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Retrospective Ballot: 86th 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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  • Man of Steel
  • Short Term 12
  • Before Midnight
  • Spring Breakers
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • Mama
  • The Great Gatsby
  • Her
  • Frozen
  • Instructions Not Included
  • Philomena
  • Gravity
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
  • Pacific Rim
  • The Wolf of Wall Street
  • Prisoners
  • The Hunt
  • The Wind Rises
  • American Hustle
  • Oz the Great and Powerful
  • The Act of Killing
  • Cargo
  • The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
  • Coda
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
  • Ernest & Celestine
  • Monsters University
  • Blue Is the Warmest Color
  • Hannah Arendt
  • 20 Feet from Stardom
  • Cutie and the Boxer
  • Sound City
  • We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
  • Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?
  • The Fall
  • Jonah
  • The Voorman Problem
  • A Boy and His Atom
  • Exordium
  • Get a Horse!
  • Mr Hublot
  • Cavedigger
  • Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
  • Redemption
  • T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s
  • Evil Dead
  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
  • Iron Man 3
  • Star Trek Into Darkness