The 2024 Sibleys

My would-be awards ballot for last year.

I’m writing this even later than usual, perhaps because everything about the actual races has been so set and decided so early, with Oppenheimer‘s momentum showing up a Summer release can have enough staying power. There’s been plenty of hypothetical challengers since, but little that has been actually to match its pace, which is all the more impressive when you think about just how much of that early traction was on Nolan’s shoulders alone through the strikes.

Likewise, I had my little list of works that I figured could be late contenders, but apologies to RMN and Mad Fate for just not finding the time for them — was fully prepared to block out an afternoon for Trenque Lauquen until Radiance and Cinema Guild announced their boutique releases and set the decision to wait for their transfers over a rental — and to Godzilla Minus One, we just each kept having plans when the other was free.

But considering I’ve cut it closer to the actual red carpet than usual, that’s enough pre-show chat, here’s the ballots:

Best Picture

• Anatomy of a Fall
• Asteroid City
• Ferrari
• Magic Mike’s Last Dance
• Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
• Oppenheimer
• Priscilla
• Showing Up
• The Boy and the Heron
• The Passengers of the Night

Best Director

• Wes Anderson for Asteroid City
• Sofia Coppola for Priscilla
• Aki Kaurismäki for Fallen Leaves
• Michael Mann for Ferrari
• Hayao Miyazaki for The Bird and the Heron
• Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer
• Kelly Reichardt for Showing Up
• Steven Soderbergh for Magic Mike’s Last Dance
• Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall
• Frederick Wiseman for Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros

Best Actor

• Adam Driver for Ferrari
• Zac Efron for The Iron Claw
• Ryan Gosling for Barbie
• Jonathan Groff for Knock at the Cabin
• Benoît Magimel for Pacification
• Charles Melton for May December
• Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer
• Thomas Schubert for Afire
• Jason Schwartzman for Asteroid City
• Channing Tatum for Magic Mike’s Last Dance

Best Actress

• Paula Beer for Afire
• Penelope Cruz for Ferrari
• Abby Ryder Fortson for Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
• Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon
• Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of a Fall
• Scarlett Johansson for Asteroid City
• Alma Pöysti for Fallen Leaves
• Margot Robbie for Barbie
• Cailee Spaeny for Priscilla
• Michelle Williams for Showing Up

Best Supporting Actor

• Dave Bautista for Knock at the Cabin
• Bradley Cooper for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer
• Tom Hanks for Asteroid City
• Glenn Howerton for Blackberry
• Judd Hirsch for Showing Up
• Milo Machado-Graner & Messi for Anatomy of a Fall
• John Magaro for Showing Up
• Holt McCallany for The Iron Claw

Best Supporting Actress

• Hong Chau for Showing Up
• Adèle Exarchopoulos for The Five Devils
• Hannah Gross & Sophia Lillis for The Adults
• Pahoa Mahagafanau for Pacification
• Rachel McAdams for Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
• Julianne Moore for May December
• Cara Jade Myers for Killers of the Flower Moon
• Margot Robbie for Asteroid City
• Maura Tierney for The Iron Claw

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Ariela Barer & Daniel Goldhaber & Jordia Sjol for How to Blow Up a Pipeline
• Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig for Barbie
• Sofia Coppola for Priscilla
• Kelly Fremon Craig for Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
• William Friedkin for The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
• Matt Johnson & Matthew Miller for Blackberry
• Troy Kennedy Martin for Ferrari
• Christoper Nolan for Oppenheimer
• Eric Roth & Martin Scorsese (and Paul Thomas Anderson [citation needed]) for Killers of the Flower Moon
• M. Night Shyamalan and Michael Sherman & Steve Desmond for Knock at the Cabin

