The Badass Digest Alternate Oscars: Best Actor And Actress

And thus we continue our weekly tribute to being disagreeable, the Badass Digest Alternate Oscars. It's our chance to bestow accolades on those deserving but denied by the Academy this year, with YOUR help. Last week, we voted on the Alternate Best Original and Adapted Screenplay. Our nominees:

Alternate Best Adapted Screenplay:

Tom Stoppard, ANNA KARENINA

Skip Hollandsworth and Richard Linklater, BERNIE

Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski, CLOUD ATLAS

David Cronenberg, COSMOPOLIS

Stephen Chbosky, THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

Alternate Best Original Screenplay:

Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, THE CABIN IN THE WOODS

Leos Carax, HOLY MOTORS

Rian Johnson, LOOPER

Paul Thomas Anderson, THE MASTER

Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling, SOUND OF MY VOICE

You guys voted via Facebook, and the people have spoken! The winners of the Badass Digest Alternate Best Adapted Screenplay, with a margin of 17 votes, are Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski for Cloud Atlas!

And the winners of the Badass Digest Alternate Best Original Screenplay, with a margin of 32 votes, are Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard for Cabin in the Woods! Excellent choices, my friends. You guys vote well. 

On to this week's category:

Alternate Best Actor:

Channing Tatum, MAGIC MIKE

Dane DeHaan, CHRONICLE

Denis Lavant, HOLY MOTORS

Jamie Foxx, DJANGO UNCHAINED

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, LOOPER

Alternate Best Actress:

Emily Blunt, LOOPER

Gretchen Lodge, LOVELY MOLLY

Keira Knightley, ANNA KARENINA

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, SMASHED

Melanie Lynskey, HELLO I MUST BE GOING

(Read the real Oscar nominees here.) So those are our picks, as agreed upon by the Badass Digest staff. Now it's up to you to vote for your favorite! Head to our Facebook page and weigh in, and tune back in next week to find out who won and to vote on a brand new Alternate Oscars category. And be sure to speak up on whom you feel both the Academy and Badass Digest snubbed in the comments.