Parsing a list of 2013 Oscar nominees into CSV. (The raw text is formatted strangely w.r.t. case because it was copy-pasted from a PDF.)

oscars-2013-raw.txt

BEST PICTURE
Amour
TBD, Producer
Argo
Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
BeAsts of the southern Wild
Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
djAngo unchAined
Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
les misérABles
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
life of Pi
Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
lincoln
Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
silver linings PlAyBook
Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
Zero dArk thirty
Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers

ACToR In A LEAdIng RoLE
SiLvER LiNiNGS PLAyBooK
Bradley cooper 
LiNCoLN
daniel day-lewis
LES MiSéRABLES
hugh jackman 
THE MASTER
joaquin Phoenix
FLiGHT
denzel Washington

ACToR In A SUPPoRTIng RoLE
ARGo
Alan Arkin 
SiLvER LiNiNGS PLAyBooK
robert de niro 
THE MASTER
Philip seymour hoffman 
LiNCoLN
tommy lee jones
DJANGo UNCHAiNED
christoph Waltz 

ACTRESS In A LEAdIng RoLE
ZERo DARK THiRTy
jessica chastain
SiLvER LiNiNGS PLAyBooK
jennifer lawrence
AMoUR
emmanuelle riva
BEASTS oF THE SoUTHERN WiLD
Quvenzhané Wallis
THE iMPoSSiBLE
naomi Watts

ACTRESS In A SUPPoRTIng RoLE
THE MASTER
Amy Adams 
LiNCoLN
sally field
LES MiSéRABLES
Anne hathaway
THE SESSioNS
helen hunt
SiLvER LiNiNGS PLAyBooK
jacki Weaver

AnImATEd FEATURE FILm
BrAve
Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
frAnkenWeenie
Tim Burton                                                                   
PArAnormAn
Sam Fell and Chris Butler
the PirAtes! BAnd of misfits
Peter Lord
Wreck-it rAlPh
Rich Moore

CInEmATogRAPHY
AnnA kAreninA
Seamus McGarvey
djAngo unchAined
Robert Richardson
life of Pi
Claudio Miranda
lincoln
Janusz Kaminski
skyfAll
Roger Deakins

CoSTUmE dESIgn
AnnA kAreninA
Jacqueline Durran
les misérABles
Paco Delgado
lincoln
Joanna Johnston
mirror mirror
Eiko ishioka
snoW White And the huntsmAn
Colleen Atwood

dIRECTIng
Amour
Michael Haneke
BeAsts of the southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin
life of Pi
Ang Lee
lincoln
Steven Spielberg
silver linings PlAyBook
David o. Russell

doCUmEnTARY FEATURE
5 Broken cAmerAs
Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
the gAtekeePers
TBD
hoW to survive A PlAgue
TBD
the invisiBle WAr
TBD
seArching for sugAr mAn
TBD

doCUmEnTARY SHoRT SUBjECT
inocente
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
kings Point
Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
mondAys At rAcine
Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
oPen heArt
Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
redemPtion
Jon Alpert and Matthew o’Neill

FILm EdITIng
Argo
William Goldenberg
life of Pi
Tim Squyres
lincoln
Michael Kahn
silver linings PlAyBook
Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
Zero dArk thirty
Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

FoREIgn LAngUAgE FILm
Amour
Austria
kon-tiki
Norway
no
Chile
A royAl AffAir
Denmark
WAr Witch
Canada

mAKEUP And HAIRSTYLIng
hitchcock
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
the hoBBit: An unexPected journey
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
les misérABles
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

mUSIC (oRIgInAL SCoRE)
AnnA kAreninA
Dario Marianelli
Argo
Alexandre Desplat
life of Pi
Mychael Danna
lincoln
John Williams
skyfAll
Thomas Newman

mUSIC (oRIgInAL Song)
CHASiNG iCE
“Before my time”, Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
TED
“Everybody needs A Best friend”, Music by Walter Murphy, Lyric by Seth MacFarlane 
LiFE oF Pi
“Pi’s lullaby”, Music by Mychael Danna, Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
SKyFALL
“skyfall”, Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
LES MiSéRABLES
“suddenly”, Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil 

