The 87th Academy Awards is this Sunday, I was supposed to go but Brian Williams lost our tickets. At the Oscars it is all about the big 4: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director. Anything else is just there to support the big 4, like the Best Supporting Actor and Actress awards. Oh yeah, pun intended.

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Best Director:

Alejandro G. Inarritu for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.)

I did not see this movie, but I have seen every episode of Harvey Birdman; Attorney at Law. So how am I supposed to know if this guy did a good job directing? Well he got nominated.

Richard Linklater for Boyhood.

WINNER! Don't question it. The man is responsible for Dazed and Confused and Slacker. He deserves it. Linklater spent 12 years on this movie, to show the age progression of the boy. Something that has never been done in a movie. He actually did something that has not been done before. If he does not win, I will find the winner and steal the Oscar just to give it to Linklater.

Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher.

Is not Richard Linklater.

Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel.

I would be conflicted about this, if Wes Anderson was not going up against Richard Linklater.

Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game. 

Is not Richard Linklater.

Best Actress:

Marion Cotillard for Two Days, One Night.

She does not look like a factory worker. I don't think she is going to win.

Felicity Jones for The Theory of Everything.

Boring. I suppose she has to be somewhat of a good actress to convince us that a hot chick could be attracted to Steven Hawking. SPOILER ALERT! I think we all know how this movie ends.

Julianne Moore for Still Alice.

Julianne Moore is probably one the best working Actresses today and should win this award, and she had to work extra hard on this film, because the supporting female role was played by Kristen Stewart.

Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl.

I really hate Ben Affleck. I hope that she loses, because she was in this movie with Ben Affleck.

Reese Witherspoon for Wild.

This movie actually looks pretty cool, and Reese Witherspoon looks like she did a really good job playing a woman taking a thousand-mile hike. The role must of been physically demanding and I like Resse Witherspoon and I can not find any reason to dislike this movie or her role in it. But that Julianne Moore.

Best Actor:

Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything.

How hard can it possibly be to play Stephen Hawking?

Benedict Cumberbatch for The Imitation Game. 

This year we have two guys with silly last names playing geniuses. Coincidentally one of the movies is called The Imitation Game. Unfortunately, Eddie and Benedict are pretty much fillers.Besides, everyone knows that Val Kilmer is the Real Genius. 

Bradley Cooper for American Sniper.

They could not get a real Sniper? Somewhere Tom Berenger is at a shooting range, shooting a sniper rifle at a picture of Bradley Cooper.

Steve Carell for Foxcatcher. 

Steve Carell plays a coach. Somewhere Craig T. Nelson, is crying.

Michael Keaton for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.)

Michael Keaton wins, and for his acceptance speech all he will say is "I am Batman."

Best Picture:

Selma.

Is a movie about the Martin Luther King Jr. and the freedom march of 1965. I am a real big fan of historical movies, especially movies about American history.

Whiplash.

Was a character from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. The title of this movie is misleading. It should be called, Beat the Drummer Boy.

The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Even after I found out what this movie was about, I could not bring myself to care. I have seen every Wes Anderson movie and every time I see one, I always end up thinking the same thing; "It must be nice to have money."

The Theory of Everything.

Like Titanic we all know how this one is going to end. This movie looks pretty. That't it.

The Imitation Game.

Snooty British jerks trying to take credit for winning World War 2. It takes allot more then a pair of glasses to make Keira Knightley look like a nerd.

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Awesome movie that can be confused for the true story of Michael Keaton's life after Batman. 

Boyhood.

Took over a decade to make, it is a movie and not a documentary. Richard Linklater filmed the same boy for 12 years to make this movie. Like I said before, it has never been done before!

Winner

American Sniper.

If it were not for all the press American Sniper got, I don't think that anyone would of remembered that the Academy Awards are this Sunday. And I am pretty sure that the Academy is riffraff of Clint Eastwood.

In conclusion; when it comes to the Academy Awards, I can not help agree with Marlon Brando who said that the winners are based on politics and money, which is why Ben Affleck won for Argo. 

These all look like good movies except for the very British Imitation Game. Because they all got nominated, all these movies are winners because they get to say that they were nominated.

I think that the Academy dropped the ball this year on hiding the whole politics factor when it comes to picking a winner, with all the press American Sniper has gotten, most people probably assume that it already won. I am not doubting that American Sniper is a good movie, but Boyhood should win. Because if I learned anything from Tom Berenger, it is that they have already made movies about a American Sniper. Boyhood is something that has never been done before.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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