Countdown to Oscar Night: Bonus! Spirit Awards

The Oscars have been doing better lately, but this year returns to the old status quo that is: If you want to actually find the best movies of 2018 you look at the Spirit Awards. Four of the Best Feature nominees are in my top 10 of the year. Though there is a bit of crossover, you won't find Bohemian Rhapsody mentioned this afternoon, and you may see many of my snubs from the main blog. Tune in this afternoon (2/23) at 5pm on IFC. I'm going to show each category with my ballot (best to worst) and then put a space if I haven't seen a movie. Here you go:

Best International Film
Roma
The Favourite

Burning
Happy as Lazzaro
Shoplifters

Best Documentary
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Minding the Gap
Hale County, This Morning This Evening
Fathers and Sons

On Her Shoulders
Shirkers

Best Supporting Male
Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Raul Castillo - We the Animals
Josh Hamilton - Eighth Grade
Adam Driver - BlacKkKlansman

John David Washington - Monsters and Men

Best Supporting Female
Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie - Leave No Trace
J. Smith Cameron - Nancy

Kayli Carter - Private Life
Tyne Daly - A Bread Factory

Best Male Lead
Ethan Hawke - First Reformed
Daveed Diggs - Blindspotting
John Cho - Searching
Joaquin Phoenix - You Were Never Really Here

Christian Malheiros - Socrates

Best Female Lead
Elsie Fisher - Eighth Grade
Toni Collette - Hereditary
Glenn Close - The Wife

Regina Hall - Support the Girls
Helena Howard - Madeline's Madeline
Carey Mulligan - Wildlife

Best Cinematography
We the Animals

Madeline's Madeline
Mandy
Suspiria
Wildlife

Best Editing
mid90s
The Tale
We the Animals
American Animals
You Were Never Really Here

Best First Screenplay
Eighth Grade
The Tale
Nancy

Blame
Thoroughbreds

Best Screenplay
Sorry to Bother You
First Reformed
Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Colette
Private Life

Best Director
Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk
Paul Schrader - First Reformed
Debra Granik - Leave No Trace
Lynne Ramsey - You Were Never Really Here

Tamara Jenkins - Private Life

Best First Feature
Sorry to Bother You
We the Animals
The Tale
Hereditary

Wildlife

Best Feature
If Beale Street Could Talk
Leave No Trace
First Reformed
Sorry to Bother You
You Were Never Really Here