Alternate Oscars: 2008

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:
In Bruges*
Lorna’s Silence
Man on Wire
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Summer Hours

BEST DIRECTOR:
Olivier Assayas, Summer Hours*
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Lance Hammer, Ballast
Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
Steve McQueen, Hunger

BEST ACTOR:
Benicio Del Toro, Che
Colin Farrell, In Bruges*
Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges
Tom Hardy, Bronson
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS:
Kate Beckinsale, Nothing But the Truth
Arta Dobroshi, Lorna’s Silence
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married*
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Kristin Scott Thomas, I've Loved You So Long

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Ralph Fiennes, In Bruges
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight*
Christian McKay, Me and Orson Welles
Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Patricia Clarkson, Elegy
Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Samantha Morton, Synecdoche, New York*
Vinessa Shaw, Two Lovers
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
The Class*
Gomorrah
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Two Lovers
Wendy and Lucy

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Burn After Reading
In Bruges*
Lorna's Silence
Summer Hours
Synecdoche, New York

BEST ART DIRECTION:
Australia
Bronson
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*
Synecdoche, New York

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
The Dark Knight
Hunger*
The Hurt Locker
Let the Right One In
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Australia
The Brothers Bloom
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess*
Revolutionary Road

BEST FILM EDITING:
Burn After Reading
The Dark Knight
Gomorrah
Man on Wire*
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
35 Shots of Rum
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
In Bruges
Slumdog Millionaire*

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"Another Way to Die" from Quantum of Solace
"Gran Torino" from Gran Torino
"Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire
"Low are the Punches" from Somers Town
"The Wrestler" from The Wrestler*

BEST MAKEUP:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button*
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Synecdoche, New York
The Wrestler

BEST SOUND:
The Dark Knight
The Hurt Locker*
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Speed Racer*
WALL-E

BEST STUNTS:
The Dark Knight*
Death Race
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Quantum of Solace
Wanted

BEST CASTING:
Burn After Reading
A Christmas Tale
Get Smart*
In Bruges
Summer Hours

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:
Hunger
In Bruges*
Lorna’s Silence
Man on Wire
Summer Hours

Alternate Oscars: 2009

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:
Adventureland
Fish Tank
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A Prophet
Star Trek*

BEST DIRECTOR:
J.J. Abrams, Star Trek
Andrea Arnold, Fish Tank*
Jacques Audiard, A Prophet
Greg Mottola, Adventureland
Lars von Trier, Antichrist

BEST ACTOR:
Colin Firth, A Single Man*
Ben Mendelsohn, Beautiful Kate
Chris Pine, Star Trek
Tahar Rahim, A Prophet
Sam Rockwell, Moon

BEST ACTRESS:
Megan Fox, Jennifer's Body
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist
Katie Jarvis, Fish Tank
Parker Posey, Happy Tears
Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo*

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Niels Arestrup, A Prophet*
Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
Michael Fassbender, Fish Tank
Stanley Tucci, Julie & Julia
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Marion Cotillard, Nine
Penélope Cruz, Broken Embraces
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
Mo'Nique, Precious*

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
In the Loop
Star Trek
Where the Wild Things Are*
White Material

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Adventureland*
Broken Embraces
Dogtooth
Fish Tank
Jennifer's Body

BEST ART DIRECTION:
Avatar
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Sherlock Holmes*

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Antichrist
Bright Star
Enter the Void*
Fish Tank
The White Ribbon

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Bright Star*
Broken Embraces
An Education
I Am Love
Sherlock Holmes

BEST FILM EDITING:
(500) Days of Summer
Avatar
Enter the Void
Star Trek*
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Moon
Sherlock Holmes
A Single Man
Star Trek*
Up

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"All is Love" from Where the Wild Things Are
"Depression Era" from That Evening Sun
"Help Yourself" from Up in the Air
"The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart
"You've Got Me Wrapped Around Your Little Finger" from An Education*

BEST MAKEUP:
District 9
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Public Enemies
The Road*
Star Trek

BEST SOUND:
Antichrist*
Avatar
Public Enemies
Star Trek
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Avatar*
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Moon
Star Trek
Where the Wild Things Are

BEST STUNTS:
Crank: High Voltage*
Fast & Furious
Public Enemies
Star Trek
Terminator Salvation

BEST CASTING:
Adventureland
Fish Tank
In the Loop
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek*

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:
Broken Embraces
Fish Tank*
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A Prophet
The White Ribbon

Alternate Oscars: 2010

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:
Animal Kingdom*
Black Swan
Inception
True Grit
Winter's Bone

