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Retrospective Ballot: 88th 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.

This list will…

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  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Ex Machina
  • Tangerine
  • The Hateful Eight
  • Carol
  • Clouds of Sils Maria
  • Room
  • Beasts of No Nation
  • The Revenant
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Cinderella
  • The Boy and the Beast
  • Pan
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
  • Macbeth
  • When Marnie Was There
  • It Follows
  • Inside Out
  • The Golden Dream
  • The Look of Silence
  • Kung Fury
  • World of Tomorrow
  • Body Team 12
  • The Peanuts Movie
  • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
  • Felix and Meira
  • Ixcanul
  • The Second Mother
  • Amy
  • Best of Enemies
  • Cobain: Montage of Heck
  • A LEGO Brickumentary
  • Ellis
  • Everything Will Be Okay
  • Over
  • The Pavement
  • Dissonance
  • Manoman
  • Missing Halloween
  • Prologue
  • Humpback Whales
  • Through Our Eyes: Living with Asperger's
  • Through the Looking Glass: Making 'Ex Machina'
  • Fifty Shades of Grey
  • Home
  • Ant-Man