The Year in Movies: 2018 was a weird one. UPDATED: Winners included

UPDATED: And now at last (because I forgot about it) the winners are indicated below with the word WINNER. I have also ranked my top 10 films throughout the blog post!

The Oscars are over and now I will share the movies that I loved for 2018! It was an odd year, but not a bad one. Hopefully Hollywood proved to itself this year that it can make movies that aren't a streaming pile of poo and audiences will go to them. May they continue that train of thought in the future. Smaller movies that  generally would have been critic and Oscar chum went nowhere. Documentaries were high quality and big with audiences  this year and Hollywood took some of its tried and true formulas and turned them on their head. There was a mainstream romantic that centered on a gay teenage boy. There was a teenage sex comedy in which the teenagers were horny girls who owned their sexuality and power. But the biggest thing at all was hopefully once and for all Hollywood showed that diversity works and if they make stories about women, people of color and LGBTQ+ characters people will show up to theaters. May they do their best to limit their backward steps. Without further adieu here were my favorite of 2018.

Best Animated Film Spider-man: Into The Spider-Verse
Best Visual Effects in a Film: Ready Player One
Best Costumes: The Favourte
Best Production Design: Black Panther
Best Editing: Blackkklansman
Best Original Score: If Beale Street Could Talk
Best Use of Sound: A Quiet Place
Best Film Not in the English Language: Shoplifter Japan

For the rest of this I will have nominees and the winners will be declared on a later date.

The  best performances by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role are (in alphabetical order)
Timothee Chalamet Beautiful Boy
Sam Elliot A Star is Born----WINNER
Richard E Grant Can You Ever Forgive Me
Josh Hamilton Eighth Grade
Michael B Jordan Black Panther

Best Cinematography
At Eternity's Gate
Cold War
The Favourite
Roma---WINNER
A Star is Born

Best Comedy Film- it was a good year for comedies, and I wanted to recognize that
Blockers
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
Love, Simon----WINNER
A Simple Favor

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Emily Blunt A Quiet Place
Nicole Kidman Boy Erased
Regina King If Beale Street Could Talk----WINNER
Emma Stone The Favourite
Rachel Weisz The Favourite

Best Documentary Film
Free Solo----WINNER
Minding The Gap
RBG
Three Identical Strangers
Won't You Be My Neighbor

Best Original Song in a Film
Alfie's Song (Not So Typical Love Song) from Love, Simon
Always Remember Us This Way From A Star Is Born
I'll Never Love Again From A Star Is Born----WINNER
Pray For Me from Black Panther
Shallow from A Star is Born

And now here are the rankings of my number 6 through 10 films
10. Blockers
 9.  Black Panther
8. A Quiet Place
7. Love, Simon
6. Free Solo

Best Adapted Screenplay
Blackkklansman----WINNER
Black Panther
If Beale Street Could Talk
Love, Simon
A Star Is Born

Best Original Screenplay
Blockers
Eighth Grade----WINNER
The Favourite
A Quiet Place
Tully


Best Director
Spike Lee Blackkklansman----WINNER
Bo Burnham Eighth Grade
Yorgos Lanthimos The Favourite
Barry Jenkins If Beale Street Could Talk
Bradley Cooper A Star is Born

Best Male Actor in a Leading Role
Mahershala Ali Green Book
Bradley Cooper A Star Is Born----WINNER
Stephan James If Beale Street Could Talk
Rami Malek Bohemian Rhapsody
John David Washington Blackkklansman

Best Female Actor in a Leading Role
Glenn Close The Wife----WINNER
Olivia Colman The Favourite
Elsie Fisher Eighth Grade
Lady Gaga A Star is Born
Melissa McCarthy Can You Ever Forgive Me
Charlize Theron Tully

I want to honor some good movies of the year that didn't make it onto any of these lists. They were all very good in their own right! They are: Halloween, The Hate U Give, McQueen, Ralph Wrecks The Internet, Searching, and Whitney

And Finally my 5  favorite films of 2018 ranked and the Best Picture of the year were
5. If Beale Street Could Talk
4. Blackkklansman
3. The Favourite
2. Eighth Grade

and my favorite film of 2018 was:

A Star Is Born

For What it’s Worth: My Predictions for 8 of the categories for the 2019 Academy Awards

The Oscar nominees are announced on Tuesday. Here are my predictions for 8 of the categories.

Oscar predictions

Best Picture

Blackkklansman

Black Panther

Bohemian Rhapsody

The Favourite

Star is Born

Roma

Green Book

Vice 

Director 

Spike Lee Blackkklansman

Yorgos Lanthimos The Favourite

Alfonso Cuarón Roma

Adam McCay Vice

Bradley Cooper A Star is Born

Lead Actor

Christian Bale Vice

Bradley Cooper Star is Born

Rami Malek bohemian Rhapsody

Viggo Mortensen Green Book

John David Washington blackkklansmen

Lead Actress 

Olivia Colman The Favourite 

Glenn Close the wife

Viola Davis Widows

Lady Gaga  a Star is Born

Melissa McCarthy Can you ever forgive me

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams vice

Regina King Beale Street

Margot Robbie Mary queen of Scots

Emma Stone The Favourite

Rachel Weisz The Favourite

Best Supoorting Actor

Mahershala Ali Green Book

Timothée Chalamet Beautiful Boy

Adam Driver Blackkklansmen

Sam Elliot a Star is Born

Richard E Grant Can you ever forgive me. 

Best Adapted Screenplay

Blackkklansman

Black Panther

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

If Beale Street Could Talk

A Star is Born

Best Original Screenplay

Eighth Grade

the Favourite 

Green Book

Roma

Vice