2021

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Bergman Island

Drive My Car

Petite Maman*

Spencer

Titane

BEST DIRECTOR:

Julia Ducournau, Titane*

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car

Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir: Part II

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Murina

Céline Sciamma, Petite Maman

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Andrew Garfield, tick, tick…BOOM!

Amir Jadidi, A Hero

Vincent Lindon, Titane

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car*

Simon Rex, Red Rocket

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers

Kali Reis, Catch the Fair One

Agathe Rousselle, Titane

Kristen Stewart, Spencer*

Mia Wasikowska, Bergman Island

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Bergman Island

Drive My Car

Petite Maman*

Queen of Glory

Titane

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

The French Dispatch

The Green Knight*

Passing

The Power of the Dog

Spencer

BEST EDITING:

The Cathedral

Licorice Pizza

The Novice*

On the Count of Three

Titane

BEST MUSIC:

Antlers

Blue Bayou

Passing*

The Power of the Dog

Spencer

BEST PRODUCTION:

The Green Knight

Nightmare Alley*

No Time to Die

Spencer

West Side Story

BEST CAST:

7 Prisoners

Bergman Island*

The Harder They Fall

Nightmare Alley

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

BEST COLLABORATION:

Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs, and Martha Plimpton, Mass*

Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, (“No Time to Die”) No Time to Die

Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman, Licorice Pizza

Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah

Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson, Passing

BEST ARTIST:

Julia Ducournau, Titane

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy*

Questlove, Summer of Soul

Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Flee

Céline Sciamma, Petite Maman

2022

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Decision to Leave

The Fabelmans

Kimi*

A Love Song

Top Gun: Maverick

BEST DIRECTOR:

Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave*

Sara Dosa, Fire of Love

Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick

Steven Soderbergh, Kimi

Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick*

Park Hae-il, Decision to Leave

Jon Hamm, Confess, Fletch

Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway

Paul Mescal, Aftersun

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Dale Dickey, A Love Song

Park Ji-Min, Return to Seoul

Zoë Kravitz, Kimi*

Jennifer Lawrence, Causeway

Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Aftersun

Decision to Leave

The Fabelmans

A Love Song*

The Quiet Girl

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

All Quiet on the Western Front

Athena

The Batman*

Decision to Leave

The Northman

BEST EDITING:

Aftersun

Avatar: The Way of Water

Decision to Leave*

Kimi

Top Gun: Maverick

BEST MUSIC:

Babylon

The Batman

Kimi*

The Northman

Top Gun: Maverick

BEST PRODUCTION:

Avatar: The Way of Water

Babylon

Corsage

The Northman*

Top Gun: Maverick

BEST CAST:

Broker

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Top Gun: Maverick*

The Woman King

BEST COLLABORATION:

Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell, Bones and All*

Ram Charan and N.T. Rama Rao Jr., RRR

Mia Goth and Ti West, Pearl and X

Brian Tyree Henry and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bullet Train

Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer, Nope

BEST ARTIST:

Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave

Alice Diop, Saint Omer

Joanna Hogg, The Eternal Daughter

Marie Kreutzer, Corsage

Charlotte Wells, Aftersun*

2023

Here's the first ballot of my new awards, which I like to think of as a mix of the Oscars, MTV movie awards, and critics awards. As I see new films and update these in the future, I'll update my alternate Oscar ballots to match.

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Anatomy of a Fall

Fallen Leaves*

Godzilla Minus One

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Perfect Days

BEST DIRECTOR:

Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest

Aki Kaurismäki, Fallen Leaves*

Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall

Wim Wenders, Perfect Days

Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus One

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer

Thomas Schubert, Afire

Jussi Vatanen, Fallen Leaves

Koji Yakusho, Perfect Days*

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Paula Beer, Afire

Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon

Anne Hathaway, Eileen

Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall*

Alma Pöysti, Fallen Leaves

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Afire

Anatomy of a Fall

Fallen Leaves*

Mountains

Perfect Days

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Ferrari

Godzilla Minus One

Oppenheimer

Perfect Days*

Saltburn

BEST EDITING:

Godzilla Minus One

The Killer

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Oppenheimer*

Society of the Snow

BEST MUSIC:

The Boy and the Heron

Eileen

Godzilla Minus One

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning*

Oppenheimer

BEST PRODUCTION:

Godzilla Minus One*

John Wick: Chapter 4

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

BEST CAST:

Air*

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

The Iron Claw

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Scream VI

BEST COLLABORATION:

Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, and Elizabeth Olsen, His Three Daughters

Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, and John “Divine G” Whitfield, Sing Sing

Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, Barbie

Greta Lee and Teo Yoo, Past Lives

Little Scream and Richard Reed Parry, (“Live That Way Forever”) The Iron Claw*

BEST ARTIST:

Wes Anderson, Asteroid City and his Roald Dahl short films

Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest*

Aki Kaurismäki, Fallen Leaves

Tina Satter, Reality

Wim Wenders, Perfect Days

Alternate Oscars: 1930

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

All Quiet on the Western Front*

The Blue Angel

City Girl

Hell's Angels

Under the Roofs of Paris

BEST DIRECTOR:

René Clair, Under the Roofs of Paris

Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Earth

Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front*

F.W. Murnau, City Girl

Josef von Sternberg, The Blue Angel

BEST ACTOR:

Lew Ayres, All Quiet on the Western Front

Walter Huston, Abraham Lincoln

Emil Jannings, The Blue Angel*

Herbert Marshall, Murder!

