The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday, and there were some solid picks - but there were also some snubs, and definitely a few choices that wouldn't have made my personal nominees. So I figured, why not just have my own nominees!

I've been keeping track of this all year long with every movie that I see (and I'm somebody who has seen a lot - according to my Letterboxd account, I've seen 124 releases from 2019). I've taken every Oscars category and swapped out their picks for my own. There's some overlap here with movies like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Parasite, but this also might be the only awards you see that nominates Tiffany Haddish for Best Supporting Actress for The Lego Movie 2.

What are your alternate Oscars picks? What's a movie you loved this year that you wish had been recognized by the Academy? Think about it an peruse the Mike Awards while you do (it's a much more prestigious ceremony than the Oscars anyway).

BEST PICTURE
Ad Astra
The Beach Bum
Dark Waters
Her Smell
The Irishman
Midsommar
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (WINNER)
Parasite
Under the Silver Lake

BEST DIRECTOR
Bong Joon-Ho, PARASITE
James Grey, AD ASTRA
Jordan Peele, US
Martin Scorsese, THE IRISHMAN
Quentin Tarantino, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (WINNER)

BEST ACTOR
Andrew Garfield, UNDER THE SILVER LAKE
Eddie Murphy, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME
Leonardo DiCaprio, HOLLYWOOD
Matthew McConaughey, THE BEACH BUM
Willem Dafoe, THE LIGHTHOUSE (WINNER)

BEST ACTRESS
Aisling Franciosi, THE NIGHTINGALE
Awkwafina, THE FAREWELL
Elisabeth Moss, HER SMELL (WINNER)
Jennifer Lopez, HUSTLERS
Lupita Nyong’o, US

SUPP ACTOR
Al Pacino, THE IRISHMAN
Baykali Ganambarr, THE NIGHTINGALE (WINNER)
Bill Camp, DARK WATERS
Jonathan Majors, THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO
Taika Waititi, JOJO RABBIT

SUPP ACTRESS
Florence Pugh, LITTLE WOMEN
Rebecca Ferguson, DOCTOR SLEEP (WINNER)
Scarlett Johannson, JOJO RABBIT
Tiffany Haddish, THE LEGO MOVIE 2
Zhao Shuzen, THE FAREWELL

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Her Smell
Knives Out
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (WINNER)
Parasite
Under the Silver Lake

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Dark Waters
Deadwood: The Movie
Dolemite is My Name
The Irishman
Little Women (WINNER)

ANIMATED FEATURE
Frozen II
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The Lego Movie 2 (WINNER)
Missing Link
Toy Story 4

FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Climax
The Farewell
Monos
Pain and Glory
Parasite (WINNER)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Apollo 11
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch
Hail Satan?
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (WINNER)
Western Stars

ORIGINAL SCORE
Apollo 11 (WINNER)
The Lighthouse
Parasite
Uncut Gems
Us

ORIGINAL SONG
“Breathe” from HER SMELL
“Do-Dilly-Do (A Friend Like You),” Missing Link
“I Punched Keanu Reeves” from Always Be My Maybe
“Moonfog,” The Beach Bum
“Not Evil,” Lego Movie 2 (WINNER)

SOUND EDITING
Arctic
Ford v Ferrari
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (WINNER)
John Wick 3
The Lighthouse

SOUND MIXING
Ad Astra
Apollo 11
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The Lighthouse (WINNER)
The Nightingale

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Ad Astra
Knives Out
Missing Link
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (WINNER)
Under the Silver Lake

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ad Astra (WINNER)
Midsommar
The Nightingale
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Queen and Slim

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
The Beach Bum
Bombshell
Captain Marvel (WINNER)
Hellboy
The Kid Who Would Be King

COSTUME DESIGN
Hustlers
Midsommar
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (WINNER)
Rocketman
Under the Silver Lake

FILM EDITING
1917
Hustlers
The Lighthouse
Parasite (WINNER)
Us

VISUAL EFFECTS
Ad Astra
Alita: Battle Angel (WINNER)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The Irishman
Pokemon Detective Pikachu

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