2018 Movie Awards - Ponderings Of Guy

The Munificent Musings Of A Maniacal Mammal

February 5, 2019
Movies

This is my list of personal favorites by category. It’s basically my own personal Oscars. I don’t limit each category to an exact number. I also include some special and specific awards at the end that stand out from one or more movies in the year. My full ranked list of 2018 films can be found here. Links on each film go to their Wikipedia page.

Best Picture

Best Director

Wes Anderson – Isle Of Dogs
Christopher McQuarrie – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein – Game Night
Leigh Whannell – Upgrade
Adam McKay – Vice
John Krazinski – A Quiet Place

Best Actor

Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
Ryan Gosling – First Man
Steve Carell – Welcome To Marwen
Christian Bale – Vice
Tom Cruise – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
John Cho – Searching
Clint Eastwood – The Mule
Rami Malek – Papillon
Jeff Bridges – Bad Times At The El Royale
Henry Cavill – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Paul Rudd – Ant-Man And The Wasp
Logan Marshall-Green – Upgrade
Alex Wolff – Hereditary
John Krasinski – A Quiet Place
Jason Bateman – Game Night
Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool 2

Best Actress

Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
Hailee Steinfeld – Bumblebee
Anna Kendrick – A Simple Favor
Toni Collette – Hereditary
Charlize Theron – Tully
Jennifer Lawrence – Red Sparrow
Blake Lively – A Simple Favor
Milly Shapiro – Hereditary
Emily Blunt – A Quiet Place
Rachel McAdams – Game Night
Evangeline Lilly – Ant-Man And The Wasp
Sandra Bullock – Ocean’s 8
Mila Kunis – The Spy Who Dumped Me
Kate McKinnon – The Spy Who Dumped Me

Best Supporting Actor

Jesse Plemons – Game Night
Sam Rockwell – Vice
Mark Rylance – Ready Player One
Steve Carell – Vice
Simon Pegg – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Gwilym Lee – Bohemian Rhapsody
Woody Harrelson – Solo: A Star Wars Story
Michael Douglas – Ant-Man And The Wasp
Laurence Fishburne – Ant-Man And The Wasp

Best Supporting Actress

Claire Foy – First Man
Merritt Wever – Welcome To Marwen
Rebecca Ferguson – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Debra Messing – Searching
Amy Adams – Vice
Michelle Monaghan – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Leslie Mann – Welcome To Marwen
Michelle Pfeiffer – Ant-Man And The Wasp

Best Score

Justin Hurwitz – First Man
Alexandre Desplat – Isle Of Dogs
Michael Giacchino – Incredibles 2
Christophe Beck – Ant-Man And The Wasp
Alan Silvestri – Ready Player One
John Powell – Solo: A Star Wars Story
Alan Silvestri – Welcome To Marwen
Lorne Balfe – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Daniel Pemberton – Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
Michael Giacchino – Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Marco Beltrami – A Quiet Place
Ludwig Goransson – Black Panther

Best Cinematography

Pawel Pogorzelski – Hereditary
Stefan Duscio – Upgrade
Rob Hardy – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Barry Peterson – Game Night
C. Kim Miles – Welcome To Marwen
Rob Hardy – Annihilation
Benjamin Loeb – Mandy
Seamus McGarvey – Bad Times At The El Royale
Charlotte Bruus Christensen – A Quiet Place

Best Sound

Best Visual Effects

Best Editing

Best Screenplay

Best Use Of Silence

A Quiet Place for, well, all of its silence.

Worst Cinematography

First Man and its non-stop, annoying, distracting shaky-cam

Best Stunts

No doubt goes to Mission: Impossible – Fallout and the lunatic known as Tom Cruise

Best Long-awaited Sequel

Incredibles 2

Most Fun Movie Surprise

Game Night, which ended up being much more fun and stylistically original than expected.

Best Opening Titles

The James Bond style titles set to Celine Dion from Deadpool 2

The “I Can’t Believe It Didn’t Suck” Award

Bumblebee – So who knew? It’s possible to make a modern Transformers movie that doesn’t suck.

The “What The Heck Happened?” Award

The Cloverfield Paradox, COMPLETELY dropping the ball for a previously excellent franchise (of sorts). Ugh.

Best Mid/Post End Credits Scene

Most Overrated

Best Poster

Worst Poster

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
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Best Trailer