Simone with her artist palette

The Inn Keeper's daughter (Adriane)
from "Loving Vincent"

Chris's mother (Sharon) welcomes guests

Our own bad-ass Mildred (Pat)

Sheriff Willoughby (Archie)

James Ivory's Anne (Joan) with Churchill (Stefan)

Tonya's mother (Elaina) with pet parrot

Designer Reynolds Woodcock (Dan)
adjusts Alma's (Susan's) gown

Alma (Ruth) serves Reynolds Woodcock a poisonous mushroom omlette

London, reknowned couture designer
Reynolds Woodcock (John)

1950s London couture (Joanne)

1950s couture Fashion ad

Lady Bird skipped out on the party, but her Catholic school mate, Susan L, stayed

Amazom Water Gods (Susan K)

Every movie party needs The Hulk (Karen)

Modern day Cleopatra (Vimal & Ranjit)

Dining and discussing our film favorites

We have no interest in what the academy thinks...our votes are our thoroughly vetted, most deserving winners.
We even added a couple overlooked films.
We each had 18 stars to use at least 1 star per category and no more than 3 stars per category.
We could bestow 1 star each on 3 nominees in a category, or all 3 on a single nominee or 2 stars on one nominee and 1 star on another

SEE OUR FINAL DECISIONS BELOW...

BEST FILM
The Shape of Water: 26
Three Billboards: 20
Get Out: 8
Lady Bird: 4
Phantom Thread: 4
(Wonder Woman: 4)*
Dunkirk: 3
Call Me By Your Name: 0
Darkest Hour: 0
The Post: 0

BEST ACTOR
Daniel-Day Lewis, Phantom Thread: 21
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour: 19
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out: 16
Timothee Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name: 9
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel: 0

BEST ACTRESS
Frances McDormand, 3 Billboards: 30
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water: 26
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird: 9:
Margot Robbie, I Tonya: 4
Meryl Streep, Tha Post: 0

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sam Rockwell, 3 Billboards: 36
Woody Harrelson, 3 Billboards: 16
Richard Jenkin, The Shape of Water: 7
Christopher Plummer, All the Money: 6
William DeFoe, Florida Project: 5

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Allison Janney, I Tonya: 25:
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird: 23
Octavia Spencer, Shape of Water: 9
Leslie Manville, Phantom Thread: 4
Mary J Blige, Mudbound: 0

MORE... Overlooked Films:

Loving Vincent
(my favorite animated film)

The Big Sick

Wonder Woman

Get Out
(congrats to writer-director Jordan Peele,
best original screen play)

We didn't see enough foreign language films to cast a vote at our party, but these are getting rave reviews:

A Fantastic Woman
The Insult
Loveless
On Body and Soul
The Square
In The Fade

Van Gogh Sunflowers

 

Sunflower deviled eggs