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The 96th Academy Awards – Stanko’s Version (Version 42.0)
The 96th Academy Awards – Stanko’s Version (Version 42.0)
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
My Nominations
- Bradley Cooper – “Maestro”
- Michael Fassbender – “The Killer”
- Paul Giamatti – “The Holdovers”
- Cillian Murphy – “Oppenheimer”
- Jeffery Wright – “American Fiction”
MY WINNER: Cillian Murphy – “Oppenheimer”
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
My Nominations
- Robert Downey Jr. – “Oppenheimer”
- John Magaro – “Past Lives”
- Sterling K. Brown – “American Fiction”
- Charles Melton – “May December”
- Mark Ruffalo – “Poor Things”
MY WINNER: Robert Downey Jr. – “Oppenheimer”
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
My Nominations
- Lily Gladstone – “Killers Of The Flower Moon”
- Sandra Hüller – “Anatomy Of A Fall”
- Greta Lee – “Past Lives”
- Margot Robbie – “Barbie”
- Emma Stone – “Poor Things”
MY WINNER: Greta Lee – “Past Lives”
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
My Nominations
- Emily Blunt – “Oppenheimer”
- Tracee Ellis Ross – “American Fiction”
- Jodie Foster – “NYAD”
- Julianne Moore – ”May December”
- Tilda Swinton – “The Killer”
MY WINNER: Tracee Ellis Ross – “American Fiction”
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
My Nominations
- “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget”
- “Justice League: Warworld”
- “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
- “The Super Mario Bros. Movie”
- “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”
MY WINNER: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
CINEMATOGRAPHY
My Nominations
- “Maestro” – Matthew Libatique
- “Oppenheimer” – Hoyte Van Hoytema
- “Poor Things” – Robbie Ryan
- “Saltburn” – Linus Sandgren
- “Zone Of Interest” – Lukasz Zal
MY WINNER: “Oppenheimer” – Hoyte Van Hoytema
COSTUME DESIGN
My Nominations
- “Air” – Charlese Antoinette Jones
- “Barbie” – Jacqueline Durran
- “May December” – April Napier
- “Napoleon” – David Crossman, Janty Yates
- “Poor Things” – Holly Waddington
MY WINNER: “Barbie” – Jacqueline Durran
BEST DIRECTOR
My Nominations
- Jonathan Glazer – “Zone Of Interest”
- Cord Jefferson – “American Fiction”
- Yorgos Lanthimos – “Poor Things”
- Christopher Nolan – “Oppenheimer”
- Alexander Payne – “The Holdovers”
MY WINNER: Christopher Nolan – “Oppenheimer”
BEST DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
My Nominations
- “American Symphony”
- “BS High”
- “Bye Bye Barry”
- “Call Me Kate”
- “Scout’s Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America”
MY WINNER: “BS HIgh”
BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
My Nominations
- “Eco-Hack!”
- “Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis To The Big Screen”
- “Making Of Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget”
- “Making Of The Last Of Us”
- “Taking On Taylor Swift”
MY WINNER: “Eco-Hack!”
FILM EDITING
My Nominations
- “John Wick: Chapter 4” – Nathan Orloff
- “The Killer” – Kirk Baxter
- “Oppenheimer” – Jennifer Lame
- “Saltburn” – Victoria Boydell
- “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” – Mike Andrews
MY WINNER: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” – Mike Andrews
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
My Nominations
- “Anatomy Of A Fall”
- “Sisu”
- “Zone Of Interest”
MY WINNER: “Zone Of Interest”
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
My Nominations
- “Barbie” – Ivana Primorac
- “Maestro” – Can’t Identify Lead
- “May December” – Can’t Identify Lead
- “Oppenheimer” – Luisa Abel
- “Poor Things” – Mark Coulier, Nadia Stacey, Josh Weston
MY WINNER: “Poor Things” – Mark Coulier, Nadia Stacey, Josh Weston
ORIGINAL SCORE
My Nominations
- “American Fiction” – Laura Karpman
- “Killers Of The Flower Moon” – Robbie Robertson
- “Oppenheimer” – Ludwig Göransson
- “Poor Things” – Jerskin Fendrix
- “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” – Daniel Pemberton
MY WINNER: “Oppenheimer” – Ludwig Göransson
ORIGINAL SONG
My Nominations
- “Am I Dreaming” – (A$AP Rocky, Metro Boomin, Roisee) – Across The Spider-Verse
- “Dance By Night” (Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt) – Barbie
- “I’m Just Ken” (Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt) – Barbie
- “Quiet Eyes” (Zach Dawes, Sharon Von Etten) – Past Lives
- “What Was I Made For?” (Billie Eilish, Finneas) – Barbie
MY WINNER: “Am I Dreaming” – A$AP Rocky, Metro Boomin, Roisee – Spider Man: Across The Spider-Verse
BEST PICTURE
My Nominations
- “American Fiction”
- “The Holdovers”
- “John Wick: Chapter 4”
- “The Killer”
- “Maestro”
- “Oppenheimer”
- “Past Lives”
- “Poor Things”
- “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse”
- “Zone Of Interest”
MY WINNER: “Oppenheimer”
PRODUCTION DESIGN
My Nominations
- “Barbie”
- “Killers Of The Flower Moon”
- “Napoleon”
- “Oppenheimer”
- “Poor Things”
MY WINNER: “Poor Things”
SHORT FILM ANIMATED
My Nominations
- Burning Rubber
- Kent Hammer
- South Park: Joining the Panderverse
- Welcome To 8th Street
MY WINNER: South Park: Joining the Panderverse
SHORT FILM LIVE ACTION
My Nominations
