Fake Oscar Ballot (Updated 1/22)

I don't quite understand how Academy Award voting works. I think everyone votes within their own branch for nominations, so directors would vote for best director but not best original score. Regardless, below is what I would vote for in select categories. 

Some notes:

• I saw 78 92 of the eligible films, which are listed here. Some films that I would've strongly considered for nominations that aren't eligible are Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Beyond the Hills, The Comedy, Elena, For Ellen, Hello I Must Be Going, Indie Game: The Movie, Red Hook Summer
• Obviously I'm not in any sort of voting group...Academy voters are sent DVDs of many of the eligible films, so there is no financial or time strain. Because of this, I have not seen some major eligible films including (in order of perceived importance) Amour, Samsara, The Gatekeepers, Middle of Nowhere, Anna Karenina
• The full list of eligible films I've seen will be at the end

The nominations:

Best Picture:

1. Beasts of the Southern Wild
2. Oslo, August 31st
3. The Cabin in the Woods
4. Cloud Atlas Zero Dark Thirty
   
5. Your Sister's Sister

Actor in a Leading Role:

1. Anders Danielsen Lie (Oslo, August 31st)
2. Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)
3. Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
4. Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
5. Denis Lavant (Holy Motors)

Actress in a Leading Role:

1. Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
2. Rosemarie DeWitt (Your Sister’s Sister)
3. Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
4. Leslie Mann (This Is 40)
5. Nina Hoss (Barbara)
6. Rachel Weisz (The Deep Blue Sea)

Actor in a Supporting Role:

1. Dwight Henry (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
2. Ben Whishaw (Cloud Atlas)
3. Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises)
4. Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike)
5. Ronald Zehrfeld (Barbara)

Actress in a Supporting Role:

1. Emily Blunt (Your Sister’s Sister)
2. Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables)
3. Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
4. Amy Adams (The Master)
5. India Ennenga (Nobody Walks)

Animated Feature Film (unqualified, only saw 6 of the 21 eligible):

1. ParaNorman
2. Wreck-It Ralph

Cinematography:

1. Ben Richardson (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
2. Caroline Champetier (Holy Motors)
3. Lol Crawley (HERE)
4. Frank Griebe, John Toll (Cloud Atlas)
5. Mihai Malaimare Jr. (The Master)

Production Design:

1. Alex DiGerlando (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
2. Nelson Lowry (ParaNorman)
3. Florian Sanson (Holy Motors)
4. David Crank, Jack Fisk (The Master)
5. David Gropman (Life of Pi)

Costume Design:

1. Anais Romand (Holy Motors)
2. Stephani Lewis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
3. Mark Bridges (The Master)
4. Kym Barrett & Pierre-Yves Gayraud (Cloud Atlas)
5. Kasia Walicka Maimone (Moonrise Kingdom)

Directing:

1. Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
2. Leos Carax (Holy Motors)
3. Joe Carnahan (The Grey)
4. Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31st)
5. Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

Film Editing:

1. Crockett Doob, Affonso Goncalves (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
2. Alexander Berner & Claus Wehlisch (Cloud Atlas)
3. William Goldenberg (Argo)
4. Oliver Bugge Coutte (Oslo, August 31st)
5. Jay Cassidy & Crispin Struthers (Silver Linings Playbook)

Music (Original Score):

1. Dan Romer, Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
2. Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil (Cloud Atlas)
3. Alexandre Desplat (Moonrise Kingdom)
4. Jon Brion (ParaNorman)
5. Hans Zimmer (The Dark Knight Rises)

Visual Effects:

1. Life of Pi
2. Cloud Atlas
3. Prometheus
4. The Dark Knight Rises
5. John Carter

Adapted Screenplay:

1. David Mitchel, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas)
2. Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
3. Andrew Dominik, George V. Higgins (Killing Them Softly)
4. Mike Birbiglia, Joe Birbiglia, Ira Glass, Seth Barrish (Sleepwalk with Me)
5. Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt (Oslo, August 31st)

Original Screenplay:

1. Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods)
2. Craig Zobel (Compliance)
3. Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)
4. Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki (Barbara)
5. Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)
6. Rian Johnson (Looper)

The eligible films I saw, in alphabetical order:

1. The Amazing Spider-Man
2. Arbitrage
3. Argo
4. Bachelorette
5. Barbara
6. Beasts of the Southern Wild
7. Bernie
8. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
9. Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story
10. Brave
11. Brooklyn Castle
12. Bully
13. The Cabin in the Woods
14. Casa De Mi Padre
15. Celeste & Jesse Forever
16. Chronicle
17. Cloud Atlas
18. Compliance
19. Damsels in Distress
20. The Dark Knight Rises
21. Dark Shadows
22. The Deep Blue Sea
23. Detachment
24. The Dictator
25. Django Unchained
26. End of Watch
27. The Five-Year Engagement
28. Flight
29. For A Good Time, Call...
30. Frankenweenie
31. The Grey
32. The Guilt Trip
33. Haywire
34. HERE
35. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
36. Holy Motors
37. Hope Springs
38. The Hunger Games
39. The Impossible
40. The Intouchables
41. Jeff, Who Lives At Home
42. John Carter
43. Katy Perry: Part of Me
44. Keep the Lights On 
45. Killer Joe
46. Killing Them Softly
47. Lay the Favorite
48. Les Miserables
49. Life of Pi
50. Lincoln
51. Little Birds
52. The Loneliest Planet
53. Looper
54. Magic Mike
55. Marvel’s The Avengers
56. The Master
57. Mirror Mirror
58. Moonrise Kingdom
59. Nobody Walks
60. On the Road
61. Oslo, August 31st
62. The Paperboy
63. ParaNorman
64. Parental Guidance
65. People Like Us
66. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
67. Pitch Perfect
68. Prometheus
69. The Raid: Redemption
70. Robot & Frank
71. Ruby Sparks
72. Rust and Bone
73. Safety Not Guaranteed
74. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
75. Searching for Sugar Man 
76. The Sessions
77. Seven Psychopaths
78. Side by Side
79. Silver Linings Playbook
80. Skyfall
81. Sleepwalk with Me
82. Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
83. Take This Waltz
84. Ted
85. This Is 40
86. This Must Be the Place
87. To Rome with Love
88. 21 Jump Street
89. 2 Days in New York
90. Wreck-It Ralph
91. Your Sister’s Sister
92. Zero Dark Thirty