It is questionable how much awards actually matter, but Oscar season sure is fun. The Kraken is definitely a fan, so during the Oscar season we’ll bring you coverage of all that is happening. So sit back and enjoy as we jump into the madness!

2020 Oscars Season

David’s Ever-Changing Top Ten List (oi this started out really rough)

*Wooo this looks like a real Top Ten Now

  1. Parasite
  2. Knives Out
  3. 1917
  4. Jojo Rabbit
  5. The Farewell
  6. The Irishman
  7. Marriage Story
  8. Midsommar
  9. Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood
  10. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Honorable Mention: Weathering With You, Little Women, The Lighthouse, Pain and Glory, Klaus, Ford V. Ferrari, The Two Popes, Honeyland, Booksmart, Avengers: Endgame, Lego Movie 2

David’s Top Films To See:

  1. A Hidden Life
  2. Toy Story 4 (it has been a weird year of movie watching for me)
  3. Dolemite Is My Name
  4. Waves
  5. I Lost My Body
  6. American Factory
  7. For Sama
  8. Harriet
  9. Bombshell

2019 Oscars Season

David’s Ever-Changing Top Ten List (oof this feels like it is going to change a lot this year… spoiler alert it did)

  1. If Beale Street Could Talk
  2. The Favourite
  3. BlacKkKlansman
  4. Blindspotting
  5. Minding the Gap
  6. Mirai
  7. Paddington 2
  8. Black Panther
  9. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  10. Shoplifters

Honorable Mention: Roma, Thoroughbreds, Cold War, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, Free Solo, The Death of Stalin, Crazy Rich Asians, Sorry to Bother You, A Star Is Born, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

David’s Top Films To See:

  1. Eighth Grade
  2. Burning
  3. Ruben Brandt, Collector
  4. Boy Erased
  5. Beautiful Boy
  6. First Reformed
  7. At Eternity’s Gate
  8. Leave No Trace
  9. A Quiet Place

Kyu’s Top Ten List (in order) (subject to change):

  1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  2. If Beale Street Could Talk
  3. Isle of Dogs
  4. Hereditary
  5. Annihilation
  6. BlacKkKlansman
  7. Black Panther
  8. Paddington 2
  9. The Favourite
  10. First Reformed

Honorable Mention (no order): The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Game Night, Three Identical Strangers, A Simple Favor, Cam, Mirai, First Man, Cold War, Minding the Gap, Free Solo, Shoplifters, Never Look Away, Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Kyu’s Top Films Still To See (no order):

  1. Suspiria
  2. The Death of Stalin
  3. Sorry to Bother You
  4. Fahrenheit 11/9
  5. Eighth Grade
  6. Crazy Rich Asians
  7. Upgrade

Forecasts and Awards Coverage

2018 Oscars Season

David’s Ever Changing Top Ten List (this will be especially true this year as I am super not positive if this is the order I am good with for any spot and there is a good chance I will be swapping these movies around a lot)

  1. Logan
  2. Call Me By Your Name
  3. Lady Bird
  4. Thelma
  5. The Disaster Artist
  6. The Square
  7. The Shape of Water
  8. Dunkirk
  9. The Big Sick
  10. The Work

Honorable Mention: Strong Island, Last Men in Aleppo, Phantom Thread, In This Corner of the World, Colossal, The Florida Project, Coco, Loving Vincent, Get Out, The Insult

David’s Top Films To See: 

  1. Okja
  2. Mary and the Witch’s Flower
  3. In the Fade
  4. City of Ghosts
  5. Foxtrot
  6. Faces Places
  7. A Ghost Story

Kyu’s Top Ten List (in order):

  1. Logan
  2. Phantom Thread
  3. Blade Runner 2049
  4. Call Me By Your Name
  5. The Shape of Water
  6. Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
  7. Get Out
  8. Colossal
  9. Baby Driver
  10. Strong Island

Honorable Mention (no order): Raw, Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, Dunkirk, It Comes at Night, Darkest Hour, The Big Sick, Marshall, The Disaster Artist, On Body and Soul, Icarus, Icarus, Last Men at Aleppo, I, Tonya, The Breadwinner, Split, The Lego Batman Movie, Coco, Victoria & Abdul, Lady Bird

Kyu’s Top Films Still To See (no order): 

  1. Detroit
  2. Logan Lucky
  3. Paddington 2
  4. Personal Shopper
  5. Good Time
  6. Thelma
  7. A Ghost Story
  8. The Square

Forecasts and Awards Coverage

2017

David’s Ever Changing Top Ten List

  1. The Handmaiden
  2. Your Name
  3. La La Land
  4. Moonlight
  5. Manchester By the Sea
    • I won’t say this is a line of awesomeness, but I do feel like it should be said that while the films before this point are clearly above the rest of the films on this list for me, the rest are very very close to everything in my honorable mention.
  6. Moana
  7. Sing Street
  8. Elle
  9. I Am Not Your Negro
  10. Arrival

Honorable Mention (or I guess the next ten): A Monster Calls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Zootopia, Toni Erdmann, Hidden Figures, 13th, Jackie, Neruda, I, Daniel Blake, Everybody Wants Some!!

David’s Top Films Still To See:

  1. OJ: Made in America
  2. Sully
  3. Julieta
  4. Silence
  5. A Man Called Ove
  6. Fire at Sea
  7. Tanna
  8. Land of Mine

Kyu’s Top Ten List (in order)

  1. Moonlight
  2. Manchester by the Sea
  3. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  4. Kubo and the Two Strings
  5. La La Land
  6. OJ: Made in America
  7. Shin Godzilla
    – line of awesome –
  8. Swiss Army Man
  9. Jackie
  10. Green Room

Still watching 2016 movies, so this list may change. Check out my part of the Best of 2016: Movies post for honorable mentions.

Forecasts and Awards Coverage

2016

David’s Ever Changing Top Ten List

As David endeavors to be as caught up as possible with the year’s best films so he can give Oscar coverage worthy of its own little gold statue, his top ten list may change, so keep checking back. For now, though:

  1. Mad Max: Fury Road
  2. Sicario
  3. Spotlight
  4. Inside Out
  5. Anomalisa
  6. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  7. Mustang
  8. Bakemono no Ko or The Boy and the Beast
  9. Boy & The World
  10. Carol

Honorable Mention: The Martian, Brooklyn and Ex Machina

Kyu’s Top Ten? List

Kyu is much farther behind than David, so here’s his list for now:

  1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  2. World of Tomorrow
  3. Mad Max: Fury Road
  4. Phoenix
  5. The Big Short
  6. Creed
  7. It Follows
  8. Anomalisa
  9. The Hateful Eight
  10. The Lobster

Honorable mentions: The Martian, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Ex Machina, Tangerine, Steve Jobs, Brooklyn

Really, really behind. Hopefully by Oscar time he’ll actually have ten films on this list.

Update: 10 films, baby! And still more to watch, so the list will keep shifting.

Update: I have honorable mentions now! So exciting. Still more to watch, though!

Award predictions

(Preview: Nomination predictions)

Best Picture

Acting Awards

Creative Awards

Technical Awards

Best Other Types of Picture Awards

Final Predictions

Oscar Live Blog

Highlighted Films

Debates

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