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If I got to decide who Best Actor/Actress and Supporting Actor/Actress at the Oscars, here's what I would do:

Best Actor - This was a tough one for me. Shoutout to Steve Carrell as Bobby Riggs (Battle of the Sexes), but it was ultimately a two man race. James Franco as Tommy Wiseau (The Disaster Artist) and Woody Harrelson as Rex Walls (The Glass Castle). Franco had the more attention-grabbing performance, but Harrelson's performance resonated with me the most due to parallels between his character and someone important to me in real life. I know that makes me biased, but I'm giving it to Harrelson

Best Actress - The fact that nobody jumps out to me is a shame. My initial thought was Mckenna Grace as Mary Addler (Gifted). Her portrayal as a child genius was probably the most grounded and believable that I have ever seen (child geniuses that is). My focus also shifted to the last two winners of Best Actress, Emma Stone and Brie Larson. Larson was overshadowed by Harrelson and the actress who played her younger character in The Glass Castle, but she was still great. Emma didn't have a melodramatic role as tennis legend Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes, but her role had great range, and she nailed it all. Neither of those performances truly moved me though. Grace wins with relative ease.

Best Supporting Actor - Easily the most stacked of the four groups (as is usually the case year in and year out), I had a hard time whittling them down. I kind of veer towards those that have at least a sprinkle of humor, so even those with no chance in hell at the Oscars (such as LilRel Howery in Get Out) made the initial cut. Hell, Ray Romano in the Big Sick was in play! Ultimately, I got it down to two: Daniel Craig as Joe Bang (Logan Lucky) and Willem Dafoe as Bobby (The Florida Project). Both had commanding presences for different reasons. Dafoe as a genuine and exhausted manager of a motel and Craig as a slightly eccentric demolition expert were close to perfect. Craig reminds me a little bit of Thomas Jane. Both are really great actors when given roles with excitable personalities, but given their physique and ability to pull off an intimidating, stoic expression, they don't exactly get a lot of those roles. Because of Craig getting the role I always dreamed of him performing, I'm giving the award to him.

Best Supporting Actress - This can be a huge dumpster fire. Supporting roles for women can be downright abysmal with a seemingly large amount of them able to be described as wife/girlfriend/mom who worries a lot and cries and maybe even in a damsel in distress. For a good six months or so, I just assumed that it was going to Lindsay Duncan as Evelyn Adler (Gifted). It wasn't because her role and performance were that amazing. It was just that her competition was mediocre at best. Two days after Thanksgiving though, I finally found someone who bested her. Bria Vinaite as the Halley (Florida Project) was definitely something. She's the kind of person that I could never see myself wanting to be involved with in any capacity. More importantly, she's the kind of person that I would dismiss in general. She's neither a good person nor a good mother and doesn't exactly make a concerted effort to improve herself or her situation, but by the movie's end, I had considerably more respect for her than I did in the early going. I don't think the script had a profound effect on that. I think that it was mostly Vinaite who made Halley. Not bad for an actress making her film debut (if IMDB is correct).
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