Better format for nominees:
2017: Dunkirk, Get Out, The Greatest Showman, Split, Wonder Woman, (The Shack)
2016: Finding Dory, Hacksaw Ridge, Hidden Figures, Miracles from Heaven, Sully, (Deadpool)
2015: Inside Out, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, The Visit, (Star Wars: the Force Awakens), (Peanuts)
2014: American Sniper, God’s Not Dead, Interstellar, Malificent, Saint Vincent, (300)
2013: 12 Years a Slave, The Butler, Captain Phillips, Gravity, Lone Survivor, (The Conjuring)
2012: Argo, The Dark Knight Rises, Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty, (Skyfall)
The Greatest Showman
Kedi if you like cats, 2017.
Likely even if you don’t like cats.
The King’s Speech (won Best Film).
The Artist (won Best Film).
I can’t help. I have not seen a single movie that was released in 2017... ...nor 2016 for that matter...
I figured out, over 20 years ago, that ALL these awards shows are nothing but Hollyweird giving awards to themselves. I do watch the Red Carpet walk-in as I am always entertained by the dresses. The awards shows? Not entertaining at all.
Last night I watched Dunkirk. It was a great sequel to Darkest Hour. Two great films, both set May 8th to June 4th, 1940.
I would not recommend Dunkirk for anyone with a fear of water/drowning. If you are an empath, you feel as though you are being water boarded.
Dunkirk sucked.
The Shack. Hated this movie with a passion.
American Sniper definitely is worthy.
Hidden Figures is worthy.
Deadpool was great but Oscar????
Miracles from Heaven was boring.
Gravity was horrible and I love Sandra Bullock.
God is Dead was decent and good.
Captain Phillips was ok.
Lincoln was a snooze fest
Argo was ok deserved awards
12 Years a Slave was exceptional deserved every award and then some
The Butler was ok, nothing spectacular.
Maleficent was superb. Excellent movie.
The rest I did not see.
Ethan Hawke should have gotten a Best Actor nomination for “Maudie”.
The best movie I’ve seen this year: Brawl in Cellblock 99 with Vince Vaughn...wow!
Dunkirk was kind of confusing and stupid. Not enough story telling in it. Not a lot of explanation about what was going on. And I KNEW the basics of the historical event...can imagine how someone less knowledgeable of history would not be totally lost.
It’s sad that Only The Brave wasn’t mentioned. If you see this movie on TV, you’ll wonder why it wasn’t nominated.
I think Dunkirk is the only one of the 2017 nominees that I’ve seen and I was disappointed with it.
My opinion on what should have been best picture each year, and I have seen every film that has been nominated since 2012.
2017: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
2016: La, La, Land (Moonlight is the worst best picture winner EVER!)
2015: The Revenant (Hard to pick one this year)
2014: American Sniper (Far and away the best picture on this list)
2013: American Hustle
2012: Zero Dark THirty
Darkest Hour?
For best actor, if Gary Oldman doesn’t get it, then the should stop giving out the award.
Not a shot fired, other than one scene where the Germans bomb a diversionary force of 4,000 Brit troops trying to help free 300,000 at Dunkirk, and the movie was something both my boys stayed off their phones for the entire movie.
TCM has the movies I like. Real good writing and acting.
No rapid camera movements and the music is good.