BEST DIRECTOR:
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop
Debra Granik, Winter's Bone
David Michôd, Animal Kingdom
Christopher Nolan, Inception*

BEST ACTOR:
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
George Clooney, The American*
Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine
Edgar Ramírez, Carlos

BEST ACTRESS:
Juliette Binoche, Certified Copy
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone*
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Tom Hardy, Inception
John Hawkes, Winter's Bone
Ben Mendelsohn, Animal Kingdom*
Guy Pearce, Animal Kingdom
Christopher Plummer, Beginners

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Marion Cotillard, Inception
Keira Knightley, Never Let Me Go
Lesley Manville, Another Year*
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Olivia Williams, The Ghost Writer

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
The American
Never Let Me Go
The Social Network
True Grit
Winter's Bone*

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Animal Kingdom*
Another Year
Beginners
Greenberg
Inception

BEST ART DIRECTION:
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Inception
Shutter Island*
TRON: Legacy

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
The American
Black Swan*
Inception
Shutter Island
Somewhere

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Black Swan*
Meek's Cutoff
Mysteries of Lisbon
The Runaways
TRON: Legacy

BEST FILM EDITING:
Animal Kingdom
Black Swan
Exit Through the Gift Shop*
Inception
Senna

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
The Illusionist
Inception
The Social Network
TRON: Legacy*

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"Chanson Illusionist" from The Illusionist*
"I See the Light" from Tangled
"Please Don't Follow Me" from Greenberg
"Show Me How You Burlesque" from Burlesque
"This is a Low" from Tamara Drewe

BEST MAKEUP:
Black Swan
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
True Grit*
The Way Back
The Wolfman

BEST SOUND:
Black Swan*
Green Zone
Inception
TRON: Legacy
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
TRON: Legacy*

BEST STUNTS:
Green Zone
Inception*
Jackass 3D
Salt
Unstoppable

BEST CASTING:
Animal Kingdom*
Inception
Please Give
The Town
Winter's Bone

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:
Animal Kingdom*
Another Year
Certified Copy
The Illusionist
King of Devil’s Island

Alternate Oscars: 2018

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:
Annihilation
Burning
First Man*
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Widows

BEST DIRECTOR:
Lee Chang-dong, Burning
Damien Chazelle, First Man*
Claire Denis, High Life
Alex Garland, Annihilation
Steve McQueen, Widows

BEST ACTOR:
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Alden Ehrenreich, Solo: A Star Wars Story
Andrew Garfield, Under the Silver Lake
Ryan Gosling, First Man
Christian Malheiros, Socrates*

BEST ACTRESS:
Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Aisling Franciosi, The Nightingale
Rachel McAdams, Game Night
Natalie Portman, Annihilation*
Tessa Thompson, Little Woods

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Brian Tyree Henry, If Beale Street Could Talk
Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther
Daniel Kaluuya, Widows*
Steven Yeun, Burning

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Elizabeth Debicki, Widows*
Claire Foy, First Man
Jun Jong-seo, Burning
Haley Lu Richardson, Support the Girls
Saskia Rosendahl, Never Look Away

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Burning*
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
If Beale Street Could Talk
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Widows

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Blindspotting
The Favourite*
Game Night
Private Life
Socrates

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
The Favourite
First Man
Mary Poppins Returns
Ready Player One*
Roma

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Climax
Cold War
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Other Side of the Wind*

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Black Panther
Colette*
The Favourite
If Beale Street Could Talk
Peterloo

BEST FILM EDITING:
American Animals
First Man
Mission: Impossible - Fallout*
A Star Is Born
Widows

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
First Man*
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle of Dogs
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
The Sisters Brothers

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"All the Stars" from Black Panther
"Control" from Her Smell
"I’ll Never Love Again" from A Star Is Born*
"Wildflowers" from Teen Spirit
"Wrapped Up" from Vox Lux

BEST MAKEUP:
Black Panther
Border
Mary Queen of Scots
Stan & Ollie
Suspiria*

BEST SOUND:
Annihilation
First Man*
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Ready Player One
Sicario: Day of the Soldado

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Annihilation*
Avengers: Infinity War
First Man
Ready Player One
Solo: A Star Wars Story

BEST STUNTS:
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
Bumblebee
Mission: Impossible - Fallout*
Tomb Raider

BEST CASTING:
Black Panther*
Game Night
Shoplifters
What They Had
Widows

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:
Burning*
Climax
Never Look Away
The Nightingale
Socrates

