Skandies: #2 (Patreon)

Picture: The Banshees of Inisherin (204/14)
Director: Todd Field, TÁR (264/19)
Actress: Tang Wei, Decision to Leave (232/19)
Actor: Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick (130/13)
S. Actor: Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin (171/16)
S. Actress: Kristen Stewart, Crimes of the Future (197/18)
Screenplay: Todd Field, TÁR (283/18)
Scene: Meeting John Ford, The Fabelmans (143/16)

[Yet another scene I voted for from a film I didn't like. It's irresistible.]

HISTORY: 

Field didn't make the cut, as director or as screenwriter, for either In the Bedroom or Little Children. We did not see this coming. (Certainly I didn't.)

Tang, Cruise and Stewart have all been previously "nominated"; see that post for their top-five placements. Cruise additionally placed 15th in Supporting for Collateral (2004) and 17th for Mission: Impossible—Fallout (2018); Stewart additionally placed 18th and 16th in Supporting for Adventureland (2009) and Still Alice (2014), respectively. Sole first-time nominee Gleeson hadn't been seen for a decade, but goes back to 1998 (#11, The General), with nods for 28 Days Later (#15s, 2003), In Bruges (#9s, 2008), and—he's worked with both McDonaghs—The Guard (#15, 2011). 

Fun fact: The last film to win Best Picture while failing to win either Director or Screenplay (as—big spoiler here! look out!—TÁR now has) was Inside Llewyn Davis. Scorsese beat the Coens in Director (for The Wolf of Wall Street), and their screenplay came in third, behind both Before Midnight and Frances Ha. (It's happened a few other times: Yi Yi, Irreversible, Grizzly Man. Dogtooth pulled out Picture + Scene.) 

This is the third time that my own favorite film of a given year has placed 2nd in the Skandies. (#3 is much more common, for some reason.) Previously: The Prestige (2006), which lost to The Departed, and A Separation (2011), which lost to The Tree of Life (and then beat Tree of Life in the decade poll but still came in 2nd to Under the Skin). Thankfully, I very much like all three of the  winners in those years, albeit Malick's significantly less than the other two.