*Updated* Oscars: Ranking the Winners of Each Category from the 2010s | DC’s Take

*Updated* This now includes the recent winners of the 92nd Academy Awards

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences always does its duties to decide what they consider the absolute best film, performances, or anything technical of each year. Most of the choices they made is a balance between good to what were they thinking. After successfully ranking the Best Pictures winners of the decade, it didn’t hurt to give my own ranking to the other Academy Award categories and the winners that represented them.

This took me like an hour to complete; it wasn’t even hard. I base each ranking of these winners from my favorite to least favorite out of the bunch in quality. Though I will only get through 19 categories, which means I won’t be including Best Foreign Language, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Animated Short, and Live-Action Short because I haven’t seen a lot that ended up winning. A large majority of the winners were well-deserving, but there are a few I disagree with. And this isn’t a list where I go in-depth about my rankings; this is just straightforward. 

*The checkmarks show I got the winner right in my predictions and the movies in parentheses mean what I originally wanted to win.

Best Picture

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1. 12 Years a Slave✔️
2. Parasite (1917)
3. Argo✔️
4. Birdman✔️
5. Moonlight (La La Land)
6. The Shape of Water✔️
7. Green Book (Roma)
8. Spotlight (The Revenant) 
9. The King’s Speech✔️
10. The Artist✔️

Also Read: Best Picture Winners of the 2010s Ranked

Best Director

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1. Damien Chazelle- La La Land✔️
2. Alfonso Cuarón- Gravity✔️
3. Alejandro G. Iñárritu- Birdman✔️
4. Bong Joon-Ho- Parasite (Sam Mendes- 1917)
5. Alfonso Cuarón- Roma✔️
6. Alejandro G. Iñárritu- The Revenant✔️
7. Guillermo del Toro- The Shape of Water✔️
8. Ang Lee- Life of Pi (Steven Spielberg- Lincoln)
9. Tom Hooper- The King’s Speech✔️
10. Michel Hazanavicius- The Artist ✔️

Best Actor

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1. Daniel Day-Lewis- Lincoln✔️
2. Leonardo DiCaprio- The Revenant✔️
3. Colin Firth- The King’s Speech✔️
4. Joaquin Phoenix- Joker✔️
5. Matthew McConaughey- Dallas Buyers Club✔️
6. Eddie Redmayne- The Theory of Everything (Michael Keaton- Birdman)
7. Casey Affleck- Manchester By the Sea (Denzel Washington- Fences)
8. Gary Oldman- Darkest Hour✔️
9. Rami Malek- Bohemian Rhapsody✔️
10. Jean Dujardin- The Artist (George Clooney- The Descendants) 

Best Actress

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1. Natalie Portman- Black Swan✔️
2. Frances McDormand- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri✔️
3. Emma Stone- La La Land✔️
4. Brie Larson- Room✔️
5. Olivia Colman- The Favourite (Glenn Close- The Wife)
6. Jennifer Lawrence- Silver Linings Playbook✔️
7. Cate Blanchett- Blue Jasmine✔️
8. Renée Zellweger- Judy✔️
9. Julianne Moore- Still Alice✔️
10. Meryl Streep- The Iron Lady (Viola Davis- The Help)

Best Supporting Actor

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1. Christian Bale- The Fighter✔️
2. J. K. Simmons- Whiplash✔️
3. Mahershala Ali- Moonlight✔️
4. Sam Rockwell- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri✔️
5. Brad Pitt- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood✔️
6. Christoph Waltz- Django Unchained✔️
7. Jared Leto- Dallas Buyers Club✔️
8. Mahershala Ali- Green Book✔️
9. Christopher Plummer- Beginners✔️
10. Mark Rylance- Bridge of Spies (Sylvester Stallone- Creed)

Best Supporting Actress

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1. Lupita Nyong’o- 12 Years a Slave✔️
2. Anne Hathaway- Les Misérables✔️
3. Viola Davis- Fences✔️
4. Octavia Spencer- The Help✔️
5. Regina King- If Beale Street Could Talk✔️
6. Allison Janney- I, Tonya✔️
7. Laura Dern- Marriage Story✔️
8. Patricia Arquette- Boyhood✔️
9. Alicia Vikander- The Danish Girl (Kate Winslet- Steve Jobs)
10. Melissa Leo- The Fighter✔️

Best Original Screenplay

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1. Get Out– Jordan Peele✔️
2. Django Unchained– Quentin Tarantino✔️
3. Parasite– Bong Joon-Ho & Han Jin-Won (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood– Quentin Tarantino)
4. Birdman– Armando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., Nicolas Giacobone & Alejandro G. Iñárritu ✔️
5. Her– Spike Jonze✔️
6. Manchester By the Sea– Kenneth Lonergan (La La Land– Damien Chazelle)
7. Midnight in Paris– Woody Allen✔️
8. Spotlight– Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer✔️
9. The King’s Speech– David Seidler✔️
10. Green Book– Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly & Nick Vallelonga (The Favourite– Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara)

