Oscar Sunday is finally upon us. We’ve counted down every film to win Best Picture, and we’ve even ranked each of this year’s Best Picture nominees. The only thing left to do is to offer some predictions in every category at this year’s show. I suspect that I’ll miss in a few categories, but I think this is one of the more secure ballots I’ve submitted. With that kind of confidence, I’m bound to miss more than ever. But, as always, I’ll give it my best shot.
The results of the Times Leader’s readers’ ballot for this year’s Oscars is locked in! This is the first-ever poll — at least to my knowledge — of this kind made just for Times Leader readers. Now that the votes have been tallied, I’m happy to present the results.
This year’s crop of Best Picture nominees is an interesting bunch, from international films to heavy dissections of the American Dream. Rather than describing them vaguely, let’s take a look at each of this year’s nominees, ranked from worst to first.
In this seventeenth and final part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be offering up my choices for the five best winners of Best Picture. The five films listed include my personal favorite movie, a classic epic with a large scope in story and spectacle, a spirited story that represents the best of Hollywood’s Golden Age, and both halves of an iconic American saga.
In this sixteenth and penultimate part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating the two best winners released during my lifetime, and three films featuring iconic movie villains.
In this fourteenth part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating a pair of films that won Best Picture prizes at the same ceremony, an X-rated masterpiece, and one of the most influential films of the past 20 years.
In this thirteenth part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating Alfred Hitchcock’s Best Picture winner, a film close to the hearts of Pennsylvanians, and the highest grossing movie of all-time.
In this twelfth part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating films with wildly different settings — from the trenches to the suburbs to the multiverse.
In this eleventh part of my retrospective Oscar Outlook, I’ll be eliminating five films with big cinematic appeal, and a small scale classic that made a legend of its budding star.