PRodUCTIon dESIgn
AnnA kAreninA
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood, Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
the hoBBit: An unexPected journey
Production Design: Dan Hennah, Set Decoration: Ra vincent and Simon Bright
les misérABles
Production Design: Eve Stewart, Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
life of Pi
Production Design: David Gropman, Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
lincoln
Production Design: Rick Carter, Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

SHoRT FILm (AnImATEd)
AdAm And dog
Minkyu Lee
fresh guAcAmole
PES
heAd over heels
Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin o’Reilly
mAggie simPson in “the longest dAycAre”        
David Silverman
PAPermAn
John Kahrs

SHoRT FILm (LIvE ACTIon)
AsAd
Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
BuZkAshi Boys
Sam French and Ariel Nasr
curfeW
Shawn Christensen 
deAth of A shAdoW (dood vAn een schAduW)
Tom van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
henry
yan England

SoUnd EdITIng
Argo
Erik Aadahl and Ethan van der Ryn
djAngo unchAined
Wylie Stateman
life of Pi
Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
skyfAll
Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
Zero dArk thirty
Paul N.J. ottosson

SoUnd mIXIng
Argo
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
les misérABles
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
life of Pi
Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
lincoln
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
skyfAll
Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

vISUAL EFFECTS
the hoBBit: An unexPected journey
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
life of Pi
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
mArvel’s the Avengers
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
Prometheus
Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
snoW White And the huntsmAn
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson

WRITIng (AdAPTEd SCREEnPLAY)
Argo
Screenplay by Chris Terrio
BeAsts of the southern Wild
Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
life of Pi
Screenplay by David Magee
lincoln
Screenplay by Tony Kushner
silver linings PlAyBook
Screenplay by David o. Russell

WRITIng (oRIgInAL SCREEnPLAY)
Amour
Written by Michael Haneke
djAngo unchAined
Written by Quentin Tarantino
flight
Written by John Gatins
moonrise kingdom
Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
Zero dArk thirty
Written by Mark Boal

parse_oscar_noms.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Scans and parses a very specific form of input, text converted from a PDF list
of nominees from the Academy Awards website, into a CSV file
"""

import csv
import sys
from collections import namedtuple 

# token types.
CATEGORY, FILM, NAMES, BLANK = range(4)

Nominee = namedtuple('Nominee', ('film', 'names'))

class Category:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name
        self.nominees = []

class Lexer:
    def __init__(self):
        self.token = None

    def run(self, start_state):
        state = start_state
        while state is not None:
            if self.token is not None:
                yield self.token
            state = state(self)

    def emit(self, toktype, value):
        self.token = (toktype, value)

class Parser:
    def __init__(self, lexer):
        self.lexer = lexer
        self.cat = None
        self.film = None

    def reset(self):
        self.cat = None
        self.film = None

    def parse(self):
        categories = []
        for toktype, value in self.lexer.run(lex_category):
            if toktype == CATEGORY:
                self.cat = Category(value)
            elif toktype == FILM:
                self.film = value
            elif toktype == NAMES:
                self.cat.nominees.append(Nominee(self.film, value))
            elif toktype == BLANK:
                categories.append(self.cat)
                self.reset()
        if self.cat is not None:
            categories.append(self.cat)
        return categories

def getline():
    line = sys.stdin.readline()
    if line == '':
        return None
    return line.strip()

def title(s):
    return s.title()

def lex_category(lexer):
    lexer.emit(CATEGORY, title(getline()))
    return lex_film

def lex_film(lexer):
    line = getline()
    if line == '':
        lexer.emit(BLANK, '')
        return lex_category
    elif line is None: # EOF, shut down the machine
        return None
    lexer.emit(FILM, title(line))
    return lex_names

def lex_names(lexer):
    lexer.emit(NAMES, title(getline()))
    return lex_film

def flatten(categories):
    for c in categories:
        for n in c.nominees:
            yield c.name, n.film, n.names

def main():
    parser = Parser(Lexer())
    w = csv.writer(sys.stdout)
    w.writerow(['Category', 'Film', 'Name(s)'])
    w.writerows(flatten(parser.parse()))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()