#David Tomblin

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The Prisoner: Living in Harmony (1968) David Tomblin.

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Thoughts On An American Reboot Of "The Prisoner:"

...I realize now that "The Prisoner" was more commentary than a genuine hypotherhical scenario. It only took me taking a moment to consider how real interrogation methods have been described to realize that the TV series becomes a lot easier to digest if viewed as no different than the other experimental/"art house" works, both of the time (like "The Magic Christian," "Magical Mystery Tour," "Help," etc) and contemporary ("Matthew Barney," "David Lynch," etc).

With that said, I feel like an U.S. remake of "The Prisoner" could be pulled off reasonably well, but there are a few changes I'd make that keep with the spirit of the series and makes more sense for the American audience in mind:

"The Village" would be changed to "The Campus"

Sadly I feel "Rover" would have to be a completly different thing

"No 2" would have a gaming chair

And if the show's going to wind up a fiasco from start to finish, might as well pick a cast to reflect it, like: Denziel Washington as No.6 and Will Smith as the No. 2 who comes back at the end of the series...

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Blu-ray review: “The Prisoner” (1967 - 1968)

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UFO - Allarme rosso... attacco alla Terra! - Cyril Frankel, Jeremy Summers, David Tomblin

UFO – Allarme rosso… attacco alla Terra! – Cyril Frankel, Jeremy Summers, David Tomblin

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The Prisoner - The Girl Who Was Death (David Tomblin, 1968)

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David Tomblin and Carrie Fisher

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The Prisoner: Arrival (1.1, ITC, 1967)

"Now be reasonable, old boy - it's just a matter of time. Sooner or later you'll tell me. Sooner or later you'll want to."

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#Justine Lord

The Prisoner: Episode by Episode

E15 The Girl Who Was Death

18 January 1968

Written by Terence Feely, from an idea by David Tomblin

Directed by David Tomblin

Story: ‘The Prisoner’ finds himself engaged in a battle to prevent Professor Schnipps from destroying London, while the Professor’s daughter attempts to assassinate him.

Who is Number Two? Kenneth Griffith

Guest Cast: Justine Lord, Christopher Benjamin, Max Faulkner, John Drake

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Audio, Transcripts, and Slides from "Any Sufficiently Advanced Neglect is Indistinguishable from Malice"

Below are the slides, audio, and transcripts for my talk '"Any Sufficiently Advanced Neglect is Indistinguishable from Malice": Assumptions and Bias in Algorithmic Systems,' given at the 21st Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, back in May 2019. (Cite as: Williams, Damien P. '"Any Sufficiently Advanced Neglect is Indistinguishable from Malice": Assumptions and Bias in Algorithmic Systems;' talk given at the 21st Conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology; May 2019) Now, I've got a chapter coming out about this, soon, which I can provide as a preprint draft if you ask, and can be cited as "Constructing Situated and Social Knowledge: Ethical, Sociological, and Phenomenological Factors in Technological Design," appearing in Philosophy And Engineering: Reimagining Technology And Social Progress. Guru Madhavan, Zachary Pirtle, and David Tomblin, eds. Forthcoming from Springer, 2019. But I wanted to get the words I said in this talk up onto some platforms where people can read them, as soon as possible, for a couple of reasons. First, the Current Occupants of the Oval Office have very recently taken the policy position that algorithms can't be racist, something which they've done in direct response to things like Google’s Hate Speech-Detecting AI being biased against black people, and Amazon claiming that its facial recognition can identify fear, without ever accounting for, i dunno, cultural and individual differences in fear expression? [Free vector image of a white, female-presenting person, from head to torso, with biometric facial recognition patterns on her face; incidentally, go try finding images—even illustrations—of a non-white person in a facial recognition context.] All these things taken together are what made me finally go ahead and get the transcript of that talk done, and posted, because these are events and policy decisions about which I a) have been speaking and writing for years, and b) have specific inputs and recommendations about, and which are, c) frankly wrongheaded, and outright hateful. And I want to spend time on it because I think what doesn't get through in many of our discussions is that it's not just about how Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or Algorithmic instances get trained, but the processes for how and the cultural environments in which HUMANS are increasingly taught/shown/environmentally encouraged/socialized to think is the "right way" to build and train said systems. That includes classes and instruction, it includes the institutional culture of the companies, it includes the policy landscape in which decisions about funding and get made, because that drives how people have to talk and write and think about the work they're doing, and that constrains what they will even attempt to do or even understand. All of this is cumulative, accreting into institutional epistemologies of algorithm creation. It is a structural and institutional problem. So here are the Slides:



The Audio: … [Direct Link to Mp3] And the Transcript is here below the cut:

Read the rest of Audio, Transcripts, and Slides from "Any Sufficiently Advanced Neglect is Indistinguishable from Malice" at A Future Worth Thinking About

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The Prisoner: The Girl Who Was Death (1968) David Tomblin.

