I always thought the Oscars showcased too much collusion and
pretentiousness by nominating nine nominees every year to try and spread the
most amount of love.
This time, we have… a little more focus.
Only eight Best Picture Nominees and four films leading the
way with:
The Imitation Game (8 noms)
Birdman (9 noms)
Boyhood (6 noms)
The Grand Budapest
Hotel (9 noms)
The remaining Best
Pic nominees:
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of
Everything
Whiplsh
Some may be surprised by the amount of love American Sniper received late in the
award season, however Clint Eastwood was NOT nominated. Instead, the Academy opted to nominate
Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher, a
surprise to probably everybody except me, who called Miller’s nomination. However, despite a Director and Original
Script nomination, Foxcatcher failed
to nab a Best Pic nomination.
American Sniper’s
Bradley Cooper continues to have this love affair with everyone else in
Holywood, and it pays off with a nomination for Best Actor over a field of
other contenders, including Selma’s
Oyelowo.
Speaking of Selma,
it was not shut out completely. To show
some progressivism, Selma was thrown
a bone and given a Best Picture nomination…and that’s pretty much it! It is also up for Original Song of
course. I thought it was a kind of
all-or-nothing kind of deal, but shutting out the film might have unwanted lash
back , so perhaps white guilt really did push this movie into the spotlight…never
underestimate it’s power.
And Jennifer Aniston NOT being up actually means that nobody
saw that movie, and those who did chose not to vote for her.
Finally, the by far the biggest surprise of the morning was The LEGO Movie NOT being nominated for
Best Animated Feature. Many, including
myself, thought it was the favorite to win, and as we saw the race get down to
really six movies, The LEGO Movie,
having come out earliest, was primarily forgotten. That annoying song in the movie is nominated
however, which leads me to believe everything is NOT awesome.
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