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.

This list will be part of an ongoing personal project where I go through every Academy Awards and make two lists: The first, a retrospective ballot based off actual eligible films and using official categories for that ceremony. The second will be a retrospective of my own personal awards that I choose each year, without taking into consideration Academy eligibility or how the Academy defines the release of each film.

This is my retrospective ballot for the Ninetieth Academy Awards.

Special note here, the list of eligible Oscar nominees does not include short films so, I'm using the release date to give myself as best an idea of what to pick from as I can, so what I choose may not completely accurately reflect what was eligible at the time since eligibility for shorts is weird a lot of the times. But it's the best I can do.

Secondary Special Note: While normally, I try to limit my nominations for Best International Feature to films that were submitted to this category, I did not watch enough submitted films to have five nominees, so I have chosen to expand it to any foreign film eligible.

Partner to the Retrospective Golden Hourglass Awards: 2018.

Nominees taken from: boxd.it/c1aPa

Categories:
Best Picture:

Logan ***Winner***
Brigsby Bear
Columbus
The Disaster Artist
The Florida Project
Good Time
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
A Silent Voice

Best Director:

James Mangold - Logan ***Winner***
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
Kogonada - Columbus
Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie - Good Time

Best Actor:

Hugh Jackman - Logan ***Winner***
John Cho - Columbus
James Franco - The Disaster Artist
Kyle Mooney - Brigsby Bear
Robert Pattinson - Good Time

Best Actress:

Dafne Keen - Logan ***Winner***
Sally Hawkins - The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Brooklynn Kimberly Prince - The Florida Project
Haley Lu Richardson - Columbus

Best Supporting Actor:

Patrick Stewart - Logan ***Winner***
Willem Defoe - The Florida Project
Dave Franco - The Disaster Artist
Mark Hamill - Brigsby Bear
Michael Shannon - The Shape of Water

Best Supporting Actress:

Bria Vinaite - The Florida Project ***Winner***
Ari Graynor - The Disaster Artist
Riley Keough - Lovesong
Laura Metcalf - Lady Bird
Allison Williams - Get Out

Best Original Screenplay:

Columbus ***Winner***
Brigsby Bear
Lady Bird
mother!
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Logan ***Winner***
The Disaster Artist
A Silent Voice
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Wonder

Best Animated Feature

A Silent Voice ***Winner***
The Breadwinner
Coco
The Lego Batman Movie
My Little Pony: The Movie

Best International Feature

A Silent Voice - Japan ***Winner***
Fantastic Woman - Chile
First They Killed My Father - Cambodia
Okja - South Korea
Raw - France

Best Documentary Feature

Casting JonBenet ***Winner***
Bombshell: The Hedy Lemarr Story
Kiki

Best Live Action Short:

Fear and Shame***Winner***
Backstroke
Come and Swim
The Silent Child
Yes, God, Yes

Best Animated Short:

World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts ***Winner***
The Burden
Everything
In a Heartbeat
Lou

Best Documentary Short

Heroin(e) ***Winner***
Alone
Ladies First
Little Potato
Primal Screens

Best Original Score

Columbus***Winner***
Coco
Good Time
The Shape of Water
A Silent Voice

Best Song

Evermore - Beauty and the Beast ***Winner***
Open Up Your Eyes - My Little Pony: The Movie
Proud Corazon - Coco
The Pure and the Damned - Good Time
The Reason I Fell in Love - A Silent Voice

Best Sound Editing

Dunkirk ***Winner***
Baby Driver
It
Logan
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Sound Mixing

Baby Driver ***Winner***
Columbus
Good Time
Lady Bird
A Silent Voice

Best Art Direction:

Beauty and the Beast ***Winner***
The Florida Project
mother!
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Cinematography:

Columbus ***Winner***
Brigsby Bear
Lady Bird
Logan
The Shape of Water

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ***Winner***
Beauty and the Beast
The Darkest Hour

Best Costume Design

Star Wars: The Last Jedi ***Winner***
Lady Macbeth
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water
Wonder Woman

Best Film Editing

Logan ***Winner***
Baby Driver
Columbus
Good Time
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

Best Visual Effects

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ***Winner***
Dunkirk
Logan
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Wonder Woman

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Films with multiple nominations:
10: Logan
9: Columbus
8: The Shape of Water
7: A Silent Voice
6: Good Time, Lady Bird
5: Brigsby Bear, The Disaster Artist, The Florida Project, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
3: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Coco, Beauty and the Beast, Baby Driver
2: mother!, My Little Pony: The Movie, Dunkirk, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Wonder Woman

Films with multiple wins
7: Logan
3: Columbus
2: A Silent Voice, Beauty and the Beast, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2