My 2013 Academy Award Nominations

If I were to select the Academy Award nominees alone, here's what today's nominees would have looked like:

Best Picture
- Argo
- The Avengers
- The Dark Knight Rises
- The Impossible
- Life of Pi
- Lincoln
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Skyfall
- Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
- Dane DeHaan, Chronicle
- Martin Freeman, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Liam Neeson, The Grey
- Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

Best Actress
- Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
- Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
- Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
- Naomi Watts, The Impossible
- Michelle Williams, Take This Waltz

Best Supporting Actor
- Javier Bardem, Skyfall
- Jason Clarke, Zero Dark Thirty
- Michael Fassbender, Prometheus
- Ewan McGregor, The Impossible
- Michael Pena, End of Watch

Best Supporting Actress
- Judi Dench, Skyfall
- Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises
- Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
- Frances McDormand, Promised Land
- Kelly Reilly, Flight

Best Director
- Ben Affleck, Argo
- Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
- Ang Lee, Life of Pi
- Sam Mendes, Skyfall
- Steven Spielberg, Lincoln

Best Animated Film
- Brave
- ParaNorman
- The Pirates! Band of Misfits
- The Secret World of Arrietty
- Wreck-It Ralph

Best Foreign Language Film
- Headhunters (Norway)
- The Raid: Redemption (Indonesia)
- Rust and Bone (France)

Best Original Screenplay
- Django Unchained
- The Impossible
- The Master
- Skyfall
- Zero Dark Thirty

Best Adapted Screenplay
- Argo
- The Avengers
- Life of Pi
- Lincoln
- Silver Linings Playbook

Best Cinematography
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- The Impossible
- Lawless
- Life of Pi
- Skyfall

Best Production Design
- Cloud Atlas
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Life of Pi
- Snow White and the Huntsman
- The Woman in Black

Best Visual Effects
- Cloud Atlas
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- The Impossible
- Life of Pi
- Prometheus

Best Editing
- Argo
- The Avengers
- Looper
- Skyfall
- Zero Dark Thirty

Best Original Score
- Cloud Atlas
- The Dark Knight Rises
- The Impossible
- Life of Pi
- Lincoln

Best Original Song
- “Abraham’s Daugher” by Arcade Fire (The Hunger Games)
- “Learn Me Right” by Birdy feat. Mumford and Sons (Brave)
- “Live to Rise” by Soundgarden (The Avengers)
- “Skyfall” by Adele (Skyfall)
- “Song for the Lonely Mountain” by Neil Finn and Howard Shore (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)

Best Sound Mixing
- Cloud Atlas
- The Impossible
- Les Miserables
- Magic Mike
- Skyfall

Best Sound Editing
- The Avengers
- The Impossible
- Life of Pi
- Prometheus
- Skyfall

Best Costume Design
- Cloud Atlas
- Django Unchained
- The Hunger Games
- Mirror Mirror
- Snow White and the Huntsman

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- The Grey
- The Hunger Games
- Looper

Best Documentary
- Pelotero

Best Animated Short Film
- Paperman

Total Nominations
Skyfall: 10
The Impossible: 9
Life of Pi: 8
Zero Dark Thirty: 6
The Avengers: 5
Cloud Atlas: 5
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: 5
Lincoln: 5
Argo: 4
The Dark Knight Rises: 3
The Hunger Games: 3
Prometheus: 3
Silver Livings Playbook: 3
Brave: 2
Django Unchained: 2
The Grey: 2
Les Miserables: 2
Looper: 2
The Master: 2
Rust and Bone: 2
Snow White and the Huntsman: 2
Chronicle: 1
End of Watch: 1
Flight: 1
Headhunters: 1
Lawless: 1
Magic Mike: 1
Mirror Mirror: 1
Paperman: 1
ParaNorman: 1
Pelotero: 1
The Pirates! Band of Misfits: 1
Promised Land: 1
The Raid: Redemption: 1
The Secret World of Arrietty: 1
Take This Walz: 1
The Woman in Black: 1
Wreck-It Ralph: 1

Relevant Unseen Movies
Amour, The Sessions, Seven Psychopaths, Anna Karenina, The Intouchables, Holy Motors, Frankenweenie, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Hitchcock, Hyde Park on Hudson, This Is Not a Film, The Loneliest Planet, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Bernie, Oslo August 31st, The Imposter, every foreign language, documentary and short Academy Award nominee