The Guardian UK proposes its own nominees

As one of the first out of the gate with his Top 10 list, Peter Bradshaw at the Guardian UK is champing at the bit. So we’ll let him run ahead before he makes all the other critics skittish. He claims to have “compiled an Oscar-style nomination list” but it only takes one glance to understand he means “10 nominees” and that’s where the Oscar overlap ends. Two sentences from his intro have relevance to our more practical purposes:

Mike Leigh gave us another gem in what is becoming a gloriously fruitful and accomplished “late period”… And The Social Network was mainstream American film-making of the smartest, most sophisticated and yet accessible sort.

BEST FILM

• ANOTHER YEAR (dir. Mike Leigh)
• KICK-ASS (dir. Matthew Vaughn)
• THE OTHER GUYS (dir. Adam McKay)
• UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• ENTER THE VOID (dir. Gaspar No√©)
• OF GODS AND MEN (dir. Xavier Beauvois)
• THE HEADLESS WOMAN (dir. Lucrecia Martel)
• DOGTOOTH (dir. Giorgios Lanthimos)
• TOY STORY 3 (dir. Lee Unkrich)
• THE SOCIAL NETWORK (dir. David Fincher)

BEST DIRECTOR

• SYLVAIN CHOMET for The Illusionist
• MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM for The Killer Inside Me
• SHIRIN NESHAT for Women Without Men
• HARMONY KORINE for Trash Humpers
• CLAIRE DENIS for White Material
• CHRIS MORRIS for Four Lions
• CLIO BARNARD for The Arbor
• APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
• LUCRECIA MARTEL for The Headless Woman
• GASPAR NO√â for Enter the Void

BEST ACTOR

• Joaquin Phoenix for I’M STILL HERE (dir. Casey Affleck)
• Colin Firth for A SINGLE MAN (dir. Tom Ford)
• Andy Serkis for SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL (dir. Mat Whitecross)
• Riz Ahmed for FOUR LIONS (dir. Chris Morris)
• Ben Stiller for GREENBERG (dir. Noah Baumbach)
• Leonardo DiCaprio for INCEPTION (dir. Christopher Nolan)
• Ricardo Dar√≠n for THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (dir. Juan Jos√© Campanella)
• Ryan Reynolds for BURIED (dir. Rodrigo Cort√©s)
• Jesse Eisenberg for THE SOCIAL NETWORK (dir. David Fincher)
• Edgar Ramirez for CARLOS (dir. Olivier Assayas)

BEST ACTRESS

• Rachel Weisz for AGORA (dir. Alejandro Amen√°bar)
• Isabelle Huppert for WHITE MATERIAL (dir. Claire Denis)
• Kristin Scott-Thomas for LEAVING (dir. Catherine Corsini)
• Kim Hye-ja for MOTHER (dir. Bong Joon-ho)
• Catalina Savedra for THE MAID (dir. Sebasti√°n Silva)
• Jennifer Lawrence for WINTER’S BONE (dir. Debra Granik)
• Annette Bening for THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (dir. Lisa Cholodenko)
• Lesley Manville for ANOTHER YEAR (dir. Mike Leigh)
• Marina Hands for AN ORDINARY EXECUTION (dir. Marc Dugain)
• Marissa Gibson for SAMSON AND DELILAH (dir. Warwick Thornton)

Check out the Guardian to see Bradshaw’s nominees in the supporting actor categories and his top 10 documentaries.

Thought experiment: If this Alternate Universe Academy existed, what pair of hotties would host the Egghead Oscars?