Category Archives: Movies

Movies I have watched or have been meaning to watch. Some of my favorite movies and also, about making movies and the people who make it all come together.

91st Academy Awards

Best Movie

  • “Green Book” Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga, producers (WINNER)
  • “Black Panther” Kevin Feige, producer
  • “BlacKkKlansman” Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele and Spike Lee, producers
  • “Bohemian Rhapsody” Graham King, producer
  • “The Favourite” Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday and Yorgos Lanthimos, producers
  • “Roma” Gabriela Rodriguez and Alfonso Cuaron, producers
  • “A Star Is Born” Bill Gerber, Bradley Cooper and Lynette Howell Taylor, producers
  • “Vice” Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, producers

Best Director

  • “Roma” Alfonso Cuaron (WINNER)
  • “BlacKkKlansman” Spike Lee
  • “Cold War” Pawel Pawlikowski
  • “The Favourite” Yorgos Lanthimos
  • “Vice” Adam McKay

Best Male Actor in a Leading Role

  • Rami Malek in “Bohemian Rhapsody” (WINNER)
  • Christian Bale in “Vice”
  • Bradley Cooper in “A Star Is Born”
  • Willem Dafoe in “At Eternity’s Gate”
  • Viggo Mortensen in “Green Book

Best Female Actor in a Leading Role

  • Olivia Colman in “The Favourite” (WINNER)
  • Yalitza Aparicio in “Roma”
  • Glenn Close in “The Wife”
  • Lady Gaga in “A Star Is Born”
  • Melissa McCarthy in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Mahershala Ali in “Green Book” (WINNER)
  • Adam Driver in “BlacKkKlansman”
  • Sam Elliott in “A Star Is Born”
  • Richard E. Grant in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
  • Sam Rockwell in “Vice”

Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Regina King in “If Beale Street Could Talk” (WINNER)
  • Amy Adams in “Vice”
  • Marina de Tavira in “Roma”
  • Emma Stone in “The Favourite”
  • Rachel Weisz in “The Favourite”

– manzoor

The Proposal

I know I am being a bit generous in my rating, but I am reminded that it is a Rom-Con. It never pretended to be anything else. That honesty itself is worth recognition.

Also, I realized again that I am a fan of Ryan Reynolds. I’ve always been a fan of Sandra Bullock and she sealed it completely with The Blind Side.

– manzoor