Welcome to my nominations for the third annual Buttered Popcorn Movie Awards! I absolutely love award season but often find myself disagreeing with certain nominations so I decided to make my own award show to share my opinion. I was amazed with just how difficult some of the choices I had to make in the process of making these nominations so please try and understand if your favorite isn't on this list, this year honestly was one of the hardest! this is strictly my opinion and I do not expect everyone to agree with me, also remember that this is for fun so please don't take this too seriously. To give a bit of structure to the nominations I limited myself to 4 nominees for technical categories while for the more general categories I limited myself to 6. Last year I established that I could add one extra nominee to one category per year and this year that went to the Best Actor category. Winners will be announced Jan 20th! So enjoy the 2020 Buttered Popcorn Movie Awards!
Best Makeup And Hairstyling
Captain Marvel-Camille Friend, Janine Rath, & Heba Thorisdottir
The Lighthouse-Traci Loader & Linda Flynn
Little Women-Judy Chin & Frída Aradóttir
Monos-Andres Ramirez
Best Sound Design
Ad Astra-Robert Hein, Gary Rydstrom, Kent Sparling, & Mark Ulano
The Lighthouse-Mariusz Glabinski, Filipe Messeder, & Damian Volpe
Luce-Allison Jackson
Uncut Gems-Chris Chae, Anton Gold, & Helmut Scherz
Best Visual Design
Beanpole-Kantemir Balagov
Climax-Philippe Prat
The Lighthouse-Matt Likely
Monos-Angela Leyton
Best Visual Effects
Ad Astra-Allen Maris, Jedediah Smith, Guilaume Rocheron, & Scott R. Fisher
The Irishman-Pablo Helman, Leandro Estebecorena, Stephane Grabli, & Nelson Sepulveda
Spider-Man: Far From Home-Theodore Bialek, Yoshi DeHerrera, Jörn Großhans, Julius Lechner, Hamish Schumacher, Brendan Seals, Kevin Souls, & Alexis Wajsbrot
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker-Roger Guyett, Neal Scanlan, Patrick Tubach, & Dominic Tuohy
Best Costume Design
Little Women-Jacqueline Durran
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil-Ellen Mirojnick
Portrait of a Lady on Fire-Dorothée Guiraud
Rocketman-Julian Day
Best Production Design
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1917-Dennis Gassner
Knives Out-David Crank
Midsommar-Henrik Svensson
The Two Popes-Mark Tildesley
Best Film Editing
1917-Lee Smith
Apollo 11-Todd Douglas Miller
The Irishman-Thelma Schoonmaker
Uncut Gems-Ronald Bronstein & Benny Safdie
Best Cinematography
Ad Astra-Hoyte Van Hoytema
The Burial of Kojo-Michael Fernandez
A Hidden Life-Jörg Widmer
Monos-Jasper Wolf
Best Original Score
Ad Astra-Max Richter
The Farewell-Alex Weston
Little Women-Alexandre Desplat
Marriage Story-Randy Newman
Best Original Song
Don't Call Me Angel by Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, & Lana Del Rey-Charlie's Angels
Haunted Heart by Christina Aguilera-The Addams Family
(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again by Elton John & Taron Egerton-Rocketman
La Jeune Fille en Feu by Para One & Arthur Simonini-Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Not Evil by Tiffany Haddish-The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Show Yourself by Idina Menzel & Evan Rachel Wood-Frozen 2
Best Animation
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Klaus
Toy Story 4
Weathering With You
Best Short Film
Anima-Paul Thomas Anderson
Brotherhood-Meryam Joobeur
Fire in Paradise-Zackary Canepari & Drea Cooper
Hair Love-Matthew A. Cherry & Everett Downing Jr.
