2022 Academy Awards Poll!

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The Academy Award nominations have just been announced. For our never-very-popular annual Academy Awards poll, using the official nominations, you can vote in any category you like. The rules:

- if you have not seen at least half of the nominees in a category, you can't vote in that category, except in the Best Picture category
- for Best Pic, if you have seen 3, you can post a top one, if you have seen 4-5 films, you can post a top two, if you have seen 6-7 films, you can post a top three, if you have seen 8-9, you can post a top four, and if you have seen all 10 you can post a top five. If you haven't seen 3, you cannot vote
- for the other categories, you can post a top two list if you have seen 3-4 films, or a top three if you have seen every nominee
- ballots must be ranked, and will be scored in the usual way (1-2-3-etc from the bottom up)
- for any category that garners two or more ballots, I'll tally the results and we'll award the SCFZ alternative Oscars accordingly

nominees can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/95th_Academy_Awards

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have only seen enough to vote in two categories so far, posting this so i can update it later

Best Picture (seen 9)

1. The Fabelmans
2. Triangle of Sadness
3. All Quiet on the Western Front
4. Tár
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
Women Talking
The Banshees of Inisherin
Top Gun: Maverick
Elvis

Best Director (seen all 5)
The Fabelmans - Steven Spielberg
Triangle of Sadness - Ruben Ostlund
Tár - Todd Field
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The Banshees of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh
Everything Everywhere All at Once - Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Best Actor (seen 5)
Brendan Fraser - The Whale
Paul Mescal - Aftersun
Austin Butler - Elvis
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Bill Nighy - Living
Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Actress (seen 4)
Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans
Andrea Riseborough - To Leslie
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Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Cate Blanchett - Tár

Best Supporting Actor (seen 4)
Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin
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Ke Huy Quan - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Judd Hirsch - The Fabelmans

Best Supporting Actress (seen all 5)
Hong Chau - The Whale
Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once
Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
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Angela Bassett - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Jamie Lee Curtis - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Original Screenplay (seen all 5)
Triangle of Sadness
The Fabelmans
The Banshees of Inisherin
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Tár
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Adapted Screenplay (seen all 5)
Living
All Quiet on the Western Front
Women Talking
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Animated Feature (seen zero)

Best International Feature (seen 3)
EO
All Quiet on the Western Front
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The Quiet Girl

Best Animated Short (seen 1)
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The Flying Sailor (Amanda Forbis/Wendy Tilby)

Best Original Score (seen all 5)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Babylon
Everything Everywhere All at Once
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The Fabelmans
The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Original Song (seen all 5)
1. This is a Life (Son Lux) - Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Naatu Naatu (Kala Bhairava, Rahul Sipligunj, M. M. Keeravani) - RRR
3. Hold My Hand (Lady Gaga) - Top Gun: Maverick
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Applause (Diane Warren) - Tell It Like a Woman
Lift Me Up (Rihanna) - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Best Sound (seen 4)
Top Gun: Maverick
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Elvis
The Batman

Best Production Design (seen 4)
Elvis
Babylon
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The Fabelmans
All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Cinematography (seen 3)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Tár
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Elvis

Best Makeup and Hairstyling (seen all 5)
The Whale
Elvis
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
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The Batman
All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Costume Design (seen all 5)
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Babylon
Elvis
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris

Best Editing (seen 5)
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Top Gun: Maverick
Tár
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The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis

Best Visual Effects (seen 4)
Top Gun: Maverick
All Quiet on the Western Front
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The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

[ofrene]

Best Picture (seen 7)

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Banshees of Inisherin
Top Gun: Maverick
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tar
Avatar : The Way of Water
Elvis

Best Director (seen 3)

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Best Actor (seen 4)

Brendan Fraser
Paul Mescal

Best Actress (seen 3)

Cate Blanchett

Best Supporting Actor (seen 3)

Brendan Gleeson

Best Supporting Actress (seen 5)

Hong Chau
Stephanie Hsu
Angela Bassett

Best Original Screenplay (seen 3)

The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Adapted Screenplay (seen 3)

All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Animated Feature Film (seen 3)

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Best International Feature Film (seen 5)

EO
Argentina, 1985
All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Animated Short Film (seen 3)

Ice Merchants

Best Original Score (seen 4)

Babylon
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Original Song

"Naatu Naatu"
"Lift Me Up"

Best Sound (seen 5)

