Best Supporting Actress: Da'vine Joy Randolph

I may not have been the biggest fan of "The Holdovers," but I have no problem with Randolph winning the Oscar. Her role as Mary Lamb, the cook, is one of the movie's high points.

Best Animated Feature-The Boy and the Heron

Would I have loved to see "Across The Spider-Verse" win? Yeah, but "The Boy and The Heron" is a movie by one of the greatest animators in history. It is about a creator looking at his work and how it can progress without him. It's basically Hayao Miyazaki contemplating his legacy in what will likely be his last movie.

Best Original Screenplay-Anatomy of a Fall

It was my favorite movie of the year-I have watched it three times in four months. I've preordered the Criterion release and will probably watch it on the day it arrives. If you still need to watch it, fix that.

Best Supporting Actor-Robert Downey Jr.

This was one of the few categories where they all deserved it. Downey's career has been rocky, and he was a pariah in the industry for a while. I am glad that he got help, got better, and became the star he is today.

Best Visual Effects-Godzilla Minus One

This movie was nominated for one Oscar, and it won! Its budget was a fraction of the other movies, and what they achieved with it was stunning. I highly recommend it, even if you have no interest in Godzilla.

Best Sound-Zone of Interest

I might not have liked the movie, but what they did with sound was incredible. You never see anything happening in Auswitch; you hear it, which is more powerful.

Ryan Gosling singing "I'm Just Ken."

This is why I watched the Oscars (on Hulu, but still). I love Gosling. He committed to the role of Ken and is a big enough star that he could not have sung the song at the Oscars, but he (and a few of the other Kens from the movie) did rehearsals and knocked it out of the park. It might not have won, but this was the performance of the night.

Best Actor-Cillian Murphy

Honestly, this was his award to lose. I would have been thrilled if Jeffery Wright had won; the man deserves one. Murphy has always been more of a supporting character in his career (and great at it), but he was great as Oppenheimer, and it is a role that would change his career whether he won an Oscar or not.

Best Director-Christopher Nolan

Nolan is one of the few directors I would call an auteur (someone with a distinct style and creative control over their movies). He is a director whose new movies I will rush to the theater to see.

Best Actress-Emma Stone

Don't get me wrong—I loved what Stone did in "Poor Things," but Lily Gladstone should have won. She was the heart and soul of that movie, and her performance was stunning. If she wasn't going to win, Sandra Huler should have won "Anatomy of a Fall." That movie was outstanding, and she was fantastic in it.

Which brings me to...

Best Picture-Oppenheimer

Is Oppenheimer good...yes. It is a great movie. I wish I liked it more. By now, my friends and family know what I would have picked for Best Picture; "Anatomy of a Fall." Hollywood just loves a biopic too much for "Oppenheimer" to lose this one.