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You can read more about this year in film here.  The Best Picture race is discussed here, with reviews of all the nominees.  Films in red won the Oscar in that category (or Globe, in the Globes section).  Films in blue were nominated.  Films (or directors) in olive are links to earlier posts that I don’t want to have show up in blue and be mistaken for a nominee.  Films with an asterisk (*) were Consensus nominees (a scale I put together based on the various awards) while those with a double asterisk (**) were the Consensus winners (except Picture).

I’m listing the top 20 in the categories (except Picture where I list all ***.5 films) but only the top 5 earn Nighthawk nominations.

Nighthawk Awards

• Best Picture

1. The Favourite  **
2. First Man
3. Roma  ***
4. A Star is Born  **
5. If Beale Street Could Talk  *
6. BlacKkKlansman  **
7. Mary Poppins Returns
8. Black Panther  *
9. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
10. Incredibles 2
11. Cold War
12. Avengers: Infinity War
13. Capernaum
14. Paddington 2
15. A Quiet Place
16. Shoplifters
    ***.5
17. Ralph Breaks the Internet
18. The Other Side of the Wind
19. Everybody Knows
20. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
21. The Old Man & the Gun
22. Sicilian Ghost Story
23. Bohemian Rhapsody  *
24. The Night is Short, Walk on Girl
25. Mirai
26. Widows
27. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
28. The Guilty
29. Stan & Ollie
30. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
31. Tully
32. The Cakemaker
33. Border
34. Burning
35. Never Look Away
36. Anna and the Apocalypse
37. The House with a Clock in its Walls
38. Leave No Trace
39. Sorry to Bother You
40. Tag
41. Eighth Grade

Analysis:  Even though it had been nearly a decade since Best Picture lineups had expanded, this was the first year with three films to go 0 for 5 (all five awards groups): A Star is Born, The Favourite, BlacKkKlansman), something that still has only happened one other time so far (2021).  Roma was the most dominant winner at the Consensus since 2014 so of course the Academy chose Green Book.
This is the best Top 5 since 2013 and the best Top 10 since 2007 (though 2019 will be better).
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