2019 Dream Oscar Ballot.

To end this year in film and commemorate another award season, here are my preferred choices on the 2019 Oscar ballot. This year's award season has been grueling and often bad. Among other things, it would be impossible to ignore the films of female filmmakers or the amount of great international films this year, yet both seem likely to happen!

Regardless, the films, performances and crafts that stuck out for me this year are below. My winners in each category are listed in bold and the runners-up in italics. Enjoy!

The Best Films of 2019.

Another year in the history books and it's time to count down my favorite films of the year. 2019 may have had a few less options for this list than the last few years, however the top ten is as strong as ever, with multiple contenders that could have been #1 in another year and some runners-up that it physically hurt not to include higher.

I didn't get a chance to write up as much as I would've liked about each of these selections, however I have much more I could say about any of them and know I will get many chances as time goes on. I would recommend any of the films below and know they'd provide further rich discussion, but in the meantime I'll just go through them here. Enjoy!