With the Oscar nominations due to be announced this week, now is the time that the Shattered Lens indulges in a little something called, “What if Lisa had all the power.” Listed below are my personal Oscar nominations. Please note that these are not the films that I necessarily think will be nominated. The fact of the matter is that the many of them will not. Instead, these are the films that would be nominated if I was solely responsible for deciding the nominees this year. Winners are listed in bold.
You can check out my picks for 2010 by clicking here.
My picks for 2011 can be found here.
And, finally, here are my picks for 2012.
Best Picture
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
Before Midnight
Blue Is The Warmest Color
Frances Ha
Fruitvale Station
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Spring Breakers
Upstream Color
Best Director
Noah Baumbach for Frances Ha
Shane Carruth for Upstream Color
Spike Jonze for Her
Harmony Korine for Spring Breakers
David O. Russell for American Hustle
Best Actor
Bruce Dern in Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf Of Wall Street
Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club
Joaquin Phoenix in Her
Dennis Quaid in At Any Price
Best Actress
Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine
Julie Delpy in Before Midnight
Adèle Exarchopoulos in Blue Is The Warmest Color
Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha
Amy Seimetz in Upstream Color
Best Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi in Captain Phillips
Kyle Chandler in The Spectacular Now
Bradley Cooper in American Hustle
James Franco in Spring Breakers
Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle
Eva Mendes in The Place Beyond The Pines
Lupita Nyong’o in 12 Years A Slave
Léa Seydoux in Blue Is The Warmest Color
Octavia Spencer in Fruitvale Station
Best Original Screenplay
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Upstream Color
Best Adapted Screenplay
12 Years A Slave
Before Midnight
Blue Is The Warmest Color
The Spectacular Now
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Animated Feature
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest and Celestine
Frozen
Monsters University
Best Documentary Feature
20 Feet From Stardom
The Armstrong Lie
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Stories We Tell
Tim’s Vermeer
Best Foreign Language Film
(Please note that I do things differently for this category than the Academy. For this award, I am nominating the best foreign language films to be released in the United States in 2013.)
Beyond the Hills
Blue Is The Warmest Color
No
Renoir
White Elephant
Best Production Design
12 Years A Slave
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Oz: The Great and Powerful
Best Cinematography
Frances Ha
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Spring Breakers
Upstream Color
Best Costume Design
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
The Copperhead
The Great Gatsby
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Best Film Editing
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
Gravity
Her
Upstream Color
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
12 Years A Slave
American Hustle
Dallas Buyers Club
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Warm Bodies
Best Original Score
Gravity
Her
Maniac
Trance
Upstream Color
Best Original Song
“Let it Go” from Frozen
“A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)” from The Great Gatsby
“Young and Beautiful” from The Great Gatsby
“The Moon Song” from Her
“I See Fire” from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
“Atlas” from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
“Please Mr. Kennedy” from Inside Llewyn Davis
“So You Know What It’s Like” from Short Term 12
“Becomes The Color” from Stoker
“Here It Comes” from Trance
Best Sound Editing
All Is Lost
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Rush
Upstream Color
Best Sound Mixing
All Is Lost
Iron Man 3
Pacific Rim
Rush
Upstream Color
Best Visual Effects
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Oz: The Great and Powerful
Pacific Rim
List of Films By Number of Nominations:
9 Nominations — Upstream Color
8 Nominations — American Hustle
7 Nominations — 12 Years A Slave, Her
5 Nominations — Blue Is The Warmest Color
4 Nominations — Frances Ha, Gravity, The Great Gatsby, Inside Llewyn Davis, Spring Breakers
3 Nominations — Before Midnight, Dallas Buyers Club, Iron Man 3, Pacific Rim
2 Nominations — All Is Lost, Blue Jasmine, Frozen, Fruitvale Station, Nebraska, Oz The Great and Powerful, Rush, The Spectacular Now, Trance, The Wolf of Wall Street
1 Nominations — 20 Feet From Stardom, The Armstrong Lie, At Any Price, Beyond The Hills, Captain Phillips, The Copperhead, The Counselor, The Croods, Despicable Me 2, Ernest and Celestine, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Maniac, Monsters University, No, The Place Beyond The Pines, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, Renoir, Short Term 12, Stoker, Stories We Tell, Tim’s Vermeer, Warm Bodies, White Elephant
List of Films By Number of Oscars Won
3 Oscars — American Hustle, Upstream Color
2 Oscars — The Great Gatsby
1 Oscar — Before Midnight, Blue is The Warmest Color, Frances Ha, Frozen, Gravity, Her, Iron Man 3, Maniac, Pacific Rim, The Spectacular Now, Spring Breakers, Stories We Tell, The Wolf of Wall Street
William S. Hart, the Third President of AMPAS 
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