90th Academy Awards: My Choices

Earlier today, I gave my predictions for who/what will win at this year's 90th Academy Awards.

This little bit is for the ones that I would have voted for and would like to see win, which is a different matter.  It's all just for fun.  Those with an asterisk (*) are also predictions

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

Edith + Eddie

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Last Men in Aleppo

LIVE-ACTION SHORT

DeKalb Elementary*

ANIMATED SHORT

Lou

ANIMATED FEATURE

Loving Vincent

VISUAL EFFECTS

Kong: Skull Island

SOUND MIXING

Dunkirk*

SOUND EDITING

Dunkirk*

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Darkest Hour

ORIGINAL SCORE

Phantom Thread

ORIGINAL SONG

Mystery of Love (Call Me By Your Name)

MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Darkest Hour*

FILM EDITING

Dunkirk

COSTUME DESIGN

Phantom Thread*

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Dunkirk

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

James Ivory (Call Me By Your Name)*

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

The Insult (Lebanon)*

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Allison Janney (I, Tonya)*

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Christopher Plummer (All the Money in the World)

LEAD ACTRESS

Margot Robbie (I, Tonya)

LEAD ACTOR

Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)*

DIRECTOR

Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)

PICTURE

Dunkirk*

Some of those choices were hard.  I loved Coco, but think in terms of animation, Loving Vincent was more impressive even if the story was weak.  Some were easy: I struggle to actually remember Remember Me, while I find Mystery of Love deeply haunting.

I also do not get the love Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri got.  I thought it was terrible, and Sam Rockwell's character was cartoonish.  I found the whole plot wildly unbelievable: Rockwell's character literally throws someone out a window, keeps beating him up, with many witnesses including the new Sheriff, and he's not arrested?

I thought Get Out was OK, but nothing to the degree that many others push me into thinking it is.

Well, to each his/her own, I suppose.