When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 

Good Things from a Rough Year

With the Oscar nominations coming tomorrow, here's what I would've voted for, now having seen a few more really good movies; roughly in preferential order for each category:

PICTURE

Drive My Car

The Card Counter 

The Power of the Dog

Memoria 

Passing

Eternals

Flee 

The Velvet Underground

Summer of Soul

Benedetta 

DIRECTOR

Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Paul Schrader, The Card Counter
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Memoria
Rebecca Hall, Passing

ACTRESS

Tessa Thompson, Passing
Paula Beer, Undine
Tilda Swinton, Memoria
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza

ACTOR

Hidetoshi Nishijima, Drive My Car

Andrew Garfield, tick, tick...BOOM!
Oscar Isaac, The Card Counter 
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Will Smith, King Richard

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Ruth Negga, Passing
Tiffany Haddish, The Card Counter
Charlotte Rampling, Benedetta
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Tōko Miura, Drive My Car

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Andrew Garfield, Spider-Man: No Way Home
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
Ed Harris, The Lost Daughter
Timothy Spall, Spencer 

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Paul Schrader, The Card Counter

Christian Petzold, Undine

Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, Free Guy
Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe, The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Aaron Sorkin, Being the Ricardos 

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Ore, Drive My Car
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Rebecca Hall, Passing
Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, Spider-Man: No Way Home
Steven Levenson, tick, tick...BOOM!

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Eduard Grau, Passing
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Memoria
Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog
Hidetoshi Shinomiya, Drive My Car
Haris Zambarloukos, Belfast