It is still sad that Hollywood has to fight against netflix, right now netflix is getting low level nominations and I feel like marriage story totally deserved it, the Irishman did as well, these are both netflix movies that netflix was capable of producing, there are still other movies that netflix didn't produced however by the looks of it netflix will only get bigger, they are making billions of dollars every single year while getting their library bigger and bigger with more and more original stuff and keeping the non-netflix productions in there as well.
With more money, they will be capable of making even more films, with more films I am sure will come more nominations. Eventually unless stopped (which doesn't need to be stopped, I love netflix) we may see a year where all nominations are from movies netflix produced, they are getting that much powerful. Does this mean netflix is doing something right or does this mean Hollywood is doing something wrong? I am not sure.
Netflix got good amount of nominations, Irishman got 10( for me that movie was disappointment. I am big Scorsese fan, but he should have made that movie 10-15 years ago when main actors were a bit younger), Marriage Story got 6 (best movie of 2019 for me) and The Two Popes got 3(another pleasant surprise, i really liked the film). So all in all i think it was good year for Netflix and progress compared to previous year (Roma won 3 Oscars and had 10 nominations, that was best film of 2018 for me). So 2 years in a row Netflix distributed my personal movie of the year
All in all 2019 was good year, and improvement over 2018. These are my personal picks, i watched 90% of the movies that had nominations so doubt i miss anything important that was nominated.
Best picture: Marriage Story
Best director: Sam Mendes
Best actor:Joaquin Phoenix
Best Supporting Actor:Brad Pitt
Best Actress: Scarlet Johansson
Best Supporting Actress: Laura Dern
Bst original screenplay:Marriage Story
Best foreign film: Parasite
Cinematography: Roger Deakins
All sound and music related Oscars:1917
Documentary:Honeyland
I didn't watch all the nominated movies so I won't bet this time.
But if anyone asked me about the best actor I would choose ADAM DRIVER. Having won accolades from Venice, Telluride and Toronto, it seems that Driver will most likely win the nomination and even win the Best Actor category Oscar 2020.
I am big fan of Adam Driver, for me he is one of the best actors around, and it was tough call to decide between Phoenix ( who i also like very much) and him. It was pleasure to watch him in Marriage Story, and i watched those new SW films only because of him, he made them watchable.