The Stevens = my version of the Academy Awards, where the only member of the Academy choosing the nominees and winners for each of this hallowed — and, often, hollow — institution’s official feature-length categories (plus two, sans one; Best Picture will be tomorrow) is…me.

And since my name’s Steven, voila: The Stevens!

The qualitative-minded sentiments outlined previously also apply here, thus the reason certain category-names hyperlink back to thoughts on how to assess them.

Remember: more than one person per year, per category turn in “Oscar-caliber” work. Below are each and every one, ranked (if a nominee’s name is nowhere to be found in a technical category, blame IMDB’s incomplete records). Oh, and watch out for my joint nominations, be it for a single artist responsible for multiple “Oscar-caliber” work last year, or for multiple actors from the same movie; sometimes, performances can’t be evaluated on their own, indivisible from how they relate to each other.

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LEAD ACTRESS

1. Elisabeth Moss, Her Smell / Us
2. Julianne Moore, Gloria Bell
3. Honor Swinton Byrne, The Souvenir
4. Mary Kay Place, Diane
5. Molly Shannon, Wild Nights with Emily
6. Natalia López, Our Time
7. Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
8. Camila Morrone, Mickey and the Bear
9. Aisling Franciosi, The Nightingale
10. Liron Ben-Shlush, Working Woman
11. Jess Weixler, Chained for Life
12. Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Woman at War
13. Gabriela Cartol, The Chambermaid
14. Florence Pugh, Midsommar / Little Women / Fighting with My Family
15. Erika Karata, Asako I & II
16. Julia Stockler & Carol Duarte, Invisible Life
17. Awkwafina, The Farewell
18. Juli Jakab, Sunset
19. Tao Zhao, Ash Is Purest White
20. Nguyen Phuong Tra My, The Third Wife

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LEAD ACTOR

1. Brad Pitt, Ad Astra / Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
2. Antonio Banderas, Pain and Glory / The Laundromat
3. Matthew McConaughey, The Beach Bum / Serenity
4. Franz Rogowski, Transit / In the Aisles
5. Adam Driver, Marriage Story / The Dead Don’t Die / The Man Who Killed Don Quixote / The Report
6. Robert De Niro, The Irishman
7. Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
8. Tom Mercier, Synonyms
9. Marcello Fonte, Dogman
10. Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
11. Jimmie Fails, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
12. Carlos Reygadas, Our Time
13. Carloto Cotta, Diamantino
14. Robert Pattinson, The Lighthouse / High Life / The King
15. Andrew Garfield, Under the Silver Lake
16. Darío Grandinetti, Rojo
17. Matthias Schoenaerts, The Mustang / The Laundromat / A Hidden Life
18. Keanu Reeves, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum / Always Be My Maybe / Toy Story 4
19. Jonas Dassler, The Golden Glove
20. Masahiro Higashide, Asako I & II
21. Jesse Eisenberg, The Art of Self-Defense
22. Hasan Majuni, Pig
23. Takumi Saitô, Ramen Shop
24. Benjamin Berman, The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
25. Tom Hanks, Toy Story 4
    • A nomination for the whole tetralogy; Tom Hanks’ irreducible, inimitable Tom Hanksness has been central to the franchise’s endlessly endearing, emotionally-resonant, affable and appealing vibe.

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SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Tilda Swinton, The Souvenir / The Dead Don’t Die
2. Juliette Binoche, High Life / Non-Fiction
3. Penelope Cruz, Pain and Glory
4. Shuzhen Zhao, The Farewell
5. Susan Ziegler, Wild Nights with Emily
6. Sofia Boutella, Climax
7. Laura Dern, Marriage Story / Little Women
8. Cho Yeo Jeong, Parasite
9. Anna Paquin, The Irishman
10. Paula Beer, Transit
11. Margot Robbie, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
12. Regina Hall, Little
13. Adèle Haenel, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
14. Fernanda Montenegro, Invisible Life
15. Diana Lin, The Farewell

