1989

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

Batman

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Do the Right Thing*

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Sex, Lies, and Videotape


BEST DIRECTOR:

Tim Burton, Batman

Peter Greenaway, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing*

Steven Soderbergh, Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Steven Spielberg, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade


BEST ACTOR:

Kenneth Branagh, Henry V

Jeff Bridges, The Fabulous Baker Boys*

Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot

Matt Dillon, Drugstore Cowboy

James Spader, Sex, Lies, and Videotape


BEST ACTRESS:

Annette Bening, Valmont

Andie MacDowell, Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Helen Mirren, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Michelle Pfeiffer, The Fabulous Baker Boys*

Meg Ryan, When Harry Met Sally…


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Danny Aiello, Do the Right Thing

Beau Bridges, The Fabulous Baker Boys

Sean Connery, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*

Bruce Davison, Longtime Companion

Denzel Washington, Glory


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Fairuza Balk, Valmont

Brenda Fricker, My Left Foot

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Last Exit to Brooklyn

Kelly Lynch, Drugstore Cowboy

Laura San Giacomo, Sex, Lies, and Videotape*


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Born on the Fourth of July

Drugstore Cowboy*

Field of Dreams

Monsieur Hire

Valmont


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Do the Right Thing

Say Anything

Sex, Lies, and Videotape*

When Harry Met Sally…


BEST ART DIRECTION:

The Abyss

Back to the Future Part II

Batman*

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

The Abyss

Batman

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Do the Right Thing*

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade


BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Batman

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Heathers

Henry V

Valmont*


BEST FILM EDITING:

The Abyss

Batman

Do the Right Thing*

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The Killer


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

The Abyss

Batman*

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Field of Dreams

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade


BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"Cheer Down" from Lethal Weapon 2

"Fight the Power" from Do the Right Thing*

"Licence to Kill" from Licence to Kill

"Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid

"Post-Mortem Bar" from Longtime Companion


BEST MAKEUP:

Back to the Future Part II*

Batman

Driving Miss Daisy

Ghostbusters II

Valmont


BEST SOUND:

The Abyss

Back to the Future Part II

Batman

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*

Lethal Weapon 2


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

The Abyss*

Back to the Future Part II

Batman

Ghostbusters II

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade


BEST STUNTS:

Back to the Future Part II

Batman

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade*

Lethal Weapon 2

Licence to Kill


BEST CASTING:

Dead Poets Society

Do the Right Thing*

The Fabulous Baker Boys

Major League

Steel Magnolias


BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover*

Jesus of Montreal

Monsieur Hire

The Seventh Continent

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

If I Voted: 2018

Here are my Oscar picks from 2018.

BEST PICTURE:
The Favourite

BEST DIRECTOR:
Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite

BEST ACTOR:
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born

BEST ACTRESS:
Olivia Colman, The Favourite

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
The Favourite

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
The Favourite

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Cold War

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Black Panther

BEST FILM EDITING:
BlacKkKlansman

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
“All the Stars” from Black Panther

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING:
Border

BEST SOUND MIXING:
First Man

BEST SOUND EDITING:
First Man

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Ready Player One

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
Never Look Away

Also, I updated my 2018 ballot and added the Best Stunts and Best Breakthrough lineups.

1990

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

Close-Up*

Dances with Wolves

Days of Being Wild

Goodfellas

Joe Versus the Volcano


BEST DIRECTOR:

Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves

Wong Kar-Wai, Days of Being Wild

Abbas Kiarostami, Close-Up*

Richard Linklater, Slacker

Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas


BEST ACTOR:

Alec Baldwin, Miami Blues*

Leslie Cheung, Days of Being Wild

Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune

Ray Liotta, Goodfellas

Tim Roth, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead


BEST ACTRESS:

Kathy Bates, Misery

Cher, Mermaids*

Laura Dern, Wild at Heart

Gong Li, Ju Dou

Julia Roberts, Pretty Woman


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Brad Dourif, The Exorcist III

Robin Harris, House Party

Gary Oldman, State of Grace*

Joe Pesci, Goodfellas

Fred Ward, Tremors


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Bonnie Bedelia, Presumed Innocent

Annette Bening, The Grifters*

Maggie Cheung, Days of Being Wild

Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost

Carina Lau, Days of Being Wild


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

After Dark, My Sweet

Dances with Wolves

Goodfellas*

The Grifters

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Days of Being Wild

Joe Versus the Volcano*

Life is Sweet

Metropolitan

Miller's Crossing


BEST ART DIRECTION:

Dances with Wolves

Dick Tracy*

Edward Scissorhands

Joe Versus the Volcano

Miller's Crossing


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Close-Up

Dances with Wolves

Dick Tracy

Dreams*

Goodfellas


BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Cry-Baby

Dances with Wolves

Dick Tracy*

Edward Scissorhands

Wild at Heart


BEST FILM EDITING:

Close-Up

Dances with Wolves

Days of Being Wild

La Femme Nikita

Goodfellas*


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Dances with Wolves*

Edward Scissorhands

Home Alone

The Hunt for Red October

The Rescuers Down Under


BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"Blaze of Glory" from Young Guns II

"I’m Checkin’ Out" from Postcards from the Edge

"Promise Me You'll Remember" from The Godfather Part III

"Somewhere in My Memory" from Home Alone*

"Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" from Dick Tracy


BEST MAKEUP:

Darkman

Dick Tracy*

Edward Scissorhands

The Exorcist III

The Witches


BEST SOUND:

Days of Thunder

Dick Tracy

Die Hard 2

La Femme Nikita

The Hunt for Red October*


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Back to the Future Part III

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Total Recall

Tremors*

The Witches


BEST STUNTS:

Darkman

Days of Thunder

Die Hard 2*

La Femme Nikita

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles


BEST CASTING:

Days of Being Wild*

Goodfellas

Home Alone

Life is Sweet

Mermaids


BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

Close-Up*

Days of Being Wild

Dreams

Ju Dou

Life is Sweet

1991

* = winner


BEST PICTURE:

La Belle Noiseuse

Cape Fear*

The Double Life of Veronique

The Lovers on the Bridge

The Silence of the Lambs


BEST DIRECTOR:

Leos Carax, The Lovers on the Bridge

Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs

Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Double Life of Veronique

Jacques Rivette, La Belle Noiseuse

Martin Scorsese, Cape Fear*


BEST ACTOR:

Robert De Niro, Cape Fear

Nick Nolte, Cape Fear

River Phoenix, My Own Private Idaho*

Stellan Skarsgård, The Ox

Bruce Willis, The Last Boy Scout


BEST ACTRESS:

Juliette Binoche, The Lovers on the Bridge*

Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs

Linda Hamilton, Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Irène Jacob, The Double Life of Veronique

Gong Li, Raise the Red Lantern


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Russell Crowe, Proof

Laurence Fishburne, Boyz n the Hood

John Goodman, Barton Fink

Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs*

Samuel L. Jackson, Jungle Fever


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Judy Davis, Naked Lunch

Ruby Dee, Jungle Fever

Juliette Lewis, Cape Fear*

Cathy Moriarty, Soapdish

Mercedes Ruehl, The Fisher King


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

La Belle Noiseuse*

Cape Fear

JFK

Raise the Red Lantern

The Silence of the Lambs


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Barton Fink

Defending Your Life

The Double Life of Veronique

The Lovers on the Bridge

Night on Earth*


BEST ART DIRECTION:

Barton Fink

Delicatessen*

The Doors

Hook

Raise the Red Lantern


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Black Robe

The Double Life of Veronique*

JFK

The Lovers on the Bridge

The Ox


BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

The Addams Family

Bugsy

Edward II

Hook

Raise the Red Lantern*


BEST FILM EDITING:

Cape Fear

JFK*

Point Break

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Thelma & Louise


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Beauty and the Beast

The Double Life of Veronique*

Hook

The Rocketeer

Terminator 2: Judgment Day


BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"All I Want" from All I Want for Christmas

"Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast*

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

"Tears in Heaven" from Rush

"When You're Alone" from Hook


BEST MAKEUP:

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

Hook

Naked Lunch

Nothing But Trouble

Terminator 2: Judgment Day*


BEST SOUND:

Europa

Point Break

The Rocketeer

The Silence of the Lambs

Terminator 2: Judgment Day*


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Backdraft

Hook

Naked Lunch

The Rocketeer

Terminator 2: Judgment Day*


BEST STUNTS:

Backdraft

Hook

Point Break

The Rocketeer

Terminator 2: Judgment Day*


BEST CASTING:

Boyz n the Hood

Cape Fear

The Commitments

JFK*

Night on Earth


BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

La Belle Noiseuse

The Double Life of Veronique

The Lovers on the Bridge*

The Ox

Raise the Red Lantern

I'm Back!

For the two or three people reading this:

After dragging my feet for months on what to do with my ballots, I've decided to stick with my old format, and add Best Stunts and Best Breakthrough awards to bring my total to twenty categories (and one hundred nominations) a year. I haven't decided whether to keep doing "If I Voted" posts, as I announced in January, or not, but I have updated my 2019 ballot with all twenty categories. (I'll update my 1992-2018 ballots with the extra two categories soonish.)

I really should find the time to watch A Brighter Summer Day before I post 1991, but I might just go ahead and post it. And once I watch Postcards from the Edge, which I own on DVD, I'll post 1990. Then I'm just going to post my ballots in their most up-to-date form and edit them accordingly in the future.

Also, I'll have a full 2020 ballot ready to post as soon as I see a few more films, like The Father, Supernova, and Kajillionaire. Hope all of this is encouraging news. Back soon.