The Nominees: Annual Oscar Dash

The Academy Award nominees were announced yesterday and, as you probably guessed, I'm ready for my Annual Oscar Dash. The goal is to watch as many nominated films as possible before the ceremony. That's approximately one month, handfuls of movies, lots of fun. I tend to focus my Dash on Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, and Best Foreign Film categories to keep things more realistic. Click here to see the lists. I'll be reviewing as I see them - I've already done one, Midnight in Paris, which you can read here.

I have no predictions yet but I will say the contenders look VERY strong, indeed:

The Artist

The Descendants

Moneyball

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Warhorse

The Help

Tree of Life

Midnight in Paris

Hugo

Time to dash...