Kitbull-Rosaná Sullivan
Stay Close-Shuhan Fan & Luther Clement
Best Voiceover Performance
Billy Eichner-The Lion King
Josh Brolin-Avengers: Endgame
Justin Theroux-Lady and the Tramp
Kotaro Daigo-Weathering With You
Kristen Bell-Frozen 2
Tom Hanks-Toy Story 4
Most Impactful Feature
The Farewell
For Sama
Honey Boy
Just Mercy
Paddleton
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Best Breakout Actor
Aisling Franciosi-The Nightingale
Archie Yates-Jojo Rabbit
Himesh Patel-Yesterday
Jonathan Majors-The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Kyliegh Curran-Doctor Sleep
Roman Griffin Davis-Jojo Rabbit
Best Solo Directorial Debut
Blitz Bazawule-The Burial of Kojo
Hiroyasu Ishida-Penguin Highway
Jérémy Clapin-I Lost My Body
Joe Talbot-The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Olivia Wilde-Booksmart
Best Ensemble
Booksmart
The Farewell
The Irishman
Jojo Rabbit
Knives Out
Little Women
Best Supporting Actor
Al Pacino-The Irishman
Jonathan Majors-The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Ray Romano-Paddleton
Shia LaBeouf-Honey Boy
Tom Hanks-A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Willem Dafoe-The Lighthouse
Best Supporting Actress
Adèle Haenel-Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Emma Watson-Little Women
Florence Pugh-Little Women
Jennifer Lopez-Hustlers
Scarlett Johansson-Jojo Rabbit
Zhao Shuzhen-The Farewell
Best Adapted Screenplay
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood-Noah Harpster & Mica Fitzerman-Blue
The Irishman-Steven Zaillian
Jojo Rabbit-Taika Waititi & Christine Leunens
The King-Joel Edgerton & David Michôd
Little Women-Greta Gerwig & Louisa May Alcott
Luce-Julius Onah & J.C. Lee
Best Original Screenplay
Booksmart-Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, & Katie Silberman
The Farewell-Lulu Wang
Honey Boy-Shia LaBeouf
Paddleton-Mark Duplass
Portrait of a Lady on Fire-Céline Sciamma
Queen & Slim-James Frey & Lena Waithe
Best Documentary Film
American Factory-Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert
Ask Dr. Ruth-Ryan White
For Sama-Waad al-Kateab & Edward Watts
Hail Satan?-Penny Lane
Maiden-Alex Holmes
Sea of Shadows-Richard Ladkani
Best Foreign Language Film
And Then We Danced-Levan Akin
The Farewell-Lulu Wang
I Lost My Body-Jérémy Clapin
Pain and Glory-Pedro Almodóvar
Parasite-Bong Joon-ho
Portrait of a Lady on Fire-Céline Sciamma
Best Animated Film
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World-Dean DeBlois
I Lost My Body-Jérémy Clapin
Modest Heroes-Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Yoshiyuki Momose, & Akihiko Yamashita
Penguin Highway-Hiroyashu Ishida
Steven Universe: The Movie-Rebecca Sugar
Weathering With You-Makoto Shinkai
Best Actress
Awkwafina-The Farewell
Lupita Nyong'o-Us
Noémie Merlant-Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Renée Zellweger-Judy
Saoirse Ronan-Little Women
Scarlett Johansson-Marriage Story
Best Actor
Adam Driver-Marriage Story
Adam Sandler-Uncut Gems
Brad Pitt-Ad Astra
George MacKay-1917
Kelvin Harrison Jr.-Waves
Robert De Niro-The Irishman
Timothée Chalamet-The King
Best Director
Bong Joon-ho-Parasite
Céline Sciamma-Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie-Uncut Gems
Martin Scorsese-The Irishman
Robert Eggers-The Lighthouse
Sam Mendes-1917
Best Picture
1917-Pippa Harris, Michael Lerman, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, & Jayne-Ann Tenggren
The Irishman-Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Jane Rosenthal, Nicholas Pileggi, Irwin Winkler, George Furla, Randall Emmett, Rick Yorn, Richard Baratta, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Chad A. Verdi, Jai Stefan, Troy Allen, Niels Juul, Tyler Zacharia, Gastón Pavlovich, Berry Welsh, Gerald Chamales, & Gabriele Isrialovici
The Lighthouse-Arnon Michan, Michael Schaefer, Jay Van Hoy, Robert Eggers, Youree Henley, Rodrigo Teixeira, Lourenço Sant'Anna, Yariv Milchan, & Josh Peters
Paddleton-Mel Eslyn, Alana Carithers, Sean Bradley, Ray Romano, Jay Duplass, & Mark Duplass
Parasite-Bong Joon-ho, Miky Lee, Moon Yang-kwon, Jang Young-hwan, Kwak Sin-ae, Lim Myeong-gyun, & Kim Kyeong-taek
Portrait of a Lady on Fire-Bénédicte Couvreur & Véronique Cayla
Check back Jan 20th to see the winners!