The 2015 87th Academy Awards Nominees
Best Picture
“Birdman” – 9
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” – 9
“The Imitation Game” – 8
“Boyhood” – 6
“American Sniper” – 6
“Whiplash” – 5
“Interstellar” – 5
“Foxcatcher” – 5
List from the Washington Post
The buzz here is that Imitation Game is pretty good, but best picture? Foxcather? No. Not best picture. Okay, but not. Never even heard of Whiplash.
Boyhood we've seen. What a boring piece of crap. Not even worth a nod. So it's neat to show some kid go through puberty, for hours. That doesn't mean I have to sit through this again. Sure Oscar will give it best picture.
The caper movie is way more fun and interesting, with great acting, (Budapest Hotel), which I;m surprised they even remember. But they like long tired drawn out movies.
The only saving grace might be that Birdman gets it, except it mocks Hollywood and thus might no. Maybe they will decide they hate teenagers and not give Boyhood anything because they don't like them. I doubt this. They will likely nominate it just to piss everyone off.
Movies the Clara Awards and Kal Kat saw:
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Interstellar
Guardians of the Galaxy
They snubbed Guardians of the Galaxy.
Oscar did this because they are old codgers and have no patience to sit through fun comic book movies, and comic books have always been shoved off somewhere.
It was only a few years ago that a Batman movie won an Oscar, for Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight, and that film was best picture in some circles too. They may not go through that again.
Marvel movies are probably an acquired taste, but still.
They snubbed it also because it was too strange. The idea of a CGI tree man and a raccoon is just on another plane from the, and you can't give an Oscar to a CGI creature. But it could have been in the animated category and then you can. So there.
Hence the need for best fantasy film, Guardians of the Galaxy, of which you could also include Interstellar. Remember it best of the year, not best ever. Even Harry Potter won some awards for fantasy films.
The new Hobbit movies weren't even mentioned. This is a snub. They were kind of a broken long bloated mess, but at least a nod would have been nice. If only there had been just two, or if not, 3 movies but they were only 90 minutes each and they cut out the extra boring stuff. Yes, a snub, but at least they needed mention. How about sound or special effects, or location set design. On that front they were brilliant. I guess the high frame rate bothered the old guys too much.
Animated Film
“Big Hero 6”
“The Boxtrolls”
“How to Train Your Dragon 2”
“Song of the Sea”
“The Tale of the Princess Kaguya”
List from The Washington Post
The last two on this list don't make any sense paired with the others. They're non events. Nobody has heard of them. How Oscar heard of them is curious.
The Lego Movie should get a nod for animated CG film and for song, "Everything is Awesome" in league with the Kids Choice Awards. But even the Clara decided it was simply too long ago and too obvious for old Oscar fogies, perhaps even too strange for them to get. Best picture it is not. Best fun original film it is at times. Best children's movie of the year it definitely ranks at.
Best Animated Film nominees Clara Awards or Kal Kat saw:
Boxtrolls
Big Hero Six
How to Train Your Dragon 2
They snubbed The Lego Movie, but in January so did we.
We did not rate Best Director, Actor, Actress, production, make up, song, design or any of that.
Our call for Best Picture of the Year was Guardians of the Galaxy.
Oscar will pick Boyhood because it is long and plodding and boring.
Our choice for drama of the year was a split decision. Birdman won for dark comedy and drama, while Grand Budapest Hotel walked away with straight up comedy.
We were fairly in line with the Golden Globes on that.
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