Final Predictions for the 94th Academy Awards:

Best Picture:

Will win: The Power of the Dog

Could win: CODA

Should win: The Power of the Dog

Best Director:

Will win: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog

Should win: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog.

Best Actress:

Will win: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Could win: Nicole Kidman, Being The Ricardos

Should win: Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter

Best Actor:

Will win: Will Smith, King Richard

Could win: Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog

Should win: Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actress:

Will win: Ariana DeBose, Westside Story

Could win: Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog

Should win: Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog

Best Supporting Actor:

Will win: Troy Kotsur, CODA

Could win: Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

Should win: Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Will win: The Power of the Dog

Could win: CODA

Should win: The Power of the Dog

Best Original Screenplay:

Will win: Belfast

Could win: Licorice Pizza

Should win: Licorice Pizza

Best Cinematography:

Will win: Dune

Could win: The Power of the Dog

Should win: Dune

Best Costume Design:

Will Win: Cruella

Could win: Dune

Should win: Dune

Best Film Editing:

Will win: Dune

Could win: The Power of the Dog

Should win: The Power of the Dog

Best Hair and Makeup:

Will win: The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Could win: Dune

Should win: Dune

Best Production Design:

Will win: Dune

Could win: Nightmare Alley

Should win: Dune

Best Score:

Will win: Dune

Could win: The Power of the Dog

Should win: Dune

Best Song:

Will win: No Time To Die

Could Win: Dos Oruguitas, Encanto

Should win: No Time To Die

Best Visual Effects:

Will win: Dune

Should win: Dune

Best Sound:

Will win: Dune

Should win: Dune

Best Animated Feature:

Will win: Encanto

Could win: The Mitchell’s vs the Machines

Should win: The Mitchell’s vs the Machines

Best Documentary Feature:

Will Win: Summer of Soul

Could Win: Flee

Should win: Summer of Soul

Best International Feature:

Will win: Drive My Car

Could win: The Worst Person In The World

Should win: Drive My Car.

Film Review: Drive My Car (2021)

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s film Drive My Car is one of the most haunting films about grief, art imitating life and the mystery of human beings that I have ever seen. Based on the short story of the same name my one of the great authors Murakami, the slow burn plot follows the journey of a screenwriter/actor mourning the recent death of his wife who is directing a play of Uncle Vanya and through a growing bond with his young female driver simultaneously comes to terms with his wife’s death and uncovers mysteries she left behind. The film is very long, almost 3 hours, though never feels unnecessary, each scene building slowly towards a profound conclusion that brought me to tears. As an adaptation of a short story the film’s power is less in its visuals and more in its dialogue, slowly revealing itself like a novel. Ryusuke cleverly intertwines the lines from Uncle Vanya into the narrative as the main character rehearses the lines via a tape in the car. As the production of the play takes places the lines from the play seem to mirror the interior lives of characters in the film. Chekhov’s play is not for the faint heart and grapples with the mysteries and suffering of life as much as the film does. In reserved Japanese emotions we incrementally peel away layers of meaning to get a portrait of heartbreak, of love and of living on after the death of a loved one. Epic in its scope and study of human emotions the final destination will confront you with hard truths as it comforts you with wisdom. This is a long film full of mysteries to solve and hidden meanings to analyse. The film makes you work as a viewer, but if you submit yourself to its runtime and enigma the reward is profound. With Sonyas monologue from Uncle Vanya, one of the most profound and moving in all literate, as an epitaph to the film we come to terms with our suffering and sorrow: ‘And when our final hour comes, we shall meet it humbly, and there beyond the grave, we shall say we know suffering and tears, that our life was bitter. And God will pity us. And then dear, dear Uncle we shall enter on a bright and beautiful life. We shall rejoice and look back upon our grief here. A tender smile – and we shall rest’. One of the best films of the year 10/10

94th Academy Awards Final Nomination Predictions

Final Predictions for the 94th Academy Awards:

Best Picture:

1. The Power of the Dog

2. Belfast

3. West Side Story

4. Dune

5. Licorice Pizza

6. King Richard

7. CODA

8. Tick, tick… Boom!

9. Drive My Car

10. Don’t Look Up

Alt: Nightmare Alley

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Best Director:

1. Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog

2. Denis Villeneuve, Dune

3. Kenneth Branagh, Belfast

4. Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza

5. Steven Speilberg, West Side Story

Alt: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car

.

Best Actress

1. Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter

2. Nicole Kidman, Being The Ricardos

3. Kirsten Stewart, Spencer

4. Lady Gaga, House of Gucci

5. Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Alt: Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza

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Best Actor:

1. Will Smith, King Richard

2. Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog

3. Andrew Garfield, tick, tick… BOOM!

4. Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth

5. Peter Dinklage, Cyrano

Alt: Javier Bardem, Being The Ricardos

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Best Supporting Actress:

1. Ariana DeBose, West Side Story

2. Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog

3. Caitriona Balfe, Belfast

4. Ruth Negga, Passing

5. Cate Blanchett, Nightmare Alley

Alt: Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard

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Best Supporting Actor:

1. Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

2. Ciaran Hinds, Belfast

3. Troy Kotsur, CODA

4. Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza

5. Mike Faist, West Side Story

Alt: Jamie Dornan, Belfast

.

