Blu-ray.com community poll: "The Best of the Rest"

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I came up with this idea last night while revisiting The Wrestler for the first time in a couple of years. If you're anything like me you have a list of movies, actors, directors and screenwriters that were Oscar nominees that either didn't win and you think they should have, or didn't win due to the winner being legitimately better, but you feel their performance was so good they would have won in a different year, i.e. I think Rourke was brilliant in The Wrestler, but Penn was better in Milk, but Rourke may have won in a different year.

So...this is going to be a trial attempt where we'll only deal with 2010-2014 Oscars, if this does well, I'll keep going back either in five year chunks like this one or perhaps switch to decades, but that can be determined later. Pick your top 3 in each category, for the sake of simplicity the points will be 1st-3, 2nd-2, 3rd-1.

If when voting you'd like to offer suggestions or opinions(5 years vs decade, change to voting or scoring, adding categories, omitting categories,better name than "best of the rest" etc) please feel free to include those as well. I'm thinking two weeks to vote starting today, ending Sunday March 30th.

The nominees

Best Picture

(due to the bloated best picture categories lately, select five choices rather than three, same inverse scoring system applies)

127 Hours
American Hustle
Amour
An Education
A Serious Man
Avatar
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Black Swan
The Blind Side
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyer's Club
The Descendants
District 9
Django Unchained
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Fighter
Gravity
The Help
Her
Hugo
Inception
Inglourious Basterds
The Kids are All Right
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
Nebraska
Philomena
Precious
Silver Linings Playbook
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
The Tree of Life
True Grit
Up
Up in the Air
War Horse
Winter's Bone
The Wolf of Wall Street
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Brad Pitt- Moneyball
Bradley Cooper- Silver Linings Playbook
Bruce Dern- Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor- 12 Years a Slave
Christian Bale- American Hustle
Colin Firth- A Serious Man
Denzel Washington- Flight
Demian Bechir- A Better Life
Gary Oldman- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Clooney- The Descendants
George Clooney- Up in the Air
Hugh Jackman- Les Miserables
James Franco- 127 Hours
Javier Bardem- Biutiful
Jeff Bridges- True Grit
Jeremy Renner- The Hurt Locker
Jesse Eisenberg- The Social Network
Joaquin Phoenix- The Master
Leonardo DiCaprio- The Wolf of Wall Street
Morgan Freeman- Invictus

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Amy Adams- American Hustle
Annette Benning- The Kids are Alright
Carey Mulligan- An Education
Emmanuelle Riva- Amour
Gabourey Sidibe- Precious
Glenn Close- Albert Nobbs
Hellen Mirren- The Last Station
Jennifer Lawrence- Winter's Bone
Jessica Chastain- Zero Dark Thirty
Judy Dench- Philomena
Meryl Streep- August: Osage County
Meryl Streep- Julia & Julia
Michelle Williams- Blue Valentine
Michelle Williams- My Week With Marilyn
Naomi Watts- The Impossible
Nicole Kidman- Rabbit Hole
Quvenzhane Wallis- Beasts of the Southern Wild
Rooney Mara- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Sandra Bulloch- Gravity
Viola Davis- The Help

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Alan Arkin- Argo
Barkhad Abdi- Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper- American Hustle
Christopher Plummer- The Last Station
Geoffrey Rush- The King's Speech
Jeremy Renner- The Town
John Hawkes- Winter's Bone
Jonah Hill- Moneyball
Jonah Hill- The Wolf of Wall Street
Kenneth Branagh- My Week with Marilyn
Mark Ruffalo- The Kids are All Right
Matt Damon- Invictus
Max Von Sydow- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Michael Fassbender- 12 Years a Slave
Nick Nolte- Warrior
Phillips Seymour Hoffman- The Master
Robert De Niro- Silver Linings Playbook
Stanley Tucci- The Lovely Bones
Tommy Lee Jones- Lincoln
Woody Harrelson- The Messenger


Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Amy Adams- The Fighter
Amy Adams- The Master
Anna Kendrick- Up in the Air
Bernice Bejo- The Artist
Hailee Steinfeld- True Grit
Helena Bonham Carter- The King's Speech
Hellen Hunt- The Sessions
Jacki Weaver- Animal Kingdom
Jacki Weaver- Silver Linings Playbook
Janet McTeer- Albert Nobbs
Jennifer Lawrence- American Hustle
Jessica Chastain- The Help
Julia Roberts- August: Osage County
June Squibb- Nebraska
Maggie Gyllenhaal- Crazy Heart
Melissa McCarthy- Bridesmaids
Penelope Cruz- Nine
Sally Field- Lincoln
Sally Hawkins- Blue Jasmine
Vera Fermiga- Up in the Air

Best Director

Alexander Payne- The Descendants
Alexander Payne- Nebraska
Ben Zeitlin- Beasts of the Southern Wild
Darren Aronofsky- Black Swan
David Fincher- The Social Network
David O. Russell- American Hustle
David O. Russell- The Fighter
David O. Russell- Silver Linings Playbook
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen- True Grit
James Cameron- Avatar
Jason Reitman- Up in the Air
Lee Daniels- Precious
Martin Scorcese- Hugo
Martin Scorcese- The Wolf of Wall Street
Michael Hanake- Amour
Quentin Tarantino- Inglourious Basterds
Steve McQueen- 12 Years a Slave
Steven Spielberg- War Horse
Terrence Malick- The Tree of Life
Woody Allen- Midnight in Paris

Best original screenplay

Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman- The Messenger
Asghar Farhadi- A Separation
Bob Nelson- Nebraska
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Thomas McCarthy- Up
Christopher Nolan- Inception
Craig Borten, Melissa Wallack- Dallas Buyer's Club
Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell- American Hustle
J.C. Chandor- Margin Call
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen- A Serious Man
John Gatins- Flight
Lisa Cholondenko, Stuart Blumberg- The Kids Are All Right
Kristin Wiig, Annie Mumolo- Bridesmaids
Mark Boal- Zero Dark Thirty
Michael Haneke- Amour
Michael Hazanavicius- The Artist
Mike Leigh- Another Year
Quentin Tarantino- Inglourious Basterds
Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Keith Dorrinton- The Fighter
Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola- Moonrise Kingdom
Woody Allen- Blue Jasmine

Best adapted screenplay

Billy Ray- Captain Phillips
Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy- 127 Hours
David Magee- Life of Pi
David O. Russell- Silver Linings Playbook
Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini- Winter's Bone
George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon- The Ides of March
Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner- Up in the Air
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche- In the Loop
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen- True Grit
John Logan- Hugo
Lucy Alibar, Ben Zeitlin- Beasts of the Southern Wild
Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich- Toy Story 3
Neil Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell- District 9
Nick Hornby- An Education
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke- Before Midnight
Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope- Philomena
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin- Moneyball
Terrence Winter- The Wolf of Wall Street
Tony Kushner- Lincoln