Oscars 2019: Best Picture and Best Director

And here we are. After a week spent analyzing 19 different feature categories at this year’s Oscars—including odds and ends, technical fields, supporting actors, lead performances, and screenplays—we’ve finally arrived at the big ones. Let’s get right to it.
BEST DIRECTOR
NOMINEES
Bong Joon-ho—Parasite
Sam Mendes—1917
Todd Phillips—Joker
Martin Scorsese—The Irishman
Quentin Tarantino—Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
WILL WIN
It used to be easy; whoever made the winner of Best Picture also won for Best
Director. But the two categories have split as often as not in the past decade—five
times in the past seven years, in fact—so now things are more complex. You can
tie yourself into knots trying to locate points of synergy or disconnect
between the two categories, but at this point, I’m partial to essentially
ignoring the Best Picture lineup and analyzing the two fields independently. Read More