You will notice that many changes have been made to these predictions (cause I haven’t done a set in a billion years). Anyways, here are some new Oscar predictions. They are now ranked in each category with the first film/person/thing as the winner and in descending order. Best Picture Spotlight The Revenant Steve Jobs The
Now that I am out of the Comic Con grinder, I figured it was time to do, reporting on and discussing films that haven’t come out yet!…wait…I might have misjudged this. Anyways, here are my newest set of Oscar predictions. I don’t have much in the way of analysis except to say that I made
Birdman‘s full title is Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) but it should probably be called Birdman or (How a Movie Can Have Great Elements and Still Not Work). That’s probably the best way to describe the movie which admittedly has some amazing elements that can’t be denied. It certainly has a startling vision from director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, wonderful cinematography from Emmanuel Lubezki, one of the best sound mixes I’ve ever heard and some delightful performances and yet…I left the movie feeling unwhelmed and detached. This isn’t to say that a movie has to be crowd pleasing or warm, but I felt the movie kept me at a distance and didn’t let me fully embrace the spikes and dementedness.
Oscar predicting is going to start to get serious (for some) soon and given the summer’s slate of movies, that is possibly a good thing. Anyways, here’s some analysis and predixs!
Things have changed in the Oscar race haven’t they? This is what tends to happen as contenders start announcing dates and movies get shuffled. Let’s take a gander at some new Oscar analysis shall we? –Selma has officially joined the Oscar race. I am surprised that this film, which is just finishing shooting this week