Hugo Awards 2025

I remembered to become a member this year in order to vote, huzzah! Which means I had access to the voting packet (AKA the giant packet of PDF books), which meant I was able to review many more things than I can on my own (given affordability and library waiting times).

Also, ALSO, WorldCon is in Seattle this summer, so I'll theoretically get to be there in person when they announce the winners!

Oscars 2025 Nominations

It's that time again! Films marked in blue are ones I watched prior to the nominations and green are those I watched afterwards. For the few I decided not to watch, you'll find them struck through. As per usual, I've arranged them in the order of my preference.



Best Picture

1. Anora
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Nickel Boys
4. The Brutalist
5. I'm Still Here
6. A Complete Unknown
7. Conclave
8. Wicked
9. Emilia Perez

And the one I chose not to watch, since horror isn't my bag:

• The Substance

Hugo Awards 2024

Hey-o, the Hugo Awards nominations came out on March 29, 2024. Which was earlier than I expected, but given the scandal of last year's awards, I imagine the procedures for this year's are SPOTLESS.

I totally forgot to become a member for this year's voting, which I only realized three days before ballots were due, so. I did not vote this year, and also did not get the handy voters' packet--which means I didn't get to read some stuff, alas!

In any case, as per usual, media I consumed before the nominations came out on March 29, 2024, are highlighted in blue and stuff I read afterwards is in green. (Purple are those I had already obtained but hadn't read yet.) I've ranked the media in the order I would have voted for them. I did not rank media I didn't consume, and I've included handy snippets from the stuff I did consume.

Since I'm posting this after the winners have been announced, I've opted to bold and underline the actual winners, while preserving how I chose to rank them.

Oscars 2024 Nominations

Oscars time! And man oh man, I honestly owe the number of nominated films I've watched beforehand largely to my Cinemark Movie Club membership, because I have often watched one, if not two, movies per weekend. I've also become a devoted listener of The Big Picture podcast, which has nudged me towards films that weren't showing in theatres in my area yet. (I live SO CLOSE to Seattle, and yet am I willing to drive out there to see films that haven't gone into wide release yet? NOPE.)

As per usual, I have colored the names of films I watched before the nomination announcements on January 24 in green, and films I watched after the nominations in blue. Films I opted not to watch are struck through. (Sorry, Society of Snow, but I'mma skip the trauma and cannibalism.)

Also as per usual, I've re-ordered the films according to how I would rank them, and included clips that I felt were relevant. I opted to just not rank films that I didn't watch for whatever reason. And some of these categories were REALLY HARD, y'all. Just gorgeous stuff all around, I must say.

Hugos 2023 Voting!

It's Hugos time again! I became a Hugos voter a few years ago after the whole mess before they adjusted the nomination and voting process. It's actually super-easy to become a voting member--if you pay for your annual membership (it's been about $50-60), you get a packet of most of the books and stories that have been nominated (not all of them--providing copies for voters is not required of the nominees; publishers just happen to be quite generous most of the time). And then you get to vote!

There's also the associated possibility of actually, like ATTENDING Worldcon, but that's an additional cost I haven't taken on as yet. (But if they have it in Seattle in the near future, as some have suggested....)

As the host of Worldcon this year is in China--Chengdu, specifically--there have been some interesting hurdles that I won't really grumble about. It's worth noting, however, that because of the location, there was a slightly different body of voters/nominators than before. (Worldcon, in my recollection, has most often been hosted in English-dominant locations.) Which is neato, in that there are many more folks of Chinese nationality (not just descent, mind you--in recent years, the diversity of nominees has been markedly increasing) nominated. Between that AND a short window for nominees to provide materials (I think a couple of the zine/podcast nominees specifically noted in their packets they only had eleven days), that also meant not everyone was able to get their materials translated in time.

