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Gurus o’ Gold 121620 (Best Picture, Director, Acting, Screenwriting)

By Ray Pride

Rank Last Chart Best Picture AdamsBahrEllwoodHowellJohnsonKargerMoralesPattersonPolandPondRogersSneiderStone Votes Total
1 1 The Irishman
 1 2 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 3 2 11 125
2 2 Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood
 2 1 2 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 11 121
3 5 Parasite
 4 4 3 4 4 4 6 4 3 4 4 11 99
4 4 Marriage Story
 3 3 4 5 3 5 5 6 4 1 7 11 97
5 3 1917
 6 6 6 2 7 3 1 3 7 8 3 11 91
6 6 Jojo Rabbit
 5 5 6 5 6 3 7 6 5 6 10 76
7 8 Joker
 8 7 7 7 9 8 11 10 5 7 5 11 59
8 7 Little Women
 5 7 11 8 8 10 8 8 11 6 10 11 51
9 9 Ford v Ferrari
 9 9 9 6 7 9 5 9 10 11 10 46
t-10 Bombshell
 11 8 10 12 10 11 8 9 8 25
t-10 10 The Two Popes
 10 10 9 7 9 8 6 25
The Farewell
 7 12 12 11 10 5 13
Knives Out
 10 10 11 12 11 5 11
Dolemite Is My Name
 12 12 12 8 4 8
Uncut Gems
 9 12 2 5
Just Mercy
 11 12 2 3
One Vote Wonders
Rocketman
 12 1 1
Rank Last Chart Best Actress AdamsBahrEllwoodHowellJohnsonKargerMoralesPattersonPolandPondRogersSneiderStone Votes Total
1 1 Renee Zellweger
Judy 		1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 11 76
t-2 3 Scarlett Johansson
Marriage Story 		3 2 2 3 2 3 3 3 4 2 5 11 56
t-2 2 Charlize Theron
Bombshell 		4 6 3 2 3 2 1 2 3 3 3 11 56
4 4 Saoirse Ronan
Little Women 		2 4 6 4 6 5 4 4 6 4 6 11 37
5 Lupita Nyong'o
US 		7 3 5 7 5 4 5 6 5 6 2 11 33
5 Cynthia Erivo
Harriet 		7 4 5 4 4 6 5 2 7 4 10 32
Awkwafina
The Farewell 		5 5 7 6 7 7 7 5 7 9 16
Alfre Woodard
Clemency 		7 7 2 2
One Vote Wonders
Florence Pugh
Midsommar 		6 1 2
Jodie Turner-Smith
Queen and Slim 		7 1 1
Rank Last Chart Best Supporting Actress AdamsBahrEllwoodHowellJohnsonKargerMoralesPattersonPolandPondRogersSneiderStone Votes Total
1 1 Laura Dern
Marriage Story 		1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 77
2 2 Jennifer Lopez
Hustlers 		2 2 3 2 2 2 3 4 2 2 3 11 61
3 4 Margot Robbie
Bombshell 		5 2 3 4 3 2 2 3 3 2 10 51
4 Scarlett Johansson
JoJo Rabbit 		4 4 5 7 5 3 4 4 4 9 32
5 5 Zhao Shuzhen
The Farewell 		3 4 3 5 6 5 7 5 8 26
3 Florence Pugh
Little Women 		4 3 5 7 4 7 5 7 6 9 24
Kathy Bates
Richard Jewell 		5 6 7 5 6 4 6 6 7 9 20
Nicole Kidman
Bombshell 		6 7 6 7 5 5 9
Annette Bening
The Report 		6 6 2 4
Julia Butters
Once Upon A Time... 		7 7 2 2
One Vote Wonders
Julia Fox
Uncut Gems 		6 1 2
Da’vine Joy Randolph
Dolemite is My Name 		7 1 1
Thomasin McKenzie
JoJo Rabbit 		7 1 1