Best Adapted Screenplay

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1. The Social Network– Aaron Sorkin✔️
2. 12 Years a Slave– John Ridley✔️
3. BlacKkKlansman– Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel & Kevin Willmott ✔️
4. Jojo Rabbit– Taika Waititi ✔️
5. Moonlight– Screenplay: Barry Jenkins; Story: Tarell Alvin McCraney ✔️
6. Call Me By Your Name– James Ivory  ✔️
7. Argo– Chris Terrio✔️
8. The Descendants– Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne & Jim Rash ✔️
9. The Big Short– Adam McKay & Charles Randolph✔️
10. The Imitation Game– Graham Moore✔️

Best Animated Feature

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1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse✔️
2. Toy Story 3✔️
3. Inside Out✔️
4. Zootopia✔️
5. Frozen✔️
6. Toy Story 4✔️
7. Big Hero 6 (How to Train Your Dragon 2)
8. Coco✔️
9. Rango✔️
10. Brave (Wreck-It Ralph)

Best Film Editing

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1. Whiplash✔️
2. The Social Network✔️
3. Mad Max: Fury Road✔️
4. Dunkirk✔️
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo✔️
6. Gravity✔️
7. Argo✔️
8. Ford V Ferrari (Parasite)
9. Hacksaw Ridge (La La Land)
10. Bohemian Rhapsody (Vice)

Best Cinematography

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1. Blade Runner 2049✔️
2. La La Land✔️
3. Inception✔️
4. 1917✔️
5. Gravity✔️
6. Roma✔️
7. Birdman✔️
8. The Revenant✔️
9. Life of Pi✔️
10. Hugo✔️

Best Production Design

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1. La La Land✔️
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel✔️
3. Mad Max: Fury Road✔️
4. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood✔️
5. The Shape of Water✔️
6. Black Panther✔️
7. The Great Gatsby✔️
8. Lincoln✔️
9. Hugo✔️
10. Alice in Wonderland✔️

Best Costume Design

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1. Black Panther✔️
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel✔️
3. Little Women✔️
4. Mad Max: Fury Road✔️
5. The Great Gatsby✔️
6. Phantom Thread✔️
7. Alice in Wonderland✔️
8. Anna Karenina✔️
9. The Artist ✔️
10. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Jackie)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

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1. Mad Max: Fury Road✔️
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel✔️
3. Darkest Hour✔️
4. Dallas Buyers Club✔️
5. Bombshell✔️
6. Vice✔️
7. Les Misérables✔️
8. The Iron Lady (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2)
9. The Wolfman (Barney’s Version)
10. Suicide Squad (Star Trek Beyond!!)

Best Visual Effects

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1. Gravity✔️
2. Inception✔️
3. Life of Pi✔️
4. Blade Runner 2049✔️
5. The Jungle Book✔️
6. 1917✔️
7. Interstellar (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
8. First Man (Avengers: Infinity War)
9. Hugo (Rise of the Planet of the Apes)
10. Ex Machina (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Best Sound Mixing

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1. Inception✔️
2. Dunkirk✔️
3. Whiplash✔️
4. Mad Max: Fury Road✔️
5. 1917✔️
6. Gravity✔️
7. Les Misérables✔️
8. Hugo✔️
9. Hacksaw Ridge (La La Land)
10. Bohemian Rhapsody ✔️

Best Sound Editing

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1. Inception✔️
2. Dunkirk✔️
3. Mad Max: Fury Road✔️
4. Gravity✔️
5. Zero Dark Thirty/ Skyfall (TIE)✔️
6. Hugo✔️
7. Ford V Ferrari (1917)
8. Arrival (Hacksaw Ridge)
9. Bohemian Rhapsody ✔️
10. American Sniper (Birdman)

Best Original Score

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1. The Social Network– Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross✔️
2. La La Land– Justin Hurwitz✔️
3. Gravity– Steven Price✔️
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel– Alexandre Desplat✔️
5. Joker– Hildur Guðnadóttir✔️
6. The Hateful Eight– Ennio Morricone✔️
7. Black Panther– Ludwig Göransson (If Beale Street Could Talk– Nicholas Britell)
8. The Shape of Water– Alexandre Desplat ✔️
9. Life of Pi– Mychael Danna✔️
10. The Artist– Ludovic Bource✔️

Best Original Song

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1. “Skyfall”- Skyfall✔️
2. “Shallow”- A Star is Born✔️
3. “City of Stars” – La La Land✔️
4. “Let it Go” – Frozen✔️
5. “Glory” – Selma✔️
6. “Man or Muppet” – The Muppets✔️
7. “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again”- Rocketman✔️
8. “Remember Me” – Coco (“This Is Me”- The Greatest Showman)
9. “We Belong Together” – Toy Story 3✔️
10. “Writing’s on the Wall” – Spectre (“Til It Happens to You”- The Hunting Ground)

*My list of the Top 10 Best Movie Songs of the 2010s has several songs on in the category that I talked about already.