Or: There were several nominees who were only able to share their materials in Chinese and not any translations in English. (And, to be fair, vice versa: Several of the nominees who shared things in English only added apology notes.) Some nominees could only share part of their materials in both languages; some folks who shared translations confessed they had to rely on AI/machine-translation in order to get it done before their deadline. In those cases, you could almost feel the absence of nuance. (In the case of one short story, that's almost the point--in the Astounding category, Maijia Lu's story "Left" is specifically about how the pictographic basis of Chinese language means some elements of physics can be expressed more wholly than in phonetic-based scripts like English.)

I find this interesting and not irritating, though YE GODS, can you imagine how I feel, having multiple stories and books in my possession that I cannot read? My heart, she is breaking. But also, this is a cool problem to have, no? From my perspective, anyway.

2023 Oscar Nominees

2023 Oscar Nominees Oscars season! I actually made a good dent on most of the films this year, though (as detailed below), I did not catch all of them. But still!



Movies I saw before the Oscar nominations announcement on January 24 are marked in green, and ones I saw after the announcements are marked in blue.

Movies of which I consider myself a conscientious objector are struck through. (No shade, Brendan Fraser and Hong Chau, I'm sure you were great, but nothing I've heard about The Whale makes it sound like anything I want to see. And while I'm sure Women Talking is good, not to mention Ana de Armas's work in Blonde, I try to avoid films that specifically focus on sexual assault.)

I've re-ordered the films according to how I would rank them, and included clips and pics where I felt they were relevant. I opted to just not rank films that I didn't watch for whatever reason.

Best Picture | Best Director | Best Actress | Best Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress | Best International Feature Film | Best Cinematography | Best Adapted Screenplay | Best Original Screenplay | Best Animated Feature | Best Visual Effects | Best Editing | Best Production Design | Best Makeup and Hairstyling | Best Costume Design | Best Sound | Best Documentary Feature | Best Documentary Short Subject | Best Live Action Short | Best Animated Short | Best Original Song | Best Original Score

Miscellaneous Movie Moments LXXXIX (February + Partial March 2023)

I didn't quite watch all of the Oscar films, but I made a decent dent! Plus the latest in MCU, of course.

Tár | Causeway | Aftersun | Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Close | Empire of Light | Babylon | The Fabelmans | Puss in Boots: The Last Wish | Triangle of Sadness | The Sea Beast | Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Hugos! AKA Chicon 8 Winners!

The Hugo winners were announced last night! So, as I usually do with the Oscars, here's my wrap-up post. My original Hugos post included bits about each of the nominees, which was fun to do. As you may known from that post, I marked texts consumed previously to the nominations in green, those consumed afterwards in blue, and I used purple to indicate stuff I already owned but hadn't read. The numbering indicates how I ranked them in my own vote. To indicate the actual winners, I opted to underscore.



Best Novel

1. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
   
2. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
   
3. Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
   
4. A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
   
5. A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
   
6. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
   

Best Novella

1. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
   
2. Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
   
3. A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
   
4. Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
   
5. Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
   
6. The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente

Chicon 8 AKA Hugo Awards 2022!

Fun fact: the Hugo award voting is via ranking, which I honestly find pretty satisfying. And I managed to read/watch/listen to all of them! Yay for me!
As with the Oscars, I'm marking texts (in all formats) consumed previously to the nominations in green and those consumed afterwards in blue. I am, however, also going to add in purple to indicate stuff I already owned but hadn't read because, as all book lovers know, at least a third of one's own library is built upon intention. (It's worth distinguishing which ones I owned because one of the nicest perks of being a voting member is getting a packet of most of the texts prior to voting.)

Largely, I've ranked things in terms of my enjoyment. I've tried to explain my rationale for some, but AS IS MY WAY, I've included snippets of the texts to give you a sense of how I feel about them.

Best Novel

1. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

   The thing that held a society together, Roveg had been taught, was shared narrative. A common history, a bedrock of ethics. This was the shell that held the world together, and protected all that was soft and fragile. Turning away from your own story was to open yourself to chaos. This was not academic opinion, his teachers had told him. This was observable fact.