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1. The Power of the Dog

2. The Lost Daughter

3. CODA

4. Dune

5. Drive My Car

Alt: West Side Story

.

Best Original Screenplay:

1. Belfast

2. Licorice Pizza

3. King Richard

4. Being The Ricardos

5. Don’t Look Up

Alt: Parallel Mothers

.

Best Documentary:

1. Summer of Soul

2. Flee

3. Procession

4. Ascension

5. The Rescue

Alt: The First Wave

.

Best Foreign Language Film:

1. Drive My Car

2. Flee

3. The Worst Person In The World

4. A Hero

5. The Hand of God

Alt: Compartment No. 6

.

Best Animated Film:

1. The Mitchells vs the Machines

2. Encanto

3. Luca

4. Flee

5. Raya and the Last Dragon

Alt: Sing 2

.

Best Cinematography:

1. The Power of the Dog

2. Dune

3. The Tragedy of Macbeth

4. Belfast

5. West Side Story

Alt: Nightmare Alley

.

Best Costume Design:

1. Dune

2. Cruella

3. West Side Story

4. Nightmare Alley

5. Cyrano

Alt: House of Gucci

.

Best Film Editing:

1. Dune

2. The Power of the Dog

3. Belfast

4. Licorice Pizza

5. West Side Story

Alt: King Richard

.

Best Production Design:

1. Dune

2. Nightmare Alley

3. The French Dispatch

4. Nightmare Alley

5. The Tragedy of Macbeth

Alt: Belfast

.

Best Sound:

1. Dune

2. West Side Story

3. No Time To Die

4. The Power of the Dog

5. Tick, tick… Boom!

Alt: Spiderman: No Way Home

.

Best Hair And Makeup:

1. Dune

2. The Eyes of Tammy Faye

3. Cruella

4. House of Gucci

5. Cyrano

Alt: Nightmare Alley

.

Best Original Score:

1. Dune

2. The Power of the Dog

3. The French Dispatch

4. Parallel Mothers

5. No Time To Die

Alt: Don’t Look Up

.

Best Song:

1. No Time To Die, No Time To Die

2. Encanto, Dos Oruguitas

3. King Richard, Be Alive

4. Belfast, Down To Joy

5. Don’t Look Up, Just Look Up

Alt: Respect, I Am Signing My Way Home

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Best Visual Effects:

1. Dune

2. Spiderman: No Way Home

3. Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

4. The Matrix Resurrections

5. No Time To Die

Alt: Godzilla vs. Kong

Film Review: Don’t Look Up (2021)

Don’t Look Up has to be the most disappointing film of 2021. With some of the best actors in Hollywood, Adam McKay the director of Vice and the Big Short and an important and timely premise it promised to be the Dr. Strangelove of our time. I wanted to love this film. How did it end up so horribly wrong? In one of my all time fav films, the 1964 black comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick addressed one of the most dire issues of the time: mutually assured destruction through nuclear war between the US and Russia, through comedy. The film artfully reduced the two opposing superpowers into squabbling ego driven children, loaded with dark political satire, a comedy of errors that never lost sight of what was really at stake, with one of the best endings in film history. Hoping to be the Strangelove of our time McKay’s vision of our modern world faced with the impending annihilation from an asteroid which is a metaphor for our global inaction on climate change. Instead of biting political satire we get a insufferable movie long joke that gets less and less funny. Trivialising the dire climate change to the point of a cartoon with a totally ridiculous ending. The brilliant cast cannot save the film from its heavy handed metaphor, cynicism and tritness. It revels in its own ugliness and itself becomes part of the endless culture war it portrays. The people who need change their beliefs and behaviours won’t watch this film as it’s smugness and depiction of them will turn them off. And for the rest of us who actually care about the situation it leaves us with a hollow joke that isn’t funny or true. Cheap, crass, cynical and most depressing of all a great missed opportunity. 5/10

Film Review: The Lost Daughter (2021)

