![]() Ive highlighted any films not primarily in English, and its just the Academy voters that cant find a way to embrace films not in English. Theyve also not picked any animations, although that may be fairer this year as while Frozen and The Wind Rises sat just outside the other three lists, none gained enough of a consensus to feel hard done by.īut the biggest injustice remains that of the exclusion of foreign films, with The Hunt hit by the double whammy of actually being released in 2012.īut dont take my work for it on just being this year: heres the same breakdown for the previous four years, since the Best Picture Oscar expanded from five to ten films, and once again with the comparable lists from Letterboxd, IMDb and Metacritic. ![]() ![]() It overlooks the fact that the general public havent taken to it at all, so it would seem to be this years film reliant heavily on the actors that make up a decent chunk of the 6,000 members. Russell film in a row and that it picked up the Golden Globe for best comedy, as well as a handful of critical awards prior to that. Letterboxd tends to skew more middle class while the IMDb typically has a more mainstream slant, so Ive included them both for balance.) Three films 12 Years A Slave, Her and Gravity manage to appear on all four lists, so logic would suggest that they should be the front runners, yet many are considering this a two horse race between 12 Years and American Hustle.Īmerican Hustle appears to have in its favour the fact that its secured acting nominations in all four categories for the second David O. Ive then also assembled the top ten lists from film sites Letterboxd and the Internet Movie Database, which anyone can vote for, and Metacritic which aggregates critic reviews. The Academy will select anything between five and ten, as long as they achieved at least 5 of the vote (hence only having nine nominations for the past three years). These days, the most prominent campaigns start with films released around the festival season in September October, that ride a wave of acclaim across Toronto, Venice or London and then are unleashed on the general public just in time to start picking up awards nominations. Partly, the last of those points must be down to the need to get that bump while a film is still in cinemas and not released on DVD, which means a release in the last month of the year gives a distinct edge, but some will also quote the benefits of momentum which is crucially lost if your film was released six months ago. There have already been casualties step forward Tom Hanks, this years Ben Affleck (and thats not a sentence I ever thought Id say) but while for some its too late, for the lucky few the real campaign starts in earnest, with a prize of up to 30 million at the US Box Office alone for those getting the Oscar bump of extra recognition through a nomination or a win. ![]()
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