Here’s the deal. A few years ago I wrote that Kate Winslet should be moved from Supporting to Lead for “The Reader.” She was listed on the Oscar ballot as supporting actress for “The Reader.” I discovered that a letter goes out with Academy Award ballots stating that you can move an actor or actress from one category to another. It worked. Kate won Best Actress for her startling work in “The Reader.”

Earlier this year Michael Keaton came within a whisker of winning Best Actor for “Birdman.” He had already won a lot of other awards. He lost the Oscar to Eddie Redmayne, whose portrayal of Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything” is heartbreaking.

This year there’s a big movement to get Leonardo DiCaprio an Oscar for “The Revenant.” I’m not against that. But Michael Keaton is sensational in “Spotlight.” The actors from that movie all wanted to be in supporting. This is a mistake. Keaton is the leader of that ensemble. And his character, Walter “Robby” Robinson holds the key to how the Globe dealt with the “Spotlight” story. Move him, I say. Put Keaton in lead and let’s see what happens.

Ballots go out or can be downloaded on Wednesday. Keep refreshing…

Best Film: (no order) Carol, Room, Spotlight, Inside Out, The Big Short, Straight Outta Compton, The Martian, Steve Jobs, Joy, Bridge of Spies

Best Actor: Michael Keaton, Matt Damon, Michael Fassbender, Steve Carell, Samuel L. Jackson; special mention Eddie Redmayne (but he just won this past year)

Best Actress: Lily Tomlin, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lawrence

Best Supporting Actor: Mark Ruffalo, Mark Rylance, Christian Bale, Michael Shannon, Idris Elba

Best Supporting Actress: Jane Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rooney Mara, Rachel McAdams, Kate Winslet

Best Director: Ridley Scott, Tom McCarthy, Todd Haynes, Steven Spielberg, David O. Russell

Movies that were inexplicably blown: Youth, Suffragette, Love and Mercy, The Walk

Performances that fell by the wayside: Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel in Youth, Joseph Gordon Levitt in The Walk, Carey Mulligan in Suffragette.

Great performances but not enough there to merit awards action: Liev Schreiber, Parker Posey, Tom Courtenay, Jessica Chastain, Diane Ladd-Isabella Rossellini-Elisabeth Rohm in “Joy,” Joan Allen

Best song: Til It Happens to You, Diane Warren, from The Hunting Ground

Best score: I loved Howard Shore’s music for “Spotlight.” Ennio Morricone’s music from “The Hateful Eight” is epic. Also really dug “The Circus of Machines” from “Steve Jobs” by Daniel Pemberton. It was a good year for scores. John Williams again? I can’t hear the difference anymore. Does anyone know anything more than the original “Star Wars” theme? It’s like John Barry’s “007” music.

Best cinematography: it’s a toss up between Ed Lachman for “Carol,” and Emmanuel Uzbeki for “The Revenant.” But don’t count out Robert Richardson’s saturated colors that make beautiful tableaux in “The Hateful Eight,” Dariusz Wolski for “The Martian,” or the way Danny Cohen made the “Room” seem bigger than it was.

Jane Fonda Tweeted today about Haskell Wexler, the Academy Award winning and legendary cinematographer who has died at age 93: “The brilliant, beloved Oscar-winning cinematographer, Haskell Wexler has died. He was my friend. He filmed “Coming Home”and a documentary with me and Tom Hayden in North Vietnam in 1973. He was brave & gorgeous and I loved him.”

He won 2 Oscars, for Mike Nichols’ “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in 1967, and Hal Ashby’s “Bound for Glory” in 1977. He was also nominated for “Blaze,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and one of the most beautifully shot pictures ever, John Sayles’s “Matewan.” He shot another of Sayles’s classics, “The Secret of Roan Inish,” in 1999. (PS It’s time for some lifetime achievement awards for John Sayles.)

Wexler directed a slew of highly regarded documentaries, as well as his own famed feature, “Medium Cool,” in 1970. But he was known for making other directors’ films look great. Among his credits were “Coming Home” with Jane Fonda, “The Thomas Crown Affair,” and “In the Heat of the Night.” He’s uncredited on Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation,” released in 1974.

Wexler’s real estate magnate brother, Jerrold, helped him produce “Medium Cool.” Jerrold Wexler was later the stepfather of Darryl Hannah.

Haskell Wexler leaves a rich and almost endless legacy in the film world. He will be sorely missed.

Blahblah blah. “Star Wars” crossed the $1 billion line on Sunday, globally. That’s about $550 million US and $550 million everywhere else.

Harrison Ford is that really it? If you come back you can own all of Wyoming, buy four more planes, and even hire a pilot. Just sayin’….

Best picture nomination? I don’t think so. But not because it’s not good. The Academy in the past has always viewed these event and comic book movies as outside their purview. The closest any of them ever got was “ET.” Really– a lot of people could argue that if Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies didn’t make it, why should “The Force Awakens”?

I don’t mind that the Critics Choice Awards added “Star Wars” to its list of Best Picture nominees, however. That awards show is for popular films. “Star Wars” deserves that nod, even if it doesn’t win. (Which it won’t.)

So, now–$2 billion looms. A month from now? Two months? Or much faster? We’ll see how this vacation week plays out.