The “Cool Girl” monologue in Gone Girl should’ve been more than enough to secure a nomination and win for the film. The fact that it was snubbed is ridiculous.

@c17sam90

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know if that’s an example of stuff being translated too much from a previous source and with the writer of the book writing the screenplay maybe it lessens the work in some peoples eyes.

The way Promising Young Woman performed tells me that with today’s Academy Gone Girl would be an easy Picture nominee and maybe even a Screenplay winner.

@therogue1542

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm i see you, but also PYW was a revenge story to avenge an SA victim while Gone Girl seems to weaponize the Me Too mentality which might turn off modern voters. Ig it depends if you saw GG as pro or anti feminist

@oskari7121

Жыл бұрын

@@therogue1542 That’s true. But the movie was a massive box office hit and critically acclaimed + it did very well with the precursors.

@alucard00774

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Gone Girl was a brilliant movie. Rosamund Pike deserved that Oscar over Julianne Moore.

@poett8875

Жыл бұрын

Gone Girl should’ve won best screenplay for the cool girl monologue alone.

@RareCinephile

Жыл бұрын

Promising Young Women was in the COVID year, still possible though.

Love that you snuck in “Everything Everywhere” frame when talk about The Grand Budapest Hotel 😂😂

Do Million Dollar Baby vs. The Aviator vs. Sideways next! That race was the same as Parasite, 1917, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

@fanboyberries39movies40

Жыл бұрын

YES PLEASE!

@sketchtown4114

Жыл бұрын

It was wayy crazier than that actually, million dollar baby i think was #3 by the time the oscars happened, making it’s upset wayyy crazier

@kidwithaphonecamera

Жыл бұрын

I feel like Million dollar baby was on #2, because of DGA/GG director wins. Back then splitting director and picture was a lot more uncommon than now

@slimnave4846

Жыл бұрын

Both supporting actor races were pretty competitive too

@slimnave4846

Жыл бұрын

@@seankoontz4235 No dumb-dumb, I'm talking about 2004 (check the original post)

All these years later and how many times I watched Nightcrawler, it makes me angry that Jake Gyllenhaal got snubbed for Best Actor. That was such a memorable, transformative and committed that performance and should’ve been an automatic lock for Best Actor. Both Eddie Redmayne and Michael Keaton were fantastic in their movies but he was my favorite lead actor performance in 2014. Not only that but Gone Girl almost getting completely snubbed as that was one of my favorite films of 2014. Should’ve gotten in for Picture, Director, screenplay, cinematography, music and editing. A fast paced gripping and engaging thriller from start to finish. I also think Rosamund Pike should’ve won, she was my favorite female performance leading or supporting in 2014. One final snub was The Lego Movie not nominated for Best Animated Film. A surprise critically acclaimed animated film that’s hilarious, witty, smart, clever, energetic and one of my favorite animated films of the 2010’s decade. I don’t care if it had live action in the 3rd act as I felt like those scenes were important to the film. In the lineup, I do think How To Train Your Dragon 2 deserved to win which I think is how you do a great sequel. I really liked Big Hero 6 but Dragon 2 was my second favorite animated film of 2014 behind Lego Movie.

@benjamintillema3572

Жыл бұрын

The Lego Movie should've won, it didn't even get nominated.

@Leo-ox1rd

Жыл бұрын

kaguya is easily top 3 ghibli movies while i love lego movie and httyd2 no animation was even close to what this movie is

Can’t believe I’m just noticing the EEAAO snippet when your talking about The Grand Budapest Hotel. Nice.

I think people need to STOP SAYING that Julianne got a career Oscar due to the overdue factor. They could have nominated her for anything in between those nominations but they didn't (A Single Man, The Kids Are All Right). Still Alice is easily one of Moore's career best (which is saying a lot as she has tons of excellent performances under her filmography), SHE IS THE FILM. A lot of people including the Alzheimer community (which lauded her performance) and obviously the industry love that performance BECAUSE SHE SWEPT THAT SEASON. Not to mention a 4 million budget little indie drama made $45million worldwide. How many similar movies can achieve that? Away From Her? 45 Years? It is obvious that people who have actually seen the film responded well to her performance. The only group that is in denial obviously is the Gone Girl fanatics.

