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25 February 2016—
28 February is just around the corner. Oh yes, It is the awards season, and we almost come to the end with the Oscar Awards Ceremony on 28 February 2016.
The Oscar nominations were announced on 14 January; and the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the Producers Guild of America (PGA), and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards, and more awards have already named their winners. Each of these awards brings the winners one step closer to the Oscar in their respective categories, if they are nominated by the Academy.
I would like to look at the Academy Awards nominees in Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Movie, Best Documentary and Best Foreign Language Film categories, and the already-awarded winners from different associations in these categories.
Best Picture:
The Big Short (Bafta, PGA)
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn (Bafta Outstanding British Film award.)
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian (Golden Globe in Musical or Comedy)
The Revenant (Golden Globe in Drama)
Room
Spotlight
Best Director:
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant (Bafta, DGA, Golden Globe)
Lenny Abramson, Room
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
This category must be a difficult one in which to choose a winner, since all the contenders are very strong.
Best Actor:
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant (Bafta , Golden Globe in Drama, SAG)
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, Th Danish Girl
In Hollywood if an actor/actress gains/loses weight or otherwise changes his/her appearance, it seems to increase the odds of their being awarded the prize. Or so it seem from the past examples of Robert De Niro (Raging Bull), Tom Hanks (Philadelphia), Adrien Brody (The Pianist) Charlize Theron (Monster), Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Nicole Kidman (The Hours), Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club), Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club).
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass, in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film The Revenant,
In this category, this year there are two actors who look so different: Leonardo DiCaprio took us back to 1823. He changes his appearance to a point that it was impossible to recognize him as DiCaprio.
Focus Features
Eddie Redmayne as transgender Danish painter Lili Elbe in Tom Hooper’s film The Danish Girl
And Eddie Redmayne portrayed a married, full of energy, handsome Danish painter Einar Wegener who became transgender Lili Elbe, who was among the first recipients of sex reassignment surgery.
Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room (Bafta, Golden Globe in Drama, SAG
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Best Supporting Actor:
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies (Bafta)
Sylvester Stallone, Creed (Golden Globe)
Best Supporting Actress:
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl (SAG)
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs (Bafta, Golden Globe)
Best Documentary Feature:
Amy (Bafta, PGA)
Cartel Land
The Look Of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom
Best Cinematography:
The Revenant (Emmanuel Lubezki) (Bafta
Mad Max: Fury Road (John Seale)
Sicario (Roger Deakins)
Carol (Ed Lachman)
Bridge of Spies (Janusz Kaminski)
This category also must be a difficult one in which to choose a winner, since all the contenders are very strong.
Best Foreign Language Film:
Colombia, Embrace of the Serpent
France, Mustang
Hungary, Son of Saul (Golden Globe)
Jordan, Theeb
Denmark, A War
JUST A WISH LIST, JUST MY “ WISH LIST”!
I would like to see that the Oscars go to:
BEST PICTURE: Tie: Spotlight and The Big Short.
But, The Revenant might win the Oscar
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio, deserves an Oscar, not necessarily by this role in The Revenant, but his performances over the year. And, without any hesitation, he will take the Oscar home by almost, becoming frontiersman Hugh Glass in The Revenant.
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Charlotte Rampling, in 45 Years, plays a woman who discovers new or old news about her husband, played by Tom Courtenay, right before their 45th anniversary. My heard wishes that she would get the Oscar.
But Room actress Brie Larson who portrays a kidnapped woman who was forced to live and raise her son in a single room, already won Golden Globe and Bafta “Best Actress” awards will win the Oscar too.
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Mark Rylance played a Soviet spy in Bridge of Spies.
In this category Tom Hardy in The Revenant with changed appearance, Sylvester Stallone, already won the Golden Globe in Cree,d by bringing back Rocky and Rocky Balboa have chances too.
But I believe Mark Rylance will take the award.
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl, who played a loving, supportive painter wife of Danish painter Lili Elbe who was among the first recipients of sex reassignment surgery, should win
And, hopefully she will take the Oscar.
DIRECTING: Any one of the contenders has a chance to win. My choice is Adam McKay who examines the 2008 “Housing Bubble” in the market in The Big Short.
And, Alejandro González Iñárritu, will win
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tie: Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant and Ed Lachman who used Super 16 to give the feeling of 1950’s in Carol.
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant will take the Oscar.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Amy, the life of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.
And, Amy will get the Oscar award.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Son of Soul (Hungary)
The story of five sisters living in a small town in Turkey Mustang (France), already won a lot of awards and director Deniz Bilge Ergüven’s being the only female director in the Oscars race, has a chance to win too.
This is not my predictions, but merely my “wish list.”
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