Best Documentary
Free Solo
Hale County, This Morning This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
RBG
What can I say? My take on this category is going to be forever marred by the fact that the best documentary in a decade was snubbed. RBG has the most interesting subject (so it will probably win), but doesn't really do much more than tell the story. Of Fathers and Sons probably takes the most risks (with its filmmaker embedded with ISIS fighters), but it is certainly the most tedious. Hale County is certainly the most original. It is poetic and beautiful, but is also the most inaccessible to the average viewer. Minding the Gap is beloved by critics and is probably the best of this bunch, which means it has no chance. Free Solo is my favorite of the nominated films and probably the only one I would actively recommend to others. Still, this will be forever remembered as the year the Academy snubbed Mr. Fred Rogers...
My Ballot
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
RBG
Hale County, This Morning This Evening
Of Fathers and Sons
My Pick to Win
RBG
Shamefully Snubbed
Won't You be My Neighbor?
Best Foreign Film
Capernaum
Cold War
Never Look Away
Roma
Shoplifters
Once again, this category is stricken by complete inaccessibility. I have seen Roma. The only thing interesting about this award is that if Cold War pulls off the upset it certainly spells bad news for Roma's best picture chances.
My Ballot
Roma
My Pick to Win
Roma
Best Animated Film
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Mirai
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
I've already written a blog about Spider-Man. Isle of Dogs is a stop-motion masterpiece that begs to be seen. Incredibles 2 is pretty overrated, Ralph is pretty underrated, and Mirai is simply impossible to see unless you find a solid bootleg and can speak Japanese.
My Ballot
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Isle of Dogs
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Incredibles 2
My Pick to Win
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Shamefully Snubbed
Teen Titans Go to the Movies
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