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Oscar Season is Back!!
Friday 11th October 2013 | Lauren
It’s that time of year again, the nights are drawing in and X Factor is back with vengeance, but more importantly in the film world, it is the beginning of the award season! Every year, roughly between now and February, the years best films and Oscar hopefuls are released. This year there is a huge range of films competing for the Best Picture Award. We have a biopic of PL Travers- the author of Mary Poppins and her relationship with Walt Disney around the time of the making of the film. We have a hard hitting film based on the extrodinary life of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and forced into slavery in the 19th Century. But what else do the wonderful people of Hollywood have up on offer for us over the coming months?
Dallas Buyers Club
Over the years Matthew McConaughey has been more known for his roles in romantic comedies, making huge hits such as How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days and Failure To Launch, but recently he has been making his way into more independent, dark films such as Dallas Buyers Club.
It tells the story of Ron Woodroof, a man dying of AIDS who smuggles HIV medication over the boarder from Mexico to Texas. McConaughey lost a ridiculous 38 pounds for the role, and he looks pretty much certain to be rewarded with an Best Actor statue for his efforts. (Sorry DiCaprio, God knows you deserve one). Also starring in the film is Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto, who rarely let you down.
The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty
The happy-go-lucky independent film this year to take the place of Silver Linings Playbook and Little Miss Sunshine is Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. Stiller directs and stars alongside comedy star of the moment Bridesmaids and Saturday Night Lives Kristen Wiig.
An adaptation, it tells the story of nothing-special Walter Mitty who has a big imagination trying to get it together with Wiig, set to a just lovely soundtrack of Of Monsters and Men and Arcade Fire.
This could be the film with all the nominations, Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Screenplay and Director. As time has told us, films with all the nominations don’t always win, but it would be lovely for Stiller to win as he has been ignored by the Accademy during his career. But he did give is Meet The Little Fockers, but maybe his punishment should be over now.
Her
This years kooky romantic comedy, kooky as the lead female is a computer. And Joaquin Phoenix is taking time out from pretending to be a up and coming rap star to do some proper acting. Scarlett Johanson lends her voice to the Siri style system. Spike Jonze writes and directs this film to add to his repertoire of quirky independent films, such as Being John Malkovich and Where The Wild Things Are.
Pheonix plays the brilliantly named Theodore Twombly, a recently divorced writer who in the pit of loneliness, falls in love with his computer operating system. A tale as old as time.
There are many, many more films fighting it out for the highest recognition over the next coming months, which ones will get your vote and your Orange Wednesdays passcode?
By Lauren Floodgate
