Prioritizing your Oscar queue

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced their nominees for the Oscars, and if you're like most people, you've probably only seen a handful of them.

And if your time is limited, chances are you'll only be able to catch a handful more before your Oscar party on March 2, 2014.

So how to prioritize?

We've created a prioritized list that ranks films based on the total number of Oscar nominations the film has received and then further prioritized based on the number of nominations in top categories (Best Picture, Director, and the Lead and Supporting Acting categories), and then by prioritizing feature-length films over shorts, which are often hard to track down for casual viewers.

Here's our prioritized list of films to see:

Priority	Film	Top 6	Shorts	Other	Total
1	American Hustle	6		4	10
2	Gravity	3		7	10
3	12 Years a Slave	5		4	9
4	Nebraska	4		2	6
5	Dallas Buyers Club	3		3	6
6	Captain Phillips	2		4	6
7	The Wolf of Wall Street	4		1	5
8	Her	1		4	5
9	Philomena	2		2	4
10	Blue Jasmine	2		1	3
11	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug			3	3
12	August: Osage County	2			2
13	Despicable Me 2			2	2
13	Frozen			2	2
13	Inside Llewyn Davis			2	2
13	The Grandmaster			2	2
13	The Great Gatsby			2	2
13	The Lone Ranger			2	2
13	Lone Survivor			2	2
20	Before Midnight			1	1
21	Ernest and Celestine			1	1
21	The Croods			1	1
21	The Wind Rises			1	1
24	Prisoners			1	1
25	The Invisible Woman			1	1
26	20 Feet from Stardom			1	1
26	Cutie and the Boxer			1	1
26	Dirty Wars			1	1
26	The Act of Killing			1	1
26	The Square			1	1
31	Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa			1	1
32	Saving Mr Banks			1	1
32	The Book Thief			1	1
34	Alone Yet Not Alone			1	1
34	Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom			1	1
36	All is Lost			1	1
37	Iron Man 3			1	1
37	Star Trek Into Darkness			1	1
39	Omar (Palestine)			1	1
39	The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)			1	1
39	The Great Beauty (Italy)			1	1
39	The Hunt (Denmark)			1	1
39	The Missing Picture (Cambodia)			1	1
44	Feral		1		1
44	Get a Horse!		1		1
44	Mr Hublot		1		1
44	Possessions		1		1
44	Room on the Broom		1		1
49	Cavedigger		1		1
49	Facing Fear		1		1
49	Karama Has No Walls		1		1
49	Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall		1		1
49	The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life		1		1
54	Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)		1		1
54	Avant Que de Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything)		1		1
54	Helium		1		1
54	Pitaako Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)		1		1
54	The Voorman Problem		1		1