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SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse / Pasolini 
2. Jonathan Majors, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
3. John Turturro, Gloria Bell
4. Tom Burke, The Souvenir
5. Adam Pearson, Chained for Life
6. Joe Pesci, The Irishman
7. James Badge Dale, Mickey and the Bear
8. Asier Etxeandia & Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pain and Glory
9. Al Pacino, The Irishman / Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
10. Stephen Plunkett, Chained for Life
11. Javier Bardem, Everybody Knows
12. Shia LaBeouf, Honey Boy / The Peanut Butter Falcon
    • Autobiographical metatextual commentary, Round 2: His rehabilitation permitting, imagine if Shia had played both his father AND his contemporary self (which, for the record, isn’t a knock against Lucas Hedges’s performance).
13. Sam Claflin, The Nightingale
14. Daniel Craig, Knives Out
15. LaKeith Stanfield, Uncut Gems
16. Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
17. Men of Midsommar
18. Yongbo Jiang, The Farewell
19. The Amazing Johnathan, The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
20. Tony Hale, Toy Story 4
21. Ian McShane / Laurence Fishburne / Mark Dacascos, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
22. Bob Dylan, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

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ANIMATED

1. Toy Story 4
2. Tito and the Birds
3. Ruben Brandt, Collector

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CINEMATOGRAPHY

1. Hoyte Van Hoytema, Ad Astra
2. Jarin Blaschke, The Lighthouse 
3. Benoît Debie, Climax
4. Adrian Durazo & Diego García, Our Time
5. Sean Price Williams, Her Smell
6. José Luis Alcaine, Pain and Glory
7. Adam Newport-Berra, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
8. Yorick Le Saux, Little Women
9. Black Mother
10. David Raedeker, The Souvenir
11. Adam J. Minnick, Chained for Life
12. Darius Khondji, Uncut Gems
13. Robbie Ryan, Marriage Story
14. Robert Richardson, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
15. Mátyás Erdély, Sunset
16. Waad Al-Khateab, For Sama
17. Shai Goldman, Synonyms 
18. Rodrigo Prieto, The Irishman
19. Kyung-pyo Hong, Parasite
20. Chananun Chotrungroj, The Third Wife
21. Adam Holender, Apollo 11
22. Stefano Falivene, Pasolini
23. Radek Ladczuk, The Nightingale
24. Paul Faltz, Luz
25. Pawel Pogorzelski, Midsommar
26. Zac Nicholson, All Is True
27. Phillip Youmans, Burning Cane
28. Yorick Le Saux & Tomasz Naumiuk, High Life
29. Dan Laustsen, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
30. Wyatt Garfield, Diane
31. Steven Soderbergh, The Laundromat
32. Mike Gioulakis, Under the Silver Lake
33. Pedro Sotero, Rojo
34. Benoît Debie, The Beach Bum
35. Conor Murphy, Mickey and the Bear
36. Midnight Traveler
37. Los Reyes
38. Erick Stoll, América
39. Asako I & II
40. Anna Franquesa Solano, The Farewell
41. Claire Mathon, Portrait of a Lady on Fire
42. Bojan Bazelli, 6 Undergound
43. Peter Matjasko, In the Aisles
44. Roger Deakins, 1917
45. Jörg Widmer, A Hidden Life
46. Drew Daniels, Waves
47. Benjamin Berman & Dan Adlerstein, The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
48. Hyung-ku Kim, Grass