Rank Last Chart Best Actor AdamsBahrEllwoodHowellJohnsonKargerMoralesPattersonPolandPondRogersSneiderStone Votes Total
1 1 Adam Driver
Marriage Story 		1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 11 71
2 2 Joaquin Phoenix
Joker 		4 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 11 70
3 5 Leonardo DiCaprio
Once Upon A Time... 		5 3 3 3 3 4 7 3 3 9 38
4 3 Robert De Niro
The Irishman 		3 4 6 5 3 7 6 5 4 4 10 33
5 4 Antonio Banderas
Pain and Glory 		7 3 7 4 7 6 3 5 5 6 10 27
Christian Bale
Ford v Ferrari 		4 7 5 5 3 4 6 20
Jonathan Pryce
The Two Popes 		6 6 4 4 7 6 6 7 17
Eddie Murphy
Dolemite is My Name 		5 4 7 6 5 5 13
Adam Sandler
Uncut Gems 		2 7 5 7 4 11
Taron Egerton
Rocketman 		6 5 6 7 4 8
One Vote Wonders
Roman Griffin Davis
Jojo Rabbit 		7 1 1

Rank Last Chart Best Supporting Actor AdamsBahrEllwoodHowellJohnsonKargerMoralesPattersonPolandPondRogersSneiderStone Votes Total
1 1 Brad Pitt
Once Upon a Time... 		3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 75
2 3 Joe Pesci
The Irishman 		2 2 3 2 4 3 2 2 2 3 2 11 61
3 2 Al Pacino
The Irishman 		1 3 2 4 2 2 3 4 3 2 3 11 59
4 4 Tom Hanks
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 		6 4 6 3 3 4 7 3 6 4 4 11 38
5 5 Anthony Hopkins
The Two Popes 		5 4 5 7 5 4 5 4 6 5 10 30
Willem Dafoe
The Lighthouse 		7 7 5 6 6 6 6 7 13
Jamie Foxx
Just Mercy 		6 6 5 7 7 5 6 12
Alan Alda
Marriage Story 		7 5 5 3 7
Shia LaBeouf
Honey Boy 		5 7 7 3 5
One Vote Wonders
Timothée Chalamet
Little Women 		4 1 4
Sam Rockwell
Richard Jewell 		6 1 2
Song Kang-ho
Parasite 		7 1 1


Rank Last Chart Best Director AdamsBahrEllwoodHowellJohnsonKargerMoralesPattersonPolandPondRogersSneiderStone Votes Total
1 1 Martin Scorsese
The Irishman 		1 2 1 1 1 2 3 1 2 2 2 11 70
2 2 Quentin Tarantino
Once Upon A Time ... 		2 1 2 2 2 3 2 2 3 1 1 11 67
3 3 Bong Joon-ho
Parasite 		4 3 3 4 5 4 4 3 1 3 3 11 51
4 4 Sam Mendes
1917 		6 5 4 3 3 1 1 4 4 4 4 11 49
5 5 Noah Baumbach
Marriage Story 		3 4 6 5 4 5 6 5 6 9 28
Greta Gerwig
Little Women 		5 6 7 7 6 6 5 7 14
Taika Waititi
Jojo Rabbit 		7 5 6 5 7 5 10
Todd Phillips
Joker 		6 7 7 7 7 5 6 9
One Vote Wonders
Lulu Wang
The Farewell 		5 1 3
Pedro Almodóvar
Pain & Glory 		6 1 2
James Mangold
Ford v Ferrari 		6 1 2
Fernando Meirelles
The Two Popes 		7 1 1
The Safdies
Uncut Gems 		7 1 1
Bombshell
Jay Roach 		7 1 1

