Winners, Day One: The 2024 Hollmann Awards

Today is the first of three days' worth of the 2024 Hollmann Awards; the full list of nominees can be seen here. Six categories we'll discuss today, beginning with:

The 2024 Hollmann Awards - My Nominees Are...

We are a week away from the 97th Academy Awards - but you are only a sentence away from the nominees for the 2024 Hollmann Awards! 70 films seen, a Top Ten named (alphabetically), and now, 29 films in 18 categories - what I think is the best of the year...

My Top Ten of 2024

This year, I thought the best way to approach the Top Ten was to consider: which movies so excited and moved me that I wanted to go out and make one of my own? Which movies made me feel that anything was possible? Which movies sparked the same wonder and amazement I first felt as a budding cinephile? Which movies sent me off on such a high that I wanted, at the very least, to rollerskate after?

With that in mind, and with a tip o' the cap to honorable mentions Cabrini, Gladiator II, Hundreds of Beavers, Lisa Frankenstein, Megalopolis, The Substance, Wicked, and The Wild Robot...my Top Ten:

Year-ish Ahead: The 97th Academy Awards

Usually like to do these earlier in the month, but that's not what happened.

Last year, my April predictions for the 96th Academy Awards were my best ever, I'm pretty sure. I mean, golly, not only did I correctly predict many of the nominees, I correctly foresaw Oppenheimer's wins in Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor! I also knew The Holdovers was gonna do well, but - even to the end - I was too optimistic about Paul Giamatti's triumph. But gosh, 4/5 of the Best Actor nominees!

I don't expect to do that well again. But why not try?