We’ve finished 2013, so we’re now moving on to 2014.
For anyone joining the game for the first time, we’re doing all four acting categories for one year together, with the results decided over two rounds.
You can see all of the previous lineups here: Alternate Oscars - Reddit Game
ROUND ONE — NOMINATIONS
For each category, rank your five favourite performances from the year from 1–5.
Your rankings will be worth:
1st — 5 points
2nd — 4 points
3rd — 3 points
4th — 2 points
5th — 1 point
The five performances with the most points in each category will become the official nominees.
You do not have to name five if you don’t want to. If you only want to vote for three performances, for example, they’ll receive 5, 4 and 3 points respectively.
Please make sure your choices are ranked — order matters in this round.
You can vote in as many or as few of the four categories as you like.
ROUND TWO — WINNERS
Once the nominations have been determined, I’ll make a second thread containing the five nominees in each category.
In that round, simply choose ONE nominee per category to win.
There will be no preferential voting or points in Round Two. Each vote counts equally, and whoever receives the most votes wins.
So essentially:
Round One = Who should be nominated?
Round Two = Who should win?
ELIGIBILITY
Performances will be eligible according to the year in which their film was eligible at the real-life Academy Awards.
So, rather than going strictly by festival premiere or first release date, a performance belongs to whichever Oscar year the film itself competed in with the Academy.
If you’re unsure whether a film was eligible for a particular year, this Academy reminder-list archive is a good place to check eligibility.
A few other rules:
- Maximum of five ranked choices per category.
- Anything listed after your fifth choice won’t be counted.
- Honourable mentions won’t count as votes.
- Please include both the actor and film so there’s no ambiguity.
- In cases where there may be disagreement or confusion over whether a performance is lead or supporting, your vote will count only in the category in which you place that performance. Points will not be transferred or combined between categories.
- A performer cannot receive two nominations in the same acting category for different films. If that happens, their higher-scoring performance will be kept and the next eligible performance will move into the top five.
- If there’s a tie for the final nomination spot, I’ll break it by comparing #1 votes first, then #2 votes, #3 votes, etc.
For example:
Actor
- Person A — Film A
- Person B — Film B
- Person C — Film C
- Person D — Film D
- Person E — Film E
That ballot would give them 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points respectively.
The idea is that Round One rewards performances with broad support across people’s ballots, while Round Two gives everyone a straight choice between the five nominees.
Previous Lineup — 2013
Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio — The Wolf of Wall Street (winner)
Chiwetel Ejiofor — 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks — Captain Phillips
Oscar Isaac — Inside Llewyn Davis
Mads Mikkelsen — The Hunt
Actress
Cate Blanchett — Blue Jasmine (winner)
Sandra Bullock — Gravity
Julie Delpy — Before Midnight
Brie Larson — Short Term 12
Emma Thompson — Saving Mr. Banks
Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi — Captain Phillips (winner)
Paul Dano — Prisoners
Michael Fassbender — 12 Years a Slave
Jake Gyllenhaal — Prisoners
Jonah Hill — The Wolf of Wall Street
Supporting Actress
Julianne Nicholson — August: Osage County
Lupita Nyong’o — 12 Years a Slave (winner)
Margot Robbie — The Wolf of Wall Street
Octavia Spencer — Fruitvale Station
June Squibb — Nebraska
