With the expansion of the Best Picture category to ten nominees/whatever they’re doing with this sliding scale, Best Visual Effects has become one of the easier categories to predict at the Oscars. The winner tends to be whichever nominee is also nominated in Best Picture. Take Gravity, Hugo, Life of Pi, and Inception as examples from recent years. However, this year there is no Best Picture contender nominated. Instead, what we have is the film that has other nominations, which in this case is Interstellar.
The only other contender that could take it down is probably going to be Dawn of the Planet of the Apes its predecessor Rise mustered up a nomination, but failed to take the top prize, however with even stronger acclaim around the film this time around, it could pull off an upset, especially with Interstellar’s underperformance this year.
Guardians of the Galaxy takes the superhero slot this year with an enormous global box office total in tow. It has a small chance of upsetting over the other two superhero movies in this category. However, I think it’s more likely that the above two films win over it.
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Will Win: Interstellar
Could Win: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Should Win: Interstellar
Should’ve Been Nominated: Despite the title character’s lack of screentime, Godzilla still had gorgeous effects.
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With the critics awards ramping up, the Oscar race is beginning to take shape. This year has been an oddity with the lack of a consensus regarding many categories. However,
J.K. Simmons and Patricia Arquette are looking solid as well
We have to look out for A Most Violent Year
The only thing I can say is yikes. The Grammys are notorious for having questionable nominees and a propensity to stick to what they know, but this year was probably one of the worst in recent memories for the general field. While there were a few gems dispersed throughout the genres, there was an overall stale sentiment.
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Take for example the clear standout of the record, lead single “Shut Up and Dance.” Its infectious twangy guitar melodies pushed together with an anthemic chorus makes for a song that you have to just… well, shut up and dance. It repeats the success that the band had with their indie hit “Anna Sun,” which had similar qualities. Where “Shut Up and Dance” and the entire album for that matter differs is its journey into other facets of rock like rock n’ roll and even hard rock, which is most prevalent in “Up 2 U.”