Maggie Gyllenhaal with her directorial debut has created a film in ‘The Lost Daughter’ that is so unsettling that it could be considered one of the best psychological horror films of 2021. The film centres on a middle aged woman on holiday in Greece who becomes fixated on young mother she encounters on the beach which slowly reveals her tortured past with motherhood. Olivia Colman once again proves she is one of the best actresses in Hollywood with a performance as nuanced, tragic and complex as her Oscar winning role in ‘The Favourite’. Perhaps the best part of the film is its meditations on motherhood itself. Unique among films about motherhood it shows a woman who buckles under the pressure of being a ‘good mother’ and how unattainable the ideal of motherhood can be. As a son I found myself being confronted with the notion that sometimes mothers can’t bare to be around their own children which reminded me of the film ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’. Perhaps most mothers at some point fantasies about escaping the pressures of motherhood. The film also mediates on the cost of selfish acts and the idea that the grass isn’t always greener. The Lost Daughter shows us the unsettling grey truth of motherhood between the Maddona and Whore dichotomy of our culture. There is no such thing as a bad mother or good mother just degrees of women coping and struggling with an unrealistic ideal. The film builds through powerful flashbacks of Olivia Colman’s past to a tragic ending. A film not for easy viewing or easy answers. But if you brave the grey world of The Lost Daughter you will find a film with a powerful message and and even more powerful performance. Highly recommend it. 9/10

Movie Reviews 2021

Updated Top Films of 2021:

1. The Power of the Dog 10/10

2. Dune 10/10

3. Drive My Car 10/10

4. West Side Story 10/10

5. Belfast 9/10

6. Licorice Pizza 9/10

7. Flee 9/10

8. Nitram 9/10

9. The Tragedy of Macbeth 9/10

10. Procession 9/10

11. The Lost Daughter 9/10

12. The Mitchell’s Vs The Machines 9/10

13. The Green Knight 9/10

14. Ascension 8/10

15. CODA 8/10

16. Nightmare Alley 8/10

17. Tick, tick, BOOM! 8/10

18. Passing 8/10

19. King Richard 8/10

20. Luca 8/10

21. The French Dispatch 8/10

22. Spider-Man: No Way Home 8/10

23. In The Same Breath 8/10

24. Encanto 8/10

25. White Tiger 7/10

26. Pray Away 7/10

27. Val 7/10

28. Dance of the 41 7/10

29. Matrix Resurrections 7/10

30. Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 7/10

31. Fauci 7/10

32. The Eyes of Tammy Faye 7/10

33. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie 7/10

34. The Last Duel 7/10

35. Cruella 7/10

36. The Dig 7/10

37. I Care A Lot 7/10

38. No Time To Die 6/10

39. Eternals 6/10

40. Being The Ricardos 6/10

41. Hating Peter Thatchell 6/10

42. Coming 2 America 6/10

43. House of Gucci 5/10

44. Don’t Look Up 5/10

45. Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed 5/10

46. Jungle Cruise 5/10

47. 2067 4/10

48. Thunder Force 4/10

49. The Woman In The Widow 3/10

Final Predictions for the 93rd Academy Awards:

Best Picture: Nomadland

Best Director: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland

Best Actress: Francess McDormand, Nomadland

Best Actor: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Supporting Actress: Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Adapted Screenplay: Nomadland

Best Original Screenplay: Promising Young Woman

Best Documentary: Collective

Best Foreign Language Film: Another Round

Best Animated Film: Soul

Best Cinematography: Nomadland

Best Costume Design: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Film Editing: Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Production Design: Mank

Best Sound: Sound of Metal

Best Hair And Makeup: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Original Score: Soul

Best Song: Husavik, Eurovision

Best Visual Effects: Tenet

Oscar Predictions December 2020

Oscar Predictions December 2020:

Best Picture:

1. Nomadland

2. Minari

3. Mank

4. Trial of the Chicago 7

5. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

6. Never Rarely Sometimes Always

7. First Cow

8. The Sound of Metal

9. One Night In Miami

10. Soul

Best Director:

1. Chloe Zhao, Nomadland

2. David Fincher, Mank

3. Lee Issac Chung, Minari

4. Regina King, One Night In Miami

5. Kelly Reichardt, First Cow

Best Actress:

1. Francess McDormand, Nomadland

2. Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

3. Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

4. Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of A Woman

5. Sidney Flanigan, Never, Rarely, Sometimes Always

Best Actor:

1. Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

2. Anthony Hopkins, The Father

3. Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods

4. Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal

5. Gary Oldman, Mank

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

2. Olivia Colman, The Father

3. Amanda Seyfried, Mank

4. Ellen Burstyn, Pieces of a Woman

5. Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Movie Film

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

2. Leslie Odom Jr, One Night In Miami

3. Paul Raci, Sound of Metal

4. Bill Murray, On The Rocks

5. David Strathairn, Nomadland

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1. Nomadland

2. First Cow

3. One Night In Miami

4. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

5. I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Best Original Screenplay:

1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always

2. Trial of the Chicago 7

3. Minari

4. Mank

5. Promising Young Woman

Best Documentary:

1. Collective

2. Time

3. Dick Johnson Is Dead

4. Welcome To Chechnya

5. City Hall

Best Cinematography:

1. Nomadland

2. Mank

3. Tenet

4. First Cow

5. News of the World

Best Costume Design:

1. Mank

2. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

3. Emma

4. Ammonite

5. News of the World

Best Film Editing:

