2nd Annual Defacto Film Awards

To celebrate the Oscars, we are pleased to announce the Best of 2019 nominees and winners in fourteen categories. We selected the top five picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress,  Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, Best International Film, and Best Original Score. Noah Damron also did his own separate nominations and awards down below.

2nd Annual Defacto Film Awards (Robert Butler’s Picks) 

✓  Indicates Winner

BEST PICTURE

• Ash is Purest White  
• The Irishman 
• ✓  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 
• Uncut Gems
• The Wild Pear Tree 

BEST DIRECTOR

• Nuri Bilge Ceylan-The Wild Pear Tree  
• Bi Gan-Long Day’s Journey Into Night 
• Martin Scorsese-The Irishman 
• ✓  Quentin Tarantino-Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 
• Josh and Benny Safdie-Uncut Gems

BEST LEAD ACTOR 

• Leonardo DiCaprio-Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• Adam Driver-Marriage Story
• Joaquin Phoenix-Joker 
• Robert Pattinson-The Lighthouse 
• ✓  Adam Sandler-Uncut Gems 

BEST LEAD ACTRESS

• Scarlett Johansson-Marriage Story
• Mary Kay Place-Diane 
• ✓  Zhao Tao-Ash is Purest White 
• Alfre Woodard-Clemency 
• Renée Zellweger-Judy  

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Willem Dafoe-The Lighthouse 
•  Tom Hanks-A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 
• Al Pacino-The Irishman 
• Joe Pesci-The Irishman 
• ✓  Brad Pitt-Once Upon a Time in Hollywood  

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Kathy Bates-Richard Jewell  
• Julia Butters-Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 
• Laura Dern-Marriage Story
• ✓ Jennifer Lopez-Hustlers 
• Florence Pugh-Little Women 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 

• Ronald Bronstein, Josh & Benny Safdie, Uncut Gems
• Nuri Bilge Ceylan-The Wild Pear Tree 
• Noah Baumbach-Marriage Story  
• ✓ Quentin Tarantino-Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 
• Jia Zhangke-Ash is Purest White 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Alice Johnson Boher & Sebastian Lelio- Gloria Bell
• Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
• Greta Gerwig-Little Women
•  Lorene Scafaria-Hustlers 
• ✓ Steven Zaillian-The Irishman

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• American Factory 
• Apollo 11
• The End of Democracy 
• ✓  Honeyland  
• One Child Nation

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE 

• How to Train Your Dragon: A Hidden World 
• I Lost My Body 
• Klaus 
• Missing Link 
• ✓ Toy Story 4 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 

• The Lighthouse-Jarin Blaschke
• Long Day’s Journey Into Night-David Chizallet, Jingsong Dong, Yao Hung-I
• ✓  Once Upon a Time in Hollywood-Robert Richardson 
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire-Claire Mathon
• The Wild Pear Tree-Gökhan Tiryaki

BEST EDITING 

• The Irishman-Thelma Schoonmaker
• The Lighthouse-Louise Ford
• Marriage Story-Jennifer Lame
• Parasite-Yang Jin-mo
• ✓ Uncut Gems-Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM  

• Ash is Purest White-Jia Zhangke (China)
• Long Day’s Journey Into Night-Bi Gan (China)
• Parasite-Bong Joon-ho (South Korea)
• The Souvenir-Joanna Hogg (Great Britain)
• ✓ The Wild Pear Tree-Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE 

• Ad Astra-Max Richter 
• Joker-Hildur Guonadottir 
• Little Women-Alexandre Desplat
• ✓ Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Lim Giong and Hsu Point
• Uncut Gems, Daniel Lopatin 

2nd Annual Defacto Film Awards (Noah Damron’s Picks)

BEST PICTURE

• Booksmart 
• The Irishman
• ✓  The Last Black Man in San Francisco
• Marriage Story
• Uncut Gems

BEST DIRECTOR

• Marielle Heller- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
• ✓  Martin Scorsese- The Irishman
• Joe Talbot- The Last Black Man in San Francisco
• Noah Baumbach- Marriage Story
• Josh & Benny Safdie- Uncut Gems

BEST LEAD ACTOR

• Adam Driver- Marriage Story
• Joaquin Phoenix- Joker
• Robert Pattinson- The Lighthouse
• ✓  Adam Sandler- Uncut Gems
• Matthias Schoenaerts- The Mustang

BEST LEAD ACTRESS

• ✓  Scarlett Johansson- Marriage Story
• Noemie Merlant- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Lupita Nyong’o- Us
• Florence Pugh- Midsommar
• Renee Zellweger- Judy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 

• Sterling K. Brown- Waves
• Willem Dafoe- The Lighthouse
• Tom Hanks- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
• ✓  Joe Pesci- The Irishman
• Brad Pitt-Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

• ✓  Jennifer Lopez- Hustlers
• Billie Lourd- Booksmart
• Anna Paquin- The Irishman
• Florence Pugh- Little Women
• Zhao Shuzhen- The Farewell

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• ✓  Noah Baumbach- Marriage Story
• Ronald Bronstein, Josh & Benny Safdie- Uncut Gems
• Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Farheau & Geoff Cox- High Life
• Robert Eggers & Eggers- The Lighthouse
• Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins & Katie Silberman- Booksmart

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 

• Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
• Stephany Folsom & Andrew Stanton- Toy Story 4
• Greta Gerwig- Little Women 
• Lorene Scafaria- Hustlers
• ✓  Steven Zaillian- The Irishman

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• American Factory
• Apollo 11
• ✓  Honeyland
• Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
• The Russian Five

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE 

• The Addams Family
• How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
• I Lost My Body
• The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
• ✓  Toy Story 4

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY  

• Ad Astra, Hoyte Van Hoytema
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Adam Newport-Berra
• ✓  The Lighthouse, Jarin Blaschke
• Midsommar, Pawel Pogorzelski
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Claire Mathon

BEST EDITING 

• ✓  The Irishman, Thelma Schoonmaker
• The Lighthouse, Louise Ford
• Marriage Story, Jennifer Lame
• Uncut Gems, Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie-
• Us, Nicolas Monsour

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM 

• Honeyland, Ljubo Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska  (North Macedonia)
• Les Miserables, Ladj Ly (France)
• One Cut of the Dead, Shin’ichirô Ueda (Japan)
• Parasite, Bong Joon-ho (South Korea)
• ✓   Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma (France) 

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE  

• Ad Astra, Max Richter
• I Lost My Body, Dan Levy
• ✓   Joker, Hildur Guonadottir
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Emile Mosseri
• Us, Michael Abels