You may remember how not too long ago I used my crazy amount of blog-related industry access to share the best albums of 2012 that never made it past the cutting room floor. And if you don’t remember, I’m hurt cause I thought we had something really strong between us. Since that post, my baller ante has totes gone up. I saw Zoe Saldana on the street, got to read the whole Justin Carney/Bieber battle on Twitter, and was invited by HBO to watch the Beyonce doc in the privacy of my own home. All I had to do was pay my $120 Time Warner bill first.

That said, the Oscars are coming up, which means it’s time again for me to share the Little Conqueror wealth. Here now for you are the films that with a little more industry support could have been up for best picture, if they had only made like Frank Ocean and came out.

BIG BIRD AND THE MICRO UNIT

“Can you tell me how to get to a new apartment?”

TRACY MORGAN’S DOWNTON ABBEY: THE MOVIE

WHITE PEOPLE MAKING OUT

AVATAR II

A heroic journey to the distant planet Brooklyn