A Bruised Ego: February 2020

Extremely biased as always and not addressing the things I usually don't see (namely shorts, documentaries, international films, and animated stuff), these are my picks for me personally.

I may only half watch the Oscars this year as well (if at all), their continued controversies regarding the lack of nominees who are either women or of color in the majority of categories has disappointed many and I'm kind of one of them this year. I've always kind of half apologized for the Oscars and their antiquated-ness and lack of diversity, but really it's become rather tiring and even more greatly disappointing and despicable. I take the Academy Awards with a grain salt when I do view it, but this year...there's just too many things that got either completely shafted or way overblown for unknown reasons (aside from the obvious political and social agendas of certain Academy members in a broad sense). So it remains to be seen how much of it I'll actively watch or pay attention to.

Still- this was legitimately a tough year to make some picks in technical achievements and really as the world of cinema and movie continues to expand so must the literal number of relative geniuses and new and unique voices making their way into the spectrum of media, often expanding to a degree that makes it impossible to choose one thing over another in any thing other than purely subjective terms.

Best Visual Effects

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker