Announcement: New Awards, More Ballots!

Here are a few quick updates:

Since it would take me years to "complete" each of my movie ballots, I've decided to start posting them in their most up-to-date form, without necessarily filling in all of my blind spots from each year. In short: I'm going to start posting my ballots much more frequently, and I'll update them from time to time afterwards.

Also, I've decided to combine my acting categories (as I have with my music performance ones) and remove gender from the equation. So, I'll have two acting lineups: lead performance and supporting performance. In addition to this change, I'm reducing my ballots to a mere ten awards (which matches the amount of my music ones). The categories will be Best Picture (my ranked top ten list), Best Director, Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance, Best Screenplay, Best Production (awarded to the production team - production/costume/sound designers, VFX crew, makeup artists, etc.), Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Music, and Best Breakthrough (for breakout directors, actors, and other film artists).

However, I'm also going to start doing "If I Voted" posts, which will be based strictly on the Oscar nominations and how I would vote for them. In essence, those will be my alternate Oscars, and my other ballots will stand on their own.

As a preview, here's what my (new) 2020 ballot currently looks like: (* = winner)

TOP TEN FILMS OF THE YEAR:

1. The Nest

2. The Trip to Greece

3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always

4. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

5. Happiest Season

6. Hamilton

7. Night of the Kings

8. The Trial of the Chicago 7

9. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

10. Da 5 Bloods

BEST DIRECTOR:

Sean Durkin, The Nest*

Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods

Michael Winterbottom, The Trip to Greece

Cathy Yan, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE:

Carrie Coon, The Nest*

Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Jude Law, The Nest

Gary Oldman, Mank

Margot Robbie, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE:

Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods*

Daniel Levy, Happiest Season

Talia Ryder, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Steve Tientcheu, Night of the Kings

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Happiest Season

The Nest*

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

The Trip to Greece

BEST PRODUCTION:

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)*

Emma.

Hamilton

Mank

Wendy

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Da 5 Bloods

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

The Nest

Night of the Kings

Wendy*

BEST EDITING:

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)*

Da 5 Bloods

The Nest

Palm Springs

Wander Darkly

BEST MUSIC:

Hamilton

Happiest Season

The Invisible Man

The Nest

Wendy*

BEST BREAKTHROUGH:

Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always*

Ibrahima Gueye, The Life Ahead

Ekwa Msangi, Farewell Amor

Talia Ryder, Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Andy Siara, Palm Springs