@UglyDigustingSunYorkeEatShlt

Жыл бұрын

Well said!

@pb.j.1753

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Her performance is beyond the deserving in any year and the film is actually great. It's super emotional and even more for many friends of mine who have family members suffering from dementia.

my favorite tidbit about this Oscar is that every single movie nominated for best picture won at least one oscar: Birdman: several (picture, director, screenplay, etc.) Boyhood: Supporting Actress American Sniper: Sound Editing Grand Budapest Hotel: several (score, costumes, makeup/hair, production design) Imitation Game: adapted screenplay Selma: Original song Theory of Everything: Best Actor Whiplash: several (editing, sound mixing, supporting actor)

@blackguyofthesouth2161

Жыл бұрын

Yep, a rare occurrence considering what happened the year before when only 5/9 of the nominees went home empty handed

@niccage6375

9 ай бұрын

First time that happened during expanded best picture line up

One other aspect of Birdman's popularity is that it was the first big critique of superhero films, and this was right around when people were starting to get sick of the familiar Marvel formula.

@ballwreck1139

Жыл бұрын

I wanted to watch Boyhood so bad and when I did I was in awe, but then I watched BIRDMAN and OMFG till this day I'm still in love with it and I watch it once a month FUCKING masterpiece, the other only one at that level was Whiplash that year.

Ralph Fiennes missing for Grand Budapest was a true shame

@alucard00774

Жыл бұрын

And what about Matthew McConaughey for Interstellar? Easily one of the best performances of the century.

@jasonbateman2092

Жыл бұрын

i think fiennes is one of if not the best performances of the decade

@TypeLproductions

Жыл бұрын

@@alucard00774chill, he’s great in the movie but anytime someone says “best of the century” it’s always a biased opinion. Michael Keaton was the best that year imo but I like interstellar as a movie more

@alucard00774

Жыл бұрын

@@TypeLproductions Lol. Maybe you should chill and watch the whole movie lol. Many videos with the all time greatest performances include his crying scene on Interstellar. There's a good reason for doing that.

@laurajones1773

Жыл бұрын

Same with David Oyello as Martin Luther King Jr. which is the best biopic performance of that year even more than Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Personally, 2014, 2017 and 2019 have my favourite slate of Best Picture nominees of the 21st century: several 10/10 movies each year and a number of other great nominees, great winners from each too

@Gemnist98

Жыл бұрын

I’ll have to look at the 2000s nominees again (there were some clear classics during that time), but in terms of the 2010s, I totally agree. 2014 and 2019 were great years for cinema in general, and 2017 had the most well-rounded lineup.

@kidwithaphonecamera

Жыл бұрын

2015 and 2010 lineups were pretty good as well 2011 and 2018 have to be my least favorite tho

@nediaelifra721

Жыл бұрын

2017 is one of the best a horror movie winning screenplay wow

This was the Oscar season that got my into Oscar predicting and made me discover some of my all time favourite movies. Very nostalgic to walk down memory lane and have a look what could've been. Been hooked on the Oscars ever since.

Honestly, people say Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler was the big Best Actor snub but Ralph Fiennes hit hardest for me. The Grand Budapest Hotel should have won Best Picture. Also, Boyhood won BAFTA as well

@monkeyangelo717

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, my friend!

@tlovehater

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@blackguyofthesouth2161

Жыл бұрын

His movie came out earlier in the year and had an ensemble cast. Jake was Nightcrawler

@seankoontz4235

Жыл бұрын

I think it was just a really stacked year with a lot of great deserving actors and unfortunately only five could get nominated

@rash123d7

Жыл бұрын

@@seankoontz4235 and yet mediocre performances like that of Benedict and Bradley made it....

I still can not believe we aren't talking about that year's most embarrassing snub for best picture Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas

@alucard00774

Жыл бұрын

Interstellar should have been nominated!!!