1. Nomadland

2. Mank

3. Trial of the Chicago 7

4. Minari

5. Tenet

Best Production Design:

1. Mank

2. Tenet

3. Emma

4. Mulan

5. News of the World

Best Sound:

1. Tenet

2. Sound of Metal

3. Mank

4. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

5. Soul

Oscar Predictions November 2020:

Best Picture:

1. Nomadland

2. Mank

3. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

4. One Night In Miami

5. The Father

6. Trial of the Chicago 7

7. Soul

8. Minari

9. News of the World

10. Da 5 Bloods

Best Director:

1. Chloe Zhao, Nomadland

2. David Fincher, Mank

3. Regina King, One Night In Miami

4. Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods

5. George C. Wolf, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Actress:

1. Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

2. Francess McDormand, Nomadland

3. Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of A Woman

4. Kate Winslet, Ammonite

5. Michelle Pfeiffer, French Exit

Best Actor:

1. Anthony Hopkins, The Father

2. Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

3. Gary Oldman, Mank

4. Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods

5. Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Olivia Colman, The Father

2. Ellen Burstyn, Pieces of a Woman

3. Amanda Seyfried, Mank

4. Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

5. Saorise Ronan, Ammonite

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Leslie Odom Jr, One Night In Miami

2. Charles Dance, Mank

3. David Strathairn, Nomadland

4. Mark Rylance, Trial of the Chicago 7

5. Bill Murray, On The Rocks

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1. Nomadland

2. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

3. One Night In Miami

4. The Father

5. News of the World

Best Original Screenplay:

1. Mank

2. Trial of the Chicago 7

3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always

4. Soul

5. Minari

October Oscar Predictions

Early Oscar Predictions October 2020:

Best Picture:

1. Nomadland

2. Mank

3. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

4. One Night In Miami

5. Soul

6. Trial of the Chicago 7

7. The Father

8. Hillbilly Elegy

9. News of the World

10. Da 5 Bloods

Best Director:

1. Chloe Zhao, Nomadland

2. David Fincher, Mank

3. Regina King, One Night In Miami

4. Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods

5. Paul Greengrass, News of the World

Best Actress:

1. Francess McDormand, Nomadland

2. Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

3. Amy Adams, Hillbilly Elegy

4. Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of A Woman

5. Kate Winslet, Ammonite

Best Actor:

1. Anthony Hopkins, The Father

2. Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods

3. Gary Oldman, Mank

4. Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

5. Tom Hanks, News of the World

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy

2. Olivia Colman, The Father

3. Ellen Burstyn, Pieces of a Woman

4. Saoirse Ronan, Ammonite

5. Amanda Seyfried, Mank

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

2. Leslie Odom Jr, One Night In Miami

3. Charles Dance, Mank

4. David Strathairn, Nomadland

5. Mark Rylance, Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1. Nomadland

2. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

3. One Night In Miami

4. The Father

5. Hillbilly Elegy

Best Original Screenplay:

1. Mank

2. Trial of the Chicago 7

3. Soul

4. Minari

5. Da 5 Bloods

My Top 9 Favourite Living Actresses

1. Cate Blanchett

2. Tilda Swinton

3. Maggie Smith

4. Meryl Streep

5. Kate Winslet

6. Judi Dench

7. Sigourney Weaver

8. Julianne Moore

9. Saoirse Ronan

Early Oscar Predictions September 2020:

Best Picture:

1. Nomadland

2. Mank

3. One Night In Miami

4. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

5. Hillbilly Elegy

6. Trial Of The Chicago 7

7. The French Dispatch

8. Dune

9. News Of The World

10. The Father

Best Director:

1. Chloe Zhao, Nomadland

2. David Fincher, Mank

3. Regina King, One Night In Miami

4. Denis Villeneuve, Dune

5. Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch

Best Actress:

1. Francess McDormand, Nomadland

2. Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

3. Kate Winslet, Ammonite

4. Vanessa Kirby, Pieces Of A Woman

Best Actor:

1. Delroy Linda, Da 5 Bloods

2. Gary Oldman, Mank

3. Anthony Hopkins, The Father

4. Timothee Chalamet, Dune

5. Tom Hanks, News of the World

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy

2. Olivia Colman, The Father

3. Saoirse Ronan, Ammonite

4. Amanda Seyfried, Mank

5. Zendaya, Dune

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Charles Dance, Mank

2. Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

3. Lucas Hedges, French Exit

4. David Strathairn, Nomadland

5. Leslie Odom Jr, One Night In Miami

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1. Nomadland

2. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

3. Hillbilly Elegy

4. One Night In Miami

5. Westside Story

Best Original Screenplay:

1. Mank

2. Trial of the Chicago 7

3. The French Dispatch

4. Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always

5. On The Rocks

Top 20 Millennial Actors and Actresses (1980-1996)

