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Academy Awards 2014: Nominations
On 12th January, 2014, the winners of the Golden Globes Awards were revealed, 12 Years a Slave won the BEST PICTURE in the Drama Category, while the same in the Musical/Comedy section went to American Hustle. Actors Matthew McConaughey won the Best Actor in a DRAMA and Leonardo DiCaprio won the same for Musical/Comedy. It doesn't excite us as much as the Academy Awards
So, the much awaited Oscar nominations is finally out, and Here goes the full list for Nominations:
Best Motion Picture of the Year
American Hustle (2013)
Captain Phillips (2013)
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Gravity (2013)
Her (2013)
Nebraska (2013)
Philomena (2013)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Christian Bale for American Hustle (2013)
Bruce Dern for Nebraska (2013)
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Amy Adams for American Hustle (2013)
Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013)
Sandra Bullock for Gravity (2013)
Judi Dench for Philomena (2013)
Meryl Streep for August: Osage County (2013)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Barkhad Abdi for Captain Phillips (2013)
Bradley Cooper for American Hustle (2013)
Jonah Hill for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Michael Fassbender for 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Sally Hawkins for Blue Jasmine (2013)
Julia Roberts for August: Osage County (2013)
Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Jennifer Lawrence for American Hustle (2013)
June Squibb for Nebraska (2013)
Best Achievement in Directing
Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity (2013)
Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave (2013)
David O. Russell for American Hustle (2013)
Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Alexander Payne for Nebraska (2013)
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
American Hustle (2013): Eric Singer, David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine (2013): Woody Allen
Her (2013): Spike Jonze
Nebraska (2013): Bob Nelson
Dallas Buyers Club (2013): Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Before Midnight (2013): Richard Linklater
Captain Phillips (2013): Billy Ray
12 Years a Slave (2013): John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013): Terence Winter
Philomena (2013): Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
The Croods (2013)
Despicable Me 2 (2013)
Ernest & Celestine (2012)
Frozen (2013)
The Wind Rises (2013)
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012): Felix Van Groeningen(Belgium)
The Missing Picture (2013): Rithy Panh(Cambodia)
The Hunt (2012): Thomas Vinterberg(Denmark)
The Great Beauty (2013): Paolo Sorrentino(Italy)
Omar (2013): Hany Abu-Assad(Palestine)
The winners for the Academy Awards 2014 will be announced on 2nd March, 2014, so we have all the time to watch'em all and discuss who deserves and who doesn't. I will come up next Thursday to discuss a nominated film or performances.
-Amrit Rukhaiyaar
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Five reasons that defines the greatness of Oscar Awards
All great films and great performances may not win an Academy Award but all Academy Awards is given to some great film and great performance only, so not winning an Oscar doesn't mean that film wasn't great, but winning an Oscar guarantees the fact that there was something very good about that film, it may be the costume designing or the music or any technical award.
Let's talk about how the Oscar Awards is conducted, considering which here are five reasons which defines the greatness of Oscar Awards over the awards we have here in India.
1. Best Dressed: Actors in the west take it rather seriously when they dress for an occasion as big as the Oscars. There is dress code and everybody follows it. This makes the whole place painted in black [as they usually wear Black Tuxedos] whereas in the Filmfare award function, people are dress up in their own choice of clothes and do not follow the dress code as usual. This makes them look weird collectively. Some of them are dressed in Tuxedos, some wear nice formal suits, some wear Blazers and some even come with a shirt and jeans so as to look casual but collectively they end up looking unprofessional.
2. An AV for every nominee: This is something I really respect Oscar Awards for, there is an AV for every Nominee for any award at the Academy, be it an award for Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration or Best Film Editing. Now this AV doesn't just show us a clip of the movie nominated but explains the whole process briefly with which the costumes were selected for a certain film or the way the set of a film was decorated. Sadly, here at filmfare, we don't even think of such an idea, as if its a waste of time learning about the hard work these talented people have given to a certain blockbuster film behind the scenes.
3. Every Winner gets to talk: This is an extension to the point I just mentioned above, it is as important as the AV. Oscar is one of the greatest things that can happen to a person associated with movies, so even a winner for Costume Designing or Film Editing or any other technical award for that matters, gets the podium and is allowed to express themselves on the greatest achievement of their lives, that is Oscars. Here at the filmfare, it is somewhat out of the question, only once in a while, we get to hear a 10 or may be 15 second speech for someone winning a "LESS IMPORTANT" Award. Its a shame that we treat the lesser known people in the crew of a film like this.
4. An Oscar is hard to get: Even for an actor who has done great work through out his career, it take decades to hold an Oscar that officially belongs to them. Popular Actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Samuel Jackson, Gary Oldman, Liam Neeson and many more great actors have been doing remarkable work from last 20 to 30 years, but still hasn't got the Academy Award, this dent in their achievement chart makes them respect the competition they have in "Hollywood." Peter O'Toole had been one of the most influential actor for more than 40 or 50 years but never won an Oscar. This keeps the Actors starve for better performance with every new film, thus ultimately raising the bars of the whole film industry. Where as, here in India we shower them with Awards based on their popularity, SRK has no less than 14 filmfare, and Amitabh a little behind him, even that is okay, maybe their so called performances was better than others, but mostly they get awards for their popularity and not their performance [because their have been ignored performances by Irrfan, Manoj Bajpai etc]. But what I don't understand is the way our young actors are pampered with the BEST ACTOR DEBUT Category. This Category spoils the actors and these young actors stop working hard thereafter, as you can see that many of the people who won that award, usually didn't worked well later in their career.
