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Retrospective Ballot: 89th Academy Awards

While going through Letterbox, I found this account, Cláudio Alves that has put together a list of films eligible for Oscars throughout the entire history of the Academy Awards. And I was incredibly impressed and thrilled to find such lists.

And such lists got me thinking: I've often ranted about how the Oscars get it wrong, every year, and have always done so. So how would I have done it? If I had been presented with these ballots every year, how would I have voted every time? In contrast, not taking into consideration Academy eligibility rules, which are often confusing and contradictory, what films would have stood out to me each year? So, this list was born.

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  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
  • Silence
  • The Handmaiden
  • Hail, Caesar!
  • The Edge of Seventeen
  • Swiss Army Man
  • Lion
  • The Witch
  • I, Daniel Blake
  • The Lobster
  • Star Trek Beyond
  • Moana
  • Suicide Squad
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
  • Mune: Guardian of the Moon
  • Fire at Sea
  • Nocturnal Animals
  • Kubo and the Two Strings
  • Weiner
  • Curve
  • Piper
  • What Happened to Her
  • Kung Fu Panda 3
  • The Little Prince
  • Sing
  • It's Only the End of the World
  • Julieta
  • Land of Mine
  • Before the Flood
  • Everything Is Copy
  • Zero Days
  • Kitty
  • Sing
  • Timecode
  • Woman in Deep
  • Borrowed Time
  • Fox and the Whale
  • Love
  • Pear Cider and Cigarettes
  • Joe's Violin
  • Pickle
  • The Search for Life in Space
  • Speaking Is Difficult
  • Pete's Dragon
  • Hacksaw Ridge
  • Elvis & Nixon
  • Doctor Strange
  • Warcraft