The following vote-getters were the most painfully close to making the final ballot. A single extra fifth-place vote for any of them would have been enough to make the difference.
Director: The Wolf of Wall Street - Martin Scorsese
Best Actress: Blue Jasmine - Cate Blanchett
Ensemble Cast: Much Ado About Nothing
Animated Film: The Wind Rises
Documentary: We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks
Editing: Drug War
Sound: 12 Years a Slave
Cinematography: To the Wonder
Art Direction: Inside Llewyn Davis
Dramatic Scene: 12 Years a Slave - Solomon Sings
A more complete list of runners-up is below.
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Here are some of the runners-up (in order of finish). Titles in blue were within a couple first-place votes of making the ballot. The ones in red weren't remotely close to getting nominated, but for the most part I wanted to list at least ten runners-up per category.
PICTURE
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Wolf of Wall Street
To the Wonder
Short Term 12
Spring Breakers
The Act of Killing
Drug War
American Hustle
Like Someone in Love
The Hunt
DIRECTOR
The Wolf of Wall Street
Before Midnight
Spring Breakers
American Hustle
To the Wonder
Drug War
Captain Phillips
Like Someone in Love
The Grandmaster
The World's End
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Side Effects
The World's End
American Hustle
The Hunt
Like Someone in Love
Gimme the Loot
Computer Chess
Drug War
Spring Breakers
Nebraska
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Much Ado About Nothing
Captain Phillips
Behind the Candelabra
Cosmopolis
Night Across the Street
No
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Lore
August: Osage County
ACTOR
The Hunt - Mads Mikkelsen
Dallas Buyers Club - Matthew McConaughey
The World's End - Simon Pegg
Nebraska - Bruce Dern
Before Midnight - Ethan Hawke
Behind the Candelabra - Michael Douglas
The Spectacular Now - Miles Teller
Mud - Tye Sheridan
American Hustle - Christian Bale
Drug War - Honglei Sun
ACTRESS
Blue Jasmine - Cate Blanchett
Gravity - Sandra Bullock
Upstream Color - Amy Seimetz
Side Effects - Rooney Mara
Drinking Buddies - Olivia Wilde
The Spectacular Now - Shailene Woodley
Saving Mr. Banks - Emma Thompson
The Grandmaster - Zhang Ziyi
To the Wonder - Olga Kurylenko
Enough Said - Julia Louis-Dreyfuss
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Dallas Buyers Club - Jared Leto
Pain & Gain - Dwayne Johnson
American Hustle - Bradley Cooper
The Wolf of Wall Street - Jonah Hill
Short Term 12 - Keith Stanfield
Inside Llewyn Davis - John Goodman
The World's End - Nick Frost
Nebraska - Will Forte
Iron Man 3 - Ben Kingsley
Prisoners - Paul Dano
Enough Said - James Gandolfini
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Blue Is the Warmest Color - Léa Seydoux
Short Term 12 - Kaitlyn Dever
Nebraska - June Squibb
Frances Ha - Mickey Sumner
Inside Llewyn Davis - Carey Mulligan
Blancanieves - Maribel Verdu
Mud - Reese Witherspoon
Side Effects - Catherine Zeta-Jones
Drinking Buddies - Anna Kendrick
The Wolf of Wall Street - Margot Robbie
ENSEMBLE CAST
Much Ado About Nothing
Blue Jasmine
The Wolf of Wall Street
Her
Drinking Buddies
August: Osage County
Nebraska
Drug War
Prisoners
It's a Disaster
NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILM
The Grandmaster
The Act of Killing
Lore
Beyond the Hills
Wolf Children
No
A Hijacking
In the House
Blancanieves
The Past
ANIMATED FILM
The Wind Rises
Ernest & Célestine
The Croods
Get a Horse!