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Whirlwind News 11.20.1914

Community news for #Whirlwind #HartsCreek #LoganCounty #WV in 1914 #Appalachia #genealogy

An unknown correspondent from Whirlwind in Logan County, West Virginia, offered the following items, which the Logan Banner printed on November 14, 1914:

Forest fires have done considerable damage in this section recently.

Drs. Carter and Ratcliff were Whirlwind visitors one day the first of the week.

Mrs. James Baisden of Dingess died at her home Thursday, November 12th.

Miss Burlie Riddle was…

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DVD Review: “The Prisoner” (1967 - 1968)

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People, July 1

Cover: Carrie Underwood -- How Faith and Family Made Her Stronger 

Page 3: Chatter -- Madonna, John Legend, Adam Sandler, Eva Longoria, Kevin Jonas, Lena Headey 

Page 4: 5 Things We’re Talking About This Week -- Marie Curie subs for Mariah Carey, Julia Roberts reveals Pretty Woman’s dark alternate ending, Krispy Kreme plans a New York City megashop, Disney debuts the Frozen 2 trailer, Courteney Cox’s daughter borrows her dress 21 years later 

Page 7: Contents 

Page 8: Contents 

Page 10: Editor’s Letter 

Page 12: StarTracks -- Kate Middleton’s wild week 

Page 14: Beloved TV Casts Reunite -- Amy Poehler and Retta, George Wendt and Ted Danson, David Denman and John Krasinski 

Page 16: Adele and Spice Girls Geri Halliwell and Mel B and Emma Bunton and Melanie C, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son Archie, Owen Wilson 

Page 17: Tom Hanks, Cardi B

Page 18: Jon Stewart, Kawhi Leonard and Drake, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel and Jermaine Dupri, Ice-T and daughter Chanel Nicole, Olivia Newton-John and daughter Chloe and husband John Easterling 

Page 21: MTV Movie & TV Awards -- Lizzo, Elisabeth Moss, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt with their son, StyleTracks -- metallic dresses -- Judith Light, Sienna Miller, Tiffany Haddish, Sophie Turner, Claire Foy, Mandy Moore 

Page 23: Jennifer Lawrence getting ready to wed 

Page 24: Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk keeping the split civil 

Page 26: Heart Monitor -- Ally Maki and Travis Atreo engaged, Rachael Leigh Cook and Daniel Gillies divorcing after 14 years, Wendy Williams and Marc Tomblin new couple, Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger happy newlyweds 

Page 28: The Bachelorette Hannah Brown’s front-runner Jed Wyatt allegedly had a girlfriend at home who says he betrayed her, Lauren Bushnell engaged to Chris Lane, Sean and Catherine Lowe expecting baby no. 3 

Page 31: Taylor Swift and Katy Perry reunite, inside Britney Spears’ life after treatment 

Page 35: Inside Keanu Reeves’ private world, This Week in People History -- Miley Cyrus’ sudden stardom 

Page 36: Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds’ fight for LGBTQ acceptance 

Page 38: Stories to make you smile 

Page 41: Passages, Why I Care -- Dave Matthews launches a wine to support the International Rhino Foundation 

Page 44: Weddings -- Caroline Wozniacki and David Lee 

Page 45: Hunter McGrady and Brian Keys 

Page 46: Krystal Nielson and Chris Randone 

Page 49: People Picks -- Toy Story 4 

Page 50: The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Rolling Thunder Review: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese 

Page 51: The Bravest Knight, Mark Ronson -- Late Night Feelings 

Page 52: Years and Years, The Raconteurs -- Help US Stranger, Q&A -- Bruce Campbell 

Page 53: Instinct, One to Watch -- Big Little Lies’ Douglas Smith 

Page 54: Books, Q&A -- Vanessa Bayer 

Page 56: 100 Reasons to Love America 

Page 57: Cover Story -- Carrie Underwood -- Life, love and living the dream 

Page 64: The modern women of country music -- Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves 