   
   
2. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

   I can't imagine explaining "sleep" to someone who had never heard of it. Hey, I'm going to fall unconscious and hallucinate for a while. By the way, I spend a third of my time doing this. And if I can't do it for a while, I go insane and eventually die. No need for concern.

3. Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

   Lucy was tempted to ask if she'd had a nice date, but she was still Shizuka Satomi, and one does not casually ask the Queen of Hell about her relationship with the donut lady.

4. A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

   "Half-blood. Your sire was djinn."
   "I prefer double-blood. And the djinn who 'sired' me was hardly superior."
   "Still, you are djinn-touched. Even if lesser, you may share in the coming glory."
   "How gracious. But you can keep your glory."

5. A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

   The adjutant, Twenty Cicada, made an entirely remarkable noise, like he'd drowned a laugh and swallowed its corpse.

6. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
   

   Lady Rui's jaw was tight with the same intensity Zhu had glimpsed earlier: a compressed rage that had as its heart the female desire to survive all that sought to make her nothing.

Oscar Watch 2022

THE TIME HAS COME. I've been pretty pleased with the crop this year. (Alas, re: the short films remain out of reach!) In the listings below, the ones in green are those I watched before the nominations were released, and blue are the ones I watched afterwards. (I wrote all of this before the awards show, but I went ahead and indicated who won, since I'm posting it afterwards.)

Also: OH MY GOD, that ceremony took a turn from amusingly uneven to HOLY CRAP really quickly. I did some livetweeting through the ceremony, if you're curious.

Miscellaneous (Oscar) Movie Moments LXXXIV (March 2022)

It's OSCAR SEASON, baby. I spent my entire Spring Break watching all the films I hadn't already seen and it was so worth it.

I'll probably post a full Oscars index post tomorrow or Sunday. Anyway. Onward!

Drive My Car | Summer of Soul | West Side Story | Licorice Pizza | Nightmare Alley | The Hand of God | The Mitchells vs. the Machines | CODA | Attica | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Coming 2 America | Parallel Mothers | Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom | Four Good Days | Writing With Fire | Cyrano

Miscellaneous Movie Moments LXXXI (January 2022)

It's Oscars season, y'all!

Venom: Let There Be Carnage | No Time to Die | Respect | | The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love | Flee | The Worst Person in the World | Encanto | The Power of the Dog | Passing | Simple as Water | The Eyes of Tammy Faye | The Lost Daughter | Procession | Don't Look Up | Faya Dayi | Being the Ricardos | tick, tick...BOOM! | Swan Song | 892 AKA Breaking

Oscars 2021 Nominations

It's Oscars time again! I did pretty well this time around--given that COVID disrupted all the in-theatre stuff, almost all of the nominees can be found online. I am actually a little sheepish I didn't get closer to a complete watch--even the international films could be streamed! I just lagged a little bit, alas.

Anyway. I've got listings for all the categories below. Movies I watched before the nominations came out are in blue. Movies I watched after the nominations came out are in purple. Movies I decided not to see got the strikethrough. I put my favorites in bold.

2020 Emmy Nominations (most of them)

Hey, the 2020 Emmys are on Sunday! I have a few opinions, though honestly, I have not watched very many of these shows. AH WELL. (It's easy to commit to watching all the movies for the Oscars. Emmys, not so much.) I skipped a bunch of categories because I had nothing to say, but nevertheless, many, many embeds shall follow.

Outstanding Comedy Series
Have Not Watched: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dead to Me, Insecure, Schitt's Creek, The Kominsky Method, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, What We Do in the Shadows
Have Watched: The Good Place

Let's be clear, I'm pretty sure I'd be rooting for #TheGoodPlace no matter what.

Oscar Winners 2018

Okay, following up on my notes on the Oscar nominations, now that the race is over.

Best Picture
I wanted Get Out, but The Shape Of Water won. I am surprised, but pleased.

Best Actress
I wanted Sally Hawkins to win, but Frances McDormand won. I am not surprised, and feel neutral.

Best Actor
I thought Oldman would win, and he did win. I have mixed feelings--I didn't know about his history of domestic violence until the night of the Oscars.