The Batman
Top Gun: Maverick
All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Production Design (seen 4)

Babylon
All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Cinematography (seen 3)

Tar

Best Makeup and Hairstyling (seen 5)

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Batman
The Whale

Best Costume Design (seen 4)

Babylon
Elvis

Best Film Editing (seen 5)

Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tar
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Visual Effects (seen 5)

Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Top Gun: Maverick

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Best Picture (seen 7)

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Banshees of Inisherin
Top Gun: Maverick
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
Tar
Babylon
Elvis

i was worried i'd be the only voter, so it's great to have another ballot! one thing though - babylon didn't get a best picture nomination

[ofrene]

gosh i was confused.. fix it;ㅁ;

[MrCarmady]

Best Picture (seen 5)
1. The Banshees of Inisherin
2. Triangle of Sadness
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Tár
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Elvis

Best Director (seen 4)
1. Ruben Östlund
2. Martin McDonagh
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Todd Field
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Best Actor (seen 4)
1. Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin
2. Paul Mescal - Aftersun
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Bill Nighy
Austin Butler

Best Actress (seen 2)
n/a
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Cate Blanchett
Michelle Yeoh

Best Supporting Actor (seen 3)
1. Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin
2. Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin
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Ke Huy Quan

Best Supporting Actress (seen 3)
1. Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
2. Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once
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Jamie Lee Curtis

Best Original Screenplay (seen 4)
1. The Banshees of Inisherin
2. Triangle of Sadness
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Tár
Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Adapted Screenplay (seen 2)
n/a
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wouldn't vote for either Glass Onion or Living really though I enjoyed the former more than anyone else seemed to

Best Film Editing (seen 4)
1. Tár
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
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The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis


Haven't seen enough in any of the other categories. Will try to squeeze in one or two more before the deadline.

[Monsieur Arkadin]

I've got a fair number that I've seen only 1 or two nominees. I'll try to get in a couple more films so I can actually cast a vote on those.
Adapted screenplay goes to Glass Onion despite that screenplay being dumb... because Women Talking is an actively terrible script. You can see great actors trying their best, and still huge swaths of the film feel like a community theater production because even some of the most talented working actresses can't really do much with what they're given there.

Other than that category, I feel like I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of films nominated this year. Tar and Triangle of Sadness were both films that I liked immensely. Even Banshees I found worthwhile, if uneven.

Best Picture (seen 4)

1. Tar
2. Triangle of Sadness
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Banshees of Inisherin
Women Talking

Best Director (seen 3)
Tár - Todd Field
Triangle of Sadness - Ruben Ostlund
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The Banshees of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh


Best Actor (seen 1)

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Colin Farrell - The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Actress (seen 1)

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Cate Blanchett - Tár

Best Supporting Actor (seen 2)
Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin
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Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Supporting Actress (seen 1)

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Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Original Screenplay (seen 3)
1.Tár
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
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Triangle of Sadness

Best Adapted Screenplay (seen 2)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
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Women Talking

Best Animated Feature (seen zero)

Best International Feature (seen 1)
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EO

Best Original Score(seen 1)

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The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Original Song (seen 0)


Best Sound (seen 0)


Best Production Design (seen 0)

Best Cinematography (seen 1)
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Tár


Best Makeup and Hairstyling (seen 0)


Best Costume Design (seen 0)


Best Editing(seen 2)
Tár
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The Banshees of Inisherin


Best Visual Effects (seen 0)

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just a reminder that the deadline for this poll is fast approaching! so that i can post the results before the academy awards on sunday, i'll make the official deadline 6pm EDT tomorrow, saturday march 11, but if any ballots are posted within a few hours of that, i'll probably be able to count them. if you need to update a ballot already posted, please do that soon!

[Silga]

Best Picture (Seen 3)

Women Talking

Best Sound (Seen 3)

The Batman
Elvis

Best Makeup and Hairstyling (seen 3)

The Batman
Elvis

Best Visual Effects (seen 3)

The Batman
Top Gun: Maverick

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think i've only seen 3 movies nominated for anything this year (batman, all that breathes and rrr). can't remember if that's less than the last few years but it really does feel like a year where i have no interest in watching pretty much anything else...

