The Oscars! This year they seem to have gotten it mainly right, but you can’t nominate everything and everyone, and so here we are to correct those wrongs and do something a little different. So here are No Majesty’s alternative oscars, the only rules? You can’t be nominated for the same role that you have at the oscars, no other awards count.
BEST MOTION PICTURE
Actual nominations: Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Favourite, Green Book, Roma, A Star is Born, Vice.
No Majesty’s nominations:
A Quiet Place
Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller
Annihilation
Scott Rudin, Andrew MacDonald, Allon Reich, Eli Bush
Avengers: Infinity War
Kevin Feige
Beautiful Boy
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt
Disobedience
Frida Torresblanco, Rachel Weisz, Ed Guiney
Love, Simon
Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Isaac Klausner, Poya Shahbazian
Sorry To Bother You
Nina Yang Bongiovi, Kelly Williams, Jonathan Duffy, Charles D. King, George Rush, Forest Whitaker
The Hate U Give
Robert Teitel, George Tillman Jr., Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey
BEST DIRECTOR
Actual nominations: Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman, Pawel Pawlikowski – Cold War, Yargos Lanthimos – The Favourite, Alfonso Cuaron – Roma, Adam McKay – Vice
No Majesty’s nominations:
Susanne Bier, Bird Box
John Krasinski, A Quiet Place
Sebastian Lelio, Disobedience
Steve McQueen, Widows
Boots Reilly, Sorry To Bother You
Vice review – Bale and Adams are firing on all cylinders in this comic political portrait
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Actual nomiations: Christian Bale – Vice as “Dick Cheney”, Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson “Jack” Maine, Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate as Vincent van Gogh, Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury, Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga
No Majesty’s nominations:
Jeff Bridges, Bad Times at the El Royale
John Cho, Searching
Nick Robinson, Love, Simon
Lakeith Stanfield, Sorry To Bother You
John David Washington, BlacKkKlansman
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Actual nominations: Yalitza Aparicio – Roma as Cleodegaria “Cleo” Gutierrez, Glenn Close – The Wife as Joan Castleman, Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Anne, Queen of Great Britain, Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Maine, Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel
No Majesty’s nominations:
Emily Blunt, Mary Poppins Returns
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Jamie Lee Curtis, Halloween
Anna Kendrick, A Simple Favour
Amandla Stenberg, The Hate U Give
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Actual nominations: Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley, Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman as Phillip “Flip” Zimmerman, Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine, Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock, Sam Rockwell – Vice as George W. Bush.
No Majesty’s nominations:
Josh Brolin, Avengers: Infinity War
Timothy Chalamet, Beautiful Boy
Julian Dennison, Deadpool 2
Russell Hornsby, The Hate U Give
Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Actual nominations: Amy Adams – Vice as Lynne Cheney, Marina de Tavira – Roma as Sra. Sofia, Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers, Emma Stone – The Favourite as Abigail, Masham Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill
No Majesty’s nominations:
Cynthia Erivo, Bad Times at the El Royale
Blake Lively, A Simple Favour
Millicent Simmonds, A Quiet Place
Tessa Thompson, Sorry To Bother You
Michelle Yeoh, Crazy Rich Asians
BEST WRITING, SCREENPLAY WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR THE SCREEN
Actual nominations: The Favourite – Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, First Reformed – Written by Paul Schrader, Green Book – Written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly, Roma – Written by Alfonso Cuaron, Vice – Written by Adam McKay
No Majesty’s nominations:
A Quiet Place
Screenplay by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck and John Krasinski
Story by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck
Bad Times at the El Royale
Screenplay by Drew Goddard
Hereditary
Screenplay by Ari Aster
Hotel Artemis
Screenplay by Drew Pearce
Sorry To Bother You
Screenplay by Boots Reilly
BEST WRITING, SCREENPLAY BASED ON PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED MATERIAL
Actual nominations:
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Based on short stories ‘All Gold Canyon’ by Jack London.
The Gal Who Got Rattled by Stewart Edward White and Short Stories by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
BlacKkKlansman Screenplay by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee Based on the memoir ‘Black Klansman’ by Ron Stallworth
Can You Ever Forgive Me? Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty Based on the memoir by Lee Israel
If Beale Street Could Talk Screenplay by Barry Jenkins Based on the novel by James Baldwin
A Star Is Born Screenplay by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters Based on the 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart The 1976 screenplay by Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunn & Frank Pierson And a story by Robert Carson & William A. Wellman
No Majesty’s nominations:
Annihilation
Screenplay by Alex Garland
Based on the Novel by Jeff VanderMeer
Cargo
Screenplay by Yolanda Ramke
Based on the Short Film by Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke
Love, Simon
Screenplay by Elizabeth Berger & Isaac Aptaker
Based on the Novel Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
My Friend Dammer
Screenplay by Marc Meyers
Based on the Graphic Novel by John “Derf” Backderf
The Hate U Give
Screenplay by Audrey Wells
Based on the Novel by Angie Thomas
The Hate U Give review – a timely, realistic story of prejudice and expectations
BEST MUSIC, ORIGINAL SCORE
Actual nominations: Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson, BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard, If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell, Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat, Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman
No Majesty’s nominations:
Volker Bertelsmann, Adrift
Nicholas Brittell, Vice
Abel Korzeniowski, The Nun
Jed Kurzel, Overlord
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Bird Box
BEST MUSIC, ORIGINAL SONG
Actual nominations:
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” – David Rawlings & Gillian Welch (music & lyrics)
Black Panther “All the Stars” – Kendrick Lamar, Sounwave & Anthony Tiffith (music); Lamar, SZA & Tiffith (lyrics)
Mary Poppins Returns “The Place Where Lost Things Go” Marc Shaiman (music); Shaiman & Scott Wittman (lyrics) RBG “I’ll Fight” Diane Warren (music & lyrics)
A Star Is Born “Shallow” – Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt (music & lyrics)
No Majesty’s nominations:
‘Ashes’
From Deadpool 2
Written by Petey Martin, Jordan Smith, Tedd T
Produced by Steve Mac
Performed by Celine Dion
‘Everything I Need’
From Aquaman
Written by Skylar Grey and Elliott Taylor
Performed by Skylar Grey
‘I Will Go To War’
From Creed II
Written by Ludwig Goransson
Performed by Tessa Thompson
‘Maybe It’s Time’
From A Star Is Born
Written by Jason Isbell
Produced by Bradley Cooper, Benjamin Rice, Lady Gaga
Performed by Bradley Cooper
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Actual nominations: Cold War – Łukasz Żal, The Favourite – Robbie Ryan, Never Look Away – Caleb Deschanel, Roma – Alfonso Cuarón, A Star Is Born – Matthew Libatique.
No Majesty’s nominations:
Charlotte Bruus Christensen, A Quiet Place
Rob Hardy, Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Seamus McGarvey, Bad Times at the El Royale
Pawel Progorzelski, Hereditary
Darius Wolski, Sicario 2: Soldado
