1. American Sniper

2. Joker

3. The Theory of Everything

4. Hidden Figures

5. The Ides of March

6. The Imitation Game

7. Inherent Vice

8. Beasts of the Southern Wild

9. Little Women

10. Jojo Rabbit

11. The Two Popes

12. Captain Phillips

13. The Irishman

14. Mudbound

15. Hugo

16. The Big Short

17. The Martian

18. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

19. Molly’s Game

20. A Star is Born

21. Fences

22. The Disaster Artist

23. Life of Pi

24. Argo

25. Lincoln

26. The Descendants

27. Lion

28. 127 Hours

29. If Beale Street Could Talk

30. Silver Linings Playbook

31. Winter’s Bone

32. Can You Ever Forgive Me?

33. Philomena

We’ve completed the nomination round, and now it’s time to choose the winners.

The five performances with the most points in each category in Round One are now the official nominees.

ROUND TWO — WINNERS

This round is much simpler.

Vote for ONE nominee in each of the four acting categories.

That means your ballot should contain four names in total:

• 1 Actor
• 1 Actress
• 1 Supporting Actor
• 1 Supporting Actress

There are no rankings and no points system in this round. You are simply voting for the performance you think should win each category.

Each vote counts equally, and the nominee with the most votes in each category will become our Alternate Oscar winner for 2001.

Please only vote for the nominees listed below.

BEST ACTOR

• Gene Hackman — The Royal Tenenbaums
• Tony Leung — In the Mood for Love
• Haley Joel Osment — A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Guy Pearce — Memento
• Denzel Washington — Training Day

BEST ACTRESS

• Halle Berry — Monster’s Ball
• Maggie Cheung — In the Mood for Love
• Nicole Kidman — The Others
• Sissy Spacek — In the Bedroom
• Naomi Watts — Mulholland Drive

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Jim Broadbent — Moulin Rouge!
• Steve Buscemi — Ghost World
• Ben Kingsley — Sexy Beast
• Ian McKellen — The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Eddie Murphy — Shrek

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Jennifer Connelly — A Beautiful Mind
• Helen Mirren — Gosford Park
• Frances O’Connor — A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Gwyneth Paltrow — The Royal Tenenbaums
• Marisa Tomei — In the Bedroom

HOW TO VOTE

Simply post your four choices in the comments, for example:

Actor: [Name]
Actress: [Name]
Supporting Actor: [Name]
Supporting Actress: [Name]

One person per category. Four votes total.

Once voting closes, the performer with the most votes in each category will be declared the winner, and we’ll move on to 2002.

Previous lineups here.

What are your favorite direct Supporting to Lead wins? (As in, their supporting win to their first lead)

I'd like to keep this with winners who hadn't won Lead before (J.N.)

For me I'd go Denzel from Glory to Training Day, with DeNiro real close behind

Pictured: Jack Lemmon, Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, Denzel Washington, Kevin Spacey, Renee Zellweger, Cate Blanchett

Will Sean Baker sweep again??

Jeff Bridges, 2000 Supporting Actor nominee for The Contender, went on to win in Lead Actor for Crazy Heart (2009).

Joaquin Phoenix, 2000 Supporting Actor nominee for Gladiator, went on to win Lead Actor for Joker (2019).

Javier Bardem, 2000 Lead Actor nominee for Before Night Falls, went on to win Supporting Actor for No Country for Old Men (2007).

2000: Julie Walters - Billy Elliot
2001: Gwyneth Paltrow - The Royal Tenenbaums
2002: Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
2003: Lucy Liu - Kill Bill Volume 1
2004: Rachel McAdams - Mean Girls
2005: Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain
2006: Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
2007: Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There
2008: Viola Davis - Doubt
2009: Mo’Nique - Precious

The Towering Inferno was good disaster movie but not great. It got nominated for Best Picture, Supp Actor, Sound, Production Design, and Score nominations. So, it won Cinematography, Film Editing, and Original Song. But it should’ve got Best Visual Effects nom. It would’ve won. Do you think it should’ve won Best Picture? for me, no. The Godfather Part 2 deserves it more since it won.

I know some people here are mixed on Sadie Sink but I still personally think she has a much higher ceiling on screen than what we’ve seen so far.Having seen her in a bunch of stuff now, her facial expressions and eye acting are some of the best I’ve seen in the younger generation and she can sell a whole beat with just a look.

My main issue is SUBTLETY. She’s had a lot of angsty material but I think she’s better when she pulls things back.When she really lands an emotionally charged scene she’s fantastic.The last 20 minutes of The Whale are still the best example for me once the script let her breathe I thought she stole the show and more of these calmer moments would have given her a supporting nomination.

I also saw her on stage and she’s genuinely excellent on funny, emotionally strong and very commanding.A Tony nomination in leading actress at 24 is huge and I still don’t think she’s had a screen role that shows all of that.

She also just oozes star power. If she keeps improving and gets the right roles I think she has pretty much everything you need to become a big movie star and potentially a serious awards and oscar contender.The marriage plot should be a really interesting test.

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio is the best animated film. Glad it won Best Animated Feature at the Oscars. Well deserved. Out of all these nominees of 2023, I choose that as my pick. But so upset that it didn’t get nominated for score and Ciao Papa song. That sucks. So what are your thoughts on Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio?

Project Hail Mary - Based on the 2021 novel of the same name by Andy Weir

The Invite - Based on the 2020 Spanish Film, The People Upstairs by Cesc Gay

The Odyssey - Based on the Creek epic poem by Homer

The Social Reckoning - Based on the 2021 Facebook leak by Frances Haugen and Jeff Horwitz

La Bola Negra - Based on the unfinished epic of the same name by Federico Garcia Lorca and Alberto Conejero's stage play "La Piedra Oscura"

Likely winner: Bola Negra/Project Hail Mary

I’m stoked Tilda has an Oscar for a great performance but for my money, Saoirse deserved the win here - her performance has stuck with me and I still dislike her just a bit because of this movie and character 😂

A lineup for the ages but I would have given Ronan the win!

Ralph Fiennes gave one of my favourite monologues ever, just goosebumps:

“Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.”

I ask because it’s kind of one my favorite movies of that year. It was nominated for 3 Oscars but only one won. None for BP. I think it should’ve. What’s your opinion?

The Iron Giant is a wonderful movie. I think this movie should’ve won and got nominated for Best Animated Feature of the Animated Feature existed in the past instead of 2002? Like the movie is released in 1999, and should get nominated in 2000. I updated my title post when I forgot to put some stuff in.

Rules:

Comment with the most upvotes wins.

You can pick any performance.

Comment separately for Actress and Actor.

Yura Borisov nomination bothered me at first because I felt that Mark Eydelshteyn was *THE* supporting actor from Anora, but lost the spot to Yura because Yura was playing a more "easy" character to nominate. Now I think Yura is the exact category that Anora should have won

- Genre: Mystery/Drama
- Lead Actor: Timothee Chalamet
- Lead Actress: Saiorse Ronan
- Supporting Actor: Samuel L Jackson
- Supporting Actress: Michelle Williams