Best Supporting Actress
I wanted Laurie Metcalf to win, but Allison Janney won. I am not surprised, but pleased.

Best Supporting Actor
I wanted Willem Dafoe to win, but Sam Rockwell won. I am unsurprised, and feel neutral.

Best Director
I wanted Peele to win, but expected Del Toro to win. Del Toro won, and I am pleased.

Best Adapted Screenplay
I wanted Logan to win, but Call Me By Your Name won. I am unsurprised, and pleased.

Best Original Screenplay
I wanted Get Out to win, and it won.

Best Foreign Language Film
I had no opinions, and thus am neutral about A Fantastic Woman winning.

Best Production Design
I wanted The Shape of Water to win, and it won.

Best Visual Effects
I wanted Planet of Apes to win, but Blade Runner 2049 won. I am unsurprised, but displeased.

Best Editing
Ha, somehow I put this category in my original post twice. And had different notes for both! At one point, I thought Baby Driver would win, but in the second iteration, I thought I, Tonya should win. Dunkirk won. I am not surprised, and pleased.

Best Cinematography
I wanted Deakins to win for Blade Runner, and he did.

Best Animated Feature
I wanted Coco to win, and it did.

Best Documentary Feature
I wanted Strong Island to win, but Icarus won. I am confused.

Best Costume Design
I wanted Phantom Thread to win, and it did.

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
I wanted Wonder to win, but Darkest Hour won. I am unsurprised, and neutral. (The work for both was, essentially, the same sort of work.)

Best Original Score
I wanted Hans Zimmer to win for Dunkirk, but The Shape of Water won. I am unsurprised, and pleased.

Best Original Song
I wanted "This is Me" to win, but "Remember Me" won. I am unsurprised, but pleased.

Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
I thought Star Wars would win both of these, but Dunkirk did. I am unsurprised, but not displeased.

Best Animated Short Film
I wanted Revolting Rhymes to win, but Dear Basketball won. I am not pleased.

Best Documentary Short Subject
I wanted Heroin(e) to win, I think, but Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405 won. I am not displeased, but a little confused.

Best Live Action Short Film
I wanted My Nephew Emmett to win, but The Silent Child won. I am pleased.


So that's the Oscars 2018! I'm largely happy with the things that won, though certainly I am shaky at doing any sort of predictions. I suppose I'll develop a knack over time.

Oscar Nominations 2018

Made it with a couple of hours to spare! I'm slowly getting to a place where I'm able to see most of the movies. Based on summaries, I decided I had no interest in watching Three Billboards, which made an impact. A handful of movies, I wasn't able to see, either because they weren't showing in my, well, entire state, but a couple I just wasn't interested in paying full price for them, and they weren't yet out for rental. So, here we are.

A little fun color-coding:
Seen Prior to Nominations
Seen After Nominations
Will Not See
Was Not Able to See

Best Picture
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape Of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Hm. Even having seen most of them, I honestly can't guess which one will probably win--they're all different flavors of what we'd consider Oscar-worthy...except for Get Out. And honestly, I think I'd award it to Get Out--along with Call Me By Your Name, it's the one that stuck with me the most.

Best Actress
Sally Hawkins, The Shape Of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Meryl Streep, The Post

I'd love for this to go to Sally Hawkins. I think she did the most--particularly because so much of her acting relied on non-linguistic gestures and posture.

Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Chalamet is the performer that most impressed me, but Kaluuya was the most natural. Both Denzel and DDL were very Look At Me Acting, which is a turn-off for me. Oldman was excellent, because he always disappears into his characters.

Best Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape Of Water

I'm with Laurie Metcalf on this one, 100%. She and Janney did similar types of characters, but Metcalf had the tougher role.

Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins, The Shape Of Water
Christopher Plummer, All The Money In The World
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Willem Dafoe! Though he has the advantage, given the only other movie I saw in this category was The Shape of Water. Jenkins was awesome, but his role wasn't quite as solid as Dafoe's.