Alternate Oscars: 2011

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:
Drive
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
A Separation
Take Shelter*
The Tree of Life

BEST DIRECTOR:
Asghar Farhadi, A Separation
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter*
Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive
Béla Tarr, The Turin Horse

BEST ACTOR:
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Michael Fassbender, Shame
Ryan Gosling, Drive
Woody Harrelson, Rampart
Michael Shannon, Take Shelter*

BEST ACTRESS:
Emily Browning, Sleeping Beauty
Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia*
Anna Paquin, Margaret
Saoirse Ronan, Hanna
Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn
Ryan Gosling, Crazy, Stupid, Love.
John Hawkes, Martha Marcy May Marlene
Nick Nolte, Warrior
Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life*

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Sareh Bayat, A Separation
Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter
Cécile De France, The Kid with a Bike
Carey Mulligan, Shame*
Vanessa Redgrave, Coriolanus

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
The Ides of March
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Moneyball*
Oslo, August 31st
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
The Artist
Margaret
Rampart
A Separation*
Take Shelter

BEST ART DIRECTION:
The Artist
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Hugo*
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Tree of Life*
The Turin Horse
Wuthering Heights

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
The Artist
Hugo*
Immortals
Jane Eyre
W.E.

BEST FILM EDITING:
Drive*
Haywire
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Moneyball
The Raid: Redemption

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
The Artist*
Drive
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Hugo
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"Coeur Volant" from Hugo*
"The Enemy" from Wuthering Heights
"So Long" from Winnie the Pooh
"Star Spangled Man" from Captain America: The First Avenger
"You Instead" from Tonight You're Mine

BEST MAKEUP:
Captain America: The First Avenger*
A Dangerous Method
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The Skin I Live In

BEST SOUND:
Drive
The Grey
Hanna
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol*
War Horse

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
The Adventures of Tintin
Captain America: The First Avenger
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2*
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Tree of Life

BEST STUNTS:
Fast Five
Haywire
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
The Raid: Redemption*
Sleepless Night

BEST CASTING:
Contagion
Margaret*
A Separation
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Tyrannosaur

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:
Alps
The Kid with a Bike
Oslo, August 31st
A Separation*
The Turin Horse

Alternate Oscars: 2012

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Holy Motors
Moonrise Kingdom*
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

BEST DIRECTOR:
Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom*
Leos Carax, Holy Motors
Michael Haneke, Amour
Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, and Tom Tykwer, Cloud Atlas
Joe Wright, Anna Karenina

BEST ACTOR:
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Denis Lavant, Holy Motors*
Logan Lerman, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Mads Mikkelsen, The Hunt
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master

BEST ACTRESS:
Suzanne Clément, Laurence Anyways
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
Keira Knightley, Anna Karenina*
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Domhnall Gleeson, Anna Karenina
Garrett Hedlund, On the Road
Jude Law, Anna Karenina
Matthew McConaughey, Mud*
Scoot McNairy, Killing Them Softly

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises*
Léa Seydoux, Sister
Lorraine Toussaint, Middle of Nowhere
Alicia Vikander, Anna Karenina
Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
21 Jump Street
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Lincoln
The Perks of Being a Wallflower*

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Amour
Holy Motors*
The Hunt
Moonrise Kingdom
The Place Beyond the Pines

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
Anna Karenina*
Cloud Atlas
Dredd
Les Misérables
Moonrise Kingdom

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Anna Karenina*
Moonrise Kingdom
Skyfall
Spring Breakers
To the Wonder

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Anna Karenina*
Blancanieves
Laurence Anyways
Mirror Mirror
Moonrise Kingdom

BEST FILM EDITING:
Anna Karenina
Argo
Cloud Atlas*
Moonrise Kingdom
Stories We Tell

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Anna Karenina
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Cloud Atlas*
The Dark Knight Rises
Moonrise Kingdom

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"Breath of Life" from Snow White and the Huntsman
"Skyfall" from Skyfall
"This Gift" from The Odd Life of Timothy Green
"Who Did That to You?" from Django Unchained
"Who Were We?" from Holy Motors*

BEST MAKEUP:
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Django Unchained
Holy Motors*
Les Misérables

BEST SOUND:
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas*
The Dark Knight Rises
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Cloud Atlas*
The Impossible
Life of Pi
Prometheus
Upside Down

BEST STUNTS:
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Avengers
The Bourne Legacy
The Dark Knight Rises
Skyfall*

BEST CASTING:
Anna Karenina
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom*
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Pitch Perfect

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:
Amour
Holy Motors*
The Hunt
Laurence Anyways
What Richard Did