Albert Prejean, Under the Roofs of Paris

BEST ACTRESS:

Marlene Dietrich, The Blue Angel*

Marie Dressler, Min and Bill

Mary Duncan, City Girl

Greta Garbo, Anna Christie

Norma Shearer, The Divorcee

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Wallace Beery, The Big House

Douglas Fairbanks Jr., The Dawn Patrol

Robert Montgomery, The Big House

David Torrence, City Girl

Louis Wolheim, All Quiet on the Western Front*

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Mary Astor, Holiday

Marie Dressler, Anna Christie*

Maude Eburne, The Bat Whispers

Jean Harlow, Hell's Angels

Beryl Mercer, All Quiet on the Western Front

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

All Quiet on the Western Front*

The Blue Angel

City Girl

L'Age D'Or

Murder!

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

The Big House

The Dawn Patrol

Earth

Hell's Angels

Under the Roofs of Paris*

BEST ART DIRECTION:

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Bat Whispers

The Blue Angel

Monte Carlo*

Morocco

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Bat Whispers

Earth*

Hell's Angels

Morocco

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Abraham Lincoln

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Blue Angel

Monte Carlo

Morocco*

BEST FILM EDITING:

À Propos de Nice

All Quiet on the Western Front

City Girl

Earth

Hell's Angels*

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

The Blue Angel

Hell's Angels

Monte Carlo

Morocco

Under the Roofs of Paris*

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"Always in All Ways" from Monte Carlo

"Beyond the Blue Horizon" from Monte Carlo

"Blonde Women" from The Blue Angel

"Falling in Love Again" from The Blue Angel*

"Under the Roofs of Paris" from Under the Roofs of Paris

BEST MAKEUP:

Abraham Lincoln*

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Blue Angel

Monte Carlo

Morocco

BEST SOUND:

All Quiet on the Western Front*

The Bat Whispers

The Blue Angel

The Dawn Patrol

Hell's Angels

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Bat Whispers

The Dawn Patrol

Hell's Angels*

Morocco

BEST STUNTS:

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Bat Whispers

The Big House

The Dawn Patrol

Hell's Angels*

BEST CASTING:

All Quiet on the Western Front

The Big House*

The Blue Angel

Morocco

Under the Roofs of Paris

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

À Propos de Nice

The Blue Angel

Earth

L'Age D'Or

Under the Roofs of Paris*

Alternate Oscars: 1931

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

City Lights*

M

The Public Enemy

The Smiling Lieutenant

Tabu

BEST DIRECTOR:

Charles Chaplin, City Lights*

René Clair, À Nous la Liberté

Fritz Lang, M

Ernst Lubitsch, The Smiling Lieutenant

F.W. Murnau, Tabu

BEST ACTOR:

James Cagney, The Public Enemy

Charles Chaplin, City Lights*

Robert Montgomery, Private Lives

Edward G. Robinson, Little Caesar

Robert Williams, Platinum Blonde

BEST ACTRESS:

Sally Eilers, Bad Girl

Helen Hayes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet

Ruan Lingyu, The Peach Girl

Norma Shearer, Private Lives

Barbara Stanwyck, The Miracle Woman*

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Lionel Barrymore, A Free Soul

Clark Gable, A Free Soul

Boris Karloff, Frankenstein

Peter Lorre, M*

Harry Myers, City Lights

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Claudette Colbert, The Smiling Lieutenant

Minna Gombell, Bad Girl

Jean Harlow, The Public Enemy

Miriam Hopkins, The Smiling Lieutenant*

Loretta Young, Platinum Blonde

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Bad Girl

Little Caesar

M*

Private Lives

The Smiling Lieutenant

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

À Nous la Liberté

The Champ

City Lights*

Platinum Blonde

The Public Enemy

BEST ART DIRECTION:

À Nous la Liberté

Dracula

East Lynne

Frankenstein

M*

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

City Lights

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Frankenstein

M*

Tabu

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Cimarron

Dracula

East Lynne

Frankenstein

The Smiling Lieutenant*

BEST FILM EDITING:

City Lights*

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

M

The Public Enemy

Tabu

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

À Nous la Liberté

Cimarron

City Lights*

Frankenstein

Tabu

BEST ORIGINAL SONG: (incomplete lineup)

"A Nous la Liberté" from À Nous la Liberté

"Toujours l'Amour in the Army" from The Smiling Lieutenant*

"While Hearts Are Singing" from The Smiling Lieutenant

BEST MAKEUP:

Dracula

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*

Frankenstein

The Guardsman

Trader Horn

BEST SOUND:

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Frankenstein*

Little Caesar

M

The Public Enemy

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Cimarron

Dracula

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Frankenstein*

Trader Horn

BEST STUNTS:

The Champ

Cimarron

City Lights

Frankenstein*

Trader Horn

BEST CASTING:

City Lights

The Front Page

M

Skippy

The Smiling Lieutenant*

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: (incomplete lineup)

À Nous la Liberté

M*

The Peach Girl