Best Director
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape Of Water

I'd love for Peele to get this, but del Toro had the flashier job of the pair.

Best Adapted Screenplay
James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist
Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Michael Green, Logan
Aaron Sorkin, Molly’s Game
Virgil Williams and Dee Rees, Mudbound

I would pay cash money for Logan to win this--it's just a fantastic story.

Best Original Screenplay
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Guillermo Del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, The Shape Of Water
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Get Out. Please, please, please.

Best Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman (Chile)
The Insult (Lebanon)
Loveless (Russia)
On Body And Soul (Hungary)
The Square (Sweden)

Someday I'mma once again live in a city where foreign films are screened. I don't see this changing in the near future, though.

Best Production Design
Beauty And The Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape Of Water

Oooh, this one's a tough one. I think I'd go with The Shape of Water, though--del Toro's movie is striking in the way it uses space to convey all sorts of things.

Best Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049
Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2
Kong: Skull Island
Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi
War For The Planet Of the Apes

I'd give this one to Planet of the Apes. I mean, I just can't argue with motion-capture via Andy Serkis, particularly because his Caesar was more human that any of the characters in any of the non-Star Wars movies in this category.

Best Editing
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape Of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Hmmmmm. I'd throw this one to Baby Driver, even though I wasn't a big fan of the movie overall.

Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049
Bruno Delbonnel, Darkest Hour
Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk
Rachel Morrison, Mudbound
Dan Laustsen, The Shape Of Water

This category is SO HARD, because every single one of these movies was striking. Absolutely gorgeous. I'd give this one to Deakins, though--I didn't necessarily like Blade Runner 2049 all that much, but I want to wallpaper my apartment with some of those shots.

Best Animated Feature
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Coco, all the way. (I liked Boss Baby waaaay more than I anticipated, but why is it here?) I wouldn't be mad if The Breadwinner won, though. It's very lovely in a different, achey way.

Best Documentary Feature
Abacus: Small Enough To Jail
Faces Places
Icarus
Last Man In Aleppo
Strong Island

I'd roll with Strong Island for this one--the close-ups in some of the interviews were gut-punchers, as was the final sequence.

Best Costume Design
Beauty And The Beast
Darkest Hour
Phantom Thread
The Shape Of Water
Victoria & Abdul

...Phantom Thread, I think. The costumes did so much of the work for the movie.

Best Makeup And Hairstyling
Darkest Hour
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder

I'd hand this one to Wonder, largely because that kid was able to effectively emote through all that make-up. It's impressive work.

Best Original Score
Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk
Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread
Alexandre Desplat, The Shape Of Water
John Williams, Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi
Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Hans Zimmer's score felt sooooo overdone, but it also was the thing that actually made the movie work.

Best Original Song
“Mighty River,” Mudbound
“Mystery Of Love,” Call Me By Your Name
“Remember Me,” Coco
“Stand Up For Something,” Marshall
“This Is Me,” The Greatest Showman

I'm not saying it's the best song in the group, but "This is Me" is the one that got stuck in my head for days and days, and for a category like this, that ain't nothing.

Best Sound Editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape Of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Sound Mixing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape Of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

I've long held the opinion that these two categories just get automatically handed to whichever film was the most popular. So, Star Wars it is!

Best Film Editing
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
I, Tonya
The Shape Of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

I'd give this one to I, Tonya, I think. The shifts from memory to faux-memory to the interviews were actually quite clever, I felt. And occasionally, extremely disturbing.

Best Animated Short Film
Dear Basketball
Garden Party
Lou
Negative Space!
Revolting Rhymes

These are so weird, because the shortest is, like, four minutes, while the longest is a full half-hour. I thought the longest, Revolting Rhymes, was the most interesting, largely because it had the most stuff going on. Garden Party was the most impressive, animation-wise, but the corpse at the end was so much overkill that I can't really commend them whole-heartedly.

