Oscars 2014

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2014 Oscar Predictions: Best Picture | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire


The Likely Heavyweights, Based Purely On Speculation:
1. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, November 15)
2. The Monuments Men (George Clooney, December 18)
3. Twelve Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, October 18)
4. Saving Mr. Banks (John Lee Hancock, December 20)
5. August: Osage County (John Wells, December 25)

The Best Bet From What We've Seen:
6. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen, December 6)

Could Easily Be Major Contenders:
7. Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, October 4)
8. American Hustle (David O. Russell, December 13)
9. Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass, October 11)


Reasonable Maybes From What We've Seen:
10. Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler, In Theaters)
11. Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, In Theaters)
12. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, In Theaters)
13. Mud (Jeff Nichols, In Theaters)
14. All Is Lost (JC Chandor, October 25

 

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One of the men behind this year's best picture winner "Argo" -- Mr. George Clooney -- could be back in a big way with three films that all look like they could go over in big ways. He's a producer on this year's Oscar bait of all Oscar baits: Tracy Letts adapting his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play "August: Osage County." The film -- which has the backing of Harvey Weinstein no less -- is about a dysfunctional Oklahoma family and offers juicy roles to a remarkable cast including Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Ewan McGregor and Benedict Cumberbatch (who is like every movie in 2013). The only major question mark is its director, John Wells, who has all sorts of Emmys for shows like "ER" but has only made one previous film, the good-but-not-great "The Company Men." But if there's one thing to call a year in advance: It's that Meryl -- playing a drug-addicted woman with cancer -- is getting Oscar nomination #18.


Clooney's even more involved in another star-studded potential frontrunner, "The Monuments Men," which Clooney directs, stars in, co-produces and co-writes. Starting production in Berlin any second now (it's why Clooney -- and his co-star Jean Dujardin -- had beards at the Oscars), the film is a World War II drama (Oscar check!) about a group of folks in charge of saving art from the Nazis in the last days of the war. Sounds like an "Argo"-esque caper, and also happens to feature "Argo" (and "The Artist" -- what an Oscar good luck charm) co-star John Goodman (give him a nomination already), alongside Clooney, Dujardin, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bill Murray and Daniel Craig.

And then there's "Gravity." Alfonso Cuaron's long-awaited 3D space adventure stars Clooney and Sandra Bullock as two astronauts stuck in a space after a meteorite shower. Insiders suggest the film could be an extraordinarily impressive feat in both 3D technology and storytelling (if "Monument's Men" is this year's "Argo," this could be this year's "Life of Pi").

There's also two films starring Leonardo DiCaprio, who arguably just missed out on a best supporting actor nomination this year for "Django Unchained." He's the title character Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby," which seems to already be something we can count out given the tepid reviews (though it did have some boffo box office). But considerably more probable is Martin Scorsese's re-teaming with DiCaprio once again in "The Wolf of Wall Street," where Leo plays a stockbroker who falls into drugs and fraud. Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler and Jean Dujardin (again!) join him in one of the closest things to a sure bet we can call from afar. I'd also wager DiCaprio is long overdue for the win and if he's excellent in this (or "Gatsby," but this seems more likely), that Oscar is his.>

 

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I don't know, kinda looks like the 2013 Oscar..........

 

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'Saving Mr. Banks'--I might see that one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Mr._Banks

<Saving Mr. Banks is an upcoming biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel. Centered on the production of the 1964 Walt Disney Studios film, Mary Poppins, the film stars Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks with supporting roles from Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, and Colin Farrell. Taking its title from the source character of the same name, the film depicts author P. L. Travers (Thompson) and her two-week briefing in Los Angeles as she is persuaded by filmmaker Walt Disney (Hanks), in his attempts to obtain the screen rights to her eponymous novel.[2]

Filming started on September 19, 2012.[3][4][5] Walt Disney Pictures will produce and release the film theatrically in the United States on December 13, 2013 in select cities and in wide release a week later on December 20.[6][7] The film will be produced by Alison Owen, Ian Collie, Philip Steuer, Christine Langan, Troy Lum, Andrew Mason and Paul Trijbits.[8]>

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'The Monuments Men'

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/08/12/george-clooney-monuments-men-2/

 

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Saving Mr Banks: Feud between Mary Poppins author PL Travers and Walt Disney set to hit the big screen | Mail Online