The 2019 Sibleys

My awards ballot of choice.

 

In a change from last year, I’m going to do 10 nominees for the bigger categories, but in keeping with the spirit of what the previous entry, this is about celebrating as much as I possibly can, considering awards season usually scales itself down over the festival season and what gets send out on screeners. Once again, the pictures attached to each category are not an indicator of what I would choose as the winner, but instead keeping with this ethos.

 

 

HONOURARY AWARD

• The Other Side of the Wind

For the film and all those involved in producing it, from the 1970’s when it first started filming, through to this year when it was finally available to see.

Two reasons:

1 – Nothing else can truly compete with it.

2 – It deserves to be nominated in every category it’s applicable in, and considering the purpose of these awards is to celebrate as much as possible, I’d rather give it something upfront.

 

 

BEST PICTURE

• A Star is Born
• BlackkKlansman
• Black Panther
• First Man
• First Reformed
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Let the Sunshine In
• Leave No Trace
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Support the Girls

 

 

BEST DIRECTOR

• Bradley Cooper for A Star is Born
• Damien Chazelle for First Man
• Ryan Coogler for Black Panther
• Claire Denis for Let the Sunshine In
• Debra Granik for Leave No Trace 
• Barry Jenkins for If Beale Street Could Talk
• Spike Lee for BlackkKlansman
• Lucrecia Martel for Zama
• Christopher McQuarrie for Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Paul Schrader for First Reformed

 

 

BEST ACTOR

• Tom Cruise for Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Bradley Cooper for A Star is Born
• Clint Eastwood for The Mule
• Ben Foster for Leave No Trace
• Daniel Giménez Cacho for Zama
• Ryan Gosling for First Man
• Ethan Hawke for First Reformed
• Stephan James for If Beale Street Could Talk
• Robert Redford for The Old Man and the Gun
• John David Washington for BlackkKlansman

 

 

BEST ACTRESS

• Juliette Binoche for Let the Sunshine In
• Laura Dern for The Tale
• Claire Foy for Unsane
• Lady Gaga for A Star is Born
• Regina Hall for Support the Girls
• Tomasin McKenzie Hardcourt for Leave No Trace
• Dakota Johnson for Suspiria
• Kiki Layne for If Beale Street Could Talk
• Emma Stone for The Favourite
• Taylor Swift for Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour

 

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Michael B. Jordan for Black Panther
• Bradley Cooper for The Mule
• Colman Domingo for If Beale Street Could Talk
• Adam Driver for BlackkKlansman
• Sam Elliot for A Star is Born
• Bill Heck for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Bryan Tyree Henry for If Beale Street Could Talk
• Nicholas Hoult for The Favourite
• Tim Blake Nelson for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Steven Yeun for Burning

 

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Olivia Colman for The Favourite
• Claire Foy for First Man
• Anne Hathaway for Ocean’s 8
• Haley Lu Richardson for Support the Girls
• Zoe Kazan for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk
• Rachel McAdams for Game Night
• Tilda Swinton for Suspiria
• Tessa Thompson for Dirty Computer
• Rachel Wiesz for The Favourite

 

 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• A Star is Born by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters
• Burning by Oh Jung-mi & Lee Chang-Dong
• Black Panther by Ryan Coogler & Joe Robert Cole
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
• First Man by Josh Singer
• If Beale Street Could Talk by Barry Jenkins
• Leave No Trace by Debra Granik
• Suspiria by David Kajganich
• You Were Never Really Here by Lynne Ramsay
• Zama by Lucrecia Martel

 

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Cold War by Pawel Pawlikowski & Janusz Glowacki & Piotr Borkowski
• First Reformed by Paul Schrader
• Game Night by Mark Perez
• Gemini by Aaron Katz
• Golden Exits by Alex Ross Perry
• Private Life by Tamara Jenkins
• Support the Girls by Andrew Bujalski
• The Favourite by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
• The Tale by Jennifer Fox
• Unsane by James Greer & Jonathan Bernstein

 

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Matthew Libatique for A Star is Born
• Łukasz Żal for Cold War
• Linus Sandgren for First Man
• Alexander Dynan for First Reformed
• James Laxton for If Beale Street Could Talk
• Manuel Dacosse for Let the Corpses Tan
• Agnès Godard for Let the Sunshine In
• Rob Hardy for Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Brett Turnbull for Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour
• Steve Soderbergh for Unsane

 

 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Renee Ehrlich Kalfus for A Simple Favour
• Ruth E. Carter for Black Panther
• Alexandra Mandalkorn for Dirty Computer
• Giulia Piersanti for Suspiria
• Jessica Jones for Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour

 

 

BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

• Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
• Minding the Gap
• Monrovia, Indiana
• Shirkers

 

 

BEST EDITING

• Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders for If Beale Street Could Talk
• Bernard Beets for Let the Corpses Tan
• Eddie Hamilton for Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• Lisa Zeno Churgin for The Old Man and the Gun
• Joe Bini for You Were Never Really Here

 

 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Burning
• Claire’s Camera
• Cold War
• Let the Corpses Tan
• Shoplifters

 

 

BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING

• Scotia Boyd and Jacqueline Robertson-Cull for A Simple Favour
• Richard Alonzo and Jamie Leigh McIntosh for Black Panther
• Joanna McCarthy and Lilana Meyrick for Ocean’s 8
• Stephen Murphy and Josh Weston for Suspiria
• Beverley Binda for The Favourite

 

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Ludwig Göransson for Black Panther
• Cliff Martinez for Game Night
• Nicholas Britell for If Beale Street Could Talk
• Justin Hurwitz for First Man
• Jonny Greenwood for You Were Never Really Here

 

 

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

• “All the Stars” from Black Panther by Kendrick Lamar & SZA
• “Back to Life” from Bumblebee by Hailee Steinfeld
• “Shallow” from A Star is Born by Bradley Cooper & Lady Gaga
• “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by Tim Blake Nelson
• “Wrapped Up” from Vox Lux by Natalie Portman

 

 

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Martin Whist for Bad Times at the El Royale
• Hannah Beachler for Black Panther
• Nathan Crowley for First Man
• Mark Friedberg for If Beale Street Could Talk
• Fiona Crombie for The Favourite

 

 

BEST SOUND EDITING

• Phil Barrie, Lee Gilmore, Nia Hansen and Greg ten Bosch for First Man
• Wayne Lemmer and Christopher Scarabosio for Isle of Dogs
• Christopher S. Aud, Benjamin L. Cook, Donald Flick and Ando Johnson for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Anna Bertmark for You Were Never Really Here
• Manuel de Andres for Zama

 

 

BEST SOUND MIXING

• Steven Morrow for A Star is Born
• Tomasz Dukszta for Cold War
• Mary H. Ellis for First Man
• Drew Kunin for You Were Never Really Here
• Gerardo Kalmar for Zama

 

 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• Devin Anderson, Weldon Huang and Lucas John Ng for Bumblebee
• Jaclyn Abrahante, Eva Adams, Yara Caubet and Mitch Claspy for Christopher Robin
• Alex Conor Harrison, Ross Jenkins, Kaushik Metkar and Sammy Shikaze for First Man
• Mayur Dadarao Adhau, Patricia Martinez Arastey and Matthew Badham for Ready Player One
• Simon Bennett-Leyh, Cecy Falls, Stephanie Ferreira and Sophie Olive-Calver for Solo: A Star Wars Story