Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score 
Teddy (Jesse Plemmons) has figured it out. There are aliens amongst us and they have been fucking over the planet. He knows this because he did his own research on YouTube and Reddit. And he has a plan. He is going to kidnap a high-ranking alien who just so happens to look exactly like the CEO of the company he works for, Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), whose experimental drug almost killed his mom (Alica Silverstone), and use said alien to negotiate the peaceful surrender and retreat from Earth of all aliens.
The premise makes the movie sound light-hearted and funny but it's really not. It's probably the tamest Lanthimos film yet, which is also not great. It ends up just being fine, instead of interesting or cool or provocative or even just weird.
Stone is great but isn't doing anything really new. Plemmons nails the tone of desperate dipshit that's just a little too unhinged to be sympathetic but didn't score a nomination. Could easily have replaced one of the two Supporting Actor noms OBAA got, but whatever. Nobody asked me. Silverstone is damn near unrecognizable.
I will say, this is the first Lanthimos film I've seen that didn't have a completely unnecessary scene of animal abuse (unless you count actors as animals). Progress? I haven't seen the original Korean film this is adapted from, so no idea on that. Score is good, though.
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