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Retrospective Ballot: 87th 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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  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
  • Snowpiercer
  • Whiplash
  • Boyhood
  • Oculus
  • How to Train Your Dragon 2
  • John Wick
  • The Theory of Everything
  • Interstellar
  • Song of the Sea
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • We Are the Best!
  • The Lego Movie
  • The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
  • Muppets Most Wanted
  • X-Men: Days of Future Past
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
  • Citizenfour
  • Unedited Footage of a Bear
  • Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2
  • Hotel 22
  • Selma
  • The Boxtrolls
  • Timbuktu
  • The Way He Looks
  • Wild Tales
  • Anita
  • Bears
  • Fed Up
  • Keep On Keepin' On
  • Dawn
  • Helium
  • Spinners
  • Too Many Cooks
  • The Dam Keeper
  • Duet
  • Feast
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Three
  • Buffalo Juggalos
  • Newborns
  • The Secret World of Foley
  • Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Maleficent
  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2