Here's our first special just in time for this weekends Oscar ceremony. This one is me flying solo on mic, as I take you through my personal favorites for eleven of the biggest categories (we even included editing for Brother Jeff, despite his being officially dead to this podcast). Please know that these are my personal favorites and not predictions. If you try to fill out your Oscar pools with these picks, you'll be going down in flames.

I also add in a recommended watch based on each nominee in these categories, so that's 55 additional movies to check out. As if your lives weren't already busy enough.

In case you don't want to listen to me talk for over a half hour without interruption (very few do) or you want to revisit them, here are those picks and movie recs for you:

Best Picture

Bugonia 10 Cloverfield Lane

F1 Ford vs. Ferrari

Frankenstein Poor Things

Hamnet Remains of the Day

Marty Supreme The Hustler

One Battle After Another The Big Lebowski

The Secret Agent The Conversation

Sentimental Value 8 1/2

Sinners Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Train Dreams The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Best Director

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson Boogie Nights

Sinners Ryan Coogler Fruitvale Station

Marty Supreme Josh Safdie Uncut Gems

Sentimental Value Joachim Trier Robert Redford - Ordinary People

Hamnet Chloé Zhao Nomadland

Best Actor

Marty Supreme Timothée Chalamet Tom Cruise - The Color of Money

One Battle After Another Leonardo DiCaprio Catch Me if you Can

Blue Moon Ethan Hawke Before Sunrise

Sinners Michael B. Jordan Black Panther

The Secret Agent Wagner Moura Civil War

Best Actress

Hamnet Jessie Buckley Wicked Little Letters

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Rose Byrne Bridesmaids

Song Sung Blue Kate Hudson Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line

Sentimental Value Renate Reinsve Geena Rowlands - A Woman under the Influence

Bugonia Emma Stone Easy A

Best Supporting Actor

One Battle After Another Benicio del Toro Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Frankenstein Jacob Elordi Peter Boyle - Young Frankenstein

Sinners Delroy Lindo Get Shorty

One Battle After Another Sean Penn The Falcon and the Snowman

Sentimental Value Stellan Skarsgård Dune

Best Supporting Actress

Sentimental Value Elle Fanning A Complete Unknown

Sentimental Value Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas Natasha Lyonne - His Three Daughters

Weapons Amy Madigan Field of Dreams

Sinners Wunmi Mosaku Viola Davis in Widows

One Battle After Another Teyana Taylor Taraji P. Henson in Baby Boy

Best Original Screenplay

Blue Moon Robert Kaplow Jack Fincher - Mank

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi Hwang Jo-yun, Lim Jun-hyung, Park Chan-wook - Old Boy

Marty Supreme Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie - Good Time

Sentimental Value Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner - The Fabelmans

Sinners Ryan Coogler Quentin Tarantino - From Dusk till Dawn

Best Adapted Screenplay

Bugonia Will Tracy Seth Reiss, Will Tracy - The Menu

Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro William Hurlbut - The Bride of Frankenstein

Hamnet Chloé Zhao & Maggie O'Farrell Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard - Shakespeare in Love

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson Charlie Kaufman - Adaptation

Train Dreams Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar Jim Jarmush - Dead Man

Best Film Editing

F1 Stephen Mirrione Chris Lenzon & Billy Weber -Top Gun

Marty Supreme Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie Thelma Schoonmaker - Goodfellas

One Battle After Another Andy Jurgensen Joe Hutshing & Pietro Scalia -JFK

Sentimental Value Olivier Bugge Coutté Monika Willie - Tar

Sinners Michael P. Shawver Alan Heim - All that Jazz

Cinematography

Frankenstein Dan Laustsen Michael Ballhaus - Bram Stoker's Dracula

Marty Supreme Darius Khondji Michael Chapman - Raging Bull

One Battle After Another Michael Bauman John A. Alonzo - Chinatown

Sinners Autumn Durald Arkapaw Asakazu Nakai - Seven Samurai

Train Dreams Adolpho Veloso Rudolph Mate - The Passion of Joan of Arc