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Ranking Oscar’s 2014 Nominees

This upcoming Sunday, the collective nightmare known as awards season will be effectively over.

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Photo: Warner Bros.

This week, the polar vortex will make an encore performance in the United States, but this upcoming Sunday, when Ellen DeGeneres signs off as host of the 86th annual Academy Awards, the collective nightmare known as awards season will be effectively over. This year, 57 56 films received nominations across 24 categories, and with the exception of The Invisible Woman, I’ve seen them all. Below is a ranked list, from most euphoric to most pungent, of those 56 films.

Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Gravity
The Missing Picture
Before Midnight
Ernest & Celestine
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
Cave Digger
The Square
Just Before Losing Everything
The Act of Killing
Omar
Cutie and the Boxer
The Voorman Problem
Twenty Feet from Stardom
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
American Hustle
Philomena
Captain Phillips
Karma Has No Walls
The Lone Ranger
Room on the Broom
Mr. Hublot
The Great Gatsby
The Grandmaster
Possessions
Despicable Me 2
The Hunt
Feral
12 Years a Slave
The Wind Rises
The Book Thief
The Great Beauty
Dirty Wars
All Is Lost
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
August: Osage County
Prisoners
Saving Mr. Banks
The Wolf of Wall Street
Frozen
Iron Man 3
Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?
The Broken Circle Breakdown
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Blue Jasmine
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Dallas Buyers Club
Facing Fear
Star Trek: Into Darkness
The Croods
Get a Horse!
Nebraska
Helium
Lone Survivor
That Wasn’t Me

Ed Gonzalez

Ed Gonzalez is the co-founder of Slant Magazine. A member of the New York Film Critics Circle, his writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, and other publications.

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