Picture: PARASITE
Actor: Joaquin Phoenix
Actress: Renée Zellweger
Supp. Actor: Brad Pitt
Supp. Actress: Laura Dern
Director: Martin Scorsese
Orig. Screenplay: Knives Out
Adap. Screenplay: The Two Popes
Cinematography: The Lighthouse
Prod. Design: 1917
Editing: Ford v. Ferrari
Costumes: Jojo Rabbit
Score: Little Women
Song: Rocketman
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Two movies pop out for me. Firstly Parasite, which although I heard was getting a lot of praise, absolutely blew me away. What a rollercoaster.

Secondly, a fantastic French movie in an extremely good year for French cinema. I’m talking about The Wolf’s Call. Interesting subject, entrancing and perfectly executed. I was on the edge of my seat for…[Read more]

Klaus for Best Picture

2008: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2009: Hachi: A Dog’s Tale
2010: Inception
2011: Water for Elephants/The Tree of Life
2012: Cloud Atlas
2013: The Great Gatsby
2014: Interstellar
2015: Inside Out
2016: La La Land
2017: Get Out
2018: Avengers: Infinity War
2019: Le Chant du Loup/Avengers: Endgame (I haven’t seen 90%+ of the hopefuls)

1. Tom Hanks
2. Daniel Day-Lewis
3. James Stewart
4. Marlon Brando
5. Morgan Freeman
6. Cary Grant
7. Leonardo DiCaprio
8. Dustin Hoffman
9. Jack Lemmon
10. Jack Nichsolson

1. Meryl Streep
2. Katharine Hepburn
3. Ingrid Bergman
4. Natalie Portman
5. Cate Blanchett

This is quite hard!

Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Billy Wilder, Frances Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, John Ford.

For me definitely choosing Jones over Fiennes. His work for Schindler’s List was incredible, menacing and very impressive. He was robbed. Can’t see why the Academy went with Jones.

Dean was nominated already that year for East of Eden, would you rather see him being nominated for Rebel? I do prefer his performance in Rebel over Eden.