@tlovehater

Жыл бұрын

Up there with Citizen Kane and The Godfather.

2014 was in my opinion the best movie year of the last decade, 2019 would be close for me. My Top 2 Favorite Films that year were Whiplash and Birdman. Whiplash is one of my favorite films of all time. A truly inspiring, captivating, thrilling and incredible movie with still career best performances from Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons, fast paced directing and editing, memorable lines, how this movie makes you feel sorry for Andrew and want to root for him and most of all one of the greatest endings I’ve ever seen. As for Birdman, it was one of the most unique and one of a kind films I’ve ever seen. I remember first watching it unsure what to think of it despite liking the acting, originality and cinematography. But the second time watching it and subsequent viewings, I absolutely love it. Terrific cast, ambitious story, amazing cinematography and does an incredible job with the one take filmmaking. Even though I would’ve been jumping with joy had Whiplash had a chance of winning Best Picture. I’m satisfied with Birdman winning Best Picture and a very interesting type of movie to reward Best Picture to. I liked Boyhood and admired the filmmaking of that movie. The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Imitation Game were some of my favorites in the lineup.

Even though he finally won his second Last season Hans Zimmer not winning Original Score for Interstellar is still insane to me.

@Wired4Life2

Жыл бұрын

Alexandre Desplat was way overdue by that point, on top of composing multiple scores in 2014 alone. In any case, Zimmer earned his 2nd Oscar with _Dune: Part One._

@alucard00774

Жыл бұрын

@@Wired4Life2 But Interstellar had a much better score than Grand Budapest Hotel. It is considered to be one of the greatest scores of all time while TGBH has been forgotten very soon and wasn't anything special. And this comes from a Greek (Desplat is Greek as well).

@Wired4Life2

Жыл бұрын

@@alucard00774 Perhaps, but _Interstellar_ wasn't in Best Picture, whereas the two films Desplat scored were. And if Desplat wasn't going to win due to split votes, BAFTA winner Jóhann Jóhannsson _(The Theory of Everything)_ would've most likely won instead.

@ballwreck1139

Жыл бұрын

Fuck no he copied Bach through the whole film, that main theme is literally BACH symphony and no one even argues with .....I love the film, but as soon as I heard that theme......for me it was over, I could hear Bach and now I can't not unhear it

@dariussalepetru6770

Жыл бұрын

@@alucard00774 He is french

These videos are the best, but I love listening to you and brother bro speak about these films as you're discussing the noms, either agreeing or disagreeing with each other. It makes your content unique and different from other channels :(

I think this was the first time each Picture nominee got a win somewhere after the ten nominee extension

Bennett Miller getting a Directing nom but Foxcatcher missing a Picture nom is still shocking to me. I embraced that though., Just proves that the director's branch loves doing their own thing and nominate deserving work. And yes that includes snubbing Villeneuve for Dune.

@RareCinephile

Жыл бұрын

And Nolan for Inception.

I love these retrospectives! I would love to see one for 2013 (12 years a slave/Gravity)

Roger Ebert was the most critical person toward the documentary branch of the academy. He was a great man and that film had Steve James directing it and so many filmmakers in it.

I love Boyhood so much.

@itsbeyondme5560

Жыл бұрын

One of best movies 10s

@laurajones1773

Жыл бұрын

Should have won Best Picture that year. Screw the preferential ballot. That needs to go.

@dariussalepetru6770

Жыл бұрын

🥰

“Babe wake up, The Oscar Expert just dropped an Oscar retrospective”

Absolutely loved Laura Dern in Wild. Can anyone think of another nominated performance that only takes place in flashbacks? She was highly effective and heartbreaking in this.

@nickxyx2879

Жыл бұрын

There are many nominated performances that take place only in the flashbacks. For example Jessie Buckley this year lol

@pb.j.1753

Жыл бұрын

@@nickxyx2879 True haha. Thank you. That was so recent, I did not think of it.

@jongon0848

Жыл бұрын

Didn't Robert De Niro win for playing young Don Corleone in The Godfather 2?

