Personally,
I liked La La Land. Liked. Liked.
But, I'm not an idiot, either.
I've
learned that you can hope for your favorite movie to win (ahem, Arrival),
but
it's probably not going to win - especially if you look at the awards that led
up to this grand
spectacle (i.e. Producers Guild, Screen Actor's Guild, Golden
Globes,
Director's Guild, etc.).
Considering all of those previous La La wins, I picked La La Land
to win 8
Academy Awards this year. That said, here are my picks in this
better-late-than-never
Oscars edition.
Let's
see how I did on Monday! See you then.
Best
picture:
“Arrival”
“Fences”
“Hacksaw
Ridge”
“Hell
or High Water”
“Hidden
Figures”
“La La
Land”
“Lion”
“Manchester
by the Sea”
“Moonlight"
Lead
actor:
Casey
Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea”
Andrew
Garfield, “Hacksaw Ridge”
Ryan
Gosling, “La La Land,”
Viggo
Mortensen, “Captain Fantastic”
Denzel
Washington, “Fences”
Lead
actress:
Isabelle
Huppert, “Elle”
Ruth
Negga, “Loving”
Natalie
Portman, “Jackie”
Emma
Stone, “La La Land”
Meryl
Streep, “Florence Foster Jenkins”
Supporting actor:
Mahershala
Ali, “Moonlight”
Jeff
Bridges, “Hell or High Water”
Lucas
Hedges, “Manchester by the Sea”
Dev
Patel, “Lion”
Michael
Shannon, “Nocturnal Animals”
Supporting
actress:
Viola
Davis, “Fences”
Naomie
Harris, “Moonlight”
Nicole
Kidman, “Lion”
Octavia
Spencer, “Hidden Figures”
Michelle
Williams, “Manchester by the Sea”
Best
director:
“La La
Land,” Damien Chazelle
“Hacksaw
Ridge,” Mel Gibson
“Moonlight,”
Barry Jenkins
“Manchester
by the Sea,” Kenneth Lonergan
“Arrival,”
Denis Villeneuve
Animated feature:
“Kubo
and the Two Strings,” Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner
“Moana,”
John Musker, Ron Clements and Osnat Shurer
“My
Life as a Zucchini,” Claude Barras and Max Karli
“The
Red Turtle,” Michael Dudok de Wit and Toshio Suzuki
“Zootopia”
Animated
short:
“Blind
Vaysha,” Theodore Ushev
“Borrowed
Time,” Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
“Pear
Cider and Cigarettes,” Robert Valley and Cara Speller
“Pearl,”
Patrick Osborne
“Piper”
Adapted
screenplay:
“Arrival,”
Eric Heisserer
“Fences,”
August Wilson
“Hidden
Figures,” Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi
“Lion,”
Luke Davies
“Moonlight,”
Barry Jenkins
Original screenplay:
“20th
Century Women,” Mike Mills
“Hell
or High Water,” Taylor Sheridan
“La La
Land,” Damien Chazelle
“The
Lobster,” Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
“Manchester
by the Sea,” Kenneth Lonergan
Cinematography:
“Arrival,”
Bradford Young
“La La
Land,” Linus Sandgren
“Lion,”
Greig Fraser
“Moonlight,”
James Laxton
“Silence,”
Rodrigo Prieto
Best
documentary feature:
“13th,”
Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick and Howard Barish
“Fire
at Sea,” Gianfranco Rosi and Donatella Palermo
“I Am
Not Your Negro,” Raoul Peck, Remi Grellety and Hebert Peck
“Life,
Animated,” Roger Ross Williams and Julie Goldman
“O.J.:
Made in America.”
Best
documentary short subject:
“4.1
Miles,” Daphne Matziaraki
“Extremis,”
Dan Krauss
“Joe’s
Violin,” Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen
“Watani:
My Homeland”
“The
White Helmets,” Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara
Best
live action short film:
“Ennemis
Interieurs,” Selim Azzazi
“La
Femme et le TGV,” Timo von Gunten and Giacun Caduff
“Silent
Nights"
“Sing,”
Kristof Deak and Anna Udvardy
“Timecode,”
Juanjo Gimenez
Best
foreign language film:
“A Man
Called Ove,” Sweden
“Land
of Mine,” Denmark
“Tanna,”
Australia
“The
Salesman,” Iran
“Toni
Erdmann,” Germany
Film editing:
“Arrival,”
Joe Walker
“Hacksaw
Ridge,” John Gilbert
“Hell
or High Water,” Jake Roberts
“La La
Land” Tom Cross
“Moonlight,”
Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon
Sound editing:
“Arrival,”
Sylvain Bellemare
“Deep
Water Horizon,” Wylie Stateman and Renee Tondelli
“Hacksaw
Ridge"
“La La
Land”
“Sully,”
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Sound mixing:
“Arrival,”
Bernard Gariepy Strobl and Claude La Haye
“Hacksaw
Ridge”
“La La
Land”
“Rogue
One: A Star Wars Story,”
“13
Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,”
Production design:
“Arrival,”
Patrice Vermette, Paul Hott
“Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them,” Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock
“Hail,
Caesar!,” Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
“La La
Land”
“Passengers,”
Guy Hendrix Dyas, Gene Serdena
Original
score:
“Jackie,”
Mica Levi
“La La
Land,” Justin Hurwitz
“Lion,”
Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka
“Moonlight,”
Nicholas Britell
“Passengers,”
Thomas Newman
Original
song:
“Audition
(The Fools Who Dream),” “La La Land” — Music by Justin Hurwitz;
“Can’t
Stop the Feeling,” “Trolls” — Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake
“City of
Stars,” “La La Land”
“The
Empty Chair,” “Jim: The James Foley Story”
“How
Far I’ll Go,” “Moana”
Makeup
and hair:
“A Man
Called Ove,” Eva von Bahr and Love Larson
“Star
Trek Beyond,” Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo
“Suicide
Squad,”
Costume
design:
“Allied,” Joanna
Johnston
“Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them,” Colleen Atwood
“Florence
Foster Jenkins,” Consolata Boyle
“Jackie,” Madeline
Fontaine
“La La
Land,” Mary Zophres
Visual
effects:
“Deepwater
Horizon,”
“Doctor
Strange,”
“The
Jungle Book”
“Kubo
and the Two Strings,”