Page 65: Kelsea Ballerini 

Page 66: Tiger Woods, Timothee Chalamet 

Page 69: Michelle Obama, Cardi B and Bruno Mars 

Page 70: The Jonas Brothers 

Page 71: Beyonce, Tim Tebow 

Page 72: Andy Cohen, Kenan Thompson 

Page 82: Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez 

Page 86: Cassie David 

Page 87: The Marvel Universe 

Page 90: Farrah Fawcett’s final days 

Page 94: Hailey Burns’ abduction nightmare 

Page 98: Gayle King -- her time to shine 

Page 104: Preventing youth suicides -- Greg Hudnall’s Hope Squads 

Page 109: Remembering Stonewall 

Page 113: Gabrielle Grunewald -- a beloved runner’s sad goodbye 

Page 114: Jennifer Aniston -- single and happy 

Page 116: The incredible life of Gloria Vanderbilt 

Page 118: Mysterious deaths in the Dominican Republic 

Page 122: 61-year-old surrogate Cecile Eledge gave birth to her granddaughter 

Page 128: Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie -- inside the close bond between Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughters as they tackle royal duty, work in the real world and prepare for the next chapter in their family life 

Page 132: Ryan Michelle Bathe on her childhood experience with corporal punishment and why she and husband Sterling K. Brown chose another way 

Page 137: Style -- sandals -- Karlie Kloss 

Page 138: Beauty -- The 7 products Nicole Kidman can’t live without 

Page 148: Home -- Trisha Yearwood’s down-home decor 

Page 150: Travel -- The Big Little Lies travel guide to Monterey, California 

Page 155: Second Look -- Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson 

Page 156: One Last Thing -- Emily Deschanel 

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The Prisoner - Living in Harmony (David Tomblin, 1968)

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My alternative 91st Academy Awards

As always during 31 Days of Oscar, I partake in an annual fantasy. What would the Oscars look like if I stuffed the ballots - choosing every single nomination and choosing every single winner? It always would look a lot different. Fans of Black Panther and Bohemian Rhapsody and Vice? Come at me.

91st Academy Awards – February 24, 2019 Dolby Theatre – Hollywood, Los Angeles, California Host: None Broadcaster: ABC

Best Picture: ROMA

BlacKkKlansman, Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Raymond Mansfield, Jordan Peele, and Spike Lee (Focus)

Burning (KOR), Lee Joon-dong and Lee Chang-dong (Pinehouse Film/Now Film/NHK/CGV Arthouse/Well Go USA Entertainment)

Eighth Grade, Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Lila Yacoub, and Christopher Storer (A24)

The Favourite, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, and Yorgos Lanthimos (Fox Searchlight)

Mission: Impossible – Fallout, J.J. Abrams, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, and Jake Myers (Paramount)

Roma (MEX), Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodriguez, and Nicolas Celis (Netflix)

Shoplifters (JPN), Matsuzaki Kaoru, Yose Akihiko, and Taguchi Hijiri (AOI Promotion/Fuji TV/GAGA/Magnolia Pictures)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Avi Arad, Ami Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Christina Steinberg (Columbia)

A Star Is Born, Bill Gerber, Jon Peters, Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips, and Lynette Howell Taylor (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Warner Bros.)

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Morgan Neville, Caryn Capotosto, and Nicholas Ma (Focus)

Wholesale changes in this category compared to real life. The best three films of 2018, to me, were Burning, Roma, and Shoplifters -- none of these were in the English language. Films I tossed for Best Picture were Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, Green Book, and Vice. I don’t think any of those four films have any business being in this category. In their place are the likes of Eighth Grade, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, and one of the most technically marvelous action films in decades in Mission: Impossible -- Fallout. Yes, an M:I film (superb editing, setpieces, and audacious style that finally wakes the franchise up).

But I’m going for an unexciting pick according to some with Roma. To use an oxymoron, it is an intimate epic -- one crafted beautifully, daring to comment on relations between ethnicities and the sexes at a certain time in Mexico. 

Best Director

Lee Chang-dong, Burning

Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

Hirokazu Koreeda, Shoplifters

Christopher McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Paul Schrader, First Reformed

If you’re scratching your head, yes... Paul Schrader was nominated for Director in my ceremony, but First Reformed is nowhere to be found in Picture. I tend to do this for one Best Director nominee every year.