Best Original Screenplay

• Maude Ameline, Mariette Désert & Mikhaël Hers for The Passengers of the Night
• Wes Anderson for Asteroid City
• Samy Burch for May December
• Dustin Guy Defa for The Adults
• Sean Durkin for The Iron Claw
• Hayao Miyazaki for The Bird and the Heron
• Christian Petzold for Afire
• Kelly Reichardt for Showing Up
• Celine Song for Past Lives
• Arthur Harari & Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall

Best Cinematography

• Simon Beaufils for Anatomy of a Fall
• Christopher Blauvelt for Showing Up
• Hoyte van Hoytema for Oppenheimer
• Philippe Le Sourd for Priscilla
• Erik Messerschmidt for Ferrari
• Hong Sang-soo for in water
• Steven Soderbergh for Magic Mike’s Last Dance
• Fraser Taggart for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Artur Tort for Pacification
• Maria von Hausswolff for Godland
• Robert Yeoman for Asteroid City

Best Costume Design

• Stacey Battat for Priscilla
• Milena Canonero for Asteroid City
• Jacqueline Durran for Barbie
• Amanda Monk for Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• Julie O’Keefe and Jacqueline West for Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Documentary

• Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
• Occupied City
• The Afterlight
• The Pigeon Tunnel
• The Plains

Best Editing

• Steven Hathaway for The Pigeon Tunnel
• Jennifer Lame for Oppenheimer
• Pietro Scalia for Ferrari
• Thelma Schoonmaker for Killers of the Flower Moon
• Frederick Wiseman for Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros

Best Foreign Language Film

• Afire
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
• The Boy and the Heron
• The Passengers of the Night

Best Make-Up and Hairstyling

• Philippe Bertrand-Hudon, Dylan Twigg & Ashley Vieira for Blackberry
• Julie Dartnell & Mark Coulier for Asteroid City
• Cliona Furey, Iantha Goldberg & Jacqueline Robertson-Cull for Priscilla
• Kazu Hiro, Kay Georgiou & Lori McCoy-Bell for Maestro
• Ivana Primorac for Barbie

Best Score

• Alexandre Desplat for Asteroid City
• Ludwig Göransson for Oppenheimer
• Joe Hisaishi for The Boy and the Heron
• Daniel Pemberton for Ferrari
• Marcelo Zarvos (and Michel Legrand for The Go-Between) for May December

Best Original Song

• “Dance the Night” from Barbie by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Dua Lipa & Caroline Ailin
• “Dear Alien Who Art in Heaven” from Asteroid City by Wes Anderson, Jarvis Cocker & Richard Hawley
• “Eye For An Eye” from John Wick: Chapter 4 by Rina Sawayama, Tyler Bates and Brasko
• “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt & Ryan Gosling
• “Live That Way Forever” from The Iron Claw by Richard Reed Parry & Little Scream

Best Live-Action Short

• Shards of Moon
• The Daughters of Fire
• The Potemkinists
• The Swan
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Best Documentary Short

• A Dog Called Discord
• Another Young Couple
• It’s What Each Person Needs
• Passing Time
• Presages

Best Production Design

• Ruth de Jong for Oppenheimer
• Jack Fisk for Killers of the Flower Moon
• Frosti Fridriksson for Godland
• Sarah Greenwood for Barbie
• Adam Stockhausen for Asteroid City

Best Sound

• Mark Jenkin for Enys Men
• Richard King, Gary A. Rizzo, Kevin O’Connell & Willie Burton for Oppenheimer
• Tony Lambertti, Bernard Wieser, Lee Orloff & Andy Nelson for Ferrari
• Mark Stoeckinger, Manfred Banach, Andy Koyama & Casey Genton for John Wick: Chapter 4
• Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn for The Zone of Interest

Best Visual Effects

• Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams and Theo Bialek for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts and Neil Corbould for The Creator
• Simon Hughes for Poor Things
• Andrew Jackson, Giacomo Mineo, Scott Fisher & Dave Drzewiecki for Oppenheimer
• Ben Snow, Scott Benza, Khalid Almeerani & Sam Conway for Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves