Blankments Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 This has been one of my weird side projects for the past few months. I realized that some HBO movies, if released in theaters, would definitely be major Oscar contenders (namely Game Change and Behind the Candelabra). So I was wondering... what if they were theatrically released films? Well, my answer to that came out to be the following. I looked at won Globes and Emmies, and figured if they won that, they would've been nominated at the Oscars. 2010 Best Picture 127 Hours Black Swan The Fighter Inception The Kids Are All Right The King’s Speech The Social Network Temple Grandin Toy Story 3 True Grit Best Director Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, True Grit David Fincher, The Social Network Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech Mick Jackson, Temple Grandin David O. Russell, The Fighter Best Actor Jeff Bridges, True Grit Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network Colin Firth, The King’s Speech James Franco, 127 Hours Al Pacino, You Don’t Know Jack Best Actress Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right Claire Danes, Temple Grandin Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone Natalie Portman, Black Swan Best Supporting Actor Christian Bale, The Fighter John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech David Strathairn, Temple Grandin Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams, The Fighter Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech Melissa Leo, The Fighter Julia Ormond, Temple Grandin Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit Best Adapted Screenplay 127 Hours The Social Network Temple Grandin True Grit You Don’t Know Jack Best Original Score Alexandre Desplat, The King’s Speech A.R. Rahman, 127 Hours Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Social Network Alex Wurman, Temple Grandin Hans Zimmer, Inception Best Film Editing 127 Hours The Fighter The Social Network The King’s Speech Temple Grandin Nom count The King’s Speech – 12 True Grit – 10 Inception – 8 The Social Network – 8 Temple Grandin – 8 127 Hours – 6 The Kids Are All Right – 4 Toy Story 3 – 4 Alice in Wonderland – 3 Black Swan – 3 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 – 2 You Don’t Know Jack – 2 Winter’s Bone – 2 Another Year – 1 Barney’s Version – 1 Biutiful – 1 Country Strong – 1 Dogtooth – 1 Exit Through the Gift Shop – 1 Hereafter – 1 How to Train Your Dragon 2 – 1 The Illusionist – 1 I Am Love – 1 In a Better World – 1 Incendies – 1 Inside Job – 1 Iron Man 2 - 1 Outside the Law – 1 Restrepo – 1 Salt – 1 Tangled – 1 The Tempest – 1 Tron: Legacy – 1 Unstoppable – 1 Waste Land – 1 The Way Back – 1 The Wolfman – 1 Animal Kingdom, Rabbit Hole, and The Town would no longer be Academy Award nominated films. 2011 Best Film Editing The Artist Cinema Verite The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Hugo MoneyballNom count Hugo – 11 The Artist – 10 Moneyball – 6 War Horse – 6 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – 5 The Descendants – 4 The Help – 4 Midnight in Paris – 4 Albert Nobbs – 3 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 – 3 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – 3 Transformers: Dark of the Moon – 5 The Tree of Life – 3 Bridesmaids – 2 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – 2 The Iron Lady – 2 My Week With Marilyn – 2 A Separation – 2 The Adventures of Tintin - 1 Beginners – 1 A Better Life – 1 Bullhead – 1 A Cat in Paris – 1 Cinema Verite – 1 Chico and Rita – 1 Drive – 1 Footnote – 1 Hell and Back Again – 1 The Ides of March – 1 If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front – 1 In Darkness – 1 Jane Eyre - 1 Kung Fu Panda 2 Margin Call – 1 Monsieur Lazhar – 1 The Muppets - 1 Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory – 1 Pina – 1 Puss in Boots – 1 Rango – 1 Real Steel – 1 Rio - 1 Rise of the Planet of the Apes – 1 Undefeated – 1 W.E. – 1 Warrior - 1 2012 Best Picture Amour Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild Django Unchained Game Change Les Miserables Lincoln Life of Pi Silver Linings Playbook Best Director Michael Haneke, Amour Ang Lee, Life of Pi David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook Jay Roach, Game Change Steven