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COSTUME DESIGN

1. Katharina Ost, Transit
   • World War II in the 21st century.
2. Heidi Bivens, The Beach Bum
3. Fred Cambier, Climax
4. Caroline Eselin, Under the Silver Lake
5. Paola Torres, Pain and Glory
6. Arianne Phillips, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
7. Amanda Ramirez, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
8. Miyako Bellizzi, Uncut Gems
9. Grace Snell, The Souvenir
10. Ellen Mirojnick, The Laundromat
11. Amanda Ford, Her Smell
12. Stacey Berman & Karen Boyer, Chained for Life
13. Mark Bridges, Marriage Story
14. Andrea Flesch, Midsommar
15. Christopher Peterson & Sandy Powell, The Irishman
16. Margot Wilson, The Nightingale
17. Danielle Hollowell, Little
18. Marina Franco, Invisible Life
19. Jacqueline Durran, Little Women
20. Györgyi Szakács, Sunset
21. Massimo Cantini Parrini, Dogman
22. Khadija Zeggaï, Synonyms
23. Mitchell Travers, Hustlers
24. Jam Monti, Rojo
25. Wambui Thimba, Rafiki
26. Luca Mosca, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum 
27. Stacey Battat, Gloria Bell
28. The Third Wife
29. Rossano Marchi, Pasolini
30. Catherine George, The Dead Don’t Die
31. Ruth E. Carter, Dolemite Is My Name
32. Amit Gajwani, Braid
33. Amanda Ford, Poms
34. Liza Bracey / Diane Keaton, Hampstead

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DIRECTOR

1. Martin Scorsese, The Irishman / Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2. Gaspar Noé, Climax
3. James Gray, Ad Astra
4. Carlos Reygadas, Our Time
5. Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse
6. Pedro Almodóvar, Pain and Glory
7. Alex Ross Perry, Her Smell
8. Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir
9. Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie, Uncut Gems
10. Aaron Schimberg, Chained for Life
11. Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
12. Nadav Lapid, Synonyms 
13. Joe Talbot, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
14. Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
15. Joon-ho Bong, Parasite
16. Khalik Allah, Black Mother
17. David Robert Mitchell, Under the Silver Lake
18. Claire Denis, High Life
19. Kent Jones, Diane
20. Greta Gerwig, Little Women
21. Jennifer Kent, The Nightingale
22. Harmony Korine, The Beach Bum
23. Steven Soderbergh, The Laundromat
24. Madeleine Olnek, Wild Nights with Emily
25. Iván Osnovikoff & Bettina Perut, Los Reyes
26. Abel Ferrara, Pasolini
27. László Nemes, Sunset
28. Jean-Luc Godard, The Image Book
29. Jim Jarmusch, The Dead Don’t Die
30. Chad Stahelski, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
31. Benjamin Berman, The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
32. Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside, América
33. Tilman Singer, Luz
34. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Asako I & II
35. Sebastián Lelio, Gloria Bell
36. Ari Aster, Midsommar
37. Ash Mayfair, The Third Wife
38. Christian Petzold, Transit
39. Thomas Stuber, In the Aisles
40. Agnès Varda & Didier Rouget, Varda by Agnès
41. Lauren Greenfield, The Kingmaker
42. Lulu Wang, The Farewell
43. Michael Bay, 6 Underground

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EDITING (FICTION)

1. Denis Bedlow & Gaspar Noé, Climax
2. Ronald Bronstein & Benny Safdie, Uncut Gems
3. Robert Greene, Her Smell
4. John Axelrad & Lee Haugen, Ad Astra
5. Jinmo Yang, Parasite
6. Thelma Schoonmaker, The Irishman
7. Helle le Fevre, The Souvenir
8. Evan Schiff, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
9. Neta Braun, François Gédigier & Era Lapid, Synonyms
10. Fabio Nunziata, Pasolini
11. Nick Houy, Little Women
12. Our Time
13. Fabian Podeszwa & Tilman Singer, Luz
14. Steven Soderbergh, The Laundromat
15. Sofi Marshall, Chained for Life
16. Roger Barton, William Goldenberg & Calvin Wimmer, 6 Underground
17. Douglas Crise, The Beach Bum
18. Mike Selemon, Diane
19. Soledad Salfate, Gloria Bell

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EDITING (DOCUMENTARY)

(A category the Oscars should add, because voters basically refuse to nominate documentaries for any award besides their own)

1. Black Mother
2. Jean-Luc Godard, The Image Book
3. Damian Rodriguez & David Tedeschi, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
4. Todd Douglas Miller, Apollo 11
5. Los Reyes
6. Nicolas Longinotti & Agnès Varda — Varda by Agnès
7. Per K. Kirkegaard & Andrew Nackman, The Kingmaker
8. Scott Evans, The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
9. Billy McMillin, Mike Wallace Is Here
10. Erick Stoll & Chase Whiteside, América
11. Emma Benestan, Luc Forveille, Léa Masson, Giorgia Villa — The Competition
12. Pablo Proenza, Wrestle

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DOCUMENTARY

1. Click!

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NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE

1. For my rankings of all my favorite non-English language movies of 2019: Click!
2. For my rankings of the official Academy Awards submissions: Click!

