Well first some movie dork fun...
The Top Ten Films of 1918
1. A Dog's Life (Charlie Chaplin)
2. A Trip to Mars (Holger-Madsen)
3. The Blue Bird (Maurice Tourneur)
4. Shoulder Arms (Charlie Chaplin)
5. Good Night, Nurse! (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle)
6. Tarzan of the Apes (Scott Signey)
7. The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (Willis H. O'Brien)
8. The Sinking of the Lusitania (Winsor Mccay)
9. Hearts of the World (D.W. Griffith)
10. The Outlaw and His Wife (Victor Sjostrom)
My alternate Oscar nominees in select categories are:
Director: Joel & Ethan Coen (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Wes Anderson (Isle of Dogs), Damien Chazelle (First Man), Alfonso Cuaron (Roma), Bo Burnham (Eighth Grade).
Winner: Damien Chazelle
Actor: Brady Jandreau (The Rider), Ryan Gosling (First Man), Christian Bale (Vice), Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk), Charlie Plummer (Lean on Pete).
Winner: Ryan Gosling
Actress: Rachel McAdams (Game Night), Yalitza Aparicio (Roma), Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns, A Quiet Place), Kiki Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade).
Winner Elsie Fisher (Best performance of the year all around. So haunting and effortless and hilarious and subtle and indelible. Ridonkulously overlooked this year)
Supporting Actor: Tom Waits (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade), John Huston (The Other Side of the Wind), Dick Van Dyke (Mary Poppins Returns), Kyle Chandler (First Man).
Winner: Tom Waits (Tom Waits in a Coens movie? They should probably just stop making movies)
Supporting Actress: Sakura Ando (Shoplifters), Claire Foy (First Man), Zoe Kazan (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Greta Gerwig (Isle of Dogs), Marina de Tavira (Roma).
Winner: Zoe Kazan
Adapted Screenplay: Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here), Joel & Ethan Coen (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Josh Singer, James Hansen (First Man), Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk), Andrew Haigh (Lean on Pete).
Winner: Joel & Ethan Coen for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Original Screenplay: Bo Burnham (Eighth Grade), Wes Anderson (Isle of Dogs), Mark Perez (Game Night), Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, Peter Fellows (The Death of Stalin), Alfonso Cuaron (Roma).
Winner: Wes Anderson for Isle of Dogs.
Cinematography: Isle of Dogs, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Rider, The Favourite, Roma.
Winner: Roma
Film Editing: Isle of Dogs, Eighth Grade, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The Other Side of the Wind, First Man.
Winner: The Other Side of the Wind.
Visual Effects: Black Panther, Paddington 2, Mary Poppins Returns, Christopher Robin, First Man.
Winner: Christopher Robin (It's really a shame they couldn't make something better with how incredibly rendered these characters are.)
Original Score: Eighth Grade, First Man, Isle of Dogs, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Winner: First Man
And my favorite 25 movies of 2018 are...
1. Isle of Dogs
2. First Man
3. Eighth Grade
4. Roma
5. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
6. Game Night
7. If Beale Street Could Talk
8. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
9. Lean on Pete
10. The Rider
11. Shoplifters
12. You Were Never Really Here
13. A Quiet Place
14. Mission Impossible - Fallout
15. Age of Sail
16. White Tide: The Legend of Culebra
17. The Other Side of the Wind
18. Mary Poppins Returns
19. Paddington 2
20. Minding the Gap
21. Incredibles 2
22. The Death of Stalin
23. Tully
24. The Favourite
25. The Polka King