Spielberg, Lincoln Best Actress Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook Julianne Moore, Game Change Emmanuelle Riva, Amour Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild Best Supporting Actor Alan Arkin, Argo Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook Ed Harris, Game Change Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained Best Adapted Screenplay Argo Game Change Life of Pi Lincoln Silver Linings Playbook Best Original Score Mychael Danna, Life of Pi Alexandre Desplat, Argo Javier Navarrete, Hemingway & Gellhorn Thomas Newman, Skyfall John Williams, Lincoln Best Sound Editing Argo Hemingway & Gellhorn Life of Pi Skyfall Zero Dark Thirty Lincoln – 12 Life of Pi – 11 Les Miserables – 8 Silver Linings Playbook – 8 Argo – 7 Amour – 5 Game Change – 5 Skyfall – 5 Django Unchained – 4 Zero Dark Thirty – 4 Anna Karenina – 3 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – 3 Beasts of the Southern Wild – 2 The Master – 2 Flight - 2 Hemingway & Gellhorn – 2 Snow White and the Huntsman – 2 5 Broken Cameras – 1 Brave – 1 Chasing Ice – 1 Frankenweenie – 1 The Gatekeepers – 1 Hitchcock – 1 How to Survive a Plague – 1 The Invisible War – 1 Kon-Tiki – 1 Marvel’s The Avengers – 1 Mirror Mirror – 1 Moonrise Kingdom – 1 No – 1 ParaNorman – 1 Prometheus – 1 The Pirates! Band of Misfits – 1 A Royal Affair – 1 Searching for Sugar Man – 1 The Sessions – 1 Ted – 1 War Witch – 1 Wreck-It Ralph – 1 The Impossible is no longer an Academy Award nominated film. 2013 Best Picture 12 Years a Slave American Hustle Behind the Candelabra Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska The Wolf of Wall Street Best Director Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave Alexander Payne, Nebraska David O. Russell, American Hustle Stephen Soderbergh, Behind the Candelabra Best Actor Bruce Dern, Nebraska Michael Douglas, Behind the Candelabra Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club Best Documentary 20 Feet From Stardom The Act of Killing Dirty Wars Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden The Square Best Sound Mixing Behind the Candelabra Captain Phillips Gravity The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Lone Survivor Best Production Design 12 Years a Slave American Hustle Behind the Candelabra Gravity The Great Gatsby Best Makeup and Hairstyling Behind the Candelabra Dallas Buyers Club The Lone Ranger Best Costume Design 12 Years a Slave American Hustle Behind the Candelabra The Grandmaster The Great Gatsby Best Film Editing 12 Years a Slave American Hustle Behind the Candelabra Captain Phillips Gravity Nom count Gravity – 10 12 Years a Slave – 9 American Hustle - 9 Behind the Candelabra – 7 Captain Phillips – 6 Nebraska – 6 Dallas Buyers Club – 5 The Wolf of Wall Street – 4 Her – 4 Blue Jasmine – 3 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – 3 Philomena – 3 August: Osage County – 2 Despicable Me 2 – 2 Frozen – 2 The Grandmaster – 2 The Great Gatsby – 2 The Lone Ranger – 2 Lone Survivor – 2 20 Feet From Stardom – 1 The Act of Killing – 1 All is Lost – 1 The Book Thief – 1 The Broken Circle Breakdown – 1 The Croods – 1 Dirty Wars – 1 Ernest and Clementine – 1 The Great Beauty – 1 The Hunt – 1 Inside Llewyn Davis - 1 Iron Man 3 – 1 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – 1 Manhunt: The Search for Bin Laden – 1 The Missing Picture – 1 Omar – 1 Prisoners – 1 Saving Mr. Banks – 1 The Square – 1 Star Trek Into Darkness – 1 Cutie and the Boxer, The Invisible Woman, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa are no longer Academy Award nominated films. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Claire Danes might have won for Temple Grandin over Portman (or over Bullock in 2009 if the film had been released two months earlier). Douglas vs McConaughey would have been interesting too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I think Julianne Moore would have an Oscar by now. She would have easily got it in that 2012 line-up. Aside from that I don't know if much changes. Behind the Candelabra was theatrically released in the UK and Michael Douglas got snubbed. It's not like they ignored the film either since it got a screenplay nod and Matt Damon got nominated in supporting actor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
