Conclave 2024
Won Best Ensemble at SAG and Best Film at BAFTA; still, they think it's third or fourth on most ballots, not a Best Picture winner.
The Big Picture · Discussion · Awards
The 2025 Alternative Oscars, a.k.a. the 5th Annual Big Picks!
February 25, 2025/ 108 min/ Sean Fennessy · Amanda Dobbins
Sean Fennessy and Amanda Dobbins run through the SAG, BAFTA, and Spirit Award results, then hand out the 5th Annual Big Picks, their alternative Oscars for the 2024 films the Academy left out. Challengers wins Best Picture; the trained rats of Nosferatu win Best Performance by a Dog.
104 films across 2 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
Awards-season check-in and the newsSAG, BAFTA, ASC, the Spirits, plus Bond and the Nolan Odyssey
Anora 2024
PGA, WGA, DGA, and a sweep at the Spirits. Sean's favorite film of the year and his Best Picture hope.
The Brutalist 2024
Snubbed by SAG: no Guy Pearce nod, no ensemble nomination, no win for Adrien Brody, which they read as a sign of weakness in the race.
A Complete Unknown 2024
Timothée Chalamet finally won at SAG over Brody with an unusually competitive 'I want to be one of the greats' speech.
Emilia Pérez 2024
They think it would have taken Best Ensemble weeks earlier, before the Karla Sofía Gascón scandal erased her from billboards.
Wicked 2024
Amanda thought it could win Best Ensemble at SAG.
Maria 2024
Ed Lachman won the ASC award for it, his first, on his sixth nomination.
Flow 2024
Won international feature at the Spirits.
I'm Still Here 2024
No Other Land 2024
Best documentary at the Spirits.
A Real Pain 2024
Jesse Eisenberg took original screenplay at BAFTA, a nice win undercut by no Best Picture nomination.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 2024
Won best documentary at BAFTA without even an Oscar nomination, the first such gap in 14 years.
The 5th Annual Big Picksthe alternative Oscars · 2024 films the Academy ignored
Best First Feature
- Dìdi Sean Wang Winner
- The First Omen Arkasha Stevenson
- Good One India Donaldson
- How to Have Sex Molly Manning Walker
- The Piano Lesson Malcolm Washington
Breakthrough Performance
- The Fire Inside Ryan Destiny
- Strange Darling Willa Fitzgerald Winner
- Red Rooms Juliette Gariépy
- Gladiator II Fred Hechinger
- Exhibiting Forgiveness John Earl Jelks
- Alien: Romulus David Jonsson
- I Saw the TV Glow Brigette Lundy-Paine
- Sing Sing Clarence Maclin
- Rebel Ridge Aaron Pierre
- My Old Ass Maisy Stella
Best Cameo
- Trap Kid Cudi Winner
- Drive-Away Dolls Matt Damon
- Y2K Fred Durst
- Wicked Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel
- The Greatest Love Story Never Told Jane Fonda
- Mean Girls Lindsay Lohan
- The Fall Guy Jason Momoa
- Deadpool & Wolverine Wesley Snipes
Best Kid Performance
- We Live in Time Grace Delaney
- I Saw the TV Glow Ian Foreman
- Speak No Evil Dan Hough
- Dìdi Isaac Wang
- Janet Planet Zoe Ziegler Winner
Best Performance by a Dog
- Nightbitch The Nightbitches
- A Quiet Place: Day One Frodo the cat
- Deadpool & Wolverine Dogpool
- Nosferatu The 5,000 rats Winner
Best Casting
Best Stunt/Action Sequence
- The Beekeeper Adam vs. Lazarus
- Civil War The high-rise raid
- Hundreds of Beavers The beaver brawl
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga The War Rig Winner
- Twisters The movie theater
Best Ending
The Glenn Close Memorial "It's Time" Oscar
- Goodrich Michael Keaton Winner
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Michael Keaton
- Knox Goes Away Michael Keaton
Best Screenplay
- Challengers Justin Kuritzkes
- Hard Truths Mike Leigh
- Hit Man Richard Linklater and Glen Powell
- Ghostlight Kelly O'Sullivan
- A Different Man Aaron Schimberg Winner
Best Supporting Actor
- The Beast George MacKay
- Sing Sing Clarence Maclin Winner
- Speak No Evil James McAvoy
- A Different Man Adam Pearson
- Civil War Jesse Plemons
Best Supporting Actress
- Dìdi Joan Chen
- The Bikeriders Jodie Comer
- Nickel Boys Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Winner
- Between the Temples Carol Kane
- Megalopolis Aubrey Plaza
Best Actor
- Challengers Josh O'Connor
- Babygirl Harris Dickinson
- Heretic Hugh Grant
- Trap Josh Hartnett
- Rebel Ridge Aaron Pierre Winner
Best Actress
- Hard Truths Marianne Jean-Baptiste Winner
- Babygirl Nicole Kidman
- The Dead Don't Hurt Vicky Krieps
- A Quiet Place: Day One Lupita Nyong'o
- Nosferatu Lily-Rose Depp
Best Director
- Hundreds of Beavers Mike Cheslik
- Nosferatu Robert Eggers
- Challengers Luca Guadagnino
- Red Rooms Pascal Plante
- Babygirl Halina Reijn Winner
Also mentioned raised along the way
In the news The OdysseyNo Time to DieSkyfallSpectreQuantum of Solace
Oscar history invoked OppenheimerEverything Everywhere All at OnceShakespeare in LoveCrashSpotlightParasiteCODA
Also mentioned GoodfellasThe DepartedWonkaMufasa: The Lion KingIrish WishLeap YearThis Is Me...Now: A Love StoryHorizon: An American SagaThe FabelmansDuelThe Sugarland ExpressOperation Fortune: Ruse de GuerreBackspot40 Days and 40 NightsLove Lies BleedingIn a Violent NatureKinds of KindnessThe OrderStep BrothersForgetting Sarah Marshall
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