@blackguyofthesouth2161

Жыл бұрын

Kate Winslet in Titanic, the whole movie is a flashback

@rebekahp4083

Жыл бұрын

Rache Weiss in the Constant Gardner’s (2005 I think) character is also only present in flashbacks :)

Nightcrawler is one of my favorite movies of all time so the 2015 Oscar’s just piss me off lol

Ik it would NEVER happen but imagining Isao Takahata winning for The Tale of the Princess Kaguya warms my heart so much

Gone Girl and Wild deserved to get into Best Picture. I still love these films today.

@laurajones1773

Жыл бұрын

I agree that Wild should’ve got a Best Picture nomination. Brilliant movie.

Brother bro :(

Interstellar should have won by a mile the Oscar for best score.

I don’t know if you realize how entertaining these videos are. Amazing content

Gosh, really love the retrospectives. Keep em coming!

Great shoutout to the Under The Skin score! One of the best of the modern era for sure

I was about to ask about this video yesterday because you mentioned in a video that there would be a retrospective soon, but here it is!

Thanks for all the content man. Your channel is awesome!

Love your retrospectives. Thank you

Finally, I've been looking forward to this for a long time!!

Justice for Gyllenhaal!!

These are so damn insightful I love it

How time flies... Birdman and Gone Girl two of my most memorable the last decade for sure. Keep it up.

FINALLY!!!!! Since this series started I always wanted this one!!!!

Great video, this was the first year that I started to follow award season closely. I loved Boyhood so much!

33:40 is all the reasons Austin can win for Elvis P.S Do Oscar films of 2015 please!

Love the detail in this video!

Boyhood is a movie I have respect for but just can’t get into. I really wanted to love this movie, largely because Richard Linklater and I have a very similar upbringing in Houston, but I just didn’t think it worked as a cohesive whole. I get that’s kind of the point, it’s just not for me, and this was solidified by two later movies that I think did what Boyhood tried better: Moonlight (reflecting the passage of time while also having a thesis on life rather than the thesis just being, life) and Lady Bird (more subjective, but capturing the kind of upbringing and prepubescent emotional state I had).

@HugoSoup57

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you actually, Boyhood was a good movies, but Moonlight and Lady Bird were both much better slice of life films. I also thought Birdman, Whiplash (my personal favorite of the nominees), Grand Budapest Hotel, Selma, Nightcrawler, The Lego Movie, The Babadook, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and X-Men Days of Future Past were all better movies from that year. I don’t hate Boyhood at all, I just don’t think it’s a flawless masterpiece like everyone else hailed it as at the time.

Best Retrospectives!

Boyhood should have won. I'll die on that hill.

@laurajones1773

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. I remember I was so disappointed to see it lose.

Some ceremonies suggestion for Next Retrospective: 1973: The Sting vs Exorcist. Basically the sting only won the DGA. it didn't get any BAFTA noms (actually none of nominees made it to best film at BAFTA), it only got one globe nom which it lost (and still won Oscar for screenplay), despite exorcist winning Globes. 1974: Godfather Part 2 missed Bafta and didn't win ANY globes, but still won 6 oscars including best picture. 1981: Chariots of fire triumphing over Reds and Raiders of the lost ark. Despite it not winning any screenplay awards, and having 1 globe nomination. While Reds took both WGA and DGA, and had 12 nominations. Wins were also crazy with Raiders winning 5, Chariots winning 4 and Reds/On Golden Pond winning 3. 1985: Out of Africa sweeping. Probably some of the most unprecedented winners ever. Spielberg snubbed, and Colour purple won 0 oscars. Brazil got snubbed in many categories, and Ran got directing nomination. 1992: Crying Game vs Unforgiven. Pretty interesting best picture race. Marisa Tomei upset. Howards end somehow winning screenplay. Dracula winning 3 awards. Aladdin getting 5 noms. Also only 3 films getting more than 5 nominations. 1995: Braveheart vs Appolo 13 vs Sense and Sensibility. CRAZY best picture race, and probably one of the biggest upsets in the category, weird original screenplay race, and some glaring snubs. 2000: Gladiator vs Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon vs Traffic. Crazy best picture/director/actor race. Massive upset in supporting actress category. A lot of interesting nominees in general. 2001: Beautiful Mind vs Gosford Park vs Moulin Rouge. Another crazy best picture race. Overall an interesting year. Shrek winning BAFTA for screenplay, Moulin Rouge taking PGA, etc. 2015: Spotlight vs Revenant vs Big Short race. Controversy and 'oscars so white' phenomenon. Mark Rylance and Ex Machina upsets. 2018: Green Book. 2019: Parasite winning.

More of these vids please

I think an interesting retrospective would be One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest v.s. Jaws. I think that was an interesting year, just for the amount of classics that year.

The fact American Diaper got best picture and actor nominations over much better films like Nightcrawler, Gone girl and Wild... what was the academy thinking

Boyhood is EVERYTHING to me. I still can’t believe what happened to it that season.

@laurajones1773

Жыл бұрын

That film needs to win more Oscars than just Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Arquette. Richard Linklater needs to win Best Director at least.

Hans Zimmer not winning best score for interstellar was, and still is, the snub of the century.

@alucard00774

Жыл бұрын

Fr. Not to mention that Interstellar only won ONE Oscar!

Meryl's nomination annoyed me for the first time. Chastain was amazing in A Most Violent Year.

A brilliant analysis! A few others that I’d like to see at some point: - 2012 (The Artist) and 2018 (The Shape of Water); In retrospect, I kinda feel like those years are similar to this year in terms of how predictable the wins were (except Best Actress of 2012, lol). -2013 (Argo); Nuts Director, Actress and Supporting Actor lineups. -2016 (Spotlight) -2002 (A Beautiful Mind) and 2003 (Chicago): Rather ambiguous. And 2009 (Slumdog Millionaire): Dark Knight snubbage.

@seankoontz4235

Жыл бұрын

There’s another KZreadr, Benji Bury, who actually covered the Argo year. He’s not quite as in-depth as Oscar Expert but still does a good job I think

The Grand Budapest Hotel was the one I was rooting for but Birdman was still an excellent win and achievement. Am I ever going to get that Nope review? Curious what you think the Oscar chances are because while I don’t know if it is Academy friendly, I do believe it is Peele’s best yet and being about filmmaking does not hurt. The cinematography is really worthy.

You should do more of these retrospectives.

The Lego Movie snub is such a jaw-dropping snub... wow!

@laurajones1773

Жыл бұрын

That or How to Train Your Dragon 2 should have won Best Animated Feature that year.

You should do a The Oscar Expert Awards!!

The ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ subliminal is next level. Bless you.

This is by far my favorite year of film.

I dont know if everyone would be down for this but you should do a retrospective on a REALLY old Oscar race (like silent era when the academy was in its infancy) just for fun to see where the academy has come from. I personally think a retrospective of looking at the very first Oscars and how the academy screwed up from the very start by ignoring Metropolis would be fascinating. Again this could be too niche and if so I get it. But I think it could be fun.

I felt like The Grand Budapest Hotel was the best out of the eight, and actually, I can consider Interstellar (while not even nominated for best picture) the top film of the nominees

@dariussalepetru6770

Жыл бұрын

Me too! It should've won Original Screenplay and Picture. One of the best Wes Anderson movies of all time

9:35 I saw that! And it paid off too.

Honestly Beyond The Lights should have been nominated for multiple oscars in 2014. In particular for Gugu Mbatha Raw and Minnie Driver for best actress and best supporting actress. Even Gina Prince Bythewood for original screenplay, maybe possibly sound or one more nom for another song from the film

When are you coming up with your Oscar 2023 predictions??

The Lego Movie getting snubbed was disappointing, but The Tale of the Princess Kaguya was one of the best animated films of the decade and if that film was number 5 then I’m happy that The Lego Movie didn’t kick it out

9:40 I saw that and I love it

Um where is Brother Bro?

