Yeah, yeah: Boyle's jumped-up survival story -- the tale that launched a thousand terrible "rock and a hard place" puns -- got a Best Picture nomination. But so have any number of glib technical exercises, a...
Year first released: 2001
Director: Jean Pierre Jeunet
Why we'd consider: There are few contemporary live action directors who use perspective and dimension as creatively as Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Arguably, any of his ...
Walter Salles' remake of Hideo Nakata's 2002 Japanese film maybe isn't an improvement, but it's definitely a surprisingly nuanced companion film that does some things very right. Rafael Yglesias' script has a strong e...
Nominees:
"Brave" Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
"Frankenweenie" Tim Burton
"ParaNorman" Sam Fell and Chris Butler
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits" Peter Lord
"Wreck-It...
(Welcome to the Oscar Guide, your chaperone through the Academy’s 24 categories awarding excellence in film. A new installment will hit every weekday in the run-up to the Oscars on February 24, with the Best Pi...
Nominations (5):
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actress
Best Original Screenplay
Best Foreign Language Film
"I was still horizontal in bed, but I was probably the happiest person on the planet. ...I'm just so happy for everyone [on the movie] and everyone just deserves it. It's incredible." (You can read Lawrence'...
Ben Affleck, "Argo"
Snubbed in Directing
Lowdown: Academy director's branch went for Michael Haneke for "Amour" and David O. Russell for "Silver Linings Playbook" instead even thoug...
"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Lincoln"
"Les Miserables" (pictured)
"Life of Pi"
"Amour"
"...
There was a huge, cavernous hole in Alex Kurtzman's directorial debut. The story centers on Sam (Chris Pine) a scheming New York businessman who returns to LA after the death of his father. He soon discovers tha...