5. Best Picture is the most prestigious Award: At a Bollywood film awards, the most anticipated thing is the Best Actor Award. There will be many questions and guesses leading to find out the opinion on who is it gonna be. Where as in the west, it is not who but which is it going to be, I mean, the film, that ultimate film which many hundreds of people collaborated to make it worth watching, a magnum opus, a masterpiece, whatever you want to say. After all, the hero of the story is not actually the hero of the film, its a collaborative process and it should be treated as the most prestigious Award, so the BEST PICTURE it is, the most anticipated thing.
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#List: 8 Popular Films Snubbed at Academy Awards
This list is also published on Moviepilot.com
Academy Awards is 85 years old, for a film winning the same, it is that ultimate confirmation that makes sure that the film was rightly made. Among other awards, that is, the Golden Globe, BAFTA or any other, the Oscar Awards stands out as the most coveted. However, there are many instances that the mass just not agree with the decision of the academy jury.
Academy Awards is 85 years old, for a film winning the same, it is that ultimate confirmation that makes sure that the film was rightly made. Among other awards, that is, the Golden Globe, BAFTA or any other, the Oscar Awards stands out as the most coveted. However, there are many instances that the mass just not agree with the decision of the academy jury.
In the following post, I am gonna talk about the films that could have won some major academy awards, which includes the awards for the Best Picture, Best Director or the Acting awards. These films never won an Oscar award, even after winning a place in the best film's list of the class and the mass. There are many such films to talk about but here I am choosing only 8 of them, the 8 of my favorites that did not win any award at all.
8. The Prestige: this is the story of the rivalry between two magicians and the struggle to perform the ultimate illusion to beat the other. This film had two great best actor performances [Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman], a great supporting actor performance [Michael Caine], an equally great performance by a female lead [Scarlett Johansson] and great Direction [Christopher Nolan] which summed up to make it one of the best films of 2006. But sadly, none of them won or even got a nomination for their respective awards and the movie itself was trashed by the Academy and didn't even nominate it for the Best Picture Award. Big Disappointment.
7. The Shining: This is one of of many Stephen King's book which transformed into a motion picture. The Shining is one of the best films Stanley Kubrick ever made. I am not going to say that it should have won the best Picture in 1981 because Raging Bull was undoubtedly the best choice that year, but this film should have won nominations at least and I have no hesitation to say that Jack Nicholson could have been an equally great choice for the best Actor. However Robert DeNiro's win is no surprise, he was fabulous as "Jake La Motta."
6. Memento: Now, this happened even before The Prestige, the year is 2000 and this was Christopher Nolan's 2nd film. There was still a Dark Knight Trilogy to come and Nolan was not as great in the lives of people as he is today. Memento is the story of Leonard [Guy Pearce], who suffers from short term memory loss and is trying to hunt down the man he believe has killed his wife. Memento went ahead with the plot in an interesting way. The film is a mystery and people loved what they found out towards the end. It was nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen and lost to Gosford Park. If not anything, Memento should have won a nomination for Best Picture and the Best Director.
5. American History X: Seeing the results of the 71st Academy Awards breaks my heart. I have no idea why Shakespeare in love won the Best Picture beating films like Saving Private Ryan and Life is Beautiful, but what I am more disappointed of is American History X not even getting a nomination at the Best Picture when it actually deserved to win the Best Picture title. I am also disappointed by not seeing Edward Furlong's name in the Best Supporting Actor Nomination. Though Edward Norton not winning the Best Actor Award is rightly judged.
4. Psycho: There is a something common between Alfred Hitchcock, Christopher Nolan and Stanley Kubrick, their films are never taken too seriously by the juries at the Academy Awards. Its okay, Psycho didn't win the Best Picture award or the Best Director Award, but what disappointed me the most is finding out that Anthony Perkins didn't even get a nomination, his character Norman Bates is still one of the most intense roles ever played in Hollywood.
3. Fight Club: Nominated for 1 Oscar, this is what fight club's IMDB page says. But no, this nomination is not for the Best Picture or Brad Pitt for the Best Actor Award, or Edward Norton for the Best Supporting Actor or David Fincher for the Best Director, this is for some technical award, we didn't even notice while we watched fight club. "Tyler Durden" surely deserved an Oscar.
2. 12 Angry Men: This film is loved by one and all, it deserved to win the Best Picture Award in 1958, not only that, it deserved a Best Actor Award as well for Henry Fonda. But No it did not get any of that, instead a film called The Bridges On The River Kwai won both the awards. No wonder, this is a big disappointment for millions.
1. The Shawshank Redemption: This is the biggest Oscar snub of all time according to me, Shawshank had 7 nominations in the 1995 Academy Awards including a Best Picture and a Best Actor Award for Morgan Freeman, but it won nothing at all. Forrest Gump totally overshadowed this film, however Shawshank stands at #1 in the IMDB Top 250 films of all time chart. Although Tom Hanks deserved to win the Best Actor for playing "Forrest Gump" in Forrest Gump but The Shawshank Redemption was definitely a better film than Forrest Gump that year.
But then again, movies are a form of Art and there is no definitive better or worse in Art, what pleases your eyes may seem ridiculous to me and vice versa.
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