If I Picked the Winners...

 (I only make my picks in categories where I've seen every nominee.)

Visual Effects: Godzilla Minus One

While I think The Creator's effects are overall better, I just can't help but root for this.

Sound: The Zone of Interest

It would be an entirely different film with a different sound design. 

Song: "What Was I Made For? - Barbie

Would love to have voted for "Dance the Night", but alas...

Makeup and Hairstyling: Poor Things

Production Design: Poor Things

Costume Design: Poor Things

Original Score: Poor Things

Cinematography: Poor Things

Film Editing: Oppenheimer

(Thanks to Neon for not releasing Robot Dreams until MAY - ?!?!?! - so I can't do Animated Feature.)

Adapted Screenplay: The Zone of Interest

Original Screenplay: Past Lives

Supporting Actor (ranked):

1. Ruffalo

2. De Niro

3. Gosling

4. Downey Jr

5. Brown

Supporting Actress:

1. Randolph

2. Foster

3. Brooks

4. Blunt

5. Ferrera

Leading Actor: 

1. Giamatti

2. Murphy

3. Wright

4. Domingo

5. Cooper

Leading Actress:

1. Hüller

2. Stone

3. Gladstone

4. Mulligan

5. Bening

Directing: I think I might actually vote for Nolan. If only because I find his haters just as insufferable as his fans. 

Best Picture - My Personal Ranking:

1. Past Lives

2. Poor Things

3. The Zone of Interest

4. The Holdovers

5. Oppenheimer

6. Killers of the Flower Moon

7. Anatomy of a Fall

8. Barbie

9. American Fiction

10. Maestro