Top 10 Millennial Actors (born 1980-1996)

  1. Timothee Chalamet (1995)
  2. Ryan Gosling (1980)
  3. Jake Gyllenhaal (1980)
  4. Eddie Redmayne (1982)
  5. Joesph Gordon Levitt (1981)
  6. Adam Driver (1983)
  7. Lucas Hedges (1996)
  8. Andrew Garfield (1983)
  9. Tom Holland (1996)
  10. Dev Patel (1990)
  11. Rami Malek (1981)
  12. Robert Pattinson (1984)
  13. Daniel Kaluuya (1989)
  14. Nicholas Hoult (1989)
  15. Ezra Miller (1992)
  16. Paul Dano (1984)
  17. Dane DeHaan (1986)
  18. Domhnall Gleeson (1983)
  19. Jesse Eisenberg (1983)
  20. Freddie Highmore (1992)

Top 10 Millennial Actresses (born 1980-1996)

  1. Saoirse Ronan (1994)
  2. Natalie Portman (1981)
  3. Emma Stone (1988)
  4. Rooney Mara (1985)
  5. Jennifer Lawrence (1990)
  6. Michelle Williams (1980)
  7. Margot Robbie (1990)
  8. Lupita Nyong’o (1983)
  9. Brie Larson (1989)
  10. Alicia Vikander (1988)
  11. Carey Mulligan (1985)
  12. Scarlett Johansson (1984)
  13. Felicity Jones (1983)
  14. Ellen Page (1987)
  15. Kiera Knightley (1985)
  16. Florence Pugh (1996)
  17. Amanda Seyfried (1985)
  18. Emily Blunt (1983)
  19. Anne Hathaway (1982)
  20. Abigail Breslin (1996)

2020 Movie Reviews

1. Nomadland 10/10

2. Collective 10/10

3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always 10/10

4. Soul 10/10

5. Lovers Rock 10/10

6. Sound of Metal 9/10

7. First Cow 9/10

8. Mank 9/10

9. Promising Young Woman 9/10

10. Mangrove 9/10

11. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 9/10

12. Da 5 Bloods 8/10

13. The Trial Of The Chicago 7 8/10

14. One Night In Miami 8/10

15. Ammonite 8/10

16. Palm Springs 8/10

17. News of the World 8/10

18. Pieces of a Woman 8/10

19. Bad Education 8/10

20. David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet 8/10

21. The Social Dilemma 8/10

22. His House 8/10

23. Disclosure 7/10

24. The Prom 7/10

25. The Boys In The Band 7/10

26. Tenet 7/10

27. A Secret Love 7/10

28. Circus of Books 7/10

29. Emma 7/10

30. Mucho, Mucho Amour 7/10

31. The Old Guard 6/10

32. Mulan 6/10

33. Becoming 6/10

34. Midnight Sky 5/10

35. Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga 5/10

36. Wonder Woman 84 4/10

37. Hillbilly Elegy 3/10

38. Rebecca 2/10

Most Anticipated Films 2020

Most Anticipated Films 2020:

  1. Nomadland (director: Chloe Zhao, starring: Frances McDormand)
  2. Dune (director: Dennis Villenevue, starring: Timothee Chalamet)
  3. Ammonite (starring: Kate Winslet, Saorise Ronan)
  4. Never, Sometimes, Always
  5. Mank (director: David Fincher, starring: Gary Oldman)
  6. The French Dispatch (director: Wes Anderson, starring: Timothee Chalamet, Tilda Swinton)
  7. Hillbilly Elegy (director: Ron Howard, starring: Glenn Close, Amy Adams)
  8. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (director: Charlie Kauffman)
  9. Westside Story (director: Steven Spielberg)
  10. Soul (Pixar film)
  11. The Father (starring: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Coleman)
  12. Trial of Chicago 7 (director: Aaron Sorkin, starring: Eddie Redmayne)
  13. News of the World (director: Paul Greengrass, starring: Tom Hanks)
  14. Next Goal Wins (director: Taika Waititi, starring: Michael Fassbender, Elizabeth Moss)
  15. Rebecca (starring: Armie Hammer)
  16. Stillwater (director: Tom McCarthy)
  17. Nightmare Alley (director: Guillermo Del Toro, starring: Cate Blanchett, Bradley Cooper)
  18. No Time To Die (starring: Daniel Craig)
  19. The Boys In The Band (director: Joe Mantello, starring: Jim Parsons, Matt Bomer)
  20. On The Rocks (director: Sophia Coppola, starring: Bill Murray)
  21. Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
  22. The Prom (director: Ryan Murphy, starring: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman)
  23. In The Heights (director: Lin Manuel Miranda)
  24. Respect (starring: Jennifer Hudson)
  25. The Eyes of Tammy Faye (starring: Jessica Chastain)
  26. Death On The Nile
  27. The Woman In The Window (Starring: Amy Adams)
  28. Palm Springs (starring: Andy Samberg)
  29. Wonder Woman 1984
  30. Black Widow

