awards
Every year, it is easier for audiences to grow more cynical as awards season comes ever-closer, with the plethora of middle-of-the-road “prestige pictures” being dumped by the truckload at multiplexes worldwide, to indifferent audiences who would prefer to watch a star war. For the standard movie fan, prestige season should be an embarrassment of riches, the best films of the year being released all at once like a smorgasbord of cinematic delights. But with each passing year, audiences have wised up to the cynical nature of these movies:
Birdman was the big winner at the 87th Academy Awards, tying for most awards won and also taking home two of the biggest awards: Best Picture and Best Director. That it won Best Picture shouldn’t have been a surprise, especially given the Academy’s recent track record.
Awarding movies with titles like “Best Picture” is a bit of an overstatement when you consider what goes into making a movie. And when you look through the winners over the years it’s frequently a surprise when you see who won, and the films that got snubbed. For example, 1998 is the year when Steven Spielberg shocked us with his WWII movie Saving Private Ryan, and yet Shakespeare in Love walked away with the Oscar for Best Picture.
There has been an almost endless line of award shows over the last few months where Hollywood’s elite have had all the chances in the world to pat themselves on the back. But now the prelims are over. It is time for the main event.
While the BAFTAs (British Academy of Film and Television Awards) are always somewhat overshadowed by their glitzier, Yankier cousins, they still remain the biggest night of the year for British cinema, for better or worse. Nearly 5 million viewers watched wins for Eddie Redmayne, Julianne Moore, Wes Anderson and others on Sunday’s televised ceremony, where Boyhood picked up the Best Film prize. Look here for a complete list of winners – we’ll take a look at the night’s biggest talking points.
It’s award season, and Film Inquiry, of course, cannot stay behind. Thusly, we’ve decided to do our very first Film Inquiry Best Movie of the Year! To determine which movie would be awarded this prestigious title, our team members sent in their lists of top 5 movies of 2014.
And with that, the 2014 awards season is in full swing. The Golden Globes are like the Oscars’s boozy younger cousin. Maybe not as big of a deal, but dammit that cousin is so much more fun.
It’s no surprise that the Oscars often get it wrong. The list of film legends who have never won an Academy Award is pretty damning on the Academy: from Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchc*ck to Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.
Alas, the Oscars, and with that, the awards season are over – we have a sad. Let’s celebrate the winners (and wallow in our sadness) with some infographics!
It’s less than a week to go for the big event of the Academy Awards! On March 2, the 86th Academy Awards will take place, presented by Ellen DeGeneres. The event usually takes place a week earlier, but was scheduled a week later to prevent broadcasting conflicts with the 2014 Winter Olympics.
