Every year Mark Kermode gives out his alternatives to the Oscars. The only rule being that awards go to those not nominated in the actual Oscars.

So this is the same. Who do you think deserved a nomination/award that didn't even get nominated this year?


A quick couple off the top[ of my head

Best Supporting Actor:
Tom Hollander - In The Loop


Best Actor
Peter Capaldi - In The Loop
Sam Rockwell - Moon

Best Actress

Tilda Swinton - Julia

Good ones so far.

Best Supporting Actress
Melanie Laurent - Inglourious Basterds

Best Actress
Audrey Tautou Coco before Chanel

Best Director
Michael Haneke - The White Ribbon

Sod that 'foreigners in the foreign' category.

Best Actor
A tie between:
Michael Fassbender for Fish Tank
Tom Hardy for Bronson

Best Actress
Penelope Cruz for Broken Embraces

Best Supporting Actor
Fred Melamed for A Serious Man

Best Adapted Screenplay
Phil Lord and Chris Miller for Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

I forgot about Hardy and Fassbender. Good call.

They're probably the two performances that have stuck with me more than any other over the last year. Hardy, in particular, was really terrifying.

I'm tempted to say that A Perfect Getaway had the best original screenplay of a film I saw last year, but I'd have to think on it. It definitely deserves a mention, since it's one of the more intelligent and funny thriller screenplays I've come across in a while.

I'd like to give Timothy Olyphant's Nicholas Cage impersonation an award

It was a very good script, shades of Adaptation (oddly).

"We say screenwriters"

Good call there.

One out of Leftfield, maybe Jackie Earle Haley for Rorschach in Watchmen (A film that received 0 Nominations, as well, so maybe a best viuals nom for Watchmen too.)

I'll also go with Sostie's suggestions of Peter Capaldi and Tom Hollander for Actor and Supporting Actor respectively for In The Loop

Supporting actress

Bai Ling- Crank 2

She annoyed me so very much in that film. She was one of the few problems I had with it.

Best Performance by a Talking Animal

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The Fox from Antichrist

Steve ("Steve!") from Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs gets a special mention ("Excited!")

Steve!

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