Rank Last Chart Original Screenplay AdamsBahrEllwoodHowellJohnsonKargerMoralesPattersonPolandPondRogersSneiderStone Votes Total
t-1 1 Marriage Story
 1 3 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 4 11 69
t-1 2 Once Upon A Time ...
2 1 1 3 3 2 1 1 2 2 1 11 69
3 3 Parasite
 3 2 4 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 11 58
4 4 The Farewell
 4 4 6 5 5 4 7 4 4 4 7 11 34
5 5 Knives Out
 5 3 6 4 5 5 5 5 6 9 28
1917
 7 5 5 7 3 5 13
Pain & Glory
 6 7 4 6 6 5 11
Bombshell
 7 6 7 7 5 5 8
Uncut Gems
 5 7 7 5 4 8
Dolemite is My Name
 6 4 2 6
Queen & Slim
 7 5 2 4
One Vote Wonders
Booksmart
 6 1 2
Ford v Ferrari
 7 1 1
Waves
 7 1 1


Rank Last Chart Adapted Screenplay AdamsBahrEllwoodHowellJohnsonKargerMoralesPattersonPolandPondRogersSneiderStone Votes Total
1 1 The Irishman
 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 2 1 1 1 11 73
2 4 The Two Popes
 6 4 2 4 2 2 1 3 2 2 3 11 57
3 2 Jojo Rabbit
 3 2 3 3 6 3 2 1 3 4 2 11 56
4 3 Little Women
 2 6 4 3 3 5 3 4 4 3 5 11 46
5 5 Joker
 7 5 5 5 5 4 7 5 6 4 10 27
A Beautiful Day...
 5 5 6 6 4 6 6 5 6 5 10 26
Hustlers
 4 7 7 5 7 5 10
Just Mercy
 7 7 6 6 4 6
Toy Story 4
 7 7 2 2
One Vote Wonders
Richard Jewell
 6 1 2

The Gurus, At Your Service

Thelma Adams: Author, Critic, Oscar Expert @thelmadams
Robyn Bahr: Freelance (Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Fair, Guardian) @RobynBahr
Gregory Ellwood: The Playlist @TheGregoryE
Peter Howell: Toronto Star @peterhowellfilm
Mark Johnson: Awards Circuit
Dave Karger: TCM, IMDb
Wilson Morales: BlackFilm.com
Michael Patterson: Michael’s Telluride Film Blog; Twitter; Facebook
David Poland @DavidPoland
Steve Pond: The Wrap
NathanielR: The Film Experience
Sasha Stone: Awards Daily @AwardsDaily
Jeff Sneider: Collider @TheInSneider

7 Responses to “Gurus o’ Gold 121620 (Best Picture, Director, Acting, Screenwriting)”

  1. Bradley Laing says:
    December 21, 2019 at 11:38 pm

    —this article does not list the short film about the 1955 Le Mans racing disaster. Does that mean it cannot get a nomination?

    Best Animated Short cheat sheet: All 10 competitors with full details to help you predict 2020 Oscars

    Charles Bright
    Film December 21, 2019 12:00PM

  2. Ray Pride says:
    December 22, 2019 at 3:34 pm

    More categories ranked in the New Year…

  3. Doug Pratt says:
    December 25, 2019 at 6:18 pm

    In the old days, it would have been The Two Popes vs. Little Women, but we may yet see that happen this year

  4. Eric M. Van says:
    December 26, 2019 at 2:16 am

    You guys need to know that critics’ top 10 list mentions are an extremely strong predictor for Best Picture nominations (no surprise, right?). As of now Uncut Gems has 95 mentions (5th best) and 15 best-film-of-year nods (4th best), Knives Out has 75 and 6, and Jojo Rabbit has just 35 and 1.

  5. Glamourboy says:
    December 31, 2019 at 10:49 am

    For Best Director, 2 #5’s for Karger but no #4

  6. Ray Pride says:
    January 1, 2020 at 8:21 pm

    fixed thx

  7. Bradley Laing says:
    January 13, 2020 at 1:12 pm

    —no “Le Mans 1955.”

    Best animated short film nominees:
    DCERA (DAUGHTER)

    Daria Kashcheeva

    HAIR LOVE

    Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver

    KITBULL

    Rosana Sullivan and Kathryn Hendrickson

    MEMORABLE

    Bruno Collet and Jean-François Le Corre

    SISTER

    Siqi Song

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