Often, when the acting Oscar nominees are revealed, they’ll be at least one performance amongst the twenty which appears to be a reward for a veteran actor for putting in an above-average performance after several years in the wilderness. I feel that this is true of the Supporting Actor nomination given to Robert Duvall for … Continue reading
In the last couple of posts, I’ve looked at the varied performance that were competing for the Best Actress Oscar in 2014 and how most could’ve won the award. Ultimately, it was Julianne Moore who won the award for her performance in Still Alice, which was her fifth turn to be nominated for an Oscar. … Continue reading
As I’ve said previously, it’s hard to get a space in any of the top Oscar categories if you’re representing a film that isn’t in the English language. Despite South Korea’s Parasite winning this year’s Best Picture prize, the movie got no awards for acting despite having an amazing ensemble cast. Therefore, it’s always a … Continue reading
Although in these posts I try to avoid spoilers as much as I time, occasionally I have to reveal the twists in a film in order to fully discuss some performances. A case in point is David Fincher’s Gone Girl, for which Rosamund Pike was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar in 2014, as key … Continue reading
After her Oscar-winning turn in Walk the Line, Reese Witherspoon’s career went on a slightly downturn which the actress herself attested to in an interview years later. Coupled with her divorce to her first husband, Witherspoon had a string of roles in inferior movies such as Four Christmases, How Do You Know, Water for Elephants … Continue reading
Having a look at the list of the performances that Meryl Streep has been nominated for possibly the oddest choice was one of her more recent nods in 2014’s Into the Woods. Selecting somebody for their role in a musical ensemble is a strange choice unless that film has swept the nominations, such as Chicago … Continue reading
While spending five years looking at over five hundred Best Picture nominees I found it increasingly strange that not every nominated movie also received a Best Director nod. It was as if the Academy was saying that the film was good in other ways but hadn’t been directed particularly well and I feel that that’s … Continue reading
So we now come to our final Best Picture nominee Whiplash which is a rather hard film to categorise. If I was going to try to describe it then I would probably say that it’s a thriller set in the world of jazz-drumming, and you don’t get one of those every day. Continue reading
We come to our penultimate Best Picture nominee now in The Theory of Everything which ticks almost every box that a Best Picture candidate could. It’s based on a true story, has a lead character with a disability and is set in the recent past; in other words it’s The King’s Speech all over again. Continue reading
The real-life drama continues with Selma; which tells the story of the Martin Luther King-led marches on the titular Alabama town in 1964. Continue reading
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