The Nominations: Oscar Dash 2013

The Academy Award nominees were announced today and it is time for another Oscar Dash! Like last year, my goal is to watch as many nominated films as possible before the ceremony- usually, I stick with Best Picture, Best Animated Feature, and Best Foreign Film categories. This year there are some serious contenders. It was a great year for film!

Click here to see the lists. I'll be reviewing as I see them. It is obviously hard for me to predict anything yet, but based on reviews it looks like Lincoln and Life of Pi will be hard to beat.

 

Amour

Argo

Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Django Unchained

Les Miserables

Lincoln

Life Of Pi

Silver Linings Playbook

Zero Dark Thirty


The countdown begins!

Oscars Update

As you are probably aware, I still haven't seen all the Academy Award nominated films. And so I don't have any guesses or my own personal ballot to share. Of those I have seen, however, I think Midnight in Paris deserves awards for writing, directing, and art direction. George Clooney was great, Tree of Life inspired me, and from the bits and pieces I've read and seen of The Artist, I think it will likely win big. So... keep watching the blog as I eventually will see them all and then I'll likely have something to officially say.

Meanwhile, the BBC has a really great visualization/chart of Oscar nominations/wins & genre that I think is fascinating. Check it out here.

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...