Your Oscar Favorites (and Least Favorite) in Each Category: 2000-present

[Spinal]

What are they? Select from award winners only.

Mine:

BEST PICTURE
Favorite - Moonlight
Least - Crash

BEST DIRECTOR
Favorite - Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant (even though I think George Miller should have won this year)
Least - Roman Polanski, The Pianist (based on the film, not who he is)

BEST ACTOR
Favorite - Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Least - Sean Penn, Mystic River

BEST ACTRESS
Favorite - Charlize Theron, Monster
Least - Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Favorite - Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Least - Tim Robbins, Mystic River

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Favorite - Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Least - Renée Zellweger, Cold Mountain (a lot I haven't seen in this category)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Favorite - Pedro Almodóvar, Talk to Her
Least - Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, Crash (that three-year string of Crash, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno is just brutal)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Favorite - Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain
Least - Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, The Big Short

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
I haven't seen enough to say.

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Favorite - Happy Feet
Least - Up

Do other categories too if you want.

[Ezee E]

BEST PICTURE
Favorite - No Country For Old Men
Least - King's Speech

BEST DIRECTOR
Favorite - Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
Least - Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)

BEST ACTOR
Favorite - Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Least - Jean Dujardina, The Artist

BEST ACTRESS (things get interesting from hereon)
Favorite - Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Least - Nicole Kidman, The Hours
*What an awful year, btw

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Favorite - Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds
Least - Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Favorite - Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Least - Melissa Leo, The Fighter (don't remember a thing about this performance)
*Also haven't seen a lot of these.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Favorite - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Least - Milk (I'll add to Spinal's years of bad scripts)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Favorite - The Social Network
Least - The Imitation Game
*I'd be curious what The Big Short script even reads like.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Favorite - Son of Saul
Least - Nowhere in Africa

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (added on my end)
Favorite - There Will Be Blood
Least - Avatar

[Ezee E]

I had a similar idea for Roman Polanski, but Best Director, lol.

[Peng]

BEST PICTURE
Favorite - The Departed
Least - Crash

BEST DIRECTOR
Favorite - Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Least - (I like the film a fair bit, but...) Tom Hooper, The King's Speech

BEST ACTOR
Favorite - Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Least - Sean Penn, Mystic River

BEST ACTRESS
Favorite - Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Least - Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Favorite - Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Least - Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Same that there are a lot I haven't seen in this category )
Favorite - Lupita N'yongo, 12 Years a Slave
Least - Melissa Leo, The Fighter

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Favorite - Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Least - Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, Crash

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Favorite - William Monahan, The Departed
Least - Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, The Big Short

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Favorite - A Separation
Least - The Sea Inside

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Favorite - Toy Story 3
Least - Big Hero 6

[Spinal]

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Favorite - The Revenant
Least - La La Land

[baby doll]

Best Foreign Language Film
Favourite: Son of Saul
Least favourite: La Grande bellezza

Best Picture
Favourite: No Country for Old Men
Least favourite: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Documentary
Favourite: Searching for Sugar Man
Least favourite: Citizenfour

Best Director
Favourite: Ethan and Joel Coen, No Country for Old Men
Least favourite: Tom Hooper, The King's Speech

Best Actress
Favourite: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Least favourite: Natalie Portman, Black Swan

Best Actor
Favourite: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Least favourite: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant

Best Supporting Actress
Favourite: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Least favourite: Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener

Best Supporting Actor
Favourite: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Least favourite: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

[Lazlo]

BEST PICTURE
Favorite: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Least: The King's Speech

BEST DIRECTOR
Favorite: Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
Least: Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

BEST ACTOR
Favorite: Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Least: Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything

BEST ACTRESS
Favorite: Natalie Portman - Black Swan
Least: Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Favorite: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Least: Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Favorite: Viola Davis - Fences
Least: Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Favorite: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Least: Crash

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Favorite: The Social Network
Least: The Imitation Game

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Favorite: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Least: In a Better World

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Favorite: Up
Least: Frozen

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Favorite: Road to Perdition
Least: Avatar

[Mysterious Dude]

BEST PICTURE
Favorite: 12 Years a Slave
Least: Crash

BEST DIRECTOR
Favorite: Steven Soderbergh, Traffic
Least: Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind

BEST ACTOR
Favorite: Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Least: Russell Crowe, Gladiator

BEST ACTRESS
Favorite: Charlize Theron, Monster
Least: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Favorite: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Least: Tim Robbins, Mystic River

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Favorite: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Least: Octavia Spencer, The Help

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Favorite: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Least: Little Miss Sunshine

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Favorite: Traffic
Least: The Imitation Game

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Favorite: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Least: Departures

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Favorite: Road to Perdition
Least: Hugo

[Dead & Messed Up]

The choices I pick as "least favorite" in no way means I hate them or enjoy ragging on people, just that they seemed less deserving for one reason or another. For example, Nolan's frenzied editing style does Pfister's work no favors in Inception.


ACTOR
Daniel-Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood / Sean Penn, Mystic River

ACTOR (SUPPORTING)
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men / Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine

ACTRESS
Natalie Portman, Black Swan / (haven't seen enough)

ACTRESS (SUPPORTING)
Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave / Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chicago

ANIMATED
Spirited Away / Zootopia

ART DIRECTION
Mad Max: Fury Road / Alice in Wonderland

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Crouching Tiger / Inception

COSTUME
Mad Max: Fury Road / Alice in Wonderland

EDITING
The Matrix / The Departed

MAKEUP
The Return of the King / How the Grinch Stole Christmas

ORIGINAL SCORE
The Fellowship of the Ring / The Hateful Eight

ORIGINAL SONG
"Falling Slowly," Once / "Writing's on the Wall," Spectre

SCREENPLAY (ADAPTED)
No Country for Old Men / The Big Short

SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / Django Unchained

PICTURE
No Country for Old Men / Crash

VISUAL EFFECTS
The Matrix / Gladiator

[baby doll]

After ten solid years of everyone harping on how overrated Crash is, I'm beginning to think it's actually underrated. It's a silly, passably entertaining Hollywood issue movie, but people talk about it like it causes AIDS.

[Dead & Messed Up]

After ten solid years of everyone harping on how overrated Crash is, I'm beginning to think it's actually underrated. It's a silly, passably entertaining Hollywood issue movie, but people talk about it like it causes AIDS.

I don't hate it; it's just my least favorite of the BP winners I've seen from this time frame.

[Spinal]

Crash gave me AIDS.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Crash gave me AIDS.

On the bright side, you can now empathize with people with AIDS, since you crashed into AIDS yourself.