Fresh Guacamole
Epic
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
Planes
DOCUMENTARY
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks
Room 237
How to Survive a Plague
Cutie and the Boxer
20 Feet from Stardom
Side by Side
A Band Called Death
Liv and Ingmar
The Central Park Five
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
EDITING
Drug War
The World's End
12 Years a Slave
To the Wonder
The Wolf of Wall Street
Pacific Rim
Stoker
Like Someone in Love
American Hustle
Rush
SOUND
12 Years a Slave
Stoker
Her
All Is Lost
The Conjuring
Captain Phillips
Berberian Sound Studio
Lore
Lone Survivor
Drug War
SCORE
Frozen
The Grandmaster
Nebraska
The Great Gatsby
Inside Llewyn Davis
Spring Breakers
Prince Avalanche
Man of Steel
Side Effects
The Spectacular Now
Cutie and the Boxer
SOUNDTRACK
Girl Walk // All Day
Frances Ha
Frozen
The Great Gatsby
Gimme the Loot
Mud
About Time
Her
Tabu
The Bling Ring
CINEMATOGRAPHY
To the Wonder
Upstream Color
Only God Forgives
Stoker
The Grandmaster
Prisoners
Computer Chess
Wuthering Heights
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Mud
ART DIRECTION
Inside Llewyn Davis
Pacific Rim
Computer Chess
American Hustle
Upstream Color
Stoker
Behind the Candelabra
Only God Forgives
The World's End
The Great Gatsby
VISUAL EFFECTS
The World's End
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Great Gatsby
World War Z
The Grandmaster
Evil Dead
Kon-Tiki
Rush
Europa Report
The Impossible
SURPRISE
Girl Walk // All Day [finished in top five but ineligible due to Debut Feature nomination]
Frozen [ineligible due to Animated Film nomination]
White House Down
Fast & Furious 6
Short Term 12 [ineligible due to Ensemble nomination]
Evil Dead
Rush
It's a Disaster
Pacific Rim
Man of Steel
Europa Report
All Is Lost
This Is the End
DEBUT FEATURE
Gimme the Loot
This Is the End
In a World…
Antiviral
Fill the Void
Evil Dead
The Kings of Summer
I Declare War
Cutie and the Boxer
How to Survive a Plague
SCENE (DRAMATIC)
12 Years a Slave - Solomon Sings
Short Term 12 - The Octopus and the Shark
Drug War - Final Shootout
Spring Breakers - "Everything" Montage
The Grandmaster - Battle at the Station
Like Someone in Love - Opening Scene in Bar
Like Someone in Love - Taxi, Voice Messages
Inside Llewyn Davis - Hang Me, Oh Hang Me / Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song)
Frances Ha - Phone Call from Paris
The Place Beyond the Pines - Police Chase
SCENE (COMEDIC)
Spring Breakers - "Everything" Montage
Frozen - In Summer
Much Ado About Nothing - Benedick's Eavesdropping
Girl Walk // All Day - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
The Wolf of Wall Street - Lemon Qualudes and Phone Calls
Elysium - Max Visits His Parole Officer
This Is the End - Exorcism
Drinking Buddies - Parallel Outings
The World's End - Facing the Network
Much Ado About Nothing - I Am an Ass
It's a Disaster - Late to Brunch
SHOT
The Bling Ring - Robbing Audrina's
Her - The Owl
Gravity - Obliterated
Spring Breakers - "Seems Like a Dream"
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Last Shot
12 Years a Slave - Burning Letter
12 Years a Slave - Solomon Looking at Us
12 Years a Slave - Patsey and the Soap
Inside Llewyn Davis - Cat in the Snow
Pain & Gain - Opening Shot
Her - Final Shot
Like Someone in Love - Opening Shot
LINE
Frances Ha - "Oh, sorry. I'm not a real person yet."
Iron Man 3 - "Honestly, I hate working here. They are so weird."
The World's End - "What the f—k does WTF mean?"
Spring Breakers - "Spring brayyyyk... forever..."
Nebraska - "I ain't fiddlin' with no cow titties, I'm a city girl!"
The Great Gatsby - "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Frances Ha - "Undateable!"
The Wolf of Wall Street - "I'll tell you what: I'm never eating at Benihana again. I don't care whose birthday it is."
Her - "The past is a story we tell ourselves."
Inside Llewyn Davis - "Where is his scrotum?"