Best Documentary Short Subject
Edith And Eddie
Heaven Is A Traffic Jam On The 405
Heroin(e)
Knife Skills
Traffic Stop

Oof. Traffic Stop was the most visceral. Edith and Eddie was the most heart-breaking. Heroin(e) was the best documentary. (The other two were fine, but lightweight in comparison.)

Best Live Action Short Film
Dekalb Elementary
The 11 O’Clock
My Nephew Emmett
The Silent Child
Watu Wote
These were all fantastic. I'd watch every single one of them in a longer form. My Nephew Emmett is the one that haunts me, though.

And that's it for my Oscar-watching for the 2018 ceremony. I think I did extremely well this year, but I also feel like we have way more "mainstream" kinds of movies on the slate, too.

Oscar Nominations 2017

So I took it upon myself to watch as many of the Oscar nominees as were legal (no torrents) and available (smack-dab in Iowa) to me. I didn’t manage all of them--the foreign films were especially tricky, but I did pretty well, I think.

Since I’ve started to write mini-reviews of movies, I won’t go into detail here. But here are the nominees. Bold indicates my pick for the category, and italics indicates I didn’t see the film in question.

Best Picture
Arrival
Fences
Hell or High Water
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Manchester by the Sea
Moonlight
Hidden Figures
Lion

Best Director
Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)
Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Kenneth Longergan (Manchester by the Sea)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Best Actor
Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea)
Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge)
Ryan Gosling (La La Land)
Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic)
Denzel Washington (Fences)

Best Actress
Isabelle Huppert (Elle)
Natalie Portman (Jackie)
Emma Stone (La La Land)
Meryl Streep (Florence Foster Jenkins)
Ruth Negga (Loving)

I remain offended that Emma Stone and Meryl Streep made the list; Annette Bening (20th Century Women) and Amy Adams (Arrival) were both more impressive.

Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)
Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals)
Jeff Bridges (Hell or High Water)
Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea)
Dev Patel (Lion)

Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis (Fences)
Naomie Harris (Moonlight)
Nicole Kidman (Lion)
Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)
Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea)

Best Original Screenplay
Hell or High Water
La La Land
The Lobster
Manchester by the Sea
20th Century Women

Best Adapted Screenplay
Arrival
Fences
Hidden Figures
Moonlight
Lion

Best Foreign Film
Land of Mine (Denmark)
A Man Called Ove (Sweden)
Tanna (Australia)
The Salesman (Iran)
Toni Erdmann (Germany)

It’s A Man Called Ove by default, really, but it was a decent movie that I enjoyed.

Best Documentary Feature
Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
OJ: Made in America (I watched the first part, but haven’t yet seen the second and third)
13th

Best Animated Feature
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia

Best Film Editing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Moonlight

Best Original Song
“How Far I’ll Go,” Moana
“City of Stars,” La La Land
“Audition (The Fools Who Dream),” La La Land
“Can’t Stop the Feeling!,” Trolls (Didn’t watch the film, but we’ve all heard the song)
“The Empty Chair,” Jim: The James Foley Story (Didn’t watch the film, but listened to the song)

Just give Lin-Manuel Miranda his Oscar already.

Best Original Score
La La Land
Moonlight
Lion
Jackie
Passengers

Best Visual Effects
Deepwater Horizon
Dr. Strange
The Jungle Book
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Best Cinematography
Arrival
La La Land
Lion
Moonlight
Silence

Best Costume Design
Allied
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Florence Foster Jenkins
Jackie
La La Land

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
A Man Called Ove
Star Trek Beyond
Suicide Squad

Best Production Design
La La Land
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Arrival
Hail Caesar
Passengers

Best Sound Editing
Arrival
Deepwater Horizon
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Sully

Best Sound Mixing
Arrival
Hacksaw Ridge
La La Land
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Thirteen Hours

Best Short Film, Live Action
Timecode
Sing
Silent Nights
Ennemis Interieurs
La Femme et le TGV

Best Short Film, Animated
Piper
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Blind Vashya
Pearl

Best Documentary Short Subject
Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe’s Violin
Wantani: My Homeland
The White Helmets