Welcome to the 8th annual De Facto Film Awards! In honor of the Oscars airing on March 15th, we ended up tabulating our personal picks, as voted on by our own writers. This year our selections also includes the new Best Casting category. As Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another battles it out with Ryan Coogler’s Sinners for the major categories, we have added some great variety to our nominations and winners. We would love to hear your personal favorites in each category.

✓*Indicates Winner 

 

Courtesy Warner Bros

Best Picture

Hamnet

It Was Just An Accident

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another ✓

Sentimental Value

 

Courtesy Warner Bros

Best Director

Chloe Zhao, Hamnet

Jafar Panahi, It Was Just An Accident

Park Chan-Wook, No Other Choice

Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another ✓

Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value

 

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Best Adapted Screenplay

Hamnet

The Life of Chuck

No Other Choice

One Battle After Another ✓

Train Dreams

 

Courtesy Neon

Best Original Screenplay

It Was Just an Accident

Marty Supreme

Sentimental Value ✓

Sinners

Sorry, Baby

 

Courtesy A24

Best Actor

Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon

Timothee Chalamet, Marty Supreme ✓

Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another

Michael B. Jordan, Sinners

Dwayne Johnson, The Smashing Machine

 

Courtesy Focus

Best Actress

Emma Stone, Bugonia

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet ✓

Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value

Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

 

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Best Supporting Actor

Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein

Paul Mescal, Hamnet

Mark Hamill, The Life of Chuck

Sean Penn, One Battle After Another ✓

Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

 

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Best Supporting Actress

Mariam Afshari, It Was Just An Accident

Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another ✓

Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value

Amy Madigan, Weapons

 

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Best Cinematography

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another ✓

Sinners

Train Dreams

 

Courtesy Netflix

Best Costume Design

Frankenstein ✓

Hamnet

Sinners

The Testament of Ann Lee

Wicked: For Good

 

Courtesy Warner Bros

Best Editing

Hamnet

It Was Just An Accident

No Other Choice

One Battle After Another ✓

Sinners

 

Courtesy Warner Bros

Best Score

Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein

Max Richter, Hamnet

Daniel Lopatin, Marty Supreme

Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another

Ludwig Goransson, Sinners ✓

 

Courtesy Warner Bros

Best Song

Trunks, Highest 2 Lowest

Golden, KPop Demon Hunters

I Lied to You, Sinners

Last Time (I Seen the Sun), Sinners ✓

Train Dreams, Train Dreams

 

Courtesy Warner Bros

Best Production Design

Frankenstein ✓

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

The Secret Agent

Sinners

 

Courtesy Netflix

Best Make-Up & Hairstyling

28 Years Later

Frankenstein ✓

Sinners

The Smashing Machine

The Ugly Stepsister

 

Courtesy Warner Bros

Best Sound

Avatar: Fire and Ash

F1

One Battle After Another ✓

Sinners

Sirat

 

Courtesy 20th Century Studios

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash ✓

F1

Jurassic World: Rebirth

Predator: Badlands

Superman

 

Courtesy Warner Bros

Best Casting

Hamnet

It Was Just An Accident

The Life of Chuck

One Battle After Another ✓

Sinners

 

Best Documentary

The Alabama Solution

Megadoc

Orwell: 2+2=5

The Perfect Neighbor ✓

Predators

 

Courtesy GKids

Best Animated Feature

Arco

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie

KPop Demon Hunters

Little Amelie or the Character of Rain ✓

Zootopia 2

 

Courtesy Neon

Best International Feature

It Was Just An Accident ✓

No Other Choice

Sentimental Value

Sirat

The Voice of Hind Rajab

 

Courtesy Paramount

Best Stunts

F1

Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning ✓

One Battle After Another

Predator: Badlands

Sinners