2023 SCFZ 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. I'll post all the nominees in this thread some time today.

The rules, which I have changed slightly since last year:

• 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 Picture, if you have seen 3 of the nominated films, 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 pick if you have seen 3 films, a top two list if you have seen 4 films, or a top three if you have seen every nominee (i'm assuming five films are nominated in each other category, if that's not the case i'll edit this rule later)
• 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

note I've also started up our annual best-of-the-year poll, so please vote in that too!

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these are the nominees this year, in case anyone wants to copy/paste to make their own ballot:

Best Picture
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest

Best Director
Justine Triet - Anatomy of a Fall
Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon
Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things
Jonathan Glazer - The Zone of Interest

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper - Maestro
Colman Domingo - Rustin
Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction

Best Actress
Annette Bening - Nyad
Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan - Maestro
Emma Stone - Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor
Sterling K Brown - American Fiction
Robert de Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey jr - Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling - Barbie
Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things

Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
America Ferrera - Barbie
Jodie Foster - Nyad
Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers

Best Original Screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives

Best Adapted Screenplay
American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest

Best Animated Feature
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best International Feature
lo capitano (Matteo Garrone)
Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)
Society of the Snow (JA Bayona)
The Teachers' Lounge (Ilker Catak)
The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)

Best Documentary Feature
Bobi Wine: The People's President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol

Best Documentary Short
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island In Between
The Last Repair Shop
Nai Nai and Wai Po

Best Live Action Short
The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Best Animated Short
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over!

Best Cinematography
El Conde
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Editing
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Costume Design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Production Design
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow

Best Sound
The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest

Best Original Score
American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Visual Effects
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon

Best Original Song
"The Fire Inside" from Flamin' Hot
"I'm Just Ken" from Barbie
"It Never Went Away" from American Symphony
"Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)" from Killers of the Flower Moon
"What Was I Made For?" from Barbie

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my ballot, i'll edit as i watch more films:

Best Picture -- seen seven
1. Anatomy of a Fall
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. The Holdovers
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4. Past Lives
5. Oppenheimer
6. Barbie
7. Maestro

Best Director -- seen three
1. Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon
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2. Justine Triet - Anatomy of a Fall
3. Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer

Best Actor -- seen four, disliked three
1. Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
2. Bradley Cooper - Maestro
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3. Colman Domingo - Rustin
4. Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer

Best Actress -- seen four
1. Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
2. Carey Mulligan - Maestro
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3. Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
4. Annette Bening - Nyad

Best Supporting Actor -- seen three
1. Robert de Niro - Killers of the Flower Moon
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2. Robert Downey jr - Oppenheimer
3. Ryan Gosling - Barbie

Best Supporting Actress -- seen four
1. Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
2. Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
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3. America Ferrera - Barbie
4. Jodie Foster - Nyad

Best Original Screenplay -- seen all five
1. Anatomy of a Fall
2. May December
3. The Holdovers
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4. Past Lives
5. Maestro


Best Adapted Screenplay -- seen two
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1. Barbie
2. Oppenheimer

Best Animated Feature -- seen zero

Best International Feature -- seen zero

Best Documentary Feature -- seen zero

Best Documentary Short -- seen zero

Best Live Action Short -- seen zero

Best Animated Short -- seen zero

Best Cinematography -- seen four
1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. Oppenheimer
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3. El Conde
4. Maestro

Best Editing -- seen four
1. Oppenheimer
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
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3. Anatomy of a Fall
4. The Holdovers


Best Costume Design -- seen three
1. Barbie
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2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Oppenheimer

Best Production Design -- seen three
1. Barbie
_____
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Oppenheimer

Best Makeup and Hairstyling -- seen two
_____
1. Oppenheimer
2. Maestro

Best Sound -- seen four
1. Maestro
2. The Creator
_____
3. Oppenheimer
4. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Best Original Score -- seen three
1. Killers of the Flower Moon
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2. Oppenheimer
3. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Best Visual Effects -- seen two
_____
1. The Creator
2. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One


Best Original Song -- seen three, but listened to all five
1. "What Was I Made For?" from Barbie
2. "Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)" from Killers of the Flower Moon
3. "It Never Went Away" from American Symphony
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4. "I'm Just Ken" from Barbie
5. "The Fire Inside" from Flamin' Hot