Awards season is now upon us and here, as every year, is my personal fantasy award nomination list for 2013, whimsically called the Braddies, which covers the period running from the beginning of the calendar year to the present. There are 10 nominations in eight categories: film, director, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, screenplay and documentary.

The reader is invited to nominate the winner in the comments section below, and perhaps to note omissions and evidence that the list betrays suggestions of sociocultural bias.

I like to think that these awards will one day evolve into an actual ceremony with chrome-and-glass statuettes, sponsorship from Sky Atlantic and a televised evening presided over by Dara Ó Briain or Mariella Frostrup. But until then, it exists in a world of fantasy only. And so, the excited chatter from guests at the Grosvenor House hotel in central London dies to a quiet … The stage lights dim … Dara or Mariella takes to the stage …And the nominees are….

Best film

The Great Beauty (Dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
The Act of Killing (Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer)
Gravity (Dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
Only God Forgives (Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
I Wish (Dir. Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
Before Midnight (Dir. Richard Linklater)
The Selfish Giant (Dir. Clio Barnard)
Blue Jasmine (Dir. Woody Allen)
Blue is the Warmest Colour (Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche)
Winter of Discontent (Dir. Ibrahim El-Batout)

Best director

Paolo Sorrentino for The Great Beauty
Steven Soderbergh for Behind the Candelabra and Side Effects
Hirokazu Kore-Eda for I Wish Nicolas Winding Refn for Only God Forgives
Pablo Berger for Blancanieves
Paul Greengrass for Captain Phillips
Andrzej Wajda for Walesa: Man of Hope
Clio Barnard for The Selfish Giant
Abdellatif Kechiche for Blue is the Warmest Colour
Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained

Best actor

David Dewaele for Hors Satan (Dir. Bruno Dumont)
Ryan Gosling for The Place Beyond the Pines (Dir. Derek Cianfrance)
Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln (Dir. Steven Spielberg)
Michael Douglas for Behind The Candelabra
Ethan Hawke for Before Midnight
Toni Servillo for The Great Beauty
Conner Chapman for The Selfish Giant
Shaun Thomas for The Selfish Giant James Gandolfini for Enough Said (Dir. Nicole Holofcener)
Bruce Dern for Nebraska (Dir. Alexander Payne)

Best actress

Adèle Exarchopoulos for Blue is the Warmest Colour
Léa Seydoux for Blue Is The Warmest Colour Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine
Émilie Dequenne for Our Children (Dir. Joachim Lafosse)
Judi Dench for Philomena (Dir. Stephen Frears)
Paulina García for Gloria (Dir. Sebastián Lelio)
Luminita Gheorghiu for Child's Pose (Dir. Calin Peter Netzer)
Julie Delpy for Before Midnight
Audrey Tautou for Thérèse Desqueyroux (Dir. Claude Miller)
Waad Mohammed for Wadjda (Dir. Haifaa Al Mansour)

Best supporting actor

Samuel L Jackson for Django Unchained
Michael Smiley for A Field In England (Dir. Ben Wheatley)
Rob Lowe for Behind The Candelabra
Alec Baldwin for Blue Jasmine
Vithaya Pansringarm for Only God Forgives Christopher Walken for A Late Quartet (Dir. Yaron Zilberman)
Ben Kingsley for Iron Man 3 (Dir. Shane Black)
Roberto Herlitzka for The Great Beauty
Allen Leech for In Fear (Dir. Jeremy Lovering)
Wiley Wiggins for Computer Chess (Dir. Andrew Bujalski)

Best supporting actress

Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables (Dir. Tom Hooper)
Siobhan Finneran for The Selfish Giant
Ann Dowd for Compliance (Dir. Craig Zobel)
Jodie Whittaker for Good Vibrations (Dirs. Lisa Barros D'sa, Glenn Leyburn)
Leslie Mann for The Bling Ring (Dir. Sofia Coppola)
Melanie Benz for Paradise: Hope (Dir. Ulrich Seidl)
Sabrina Ferilli for The Great Beauty
Anna Kendrick for Drinking Buddies (Dir. Joe Swanberg)
June Squibb for Nebraska (Dir. Alexander Payne)
Catherine Keener for Enough Said

Best screenplay

Jean-Claude Carrière for The Patience Stone (Dir. Atiq Rahimi)
Nicole Holofcener for Enough Said Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope for Philomena
Woody Allen for Blue Jasmine
Richard Lagravenese for Behind the Candelabra
Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith for Saving Mr Banks (Dir. John Lee Hancock)
Judd Apatow for This Is 40 (Dir. Judd Apatow)
Derek Cianfrance, Ben Coccio and Darius Marder for The Place Beyond The Pines
Amy Jump and Ben Wheatley for A Field In England
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright for The World's End (Dir. Edgar Wright)

Best documentary

The Act Of Killing (Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer)
Stories We Tell (Dir. Sarah Polley)
Blackfish (Dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
The Spirit Of '45 (Dir. Ken Loach)
The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone (Dir. Shane Meadows)
The Stuart Hall Project (Dir. John Akomfrah)
The Pervert's Guide To Ideology (Dir. Sophie Fiennes)
Seduced And Abandoned (Dir. James Toback)
Utopia (Dir. John Pilger)
Leviathan (Dirs. Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel)