January 15, 201511 yr Without seeing the Movie yet I will predict American Sniper winning 3 Oscars. Just a hunch
January 15, 201511 yr Best Picture American Sniper Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Selma Theory of Everything Whiplash I'm batting a big fat .000 I will see American Sniper soon though.
January 15, 201511 yr Best Picture American Sniper Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Selma Theory of Everything Whiplash I'm batting a big fat .000 I will see American Sniper soon though. One of my daughters saw Boyhood and keeps telling me I need to see it, she loved it. I think from what I hear it wouldn't surprise me for Patricia Arquette winning best supporting actress for it.
January 15, 201511 yr Author Boyhood and Birdman are the two I keep hearing are the favorites for Best Picture. Intrigued by Birdman, not so much Boyhood. I'll go with Bradley Cooper winning Best Actor and Reese Witherspoon winning Best Actress. Ed Norton and Patricia Arquette taking Supporting Actor and Actress.
January 15, 201511 yr So far I've seen half the Best Picture nominees: Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel Whiplash Really looking forward to Selma and The Imitation Game. Less so the other two but I imagine they'll be pretty good. Of the four I've seen, Whiplash was my favorite, but it won't win.
January 15, 201511 yr I'm batting a big fat .000 Same here. I always like to watch the nominated documentaries too: Citizenfour Finding Vivian Maier Last Days in Vietnam Salt of the Earth Virunga I know Virunga is on Netflix.
January 15, 201511 yr Same here. I always like to watch the nominated documentaries too: Citizenfour Finding Vivian Maier Last Days in Vietnam Salt of the Earth Virunga I know Virunga is on Netflix. Last year by mid-February all five of them had made their way to Netflix. I'll try to watch those the same way. Speaking of those documentaries, was "Jodorowsky's Dune" released in 2013? I thought it came out early in 2014 and would have been a shoo-in for one of those nominations. It was great.
January 15, 201511 yr Author Bovada has Boyhood as a huge (1/14) odds on favorite to win Best Picture. Grand Budapest Hotel has the next best odds at 12/1.
January 15, 201511 yr Getslow, how is Whiplash? I loved it. Worth the price of admission just for J.K. Simmons' performance as the maniacal music instructor. And the music is pretty amazing. I'm not much of a jazz guy, but they do a great job with the selections in this movie. According to the director, about 50% of the drumming in the movie is lead actor Miles Teller playing live on set, not dubbed over. It's a real study in obsession and something that I think a lot of people can see, even if they're not music folks. Certainly top-level athletes have that same driving force that pushes them to want to be the best.
January 15, 201511 yr Too bad "Lego Movie" was left off the Animated list. Not awesome as the song goes in that movie.
January 15, 201511 yr I've come here today to pen this little rhyme about Selma, the most remarkable film of all-time. It wrote and directed, photographed and then acted itself, like a road without workers who laid it. So I offer this stricture on its nod for Best Picture while not one for the people who made it. No actors, no artists, no cast, and no crew; it sprang from the ground and they showed it to you. Maybe Legend and Common will prove it belongs. But did it get the nod just because of their song?
January 16, 201511 yr I loved it. Worth the price of admission just for J.K. Simmons' performance as the maniacal music instructor. And the music is pretty amazing. I'm not much of a jazz guy, but they do a great job with the selections in this movie. According to the director, about 50% of the drumming in the movie is lead actor Miles Teller playing live on set, not dubbed over. It's a real study in obsession and something that I think a lot of people can see, even if they're not music folks. Certainly top-level athletes have that same driving force that pushes them to want to be the best. I want to see it now just based on all the praise J.K. Simmons is getting. Loved that guy since he was Emil Skoda on L&O.
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