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MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

1. The Souvenir
2. The Golden Glove
3. Climax
4. Uncut Gems
5. The Irishman
6. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
7. Her Smell
8. Chained for Life
9. Midsommar
10. The Nightingale
11. Pain and Glory
12. The Laundromat
13. Little Women
14. The Dead Don’t Die
15. End of the Century
    • Naturalistic aging!
16. Our Time
17. Ash Is Purest White
    • The subtle physical deterioration rooted in the visible accumulation of exhaustion with age.

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PRODUCTION DESIGN

(Does location scouting qualify as production design?)

1. Kade Gruber, Transit
   • World War II in the 21st century.
2. Barbara Ling, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
3. Kevin Thompson, Ad Astra
4. Antxón Gómez, Pain and Glory
5. Ha-jun Lee, Parasite
6. Sam Lisenco, Uncut Gems
7. Jona Tochet, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
8. Michael Perry, Under the Silver Lake
9. Jean Rabasse, Climax
10. Stéphane Collonge, The Souvenir
11. Elliott Hostetter, The Beach Bum
12. Howard Cummings, The Laundromat
13. Jade Healy, Marriage Story
14. Alex Holmes, The Nightingale
15. Fletcher Chancey, Her Smell
16. Sia Balabanova, Chained for Life
17. Craig Lathrop, The Lighthouse
18. David Crank, Knives Out
19. Dimitri Capuani, Dogman
20. Henrik Svensson, Midsommar
21. Jess Gonchor, Little Women
22. Bob Shaw, The Irishman
23. László Rajk, Sunset
24. Kevin Kavanaugh, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
25. Do Trong An, The Third Wife
26. Rodrigo Martirena, Invisible Life
27. Igor Gabriel, Pasolini
28. Our Time
29. Dario Mendez Acosta, Luz
30. Julieta Dolinsky, Rojo
31. Alex DiGerlando, The Dead Don’t Die
32. Jagna Dobesz, Ólafur Eliasson, François-Renaud Labarthe & Mela Melak — High Life
33. Suzie Davies, Peterloo
34. Sharon Seymour, Isn’t It Romantic
    • That Nancy Meyers aesthetic!

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SCORE

1. Max Richter, Ad Astra
2. Mark Korven, The Lighthouse
3. Daniel Lopatin, Uncut Gems
4. Keegan DeWitt, Her Smell
5. Randy Newman, Marriage Story / Toy Story 4
6. Simon Waskow, Luz
7. Davíð Þór Jónsson, Woman at War
   • Extra credit points for the nomadic band surrealistically appearing onscreen to play the music “live”.
8. Jaeil Jung, Parasite
9. Emile Mosseri, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
10. Alexandre Desplat, Little Women
11. Stuart Staples & Tindersticks, High Life
12. The Haxan Cloak, Midsommar
13. Disasterpeace, Under the Silver Lake
14. Tofubeats, Asako I & II
15. Nathan Johnson, Knives Out
16. Vincent van Warmerdam, Rojo
17. Jeremiah Bornfield, Diane
18. SQÜRL, The Dead Don’t Die
19. Alex Weston, The Farewell
20. Bear McCreary, Child’s Play
21. Pino Donaggio, Domino
22. Zai Lao, Shadow

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SONG

During Movie

1. “The Dead Don’t Die” — The Dead Don’t Die
2. “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” — Toy Story 4
3. “The Buddi Song” — Child’s Play
4. “Glasgow (No Place Like Home)” — Wild Rose
5. “Catchy Song” — The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
6. “Mere Gully Mein” — Gully Boy

