Saturday, January 24, 2015

John's top Ten of 2014

My top Ten Films of the year

10. Interstellar
Plot: A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
Scene that proves it: The Wormhole scenes

9. Chef 
Plot: A chef who loses his restaurant job starts up a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.
Scene That proves it: The road trip from Florida to California.

8. Foxcatcher
Plot: The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
Scene That Proves it: Channing Tatum banging his head on the mirror.

7. Selma
Plot: A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
Scene That proves it: The first attempted march from Selma to Montgomery

6. Inherent Vice. 
Plot: In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.
Scene that proves it: Katherine Waterson's full frontal scene

5. Guardians Of The Galaxy
Plot:A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe.
Scene That proves it: The prison Break

4. American Sniper
Plot: Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
Scene that proves it: The Opening sequence

3. Boyhood.
Plot: The life of a young man, Mason, from age 5 to age 18.
Scene that proves it: The Bowling Alley scene.

2. Gone Girl
Plot: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Scene that proves it: Where Amazing Amy went on July 5th

AND THE BEST FILM OF 2014 IS.....


WHIPLASH.


Plot: A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.

Scene that proves it: The Finale.






Tuesday, January 13, 2015

FINAL 2015 OSCAR PREDICTIONS

Bold indicates Predicted winner.

Best Picture:
American Sniper
Birdman 
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theroy Of Everything
Whiplash

In Case There's ten: Nightcrawler

Best Director:
Clint Eastwood - American Sniper
Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarratu - Birdman
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay - Selma

Best Actor:
Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler 
Michael Keaton - Birdman
David Oyelowo - Selma 
Eddie Redmayne - The Theroy Of Everything

Best Actress: 
Amy Adams - Big Eyes 
Felicity Jones - The Theroy Of Everything
Julianne Moore - Still Alice
Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon - Wild

Best Supporting Actor:
Steve Carell - Foxcatcher
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
Edward Norton - Birdman
Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons - Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood 
Jessica Chastain - A Most Violent Year
Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
Emma Stone - Birdman
Meryl Streep - Into The Woods 

Best Original Screenplay:
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler
Selma

Best Adapted Screenplay
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
The Theory Of Everything
Unbroken
Whiplash

Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How To Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie
The Tale Of Princess Kaguya

Production Design:
Big Eyes
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Into The Woods
Selma 

Cinematography:
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mr. Turner
Selma
Unbroken

Costume Design: 
Belle
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into The Woods
Mr. Turner
Selma

Film Editing:
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
Selma
Whiplash

Makeup & Hairstyling
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians Of The Galaxy

Sound Mixing
American Sniper
Get On Up
Godzilla
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Sound Editing
American Sniper
Godzilla
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Visual Effects
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
Godzilla
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Original Score
Gone Girl
The Grand Budpest Hotel
Interstellar
The Theory Of Everything
Unbroken

Original Song
Begin Again - Lost Stars
Boyhood - Split The Difference
The Lego Movie - Everything Is Awesome
Noah - Mercy Is
Selma - Glory

Best Documentary
The Case Against 8
Citizenfour
Finding Vivian Maher
Life Itself
Virunga

Foreign Language
Force Majeure - Sweden
Ida - Poland
Leviathan - Russia
Timbuktu - Mauritania
Wild Tales - Argentina

Thursday, January 8, 2015

UPDATED 2015 OSCAR PREDICTIONS

Bold indicates Predicted winner.

Best Picture:
American Sniper
Birdman 
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theroy Of Everything
Whiplash

In Case There's ten: Nightcrawler

Best Director:
Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarratu - Birdman
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
David Fincher - Gone Girl
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay - Selma

Best Actor:
Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler 
Michael Keaton - Birdman
David Oyelowo - Selma 
Eddie Redmayne - The Theroy Of Everything

Best Actress: 
Jennifer Aniston - Cake
Felicity Jones - The Theroy Of Everything
Julianne Moore - Still Alice
Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon - Wild

Best Supporting Actor:
Josh Brolin - Inherent Vice
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
Edward Norton - Birdman
Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons - Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood 
Jessica Chastain - A Most Violent Year
Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
Emma Stone - Birdman
Meryl Streep - Into The Woods 

Best Original Screenplay:
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler
Selma

Best Adapted Screenplay
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
The Theory Of Everything
Unbroken
Whiplash

Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How To Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie
The Tale Of Princess Kaguya

Production Design:
Big Eyes
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Into The Woods
Selma 

Cinematography:
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mr. Turner
Selma
Unbroken

Costume Design: 
Belle
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into The Woods
Mr. Turner
Selma

Film Editing:
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
Selma
Whiplash

Makeup & Hairstyling
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians Of The Galaxy

Sound Mixing
American Sniper
Get On Up
Godzilla
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Sound Editing
American Sniper
Godzilla
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Visual Effects
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
Godzilla
Guardians Of The Galaxy
Interstellar
Transformers: Age Of Extinction

Original Score
Gone Girl
The Grand Budpest Hotel
Interstellar
The Theory Of Everything
Unbroken

Original Song
Begin Again - Lost Stars
Boyhood - Split The Difference
The Lego Movie - Everything Is Awesome
Noah - Mercy Is
Selma - Glory

Best Documentary
The Case Against 8
Citizenfour
Finding Vivian Maher
Life Itself
Virunga

Foreign Language
Force Majeure - Sweden
Ida - Poland
Leviathan - Russia
Timbuktu - Mauritania
Wild Tales - Argentina