Academy Awards 2014 list released

[MadMonk]

Here are the big four categories:

Best Picture:

• American Hustle
• Captain Phillips
• Dallas Buyers Club
• Gravity
• Her
• Nebraska
• Philomena
• 12 Years a Slave
• The Wolf of Wall Street

Actor:

• Christian Bale - American Hustle
• Bruce Dern - Nebraska
• Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
• Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
• Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Actress:

• Amy Adams - American Hustle
• Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
• Sandra Bullock - Gravity
• Judi Dench - Philomena
• Meryl Streep - August: Osage County

Supporting Actor:

• Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
• Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
• Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
• Jonah Hill - The Wolf of Wall Street
• Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

I haven't been much of a movie-goer this year and I haven't seen a single one of the nominated films, thought I've heard great things about American Hustle, Captain Phillips, and Nebraska. What are your choices for these?

[Pete]

I still can't get used to such a long list for Best Picture.

I try and see everything nominated before the big night, so I'd better get cracking.

[Richard at Remax]

Surprsied about American Hussle getting so much love. I thought it was good but not as good as I wanted it to be. Id rank it 4th from him behind Three Kings, The Fighter, and Silver Linings playbook.

Also Id sub out Christian Bale for Joaquin Phoenix for Her.

[Achilleslastand]

This is a tough question as the competition for each category is pretty good.
For best pic I would have to go with....
Dallas Buyers Club.
or
Nebraska.

The best actor would have to go to
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
or
Dern in Nebraska.

[Tydude]

Also August Osage County did not make the Best Picture list

[zookeeper]

I still can't get used to such a long list for Best Picture.

I try and see everything nominated before the big night, so I'd better get cracking.

If you go see Wolf be prepared for the f word every other word. I don't care if it's used now and then, but it's so over-the-top in this movie.

edit - I just looked it up to see if it's mentioned anywhere. I wasn't expecting this, but not surprised. Used more in The Wolf of Wall Street than any movie in history. 569 times!

[BBatesokc]

If you go see Wolf be prepared for the f word every other word. I don't care if it's used now and then, but it's so over-the-top in this movie.

edit - I just looked it up to see if it's mentioned anywhere. I wasn't expecting this, but not surprised. Used more in The Wolf of Wall Street than any movie in history. 569 times!

Its use is based on reality. I've been listening to the audio tapes from the actual case (wiretaps and body wires), its a F-fest on every tape.

[zookeeper]

Its use is based on reality. I've been listening to the audio tapes from the actual case (wiretaps and body wires), its a F-fest on every tape.

I can imagine that. Have you seen the movie? If it weren't for what I mentioned (and you gave the explanation) I thought it was pretty good.

[BBatesokc]

I can imagine that. Have you seen the movie? If it weren't for what I mentioned (and you gave the explanation) I thought it was pretty good.

Oh yeah, saw it with one of the real life defendant's defense attorneys. Then ran back to his office to real all the real FBI files and court transcripts to see how well they matched. I assumed the movie was over indulgent - but not so.

[RadicalModerate]

Haven't seen any of the Best Picture nominees.
In fact I only have the slightest interest in ever seeing four of them.

•American Hustle (for the nostalgia)
•Gravity (would have to see it in a theater to get the full effect)
•Nebraska (been a fan of Bruce Dern since "The Wild Angels")
•12 Years a Slave (I like history. "Lincoln" was the best movie I've seen in a long time)

The only recent film that even vaguely tempts me to go to a theater is that new Coen Bros. satire on Bob Dylan.

[Richard at Remax]

Bruce Dern should have received an Oscar for The Burbs

[RadicalModerate]

Bruce Dern is one of the most underrated actors ever.
Right up there with Strother Martin, Harry Dean Stanton and The Guy Who Played the Dad on Malcolm in the Middle.
Maybe he will get the "[pre-posthumous] Award of Excellence" this year.
One can only hope . . . =)

(his performance as the corpse in "The Wild Angels" was a tour de force, eclipsing the fine work of Peter Fonda as the leading man, and what preceeded that scene in the movie warn't too shabby. Too bad that people might get false expectations regarding "Nebraska". If it had been filmed in Oklahoma they could have called the movie: "Panhandle" . . . or "Boise City"?)

[SoonerDave]

Haven't seen any of the Best Picture nominees.
In fact I only have the slightest interest in ever seeing four of them.

•American Hustle (for the nostalgia)
•Gravity (would have to see it in a theater to get the full effect)
•Nebraska (been a fan of Bruce Dern since "The Wild Angels")
•12 Years a Slave (I like history. "Lincoln" was the best movie I've seen in a long time)

The only recent film that even vaguely tempts me to go to a theater is that new Coen Bros. satire on Bob Dylan.

Same boat here. Frustrating thing is my wife and I *love* to go to the movies, but there's so little that we really want to go spend the $$$ on, that we don't end up going very often.