Best Actor

Christian Bale, Vice

Ryan Gosling, First Man

Ethan Hawke, First Reformed

Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody

Yoo Ah-in, Burning

The real-life Best Actor category this year is the most dire slate in a while. So here is your palate cleanser. 

Best Actress

Yalitza Aparicio, Roma

Glenn Close, The Wife

Olivia Colman, The Favourite

Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade

Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born

It is not so much acting, as inhabiting. And, as a non-professional actress, Yalitza Aparicio has it. And I believe that, in my alternate Oscar universe (yes, I’ve drawn up and thought about it for many ceremonies past... I’ll reveal those some day), Aparicio would be the first indigenous woman to be awarded an acting Oscar.

Best Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali, Green Book

Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade

Tim Blake Nelson, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Steven Yeun, Burning

Ali is good, don’t get me wrong. But, compared to the movie Moonlight and his performance in it, it looks like he is about to get a second Oscar for a far worse movie and a lesser role. Ali is fourth or fifth in this lineup for me. Grant is fantastic in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Supporting Actress

Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Emma Stone, The Favourite

Marina de Tavira, Roma

Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

Michelle Yeoh, Crazy Rich Asians

This comes down to the fact I couldn’t separate Stone and Weisz’s performances in their saucy movie. Nor could I find the argument to give de Tavira or Yeoh the Oscar. This is a bit of a default choice, I hate to say.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman

Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk

Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, Leave No Trace

Spike Lee would have at least one or two Oscars in my alternative universe by this point! The difference between the screenplays for BlacKkKlansman and Can You Ever Forgive Me? is far slighter than you think.

Best Original Screenplay

Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade

Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, The Favourite

Paul Schrader, First Reformed

Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

Hirokazu Koreeda, Shoplifters

Not even a contest if you asked me. This category is something else if I consider The Favourite and Roma bringing up the rear. But Koreeda’s drama about a found family that does what they can to survive is the culmination of what he has done in his career thus far. This is his Oscar.

Best Animated Feature

Incredibles 2 (Pixar/Walt Disney)

Night is Short, Walk On Girl, Japan (GKIDS/Toho Company)

Ruben Brandt, Collector, Hungary (Mozinet/Sony Pictures Classics)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Columbia)

Tito and the Birds, Brazil (Bits Produções/Shout! Factory)

Longtime followers know that I have unorthodox opinions about animated features. The only Animated Feature Oscar I’ve handed to Pixar/Walt Disney Animation Studios since beginning this tradition in 2013 was for Inside Out. I thought Ralph Breaks the Internet was a painful addition to the Disney animated canon, so it is not here. Nor is Wes Anderson’s culturally insensitive Isle of Dogs or Mamoru Hosoda’s sloppy Mirai. At the end of the day? No boat-rocking this time, except in some of the other nominees.

Best Documentary Feature

Free Solo (National Geographic)

Hale County This Morning, This Evening (The Cinema Guild)

Minding the Gap (ITVS/Kartemquin Films/Hulu/Magnolia Pictures)

Three Identical Strangers (CNN/Channel 4/Neon)

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Focus)

Shoulda been nominated! Shoulda won! But in the spirit of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, these are all great documentaries. Minding the Gap is a close #2.

Best Foreign Language Film

Burning, South Korea

Capernaum, Lebanon

Cold War, Poland

Roma, Mexico

Shoplifters, Japan

Best Cinematography

Alfonso Cuarón, Roma

Caleb Deschanel, Never Look Away (GER)

Rob Hardy, Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Matthew Libatique, A Star Is Born

Łukasz Żal, Cold War

Best Film Editing

Barry Alexander Brown, BlacKkKlansman

Jay Cassidy, A Star Is Born

Tom Cross, First Man

Eddie Hamilton, Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Yorgos Mavropsaridis, The Favourite

Best Original Musical*

Julia Michels, A Star Is Born

Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Mary Poppins Returns

Sia, Greg Kurstin, Scott Walker, and Margaret Yen, Vox Lux

*Best Original Musical – known previously as several other names – exists in the Academy’s rulebooks, but requires activation from the Academy’s music branch. To qualify, a film must have no fewer than five original songs. This category was last activated when Prince won for Purple Rain (1984).

