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How Many of the Best Picture Nominees Have You Seen?
So, the Academy Award Nominees for Best Picture are: Boyhood, Birdman, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, American Sniper, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Selma, and Whiplash.
I’ve seen half of them (Boyhood, Birdman, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Whiplash); Boyhood is my favorite so far.
The great omission I see is Guardians of the Galaxy not being nominated for Best Picture. More surprising, The Lego Movie was not nominated for Best Animated Feature. That’s not awesome.
So any of your favorites up for the big prize? Or do you really not care?
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I just recently saw Whiplash. Absolutely fantastic movie. Maybe it’s because I played jazz in high school, and that I pine for the chance to play for a band again, but it really displayed something I hadn’t seen in a movie for a year or two.
As best I can recall, the last movie my wife and I saw was The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when it was first released. You can guess what my interest in the Oscars is. Good movie, though.
You’ve seen half of them? The only one I ever heard of is American Sniper. Haven’t seen any. I can’t bring myself to give my money to Hollywood.
No it doesn’t matter. Why would you notice?