Final Predictions For the 92nd Academy Award Winners

FINAL PREDICTIONS FOR THE 92ND ACADEMY AWARD

BEST PICTURE
Will Win: 1917
Should Win: Parasite
BEST DIRECTOR
Will Win: Sam Mendes, 1917
Should Win: Bong Joon Ho, Parasite 
BEST ACTOR
Will Win: Joaquin Pheonix, Joker
Should Win: Joaquin Pheonix, Joker
BEST ACTRESS
Will Win: Renee Zellweger, Judy
Should Win: Renee Zellweger, Judy
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Will Win: Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Should Win: Al Pacino, The Irishman
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Will Win: Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Should Win: Laura Dern, Marriage Story
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Will Win: Jo Jo Rabbit
Should Win: The Irishman 
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Will Win: Parasite
Should Win: Parasite
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Will Win: Klaus
Should Win: Toy Story 4
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Will Win: American Factory
Should Win: American Factory
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Will Win: Parasite
Should Win: Parasite
BEST FILM EDITING
Will Win: Parasite
Should Win: Parasite
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Will Win: 1917
Should Win: Parasite
BEST CINEMATOGRAHPY
Will Win: 1917 
Should Win: 1917
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Will Win: Little Women
Should Win: Little Women
BEST MAKE UP
Will Win: Bombshell
Should Win: Bombshell
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Will Win: Joker
Should Win: 1917
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Will Win: I’m Gonna Love Me Again, Rocketman
Should Win: I’m Gonna Love Me Again, Rocketman
BEST SOUND MIXING
Will Win: 1917
Should Win: 1917
BEST SOUND EDITING
Will Win: 1917
Should Win: 1917
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Will Win: 1917 
Should Win: The Irishman

Final Predictions For the 92nd Academy Award Nominations

FINAL PREDICTIONS FOR THE 92ND ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS 

88/109 = 80.7% CORRECT PRECIDTIONS 

RANK BEST PICTURE
1. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
2. The Irishman
3. 1917
4. Parasite
5. Marriage Story
6. Jojo Rabbit
7. Joker
8. Little Women
9. Ford Vs Ferrari
10. Knives Out
9/9
Alternative: The Farewell
RANK BEST DIRECTOR
1. Bong Joon-Ho, Parasite
2. Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
3. Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
4. Sam Mendes, 1917
5. Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story x
4/5 Missing: Todd Phillips, Joker
Alternative: Todd Phillips, Joker
RANK BEST ACTOR
1. Joaquin Pheonix, Joker
2. Adam Driver, Marriage Story
3. Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
4. Antonio Banderas, Pain And Glory
5. Robert De Niro, The Irishman x
4/5 Missing: Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes
Alternative: Taron Egerton, Rocketman
RANK BEST ACTRESS
1. Renee Zellweger, Judy
2. Charlize Theron, Bombshell
3. Scarlet Johansson, Marriage Story
4. Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
5. Awkwafina, The Farewell x
4/5 Missing: Cynthia Erivo, Harriet
Alternative: Lupita Nyong’o, Us
RANK BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
2. Al Pacino, The Irishman
3. Joe Pesci, The Irishman
4. Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood
5. Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
5/5
Alternative: Song Kang Ho Parasite
RANK BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Laura Dern, Marriage Story
2. Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers X
3. Margot Robbie, Bombshell
4. Florence Pugh, Little Women
5. Zhao Shuzhen, The Farewell X
3/5, Missing: Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell, Scarlet Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
Alternative: Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
RANK BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 100
1. The Irishman
2. Jojo Rabbit
3. Little Women
4. The Two Popes
5. Joker
5/5
Alternative: A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood
RANK BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
2. Marriage Story
3. Parasite
4. 1917
5. The Farewell x
4/5 Missing, Knives Out
Alternative: Knives Out
RANK BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
1. Toy Story 4
2. Frozen 2 x
3. Missing Link
4. How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
5. I Lost My Body
4/5 Missing: Klaus
Alternative: Abominable
RANK BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
1. American Factory
2. Apollo 11 X
3. For Sama
4. Honeyland
5. One Child Nation X
3/5 Missing: The Edge of Democracy, The Cave
Alternative: Midnight Family
RANK BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
1. Parasite
2. Pain And Glory
3. Les Miserables
4. Atlantics X
5. The Painted Bird X
3/5 Missing: Corpus Christi, Honeyland
Alternative: Corpus Christi
RANK BEST FILM EDITING
1. The Irishman
2. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood x
3. Ford Vs Ferrari
4. Parasite
5. Joker
4/5 Missing: Jojo Rabbit
Alternative: 1917
RANK BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
1. 1917
2. Irishman
3. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
4. Parasite
5. Jojo Rabbit
5/5
Alternative: Joker
RANK BEST CINEMATOGRAHPY
1. 1917
2. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
3. The Irishman
4. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire X
5. Joker
4/5 Missing: The Lighthouse
Alternative: Ford Vs Ferrari
RANK BEST COSTUME DESIGN
1. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
2. Dolemite Is My Name X
3. Little Women
4. Rocketman X
5. The Irishman
3/5 Missing: Jojo Rabbit, Joker
Alternative: Jojo Rabbit
RANK BEST MAKE UP
1. Bombshell
2. Joker
3 Judy
4 Rocketman X
5 Dolemite Is My Name X
3/5 Missing: 1917, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Alternative: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
RANK BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
1. 1917
2. Joker
3. Little Women
4. Marriage Story
5. Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker
5/5
Alternative: None
RANK BEST ORIGINAL SONG
1. Rocketman
2. Frozen 2
3. Harriet
4. Wild Rose x
5. Breakthrough
4/5 Missing: Toy Story 4
Alternative: The Lion King
RANK BEST SOUND MIXING
1. 1917
2. Ford Vs Ferrari
3. Rocketman X
4. Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker X
5. Joker
3/5 Missing: Ad Astra, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Alternative: Avengers Endgame
RANK BEST SOUND EDITING
1. 1917
2. Ford Vs Ferrari
3. Joker
4. Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker
5. Avengers Endgame X
4/5 Missing: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Alternative: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
RANK BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
1. The Irishman
2. Avengers: Endgame
3. The Lion King
4. 1917
5. Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker
5/5
Alternative: Gemini Man

