Award Season 2014

[transformers2]

If Hollywood was truly conservative, American Sniper would've swept the fucking Oscars.

[W]

Considering the competition is a film about a Jazz drummer, a surreal film about a play's production, a film about the Civil Rights movement, one about a gay mathematician, another about an atheist scientist with a degenerative disease, one from Wes Anderson (let's just leave it there), and one artsy film that took twelve years to make... only 25% of Hollywood would have to be conservative to sweep the Oscars.

Best Picture would be between: American Sniper, Son of God, Transformers 4, Exodus, and Noah. Hell, Chris Pratt may have been nominated for Guardians.

[Buscemi]

The conservatives hated Noah (which is probably why it was such a hit outside of the US). Replace with God's Not Dead.

[JohnErle]

I know some of you were disappointed that Mommy didn't score an Oscar nom, but it just cleaned up at the Canadian Screen Awards, which is apparently still a thing.

Here's a link to a CBC article listing all the winners:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/canadian-sc ... -1.2977396

[Chienfantome]

I'm through watching in theaters the films released in 2014 in France I wanted to see. So I have officially seen 237 new films from 2014 in theater, plus 18 old films re-released in theaters.
For now, I have seen 46 new films from 2015 in theater, and 5 re-releases. I'm off to a good start.

[Buscemi]

I'm already thinking Brooklyn will be the favorite for next year's Oscars. It's a Fox Searchlight title, it opens in the fourth quarter and older voters will love it (also, Sundance premieres have had some Oscar success in recent years). Unless there's another showbiz-themed movie we don't know about.

[numbersix]

I'm already thinking Brooklyn will be the favorite for next year's Oscars. It's a Fox Searchlight title, it opens in the fourth quarter and older voters will love it (also, Sundance premieres have had some Oscar success in recent years). Unless there's another showbiz-themed movie we don't know about.

Good point, and add the Irish diaspora and fans of the novel too. The only concern is the history of these kinds of immigrant stories, which tends to indicate a hard sell. I still maintain Suffragette has massive award potential.

[transformers2]

Suffragette absolutely has huge awards potential. Meryl Streep+biopic+relevant political subject matter is about as clear of an awards formula as humanly possible. It's still way too early to talk about serious contenders, but I believe The Revenant, In the Heart of the Sea, Joy and The Walk all have a good shot at picking up a lot of nod's as well.

[Buscemi]

Suffragette will probably end up like The Imitation Game: audiences love it but ends up being an also-ran in the awards races. In the Heart of the Sea and The Walk don't feel like Oscar movies while Joy will probably be too anti-feminist to appeal to female and more liberal voters (and if the director and star weren't in Hollywood's good graces, there is no way this would have gotten made).

The Revenant will be in the race but Inarritu just won one and Fox will have a bunch of movies in contention. Others I wouldn't count out include The Danish Girl (Redmayne's shot at back-to-back Oscars), Snowden (Gordon-Levitt's going to get nominated for something this year), The Lady in the Van (possibly Maggie Smith's last chance at a third Oscar), the Lance Armstrong movie (if it ever gets released), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (this year's Whiplash?), Bridge of Spies (Spielberg and Hanks are still in with the Academy, right?) and maybe Black Mass (though the possibility of bad reviews and fatigue from Southie projects could kill its chances). A wild card is Sicario, which I think will be an early favorite to open Toronto (after a few years of opening with films with no Canadian connection, why not open with one from Canada's current favorite son?) but it could be too mainstream for the voters.