Comments on: Premature Oscar Predictions: The 2014 Best Director Nominees

By: Michael M.

Michael M. — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:31:11 +0000

Let me make this clear, insofar as the ACADEMY:

Best Actor: Chiwetal Ejiofor – Twelve years a slave (Runner Up: Leonardo Dicaprio)
Best Picture: Untitled ABSCAM Project (Runner up: The Monuments Men, The Wolf of Wall Street).
Best Director: David O. Russell (Runner up: George Clooney, Martin Scorsese).

Personally Ejiofor should win, I mean come on? A gut-wrenching portrayal as the kidnapped Solomon Northup. With that given I think it's almost unavoidable, although DiCaprio could pull off an upset considering he's in Scorsese's highly anticipated project. While BD and BP are up for grabs, I wouldn't be surprised to see Russell winning in both categories. He's a solid director with Weinstein backing him, and has been the academy darling as of late. I could also see George Clooney walking away for his highly touted historical piece "The Monuments Men" as well, although I still presume it may be too early to award him another statuette. With that being said, alas! something in me yells: WILL YOU GIVE IT TO MALICK ALREADY!

Anything else?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:31:11 +0000

Just as a follow up you don't want to hear my rant on Australia … walked in expecting Lawrence of Arabia. Walked out thinking Donovan's Reef meets the Man from Snowy River while riding past the Rabbit Proof Fence. Never has any director wasted so much talent, epic possibility and cultural clash in unknown history. It should have been great. It is a tribute to the real country and the phenomenal cast clawing its way up through a continuity error laden script that it still manages to be entertaining.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:31:11 +0000

I think you can safely remove Baz Luhrman. By this time, the industry must be totally bored with sloppy incompetence not making up for flashes of brilliance.

By: Corvo

Corvo — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:31:11 +0000

O. Russell AGAIN??? Please NO.

By: Myk

Myk — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:31:11 +0000

Scorsese DOES NOT "phone in" his films. Asshole. You're ban from film literature for life just for typing that.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:31:11 +0000

George Clooney, Steve McQueen, Alonso Cuaron, Bennet Miller, Martin Scorsese

By: tomincmh

tomincmh — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:31:11 +0000

I'm really hoping McQueen can get a nomination His direction in 'Hunger' and 'Shame' were amazing.

By: Ilona

Ilona — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:31:11 +0000

James Gray deserves a freaking nomination. It will be a shame if the academy ignores him once again.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:31:11 +0000

That graph on Llewyn Davis features some of the most bizarre punctuation and sentence structure I've ever seen. This is an actual sentence from above:

"But the question is whether they can manage a directorial nomination, and we're not 100% convinced; of all their earlier films."

By: BX

BX — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:31:11 +0000

This lineup already looks 1000 times better than 2012's nominees.

By: oogle monster

oogle monster — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:31:11 +0000

Lurhmann will make it in. You just wait!