 

End Credits

1. “Moonfog” — The Beach Bum
2. “Swan Song” — Alita: Battle Angel
3. “Super Cool” — The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
4. “Do-Dilly-Do (A Friend Like You)” — Missing Link
5. “NY Se Mumbai” — Gully Boy
6. “Do You Remember” — Fighting with My Family

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SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL)

1. Max Eggers & Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse
   • Compiled from pre-existing texts, a thematic decision; how we arrange our sense of reality from what we have to work with describes the movie’s conception of reality, what the characters must do on the island, and what the movie demands of the audience.
2. Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
3. Madeleine Olnek, Wild Nights with Emily
4. Pedro Almodóvar, Pain and Glory
5. Joanna Hogg, The Souvenir
6. James Gray & Ethan Gross, Ad Astra
7. David Robert Mitchell, Under the Silver Lake
8. Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie, Uncut Gems
9. Joon-ho Bong & Han Jin Won, Parasite
10. Jim Jarmusch, The Dead Don’t Die
11. Aaron Schimberg, Chained for Life
12. Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
13. Jimmie Fails, Joe Talbot & Rob Richert, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
14. Harmony Korine, The Beach Bum
15. Benjamin Berman, The Amazing Johnathan Documentary
16. Nadav Lapid & Haim Lapid, Synonyms 
17. Jennifer Kent, The Nightingale
18. Asghar Farhadi, Everybody Knows
19. Gaspar Noé, Climax
20. Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt, Diamantino
21. Olivier Assayas, Non-Fiction
22. Ugo Chiti, Matteo Garrone & Massimo Gaudioso, Dogman
23. Benjamín Naishtat, Rojo
24. Alex Ross Perry, Her Smell
25. Kent Jones, Diane
26. Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox & Nick Laird, High Life
27. Agnès Varda & Didier Rouget, Varda by Agnès
28. Riley Stearns, The Art of Self-Defense
29. Lulu Wang, The Farewell
30. Stéphane Brizé & Olivier Gorce, At War
31. Rian Johnson, Knives Out

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SCREENPLAY (ADAPTED)

1. Greta Gerwig, Little Women
2. Steven Zaillian, The Irishman
3. Scott Z. Burns, The Laundromat
4. Christian Petzold, Transit
5. Alice Johnson Boher & Sebastián Lelio, Gloria Bell
6. Sachiko Tanaka & Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Asako I & II
7. Clemens Meyer & Thomas Stuber, In the Aisles
8. Pella Kågerman & Hugo Lilja, Aniara
9. Jean-Luc Godard, The Image Book
10. Andrew Stanton & Stephany Folsom, Toy Story 4

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SOUND EDITING

1. Her Smell
2. Luz
3. The Lighthouse
4. Climax
5. Ad Astra
6. High Life
7. They Shall Not Grow Old
8. The Nightingale 
9. Midsommar
10. Uncut Gems
11. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
12. Ip Man 4: The Finale
13. 6 Underground
14. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood

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SOUND MIXING

1. Ad Astra
2. Her Smell
3. Uncut Gems
4. Los Reyes
5. The Lighthouse
6. The Image Book
7. Black Mother
8. Chained for Life
9. Luz
10. Climax
11. They Shall Not Grow Old
12. Aquarela
13. Queen & Slim
14. Our Time
15. The Nightingale
16. Midsommar
17. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
18. High Life
19. Apollo 11
20. Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
21. 6 Underground

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VISUAL EFFECTS

1. Ad Astra
2. The Irishman
3. They Shall Not Grow Old
4. The Image Book
5. High Life
6. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
7. Midsommar
8. Aniara
   • Makes so much out of so little (moolah).
9. Black Mother
10. Apollo 11
    • Pristine restoration is a visual effect!
11. 6 Underground
12. Alita: Battle Angel
13. Tigers Are Not Afraid
14. The Wandering Earth
15. Diamantino
16. Fantastic Fungi