Here’s my update on watching the Best Picture nominees. Read on…and don’t forget, if you want a great Oscars Movie Checklist, head on over to the Gold Knight for their awesome downloadable cheat sheet that tells you what you need to watch (and where you can see it) to get ready for the Academy Awards ceremony, held this year on March 12 on ABC.

Best Picture

Should Win: EEAAO
Will Win: EEAAO
SNUBS: I would have liked “The Batman” and “Nope” nominated over “Banshees” and “Triangle.”

Okay, so this year (as is the new usual), they’ve nominated ten movies for Best Picture. A few are worthy of the title, a few are not, and there was at least one great movie left off the list!

SEEN

I’ve seen Avatar, Banshees, Elvis, EEAAO, and the Fabelmans. Of those, EEAAO is the best film, with Avatar running a close second.

I also just watched All Quiet and while I can see why it was nominated, it didn’t do anything different with the whole “War is Hell.” I did like it better than “1917” — both were shot beautifully, but this one at least had a plot and characters I could root for.

Elvis was your standard and awesome Baz Luhrmann color-fest, filled to the brim with so much stuff to see that you kinda get lost along the way and forget that this movie is about one of the most famous celebrities in history. Banshees was the most depressing movie I’ve ever seen, and The Fabelmans was cute but ultimately pointless.

HAVEN’T SEEN

I haven’t seen Tar, Top Gun, Triangle or Woman Talking. Not excited about any of these except Top Gun. I also heard The Menu is quite good.

SNUBS

My top three favorite films of the year were EEAAO, The Batman, and Nope. Disappointed to see The Batman fail to get many nods, but I’m not surprised. It is, in fact, a comic book movie, and the reputation for those has gotten even worse since the Academy’s snub of not nominating “The Dark Knight” kicked off this whole frenzy in the first place of nominating ten movies a year.