My Oscar Predictions, 2019 Edition

My final predictions for the 92nd Academy Awards in all 24 categories, in four acts....

Act One: No Dog in This Fight (or, i ain't seen all these)

Animated Short - "Hair Love"
Documentary Short - "Walk Run Cha-Cha"
Live Action Short - "Brotherhood"
Animated Feature - Klaus
Documentary Feature - Honeyland
International Feature - Parasite
Original Song - "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from Rocketman
Makeup and Hairstyling - Bombshell

Act Two: The In-Between (or, how do i count the lion king since i walked out during the "wimoweh" number?)

Visual Effects - The Lion King

The remaining acts after the jump....

The 2019 Hollmann Awards: Part Two

Part Two of the 2019 Hollmann Awards. Do check out Part One from yesterday, the full list of nominees from last week, and the Top Ten for more context.

And now, the awards, beginning with....

The 2019 Hollmann Awards: Part One

The first part of the 2019 Hollmann Awards. Familiarize yourself with the nominees first, then come back here to see nine of the eighteen categories, presented as they came up in my random draw (I write the categories on scraps of paper, roll them round in a collectible Storm Trooper popcorn bucket from Solo, then select at random to decide the order). Beginning with...

Quick and Messy Oscar Predix

while the Hollmann Award nominations are still on everyone's mind, we must remember that the Academy Awards are announcing their nominees tomorrow - copycats! My predictions:

The 2019 Hollmann Awards Nominees

 For the fourteenth year running, I present the nominees for the Hollmann Awards! Refresh your memory with the list of films seen and the Top Ten, then return here to see which 32 films will be competing in 18 categories to be proclaimed - BEST! Order of categories was decided via raffle.

The nominees are....

My Top Ten of 2019

As I noted earlier, my tally for 2019 releases seen in 2019 was 97; to that, I add three more: 1917, The Rise of Skywalker and Uncut Gems, for a comfortable 100. Which means I've finally seen enough films to comfortably make my Top Ten of the year!


Apologies to the also-rans: 1917, Atlantics, Climax, Diane, Extreme Job, Ford v. Ferrari, Knives Out, Late Night, Little Women and Mal-Mo-E: The Secret Mission.

And now, in alphabetical order...

The Films of 2019

2019 was a crazy year. New job - hell, new career path - with some extracurricular highs and lows. It meant less time for new movies - ironic, considering my work - but more time for older ones. So it is that my final tally of 2019 films seen in 2019 comes in at 97. That's a reflection of new time constraints and shuffling priorities, but, except for missing out on Uncut Gems and The Rise of Skywalker, I'm OK with that. Here's what I saw, in alphabetical order:

Too-Early Oscar Predictions, 2019 Edition

Yes, it's that time again - way-too-early Oscar predictions! Never have I ever gotten more than two or three correct this far ahead, but that does not stop me. Maybe it should, but it won't. Not ever.

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Dolemite is My Name

Ford v. Ferrari

The Irishman

The Last Thing He Wanted
Little Women

The Laundromat
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Pain and Glory

Untitled Todd Haynes Project

Yesterday

Five and a half true stories: Dolemite is My Name (biopic of Rudy Ray Moore), Ford v. Ferrari (about the competition between the titular companies for Le Mans 1966), The Irishman (Scorsese and De Niro return to gangster drama), The Laundromat (Panama Papers), Untitled Todd Haynes Project (lawyer takes on polluting chemical company) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Tarantino's riff on Hollywood '69 - fiction, but with real people as players). We also have possible crowdpleaser Yesterday, Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women, Dee Rees' adaptation of Joan Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted, and Pedro Almodovar's showbiz drama Pain and Glory. We'll know soon enough if Pain & Glory or Yesterday have "the goods", as the former is premiering at Cannes and the latter comes out at the end of June.

Last year, I correctly predicted two of the nine eventual nominees: Roma and Vice.

Predictions in six more categories after the jump....

I Resolve

Some New Year's resolutions for the blog:

1. More Korean cinema. I live near a Korean movie theater and have been going pretty regularly since seeing The Admiral: Roaring Currents in 2014. But my screenings have become inconsistent, my records of them haphazard. And there's so much from the past that I have not seen, notable works like The Housemaid and Miracle in Cell No. 7 and Oldboy, the oeuvre of filmmakers like Hong Sang-Soo and Shin Sang-Ok, etc. It's time to take it seriously.

2. Year-long 1989 retrospective. I turn 30 this year, and I want to look at what Hollywood was churning out while I entered this world. So, in addition to my scattershot retrospectives, I intend to celebrate the 30th anniversary of a film's release every week, from now through December.

3. The return of Casting Coup Tuesdays. I don't think I've done them since the Agatha Christies in 2017, and I've a few percolating. Stay tuned.

4. 2018 Hollmann Awards in January, 1968 Hollmann Awards in February. The former is easy: we'll start looking back at the year we just left starting tomorrow! As for the latter...we'll see.


What do you hope to see here in 2019?

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