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i thought you'd also seen glass onion, which (laughably imo) got a screenplay nomination

[rischka]

https://wapo.st/3mB3v3Q

some odd choices from washington post critics who agree that top gun: maverick is the actual best picture this year

Like the original Top Gun but if it was good

- someone on letterboxd. i kind of want to watch it?

edit: ok they aren't actual movie critics just random journalists

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edit: ok they aren't actual movie critics just random journalists

i was just about to post that! one of them is the wapo style editor, the other wrote some book about nuclear weapons. it becomes pretty obvious they don't deserve any attention when the only international film they think deserves a mention when going over fifty years of bad oscar nominees is parasite. it's not like they confined their choices to the actual nominees a lot of the time.

the whole exercise is steeped in a kind of arrogance i find intolerable, from the patronizing tone of the writing to the whole idea that reading their random film opinions is worth anyone else's time. but it made me think scfz could do a much better job.

[rischka]

fair enough flip! i did think many of their choices were wack

i still might watch top gun

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i totally forgot about glass onion...did avatar 2 get nominated for something? i bet it did. i would vote for that.

[rischka]

avatar 2: Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Production Design, and Best Visual Effects.

lol one of the top movies on PtP at the moment is Left Behind: Rise of the Anti-Christ directed by kevin sorbo

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i watched the trailer for avatar and was wondering why it wasn't nominated for best animated feature

it's the only best pic nominee i haven't been able to see, would need to go to theater i guess, thought well enough of the first one

[nrh]

i mostly hated the first avatar and loved the second one. most of the middle section is a walsh type neighborhood movie, or at least as close as we're going to get to one in a modern hollywood movie. but not sure how it would play without movie theater 3d. i think it's the best use of that technology since shankar's 2.0.

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i have tabulated the results so far. we could definitely use more ballots (or longer ballots), so:

• i'll accept new ballots up until the time i post the results, which will be in the mid-afternoon (EDT)
• if you want to update an already-posted ballot, please make a new post, quote the entirety of your old ballot, and then post your new ballot underneath, so i can see how your votes changed (otherwise it's really hard for me to update the tally)

thanks!

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posting the results, first for the technical awards -- when i could, i broke ties by looking only at ballots from voters who had seen both of the tied films, and chose the film that did better on just those ballots

The Winners - SCFZ Does the Oscars

Best Visual Effects: The Batman
Best Film Editing: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Costume Design: Babylon
Best Makeup and Hairstyling (tie) : The Batman
Best Makeup and Hairstyling (tie) : The Whale
Best Cinematography (tie) : Tar
Best Cinematography (tie) :All Quiet on the Western Front
Best Production Design: Babylon
Best Sound: The Batman
Best Original Song: Naatu Naatu (Kala Bhairava, Rahul Sipligunj, M. M. Keeravani) from RRR
Best Original Score: Babylon

the rest of the winners in the next post

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The Winners - SCFZ Does the Oscars (cont'd)

Best Animated Short Film: Ice Merchants

Best International Feature Film: EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)

Best Animated Feature Film: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro)

Best Adapted Screenplay (tie) : Living
Best Adapted Screenplay (tie) : All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Original Screenplay: The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Supporting Actress: Hong Chau - The Whale

Best Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson - The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Actress: Michelle Williams - The Fabelmans

Best Actor: Brendan Fraser - The Whale

Best Director: Ruben Ostlund - Triangle of Sadness

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and SCFZ's choice for Best Picture is...

Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Ostlund)

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On points, Triangle of Sadness and All Quiet on the Western Front ended up tied for Best Picture, but Triangle won the tiebreaker. Tied for 3rd place were The Fabelmans and The Banshees of Inisherin, with Tar in 5th, and nothing else registering more than one point.

Three different films won three awards in our poll, and none won more than three. Perhaps interesting -- none of our triple winners were even nominated for Best Picture. They were The Batman, The Whale and Babylon.

[rischka]

lol everything won everything.

top gun was very dumb and maverick and iceman still can't admit their true feelings for each other.. SAD

[ofrene]

just watched The Fabelmans and surely it's my favorite oscar nominee with EO

[rischka]

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1635 ... 14535?s=20

RRR won best song! scfz got something right

[rischka]

lady gaga's top gun song was excruciating btw

[greennui]

Well, at least McDonut and Östlund didn't win anything.

[nrh]

rrr winning best song is kind of funny, since every year hollywood scrapes the bottom of the barrel of mediocre songs that play over end credits as an afterthought while india is putting out dozens of original film songs per week.

also think that end credits songs shouldn't count, but that's a whole different argument.