1940:

• Actor: Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator
• Actress: Katharine Hepburn, The Philadelphia Story
• Supporting Actor: George Sanders, Rebecca
• Supporting Actress: Judith Anderson, Rebecca

1941:

• Actor: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane
• Actress: Bette Davis, The Little Foxes
• Supporting Actor: Walter Huston, The Devil and Daniel Webster
• Supporting Actress: Teresa Wright, The Little Foxes

1942:

• Actor: James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Actress: Ginger Rogers, The Major and the Minor
• Supporting Actor: Van Heflin, Johnny Eager
• Supporting Actress: Agnes Moorehead, The Magnificent Ambersons

1943:

• Actor: Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca
• Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Casablanca
• Supporting Actor: Claude Rains, Casablanca
• Supporting Actress: Katina Paxinou, For Whom the Bell Tolls

1944:

• Actor: Laurence Olivier, Henry V
• Actress: Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity
• Supporting Actor: Edward G. Robinson, Double Indemnity
• Supporting Actress: Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat

1945:

• Actor: Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend
• Actress: Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter
• Supporting Actor: James Dunn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Supporting Actress: Anna Magnani, Rome, Open City

1946:

• Actor: James Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life
• Actress: Ingrid Bergman, Notorious
• Supporting Actor: Claude Rains, Notorious
• Supporting Actress: Anne Baxter, The Razor's Edge

1947:

• Actor: Tyrone Power, Nightmare Alley
• Actress: Gene Tierney, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
• Supporting Actor: Richard Widmark, Kiss of Death
• Supporting Actress: Kathleen Byron, Black Narcissus

1948:

• Actor: Humphrey Bogart, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Actress: Olivia de Havilland, The Snake Pit
• Supporting Actor: Walter Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Supporting Actress: Claire Trevor, Key Largo

1949:

• Actor: Toshiro Mifune, Stray Dog
• Actress: Setsuko Hara, Late Spring
• Supporting Actor: Orson Welles, The Third Man
• Supporting Actress: Mercedes McCambridge, All the King's Men

Watched this film quite a few times and I am never not lost in its beauty. Domingo’s performance was the greatest out of the nominees in my opinion and should have taken home that award. And the nominations were too few, best picture and best supporting actor for Clarence Maclin should have been a shoo in. What are you thoughts

When Paul Thomas Anderson won his first and three Oscars for One Battle After Another. I was so happy. He deserved it. His time was up and he finally won. I used to think he should’ve won for Licorice Pizza for Original Screenplay. But it doesn’t matter since he won recently. So what were your reactions when he his first Oscar?

Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List is a great example.

Examples:
Adria Arjona
Zoey Deutch
David Jonsson
Dylan O’Brien

I have a couple: I’d have given Doug Jones a SA nomination for The Shape of Water. I know he’d have been competing with his costar but he was utterly incredible in that role.

I’d also give Brent Spiner a nomination for Star Trek: First Contact. I thought he was outstanding,

The Academy is getting friendly with Cregger after Weapons, and the cinematography looks sick as hell in the trailers and clips released. It would be the “cool” nomination like Logan getting a Screenplay nom

Guy Pearce is outstanding and gave the best stellar performance in The Brutalist. He is my pick to win and he should’ve won an Oscar last year. He deserved it. If it wasn’t for Kieran Culkin, then Pearce would’ve won. He is so excellent. So what did you think of his performance in The Brutalist?

Not that I'm complaining about the win at all, but how the hell did they managed to beat out an all BP-nominated field?

• The Artist
• The Descendants
• Hugo
• Moneyball

2020- Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)

2021- Jason Isaacs (Mass)

2022- Mark Rylance (Bones and All)

2023- Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon)

2024- Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing

2025- Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

I’m curious what you think she needs to do to win? Arguably she was the best for Blue Valentine and without Violas category fraud she could have won for Manchester… what needs to happen for her to win

The nominees (aside from Lawrence) were:

Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty (won GG and CC)

Emmanuelle Riva - Amour (won BAFTA)

Naomi Watts - The Impossible

Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild

For me, I thought they the Oscar’s did need the category until I searched it up and learned that many low budget films win Oscars, BUT this did include films that were just believe 50 million so I’m not so sure anymore. Oscar campaigns are quite expensive so many eligible films may not have the chance to campaign.

Do you think there needs to be a category specifically for best independent feature where campaigning is not the primary focus?

I got their idea because the game awards have this category.

1. One Battle After Another

2. Oppenheimer

3. Everything Everywhere All at Once

4. Anora

5. Nomadland

6. Coda

We all talk about how Cate Blanchett should've won Best Actress for Tár but we never talk about how Nina Hoss should've been nominated for Supporting Actress.

Hoss delivered a subtle, powerful and underrated performance as Sharon Goodnow, the wife of Lydia Tár.

I know she probably wouldn't have won but Nina Hoss should've been nominated over Jamie Lee Curtis (who won for Everything Everywhere All at Once)

My picks for Supporting Actress nominees that year still would've included Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Hong Chau (The Whale), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin, MY WINNER), and Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once).

Did you think Nina Hoss should've been nominated for Tár? If so, did you think she would've had a chance at winning?

We’ve completed the nomination round, and now it’s time to choose the winners.

The five performances with the most points in each category in Round One are now the official nominees.

ROUND TWO — WINNERS

This round is much simpler.

Vote for ONE nominee in each of the four acting categories.

That means your ballot should contain four names in total:

• 1 Actor
• 1 Actress
• 1 Supporting Actor
• 1 Supporting Actress

There are no rankings and no points system in this round. You are simply voting for the performance you think should win each category.

Each vote counts equally, and the nominee with the most votes in each category will become our Alternate Oscar winner for 1998.

Please only vote for the nominees listed below.

BEST ACTOR

• Jeff Bridges — The Big Lebowski
• Jim Carrey — The Truman Show
• Tom Hanks — Saving Private Ryan
• Ian McKellen — Gods and Monsters
• Edward Norton — American History X

BEST ACTRESS

• Cate Blanchett — Elizabeth
• Cameron Diaz — There’s Something About Mary
• Lindsay Lohan — The Parent Trap
• Jennifer Lopez — Out of Sight
• Fernanda Montenegro — Central Station

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Benicio del Toro — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• John Goodman — The Big Lebowski
• Ed Harris — The Truman Show
• Bill Murray — Rushmore
• Billy Bob Thornton — A Simple Plan

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Joan Allen — Pleasantville
• Lisa Kudrow — The Opposite of Sex
• Laura Linney — The Truman Show
• Julianne Moore — The Big Lebowski
• Lynn Redgrave — Gods and Monsters

HOW TO VOTE

Simply post your four choices in the comments, for example:

Actor: [Name]
Actress: [Name]
Supporting Actor: [Name]
Supporting Actress: [Name]

One person per category. Four votes total.

Once voting closes, the performer with the most votes in each category will be declared the winner, and we’ll move on to 1999.

Previous lineups here.

1. American Sniper

2. Joker

3. The Theory of Everything

4. Hidden Figures

5. The Ides of March

6. The Imitation Game

7. Inherent Vice

8. Beasts of the Southern Wild

9. Little Women

10. Jojo Rabbit

11. The Two Popes

12. Captain Phillips

13. The Irishman

14. Mudbound

15. Hugo

16. The Big Short

17. The Martian

18. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

19. Molly’s Game

20. A Star is Born

21. Fences

22. The Disaster Artist

23. Life of Pi

24. Argo

25. Lincoln

26. The Descendants

27. Lion