2012 film season please, the Ben Affleck Director snub, Jennifer Lawrence vs Jessica Chastain

@kidwithaphonecamera

Жыл бұрын

benh zeitlin and haneke too, ang lee’s win over spielberg, original screenplay, supporting actor blunder, production design lincoln upset and adapted screenplay over lincoln. Insane year

Updated 2023 predictions video release date?

Great year for cinema in general...lot of landmark achievements

I'll never forget peoples reactions to the lego movie snub. I'm pretty sure it was because the academy were confused about what specific style it ws going for with the use of digital instead of stop motion along with like 5 minutes of live action but it is a travesty it did'nt win.

1:04:13 - Maybe if you just watch Big Hero 6 you would know it's absolutely great. Literally one of my favorite animated films of all time. Can't wait to show it to my nephew in a few years.

needs brother bro

Damn, when was the last ya'll did one of these videos?

The best actor award was jake's and only jake, the fact that he didn't even get nominated for that phenomenal performance is beyond me !

Pls do 86th! I wanna know the gravity vs 12 years a slave race, also the grave snubbery of inside llewyn davis, and most surprisingly for me how the act of killing did not win best documentary (when ppl were predicting it even for a best picture nom)

Anyone know where he gets those posters behind him? They’re sweet

Upgrade predictions soon?

Maybe the best animated lineup ever

12:04 I disagree. Whiplash and American Sniper were definitely Top 5 possibilities.

What a great year! So many wonderful films. Makes you realise just how weak this year was. COVID still impacting perhaps?

I read somewhere that Linklater is filming a new movie over a 20 year period. Can anyone confirm that?

Are these videos ever coming back? :(

That EEOAO glance, im dead 😭

Tbh, I feel like Emma Stone should’ve won her Oscar for “Birdman” as opposed to “La La Land.” Her monologue where she goes off on Michael Keaton’s character is better than her entire performance in La La Land alone imo.

@tlovehater

Жыл бұрын

Nah

@poett8875

Жыл бұрын

@@tlovehater it’s just my opinion. I never rlly understood the hype for her performance in that movie. Was she good? Absolutely. But academy award winning? Not really. Especially not compared to her performance in Birdman.

@michaelangelo2192

Жыл бұрын

@@poett8875 Yuuuup

@tlovehater

Жыл бұрын

I actually didn't understand her Birdman nomination really lol.

I remember how everyone thought early on this will finally be the year of two women directors nominated (Ava Duvernay & Angelina Jolie) and then both did not make it. It took another 6 years to happen with Zhao and Fennell.

@alucard00774

Жыл бұрын

Sorry but Angelina Jolie didn't deserve to be nominated. The movie was OK and nothing special on the directing.

@pb.j.1753

Жыл бұрын

@@alucard00774 Totally. Once people started seeing the actual film, it was obvious.

9:40 lmao

Is there any speculation that the reason why The Lego Movie wasnt nominated for Best Animated Feature was due to the scene with Will Ferrel and his son?

Rosamund Pike not winning the Oscsr for Gone Girl is CRIMINAL

1. Whiplash 2. Grand Budapest 3. Birdman 4. Boyhood

2010 oscars with hurt locker vs avatar would be cool

wasn't the lego movie snubed because it has a live action scene at the end?

you should to the 2002 season.

Chicago vs. The Pianist, please

@travisspazz1624

Жыл бұрын

That one baffles me. They went out of their way to give director to Polanski, along with actor and screenplay! But no picture!

@kidwithaphonecamera

Жыл бұрын

gangs of new york and two towers were solid contenders too and both stumbled

@kidwithaphonecamera

Жыл бұрын

i mean to be fair chicago took PGA, DGA, SAG

I think Linklaters got a good chance to win animated for Apollo 10 1/2, loved that movie

Keaton should've won. One of the biggest snubs of all time

Had the Academy rewarded Moore for Boogie Nights, Pike would have won in a cake walk.

Lol the flash of EEAAO 😂

I would love to see an 2013 Oscars retrospective, with the whole blue is the warmest color fiasco