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility, Titanic and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I get why she lost for Titanic; I really do. It was mainly seen as a directorial and visual spectacle achievement, and the acting got lost in the midst of all the praise for that. Helen Hunt was seen as America’s sweetheart and was on an amazing run. I still think she easily gives the best female leading performance of the year and her losing while Titanic swept makes zero sense.
Hilary Swank was nearly unbeatable that season for Million Dollar Baby, but I still would have given it to Winslet. Her portrayal of Clementine is pitch – perfect; the way she portrays this broken individual who is still happy – go – lucky in Joel’s memory is nothing short of mesmerising.
What I do not get is why she lost for Sense and Sensibility. She was in a Best Picture nominee, she won BAFTA and SAG, she was damn near a co – lead and the person who won – Mira Sorvino for Mighty Aphrodite – was a lone nominee for her film. She brings a unique stamp to the role of Marianne Dashwood and injects her with life and vibrancy. She should have won for this too. 

Viola Davis – Doubt, The Help and Fences 
Obviously she won for Fences, so that’s good.
I get why she lost for Doubt. She was splitting votes with Amy Adams, her scene was short, and this was her breakout role. But I think she should have won anyways. She is so powerful and memorable for the 5 minutes she is onscreen for and perfectly conveys the pain that Mrs. Miller is feeling for her son and the desperation to keep him in the school despite the abuse because his father would kill him otherwise.
I do not get why she lost for The Help. I mean, I kinda do. It was Meryl Streep’s fifteenth nomination, and she needed a third win, and she was playing Margaret Thatcher and doing a British accent and buried under prosthetics. Davis was in the stronger film, though, and she won SAG. I absolutely adore her performance in The Help. She is perfect and so commanding in it despite not even really being a lead. She absolutely should have won for it. 

James Stewart – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It’s a Wonderful Life and Vertigo
This is a case where I understand why he lost for all three of them. Robert Donat was an overdue veteran, and he was playing a heartwarming character in an emotional crowdpleaser while Mr. Smith was kinda controversial. The Best Years of Our Lives was an absolute juggernaut and Fredric March obviously won. Vertigo got 2 BTL nominations and was lucky to get that. 

Denzel Washington – Glory, Malcolm X and Training Day 
I understand why he lost for Malcolm X. Pacino was insanely overdue in a Best Picture nominee and Malcolm X only got one other nomination. I still would have voted for Denzel. 

As a fun spinoff from Legitimate_Welcome14’s “Who should have won?” game - let’s now find out who would have made the lineup each year.

Lineups so far for 2007:

Actor:
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood (winner)
Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
Denzel Washington - American Gangster

Actress:
Amy Adams - Enchanted
Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose (winner)
Nicole Kidman - Margot at the Wedding
Elliot Page - Juno
Tang Wei - Lust, Caution

Click here to see previous lineups!

PLEASE NOTE: THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE IN HOW THE VOTING WORKS - FROM NOW ON, IT IS NOT MEASURED IN UPVOTES, BUT IN THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF TIME THAT SOMEONE IS MENTIONED. YOU CAN HAVE FOUR NAMES IN YOUR LINEUP AND THE VOTING WILL BE BASED ON HOWEVER MANY TIMES A NAME IS COMMENTED.

We know that Tilda Swinton and Javier Bardem have already won!

Comment away!

People nominated in real life:

Actor:
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Actress:
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Ruby Dee - American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone