Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark...

Friday, February 26, 2016

88th Academy Awards: Best Picture

The nominees are:

The Big Short

Plot: Three parallel stories about men who see the housing market collapse coming and make moves to capitalize on how greedy and short-sighted everyone else on Wall Street is being.

Total Nominations For the Film: 5 - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing

Metacritic Score: 81
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88% Fresh
Box Office: $67,399,794


Bridge of Spies

Plot: An attorney is recruited to defend a Soviet spy and then to negotiate to exchange him for two captured Americans being held in the Soviet Union and in East Germany.

Total Nominations For the Film: 6 - Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing

Metacritic Score: 81
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91% Fresh
Box Office: $72,216,420


Brooklyn

Plot: A young woman immigrates from Ireland to the United States in order to find opportunities for a better future, but soon finds herself torn between the life she's begun to create in Brooklyn, and the life she could return to in Ireland.

Total Nominations For the Film: 3 - Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay

Metacritic Score: 87
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98% Fresh
Box Office: $35,679,377


Mad Max: Fury Road

Plot: A loner and a rebel are brought together as they attempt to help a group of young women escape a tyrannical ruler in a long chase across the post-apocalyptic landscape.

Total Nominations For the Film: 10 - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects

Metacritic Score: 90
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97% Fresh
Box Office: $153,636,354


The Martian

Plot: A man is presumed dead and left behind during a mission to Mars and then struggles to survive by himself on the planet until he can be rescued.

Total Nominations For the Film: 7 - Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects

Metacritic Score: 80
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92% Fresh
Box Office: $228,346,128


The Revenant

Plot: A fur trapper is attacked by a bear and then left for dead, but manages to crawl from the grave in pursuit of the man who murdered his son.

Total Nominations For the Film 12 - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects

Metacritic Score: 76
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 82% Fresh
Box Office: $166,334,903


Room

Plot: A young woman who was abducted as a teenager and has been kept in captivity ever since tries to shield her son from the horror that they're enduring while plotting a means of escape.

Total Nominations For the Film: 4 - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay

Metacritic Score: 86
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95% Fresh
Box Office: $12,657,987

Spotlight

Plot: The Boston Globe's Spotlight team, a group of investigative journalists, works to expose the historical abuse that has been taking place within the Catholic Church in Boston.

Total Nominations For the Film: 6 - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing

Metacritic Score: 93
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Fresh
Box Office: $38,310,288


What I've Seen: The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, Room, Spotlight

My Pick: Spotlight

Not Nominated, But Should Have Been: Carol

Predicted Winner: The Big Short

No comments: