2004 Alternate Oscars

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best animated feature winners are noted with an @.

2003 Alternate Oscars

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best animated feature winners are noted with an @.

2002 Alternate Oscars

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best animated feature winners are noted with an @. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

2001 Alternate Oscars

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

Ordinarily, I would have nominated Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away here — it was released in Japan in 2001 — but it won the Oscar for animated feature in 2002 and thus it feels like a 2002 movie to me. Come back next week to vote for it.

2000 Alternate Oscars

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ.

The New York and Toronto film critics had Ellen Burstyn down as a supporting actress in Requiem for a Dream. Me, too.

1999 Alternate Oscars

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ.

It's a Hollywood tradition to nominate child actors in the supporting category no matter how much time they spend on the screen or how essential to the story they are. But we here at the Monkey don't give a damn about Hollywood tradition. Haley Joel Osment is the co-lead in The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis, thus the lead actor nomination.

1998 Alternate Oscars

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ.

Boy, that is a moustache, isn't it.

By the way, I may be one of the few people on Earth who admits to liking Shakespeare in Love these days even if it's not the best movie of the year. I rank it fourth behind The Big Lebowski, Out of Sight and Saving Private Ryan, in that order.