We just saw "Saving Mr. Banks" a few weeks ago, and it was very good, even though we discovered about 90% of the latter half of the film was complete fiction

I realize I'm probably in the minority here, perhaps even in the "prude" category, and that's fine, but I just don't have much interest in films that focus so much on really bad language and/or lots of "adult" scenes (and I'll let your imagination go on that one). You couldn't pay me enough to see "Wolf of Wall Street." It couldn't possibly offer me a compelling enough story to sit through two or three hours of 500+ f-bombs and other fairly rancid content. Gravity looked good, but just never got to the theater for it.

I do get frustrated at the extremes that seem to pervade Hollywood - if it isn't an R-rated mess for vulgarity or language, the assumption is that it must be a barely watchable Disney teen flick, and that's just not true. One of the most compelling movies I've ever seen was "The Help" about black maids in the South - it was an amazing movie - and it didn't have to resort to constant, for-its-own-sake, over-the-top language and/or skin to tell its story. And it was anything but a Disneyesque movie. Lincoln was very good.

I'm like you, Rad, just don't know how much incentive I have to see any of the Best Pic nominees. I'm just chronically out of touch, I suppose.

Nice to see Amy Adams get nominated - she's such an unusual actress - a different kind of "pretty" somehow - and she can fit into so many different roles very convincingly. Really like her a lot.

[RadicalModerate]

Same boat here . . . I do get frustrated at the extremes that seem to pervade Hollywood "The Help" about black maids in the South - it was an amazing movie - and it didn't have to resort to constant, for-its-own-sake, over-the-top language and/or skin to tell its story. And it was anything but a Disneyesque movie. Lincoln was very good.

I'm like you, Rad, just don't know how much incentive I have to see any of the Best Pic nominees. I'm just chronically out of touch, I suppose.

Maybe yes . . . maybe no . . .
(saw "The Help" at a brand new luxury theater in a reconditioned warehouse district up on the fringes of The Twin Cities (replete with underground parking and elevators/escalators/stairs opening up to a brand-new "old time mainstreet" illustratation, in reality, with my wife and her aunt on a lazy summer afternoon. It was a vacation afternoon well spent.)

(Bruce Dern isn't in this clip--well, not in this camera angle--yet there may be a connection with this and The Movies?)


NetFlixRulZ. =)

Oh! Instead of "August, Osage County" (that "The Critics" have nearly universally panned) . . .
I'm considering a visit to Woolaroc Ranch and Museum, between Barlesville and Barnsdall, about the time that the trees begin to bud in the spring.

In a nice, comfortable rental car, taking the backroads.

[Richard at Remax]

Saw Nebraska this weekend. Thought it was great and nice to see will forte go out of his comfort zone

[Lord Helmet]

I've seen all of the BP nominations except Philomena and The Wolf of Wall Street (I'll be seeing those before the big night). So far my favorite is Her.

[RadicalModerate]

I hope that Philomena wins on account of the guy who played Saxondale got serious and was in it.
The elderly lady in the flick has also done some good acting, yet the Saxondale dude
is sort of like the Billy Ray Thornton of International Cinema for the Future.

The only way it could have been better would've been cameo roles by Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus.
(o! how could the fickle hand o' fate sneer so badly upon that production? =)

Did I say Billy Ray?
I meant Billy Bob. wtf was that? =)

(insert an accent resembling that of Michael Caine, James Mason . . . or that Monty Python dude
and it might help in the area of understanding.)

[trousers]

This is a tough question as the competition for each category is pretty good.
For best pic I would have to go with....
Dallas Buyers Club.
The best actor would have to go to
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
.

All the crap movies this guy does distracts from the fact that when he wants to be, he is really, really good.

[stratosphere]

Dallas Buyers Club was really really good.

Its like Matthew McConaughey suddenly stopped starring in cheesy BS and became an incredible actor. I cant get enough of him in True Detective, this is probably just as intense.

[Easy180]

Dallas Buyers Club was really really good.

Its like Matthew McConaughey suddenly stopped starring in cheesy BS and became an incredible actor. I cant get enough of him in True Detective, this is probably just as intense.

Couldn't have said it any better...Awesome in Dallas Buyers and awesome in True Detective...The first must see series on HBO since Sopranos

[trousers]

True Detective is really good. Can't wait for the next episode.

[traxx]

Woops

https://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie...225058183.html

[Easy180]

True Detective is really good. Can't wait for the next episode.

The last one was the best yet. He better not be the Yellow King!

[Lord Helmet]

Finally finished watching all of the best pic nominations. If I had to rank a top five:

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. Her
3. Nebraska
4. Gravity
5. 12 Years a Slave

[trousers]

The last one was the best yet. He better not be the Yellow King!

This is the first show in years that I actually plan an evening around. I mean I like walking dead, game of thrones, boardwalk empire but none of those can hold a candle to this show.