- “The After”
- “Poison”
- “The Rat Catcher”
- “The Swan”
- “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”
MY WINNER: “Poison”
SOUND
My Nominations
- “John Wick: Chapter 4”
- “The Killer”
- “Maestro”
- “Oppenheimer”
- “Zone Of Interest”
MY WINNER: “Maestro”
VISUAL EFFECTS
My Nominations
- “John Wick: Chapter 4″
- “Napoleon”
- “Oppenheimer”
- “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
- “Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts”
MY WINNER: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
My Nominations
- “American Fiction” – Cord Jefferson
- “Barbie” – Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
- “Oppenheimer” – Kai Bird, Christopher Nolan, Martin Sherwin
- “Poor Things” – Tony McNamara
- “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” – Dave Callaham, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
MY WINNER: “Oppenheimer” – Kai Bird, Christopher Nolan, Martin Sherwin
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
My Nominations
- “Anatomy Of A Fall” – Arthur Harai, Justine Triet
- “Fair Play” – Chloe Domont
- “The Holdovers” – David Hemingson
- “May December” – Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik
- “Past Lives” – Celine Song
MY WINNER: “Past Lives” – Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik
FILMS RANKED BY NOMINATIONS
- Oppenheimer | 13
- Poor Things | 10
- Barbie | 8
- American Fiction | 7
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | 7
- The Killer | 5
- Maestro | 5
- May December | 5
- Past Lives | 5
- Zone Of Interest | 5
- The Holdovers | 4
- Anatomy Of A Fall | 3
- John Wick: Chapter 4 | 3
- Killers Of The Flower Moon | 3
- Napoleon | 3
- Fair Play | 2
- Saltburn | 2
- The After | 1
- Air | 1
- American Symphony | 1
- BS High | 1
- Burning Rubber | 1
- Bye Bye Barry | 1
- Call Me Kate | 1
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | 1
- Eco-Hack! | 1
- Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis To The Big Screen | 1
- Justice League: Warworld | 1
- Making Of Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget | 1
- Making Of The Last Of Us | 1
- NYAD | 1
- Poison | 1
- The Rat Catcher | 1
- Scout’s Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America | 1
- Sisu | 1
- South Park: Joining The Pandaverse | 1
- The Swan | 1
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie | 1
- Taking On Taylor Swift | 1
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem | 1
- Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts | 1
- Welcome To 8th Street | 1
- The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar | 1
FILMS RANKED BY WINS
- Oppenheimer | 7
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | 4
- Past Lives | 3
- American Fiction | 1
- Barbie | 1
- BS High | 1
- Eco-Hack! | 1
- Maestro | 1
- Poison | 1
- Poor Things | 1
- South Park: Joining The Pandaverse | 1
- Zone Of Interest | 1
Eligible (And Some Not) movies I Have seen
65
A Haunting In Venice
The After
Air
American Fiction
American Symphony
Anatomy Of A Fall
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Assassin Club
Bama Rush
Barbie
Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham
The Black Demon
The Blackening
Boston Strangler
BS High
Bye Bye Barry
Burning Rubber
Call Me Kate
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Cocaine Bear
Cocaine Bear: The True Story
The Color Purple
Cowchilla
Dungeon & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Eco-Hack!
Equalizer 3
The Exorcist: Believer
Expend4bles
Extraction 2
Fair Play
Fast X
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Ghosted
Kandahar
Haunting Of The Queen Mary
Heart Of Stone
The Holdovers
Hypnotic
Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny
Infinity Pool
John Wick: Chapter 4
Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis To The Big Screen
Justice League: Warworld
Kent Hammer
The Killer
Killers Of The Flower Moon
Knock At The Cabin
Legion Of Super-Heroes
M3gan
Maestro
Making Of Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget
Making Of The Last Of Us
Master Gardener
May December
The Meg 2: The Trench
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part I
Murder Mystery 2
NYAD
Napoleon
No Hard Feelings
No One Will Save You
Oppenheimer
Pain Hustlers
The Pale Blue Eye
Past Lives
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines
Poison
Poor Things
The Pope’s Exorcist
The Rat Catcher
Reality
Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire
Renfield
Reptile
River Wild
Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken
Rustin
Saltburn
Sanctuary
Scout’s Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America
Scream VI
Shazam! Fury Of The Gods
Shotgun Wedding
Sick
Sisu
Slotherhouse
South Park: Joining the Panderverse
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
The Swan
Taking On Taylor Swift
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Tetris
Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts
Welcome To 8th Street
Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey
The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar
Zone Of Interest
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