Reader Polling Results
Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 8:00AM by Nathaniel R
So each year we poll you on who you'd like to see take the Oscars (among their nominees of course, which are obviously different than who you may want to see up for the prizes each year) and after a month of voting here's how you responded. You can look up the individual charts on each Oscar page if you so desire to see a fuller breakdown but your collective vote went like so if you're curious, and we hope you are. The eventual Oscar winners were usually either your winner or your runner up but I was personally surprised by a few of the polls...
BEST PICTURE
Winner: [TIE] Roma and The Favourite (35% of your votes)
Runner Up: A Star is Born (10% of your votes)
The Oscar Winner: Green Book (5% of your votes)
BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Alfonso Cuarón, Roma (42% of your votes)
Runner Up: [TIE] Yorgos Lanthimos, The Favourite and Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman (25% of the vote each)
BEST ACTRESS
Winner: Glenn Close, The Wife (48% of your votes)
Runner Up: Olivia Colman, The Favourite (31% of your votes)
BEST ACTOR
Winner: Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born (47% of your votes)
Runner Up: Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody (16% of your votes)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Rachel Weisz, The Favourite (35% of your vote)
Runner Up: Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk (34% of your vote --by far the smallest margin of difference between winner and runner up in this list so practically a tie!) The Smackdown loved these two performances as well but Emma Stone put in a much stronger showing there than in your vote totals.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Richard E Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me? (57% of your vote)
Runner Up: Sam Elliott, A Star is Born (19% of your vote)
The Oscar Winner: Mahershala Ali, Green Book (15% of your vote)
FOREIGN FILM
Winner: Roma (42% of your vote)
Runner Up: Cold War (28% of your vote... but in a squeaker over Shoplifters)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: The Favourite (58% of your vote)
Runner Up: First Reformed (26% of your vote)
The Oscar Winner: Green Book (7% of your vote)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (36% of your vote)
Runner Up: BlacKkKlansman (28% of your vote)
COSTUME DESIGN
Winner: The Favourite (51% of your vote)
Runner Up: Black Panther (42% of your vote)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Roma (52% of your vote)
Runner Up: Cold War (28% of your vote)
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner: The Favourite (36% of your vote)
Runner Up: Black Panther (29% of your vote)
FILM EDITING
Winner: The Favourite (44% of your vote)
Runner Up: BlacKkKlansman (30% of your vote)
The Oscar Winner: Bohemian Rhapsody (11% of your vote)
VISUAL EFFECTS
Winner: First Man (46% of your vote)
Runner Up: Avengers: Infinity War (31% of your vote)
MAKEUP AND HAIR
Winner: Vice (44% of your vote)
Runner Up: Border (40% of your vote)
ORIGINAL SCORE
Winner: If Beale Street Could Talk (57% of your vote)
Runner Up: Isle of Dogs (16% of your vote)
The Oscar Winner: Black Panther (12% of your vote)
SOUND MIXING
Winner: A Star is Born (29% of your vote -- the lowest percentage of votes in any category to still win)
Runner Up: [TIE] First Man and Roma (27% of your vote)
The Oscar Winner: Bohemian Rhapsody (9% of your vote)
SOUND EDITING
Winner: First Man (41% of your vote)
Runner Up: A Quiet Place (26% of your vote)
The Oscar Winner: Bohemian Rhapsody (5% of your vote)
ORIGINAL SONG
Winner: Shallow, A Star is Born (73% of your vote)
Runner Up: All the Stars, Black Panther (11% of your vote... in a squeaker over "when a cowboy" from Buster Scruggs)
ANIMATED FEATURE
Winner: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (54% of your vote)
Runner Up: Isle of Dogs (22% of your vote)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Winner: Minding the Gap (30% of your vote)
Runner Up: RBG (28% of your vote)
The Oscar Winner: Free Solo (26% of your vote)
Reader Comments (14)
As always, the consensus here is superior to the Academy's choices in every single category. I also wish the Academy would one day release their voting results breakdown.
I dont watch a lot of foreign films but a recent post of yours mentioned Shoplifters was on Amazon so I rented it this past weekend. Loved it.
Obviously this would've been a better list of winners and I'm #TeamColman all the way. But man imagine if Black Panther actually got 0 wins and Spike Lee/King/Ali lost? I can imagine all the post-Oscars headlines now...
Aside from Costume and Production Design I like this list.
Interesting to see that Black Panther wasn't as strong in these categories with the TFE community.
I'm happier that the Oscars went to Black Panther on these 2 categories.
But nice to see that TFE readers would have given The Favourite best original screenplay.
As for best adapted, although I think Can You Forgive Me is the better script, I wouldn't want to deny Spike Lee.
I like where the acting awards went, Close, Bradley, Grant, and basically a tie between Weisz and King.
Thanks for all your hard work Nathaniel, it's great to see where our collective taste would have taken us.
Pleased to see the correct acting winners. :)
The shut out of BlacKKKlansman and Black Panther and POC actors is quite disturbing. I think these awards turned out much worse than the actual Oscars minus Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
You must be a crazy bitch to think that people should win only based on their skin colors!
When the only “great” performances and movies of the year are considered all white actors and movies about white people it is crazy.
So the readers picked the right winners but you don't like it because they're white. Merit should be the only factor.
@beyaccount, I could be insanely wrong, but I have a weird feeling most of the people that frequent this site are white/queer. So maybe that slanted the votes. That coupled with honest qualitative value, I mean hell Im black and a 2 on the Kinsey scale and I didnt care for Beale Street much and I thought Weisz was better than King. Merp. And while I somewhat agree with the detractors to your comment (although whoever implied youre a bitch should definitely take a percocet or something); it should just be about quality. However, this is where we get into the illusory, almost psychic effect of bias and putting it aside. Are people being reflexive enough when they watch movies? Moving away from their own experience to delve into others? This is something that ought not be forced because a black movie isn’t inherently better than a white one. But it is a good question and perhaps Award show results are somewhat indicative of these things. I dunno. Diversity is such a weird thing to naturally implement. At any rate, I like these choices haha.
Oops, Colman was runner-up, so mostly right, but the white thing still stands.
Glennie is the people's choice.
Craver - Why do you assume these black films and POC actors aren’t the best merit-wise? Melanated and more deserving!
I am so blessed to be bias-free.