The Bob Award Nominations 2019

As a film fanatic in my teens I began taking part in the time honored tradition that so many of us do. Waking up at 5:30 AM to watch the Oscar nominations and immediately begin complaining about them. After a few years of this I decided that if I wasn’t happy with the Academy’s choices then I should create my own awards. So I started the imaginatively named… Bob Awards. (It only occurs to me now that had I been named Oscar I’d have had a problem. Bullet dodged. Thanks, Mom and Dad.)

For the third year in a row I will be sharing the Bob Award nominations as a writer for More Than One Lesson. I really hope you enjoy them. If you don’t like these nominees then by all means create your own movie awards. Go on. Do it! I dare you!… No, really, you’ll feel better. It works for me. (If your name is Bob or Oscar though then I’m so sorry, but you’ll just have to accept these.) Of course I still complain about the Oscar nominations. But slightly less. And I guess that’s something.

I will be back before the Oscars to reveal the winners in not only these categories but several other fun ones.

Cinematography
The Favourite – Robbie Ryan
First Man – Linus Sandgren
Mandy – Benjamin Loeb
Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Rob Hardy
Roma – Alfonso Cuaron

Costume Design
Apostle – Jane Spicer
Bad Times at the El Royale – Danny Glicker
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Mary Zophres
Crazy Rich Asians – Mary E. Vogt
The Favourite – Sandy Powell

Film Editing
Avengers: Infinity War – Jeffrey Ford, Matthew Schmidt
First Man – Tom Cross
Mandy – Brett W. Bachman
Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Eddie Hamilton
They Shall Not Grow Old – Jabez Olssen

Makeup
Apostle
The Death of Stalin
The Favourite
Overlord
Stan & Ollie

Original Score
Black Panther – Ludwig Goransson
Mandy – Johann Johannsson
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Daniel Pemberton
Thoroughbreds – Erik Friedlander
You Were Never Really Here – Jonny Greenwood

Production Design
Annihilation – Mark Digby
Bad Times at the El Royale – Martin Whist
Isle of Dogs – Paul Harrod, Adam Stockhausen
Ralph Breaks the Internet – Cory Loftis
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Justin Thompson

Sound
Annihilation
First Man
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
A Quiet Place
They Shall Not Grow Old

Visual Effects
Annihilation
Avengers: Infinity War
First Man
Overlord
Solo: A Star Wars Story

Animated Film
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Supporting Actor
Adam Driver – BlackkKlansman
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Josh Hamilton – Eighth Grade
Michael Palin – The Death of Stalin
Jesse Plemons – Game Night
Linus Roache – Mandy

Supporting Actress
Elizabeth Debicki – Widows
Andrea Riseborough – Mandy
Milly Shapiro – Hereditary
Millicent Simmonds – A Quiet Place
Emma Stone – The Favourite
Rachel Weisz – The Favourite

Actor
Jeff Bridges – Bad Times at the El Royale
Nicolas Cage – Mandy
John Huston – The Other Side of the Wind
Joaquin Phoenix – You Were Never Really Here
John C. Reilly – Stan & Ollie
John David Washington – BlackkKlansman

Actress
Toni Collette – Hereditary
Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Kindergarten Teacher
Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace
Anya Taylor-Joy – Thoroughbreds

Ensemble Cast
Avengers: Infinity War
Bad Times at the El Royale
BlackkKlansman
The Death of Stalin
The Favourite
Widows

Adapted Screenplay
Avengers: Infinity War – Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely
BlackkKlansman – Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
The Death of Stalin – Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, Peter Fellows
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Phil Lord & Rodney Rothman
Widows – Gillian Flynn & Steve McQueen

Original Screenplay
Bad Times at the El Royale – Drew Goddard
Eighth Grade – Bo Burnham
The Favourite – Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
Mandy – Panos Cosmatos & Aaron Stewart-Ahn
Overlord – Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith
Thoroughbreds – Cory Finley

Director
Panos Cosmatos – Mandy
Armando Iannucci – The Death of Stalin
Peter Jackson – They Shall Not Grow Old
Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite
Christopher McQuarrie – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Anthony Russo & Joe Russo – Avengers: Infinity War

Best Picture
Avengers: Infinity War
The Death of Stalin
Eighth Grade
The Favourite
First Man
Mandy
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
They Shall Not Grow Old
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?