Top 100 Films of the 2010s decade

Top 100 Films of the 2010’s

(Updated 14th December 2019)

No. Title Rating Year
1 The Tree of Life 10/10 2011
2 Call Me By Your Name 10/10 2017
3 Boyhood 10/10 2014
4 Moonlight 10/10 2016
5 Roma 10/10 2018
6 Carol 10/10 2015
7 Melancholia 10/10 2011
8 Mad Max: Fury Road 10/10 2015
9 Parasite 10/10 2019
10 The Social Network 10/10 2010
11 Amour 10/10 2012
12 A Separation  10/10 2011
13 The Act of Killing 10/10 2012
14 The Favourite 10/10 2018
15 La La Land 10/10 2016
16 Gravity 10/10 2013
17 The Master 10/10 2012
18 Her 10/10 2013
19 The Artist 10/10 2011
20 12 Years A Slave 10/10 2013
21 The Great Beauty 10/10 2013
22 Toni Erdmann  10/10 2016
23 Inside Out 10/10 2015
24 Manchester By The Sea 10/10 2016
25 The Irishman  10/10 2019
26 Portrait Of A Lady On Fire 10/10 2019
27 The Handmaiden  10/10 2016
28 I Am Not Your Negro 10/10 2016
29 Zero Dark Thirty 10/10 2012
30 Dunkirk 10/10 2017
31 Blue Is The Warmest Colour 10/10 2013
32 Wolf Of Wall Street 10/10 2013
33 Inside Llewyn Davis 10/10 2013
34 The Kings Speech 10/10 2010
35 Toy Story 3 10/10 2010
36 Birdman 10/10 2014
37 The Grand Budapest Hotel  10/10 2014
38 OJ: Made In America 10/10 2016
39 Levithan  10/10 2014
40 Spotlight 10/10 2015
41 Shoplifters 10/10 2018
42 Shape Of Water 10/10 2017
43 Phantom Thread 10/10 2017
44 Lady Bird 10/10 2017
45 A Star Is Born  10/10 2018
46 A Fantastic Woman 10/10 2017
47 The Rider 10/10 2018
48 Eight Grade 10/10 2018
49 Beasts Of The Southern Wild 10/10 2012
50 Cold War 10/10 2018
51 Drive 10/10 2011
52 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri  9/10 2017
53 Get Out 9/10 2017
54 Stranger By The Lake 9/10 2013
55 The Hunt 9/10 2013
56 Before Midnight 9/10 2013
57 Winters Bone 9/10 2010
58 Elle 9/10 2016
59 Black Swan 9/10 2010
60 Silver Linings Playbook 9/10 2012
61 Moonrise Kingdom 9/10 2012
62 Marriage Story  9/10 2019
63 Arrival  9/10 2016
64 First Reformed 9/10 2018
65 The Descendants 9/10 2011
66 Interstellar  9/10 2014
67 Foxcatcher 9/10 2014
68 Whiplash  9/10 2014
69 The Farewell  9/10 2019
70 Blade Runner: 2049 9/10 2017
71 Shame 9/10 2011
72 Hugo 9/10 2011
73 God’s Own Country 9/10 2017
74 Another Year 9/10 2010
75 The Florida Project 9/10 2017
76 Pain & Glory 9/10 2019
77 Amy 9/10 2015
78 Brooklyn 9/10 2015
79 The Kids Are Alright 9/10 2010
80 Argo 9/10 2012
81 Ex Machina 9/10 2015
82 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 9/10 2017
83 In A Better World 9/10 2010
84 Animal Kingdom 9/10 2010
85 Nebraska  9/10 2013
86 Blue Jasmine 9/10 2013
87 Blancanieves 9/10 2012
88 Weekend 9/10 2011
89 Lincoln  9/10 2012
90 Blue Valentine 9/10 2010
91 The Souvenir 9/10 2019
92 If Beale Street Could Talk 9/10 2018
93 Vice 9/10 2019
94 Looper 9/10 2012
95 Skyfall  9/10 2012
96 The Lobster  9/10 2015
97 Holding The Man 9/10 2015
98 We Need To Talk About Kevin  9/10 2011
99 Bridesmaids 9/10 2011
100 Dallas Buyers Club 9/10 2013