Best Original Score

Michael Giacchino, Incredibles 2

Justin Hurwitz, First Man

John Powell, Solo

Alan Silvestri, Ready Player One

Brian Tyler, Crazy Rich Asians

The Star Wars universe is in good musical hands when John Williams leaves after Episode IX!

Best Original Song

“All the Stars”, music by Kendrick Lamar, Sounwave, and Anthony Tiffith, lyrics by Lamar, SZA, and Tiffith, Black Panther

“Nowhere to Go but Up”, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Mary Poppins Returns

“The Place Where Lost Things Go”, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Mary Poppins Returns

“Shallow”, music and lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt, A Star Is Born

“When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings”, music and lyrics by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Best Costume Design

Alexander Byrne, Mary Queen of Scots

Ruth E. Carter, Black Panther

Sandy Powell, The Favourite

Sandy Powell, Mary Poppins Returns

Mary E. Vogt, Crazy Rich Asians

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Cindy Harlow and Camille Friend, Black Panther

Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer, Border (SWE)

Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher, and Jessica Brooks, Mary Queen of Scots

Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin, Solo

Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe, and Patricia Dehaney, Vice

Best Production Design

Hannah Beachler, Black Panther

Nelson Coates, Crazy Rich Asians

Fiona Crombie, The Favourite

Nathan Crowley, First Man

John Myhre, Mary Poppins Returns

Best Sound Editing

Benjamin A. Burt and Steve Boeddeker, Black Panther

Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan, First Man

James Mather, Victoria Freund, and Nina Norek, Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl, A Quiet Place

Richard Hymns, Gary Rydstrom, Cameron Barker, and Doug Winningham, Ready Player One

Best Sound Mixing

John Casali, Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin, and Niv Adiri, Bohemian Rhapsody

Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis, First Man

Chris Munro, Paul Munro, Lloyd Dudley, and Mark Timms, Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Michael Barosky, Brandon Proctor, and Michael Barry, A Quiet Place

Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve Morrow, A Star Is Born

Best Visual Effects

Daniel DeLeeuw, Jen Underdahl, Kelly Port, Matt Aitken, Dan Sudick, Avengers: Infinity War

Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones, and Chris Corbould, Christopher Robin

Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles, and J. D. Schwalm, First Man

Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler, and David Shirk, Ready Player One

Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan, and Dominic Tuohy, Solo

Best Documentary Short

Black Sheep (Lightbox Entertainment/The Guardian)

End Game (Netflix)

Lifeboat (Spin Film/RYOT Films)

A Night at the Garden (Field of Vision)

Period. End of Sentence. (Guneet Monga)

My omnibus review of this year’s nominees is coming soon (check this space later).

Best Live Action Short

Detainment (Twelve Media)

Fauve, Canada (H264 Distribution)

Marguerite, Canada (H264 Distribution)

Mother, Spain (Apache Films/Caballo Films/Malvalanda)

Skin (New Native Pictures/Salaud Morisset)

My omnibus review of this year’s nominees is coming soon (check this space later).

Best Animated Short

Animal Behaviour (National Film Board of Canada)

Bao (Pixar/Walt Disney)

Late Afternoon (Cartoon Saloon)

One Small Step (Taiko Studios)

Weekends (Past Lives Productions)

My omnibus review of this year’s nominees can be read here.

Academy Honorary Awards: Cicely Tyson, Lalo Schifrin, and Marvin Levy

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award: Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall

MULTIPLE NOMINEES (24) Eight: The Favourite; Roma Seven: First Man; A Star Is Born Six: Mission: Impossible – Fallout Five: Black Panther; Burning; Mary Poppins Returns Four: Crazy Rich Asians; Eighth Grade; Shoplifters Three: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs; BlacKkKlansman; First Reformed; Ready Player One, Solo Two: Bohemian Rhapsody; If Beale Street Could Talk; Incredibles 2; Mary Queen of Scots; A Quiet Place; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse; Vice; Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

WINNERS 4 wins: Roma 2 wins: First Man; Mary Poppins Returns 1 win: BlacKkKlansman; Black Panther; Border; Can You Ever Forgive Me?; Cold War; Crazy Rich Asians; First Reformed; If Beale Street Could Talk; Marguerite; Mission: Impossible – Fallout; Shoplifters; Solo; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse; A Star Is Born; Weekends; Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

19 winners from 25 categories. 39 feature-length films and 15 short films were represented.