Roll out the red carpet, grab some popcorn, cast your ballots, and join the discussion of this year’s Academy Award nominees. Make your predictions on who will win, who should win, and who should have been nominated, as films like Avatar: Fire and Ash, Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Jay Kelly, One Battle After Another, Sentimental Value, Sinners, and Wicked: For Good compete for the film industry’s most coveted accolades. Explore the history of the Academy Awards, examine its competitive categories, profile all ten Best Picture nominees, dissect the Academy’s preferential voting system, and cast your ballots for CALL’s own Best Picture winner. 

Subject: film 

Ian MacNeil is the director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Aquinas College. He earned a BS in mathematics and political science from Aquinas College, where he first developed a passion for movies.