92nd Academy Award Predictions (November)

November 92nd Academy Award Predictions:

Best Picture:

  1. The Irishman
  2. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
  3. 1917
  4. Parasite
  5. Marriage Story
  6. Little Women
  7. Jojo Rabbit
  8. Ford Vs. Ferrari
  9. Two Popes
  10. Joker

Alternatives: Bombshell

Best Director:

  1. Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
  2. Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
  3. Bong Joon-Ho, Parasite
  4. Sam Mendes, 1917
  5. Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story

Alternatives: Greta Gerwig, Little Women, Fernando Meirelles, Two Popes.

Best Actor:

  1. Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
  2. Adam Driver, Marriage Story
  3. Robert De Niro, The Irishman
  4. Jonathan Pryce, Two Popes
  5. Antonio Banderas, Palin And Glory

Alternatives: Leonardo Di Caprio, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name

Best Actress:

  1. Renee Zellweger, Judy
  2. Charlize Theron, Bombshell
  3. Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
  4. Saorise Ronan, Little Women
  5. Awkwafina, The Farewell

Alternatives: Cynthia Erivo, Harriet

Best Supporting Actor:

  1. Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
  2. Al Pacino, The Irishman
  3. Anthony Hopkins, Two Popes
  4. Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood
  5. Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse

Alternatives: Joe Pesci, The Irishman; Timothee Chalamet, Little Women

Best Supporting Actress:

  1. Laura Dern, Marriage Story
  2. Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
  3. Shuzhen Zhou, The Farewell
  4. Margot Robbie, Bombshell
  5. Florence Pugh, Little Women

Alternatives: Annette Bening, The Report, Margot Robbie, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Nicole Kidman, Bombshell

Best Adapted Screenplay:

  1. The Irishman
  2. Little Women
  3. Jojo Rabbit
  4. Two Popes
  5. Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood

Best Original Screenplay:

  1. Marriage Story
  2. Parasite
  3. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
  4. The Farewell
  5. Pain And Glory

92nd Academy Award Predictions (October)

October 92nd Academy Award Predictions:

Best Picture:

  1. The Irishman
  2. Parasite
  3. Marriage Story
  4. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
  5. 1917
  6. Little Women
  7. Jojo Rabbit
  8. A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
  9. Two Popes
  10. Bombshell

Alternatives: Joker, Ford Vs. Ferrari

Best Director:

  1. Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
  2. Bong Joon-Ho, Parasite
  3. Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
  4. Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
  5. Sam Mendes, 1917

Alternatives: Greta Gerwig, Little Women, Fernando Meirelles, Two Popes.

Best Actor:

  1. Adam Driver, Marriage Story
  2. Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
  3. Robert De Niro, The Irishman
  4. Jonathan Pryce, Two Popes
  5. Antonio Banderas, Palin And Glory

Alternatives: Leonardo Di Caprio, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Eddie Murphy, Dolemite Is My Name

Best Actress:

  1. Renee Zellweger, Judy
  2. Charlize Theron, Bombshell
  3. Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
  4. Saorise Ronan, Little Women
  5. Awkwafina, The Farewell

Alternatives: Cynthia Erivo, Harriet

Best Supporting Actor:

  1. Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood
  2. Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
  3. Anthony Hopkins, Two Popes
  4. Al Pacino, The Irishman
  5. Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse

Alternatives: Joe Pesci, The Irishman; Timothee Chalamet, Little Women

Best Supporting Actress:

  1. Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
  2. Laura Dern, Marriage Story
  3. Annette Bening, The Report
  4. Shuzhen Zhou, The Farewell
  5. Margot Robbie, Bombshell

Alternatives: Margot Robbie, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Nicole Kidman, Bombshell

Best Adapted Screenplay:

  1. The Irishman
  2. Little Women
  3. Jojo Rabbit
  4. Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood
  5. Two Popes

Best Original Screenplay:

  1. Marriage Story
  2. Parasite
  3. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
  4. The Farewell
  5. Pain And Glory