Are These Your Oscar Winners?

I am on my way to a party soon, but here are myt quick and dirty, last-minute predictions for Oscar wins tonight. I'm betting very heavily on Everything Everywhere All At Once, predicting it to win all but three (two in the same category) of its nominations.

Here 'tis:

Best Picture: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Director: Daniels, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Actor: Austin Butler, Elvis

Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Original Screenplay: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Adapted Screenplay: Women Talking

Best Score: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Original Song: "This is a Life" from Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Cinematography: Elvis

Best Production Design: Babylon

Best Film Editing: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Costume Design: Elvis

Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Elvis

Best Sound: Top Gun: Maverick

Best Visual Effects: Avatar: The Way of Water

Best International Feature: All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Live Action Short: "Le Pupille"

Best Documentary Feature: Navalny

Best Documentary Short: "Stranger at the Gate"

Best Animated Feature: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Best Animated Short: "My Year of Dicks"

We'll see!

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Part One: 1986 Retro Hollmann Awards

It's the first day of the 1986 Retro Hollmann Awards - a day late, but it did, indeed, take me a while to finally choose my Number One picks in each category.

The first nine categories will be presented here, beginning with Best Supporting Actor. If you'd like to know all the names of the nominees, do consult the complete nominations announcement.

And now - our first winner!

Best Supporting Actor

Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth
Blue Velvet

2. Daniel Day-Lewis in A Room with a View; 3. Andy Garcia in 8 Million Ways to Die; 4. Wang Xiao in A Great Wall; 5. Simon Callow in A Room with a View

A perfect outlet for Dennis Hopper's particular brand of intensity, Frank Booth is one of the most frightening characters in cinema. His sudden outbursts make him unpredictable - are they strategic, or the result of a truly diseased mind? Hopper suggests it's both, and they get worse as the movie continues, as Frank unravels. But then there's that look when he hears "In Dreams" - Hopper knows what that song means to Frank, you see it in his eyes - and it's a moment that haunts.

In second, DDL's "decadent" snobbery. Andy Garcia's drug lord, calm and collected until the unexpected occurs, in third. Wang Xiao as a poor Chinese teen jealous of his beautiful neighbor's American cousin in fourth. Simon Callow's gleefully indulgent vicar in fifth.


Best Actress, Best Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay, and more - after the jump.

Class of '86: Best Original Song

I love Bernadette Peters. Don't you wish she was handing you an Oscar? I love even more that the Original Song nominations named the songs' performers. Do they still? It seemed new when I watched this presentation. Or old, I guess.

It should be no surprise that Top Gun's "Take My Breath Away" went home with the win. Sure, "Glory of Love" from The Karate Kid: Part II spent more weeks at #1, but "Take My Breath Away" was the music of Maverick, baby! It was the number one movie of the year - hell, it was the number one soundtrack of the year, nine times platinum, one of the best-sellers of all time! You can't compete with those numbers baby.

Except on an awards ballot. So let's take a took at the nominees - in order of my rankings, from the bottom to the top. After the jump.

1986: The First 10

We'll see how long this lasts, but I will try to keep track of every movie I'm watching for 1986 as I see them! So here: the first ten movies I watched, in order of viewing.

Top Gun

dir: Tony Scott

scr: Jim Cash/Jack Epps, Jr., from the article "Top Guns" by Ehud Yonay

Oscar Winner: Best Original Song ("Take My Breath Away")

Oscar Nominee: Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing

Sweaty, sexy, with a real feel for the competitive camaraderie between men. A visual feast that had me practically licking the screen, and I'm not just talking about the locker room scenes: Jeffrey Kimball's amber waves of plane are enchanting.

[the remaining nine after the jump]