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

Mass

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy*

Honorary award: Questlove for his beautiful documentary capturing the Summer of Soul.

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

Bones and All

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

Honorary award: S.S. Rajamouli for directing the global sensation RRR.

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. Also, I decided to give out an annual honorary award that will recognize the entertainer/artist/achievement of the year and/or a worthy film/artist that missed a nomination.

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Afire

Fallen Leaves*

Godzilla Minus One

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Perfect Days

BEST DIRECTOR:

Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest

Aki Kaurismäki, Fallen Leaves*

Christian Petzold, Afire

Wim Wenders, Perfect Days

Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus One

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers

Atibon Nazaire, Mountains

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

John Wick: Chapter 4

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Oppenheimer*

Society of the Snow

BEST MUSIC:

Eileen

Godzilla Minus One

The Killer

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning*

Oppenheimer

BEST PRODUCTION:

Asteroid City

Godzilla Minus One*

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

BEST CAST:

Air*

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Godzilla Minus One

The Iron Claw

Scream VI

Honorary award: Greta Gerwig (Barbie) and Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) for directing Barbenheimer, which became the cinematic event of the year.

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