The 86th Academy Awards Winners
An Oscar is undoubtedly the biggest honor any filmmaker could receive for their hard work in creating a cinematic work. While I may hear amongst many of the people in my life just how much they don't care about the evening's victors, I treat my viewing of the Academy Awards almost like the average American treats the Super Bowl. Growing up in an extremely small town, a lot of the nominated films weren't accessible to me and my predictions really reflected my sheltered viewings. Now that I'm in actual civilization, I've been able to catch a lot of the films, and I must say that I have become quite a professional at guessing who will be taking home the big prize of the evening. Last Friday I wrote a post on my predictions for the major categories of the evening, and I am proud to say I was pretty much eight for eight with my guesses. Perhaps I should say 7.5 for reasons of my Best Picture award, but I highly doubt anyone cares too much about that. With that said, here are this year's winners...
The 86th Academy Awards Winners Predictions
The early months of any year are full of awards and recognitions for all of those filmmakers who worked hard in the previous year to produce a form of entertainment that will have the capability to transcend the decades. While a variety of these award nights seem to take precedence throughout these first few weeks of the year, they all seem to merely be leading up to the largest of filmmaking honor ceremonies: The Academy Awards. The night on which the golden Oscar is distributed seems to always be the hype, and these smaller ceremonies just add to the predictions that film fanatics everywhere are making for the late winter celebration. 2013 brought a lot of excitement for filmgoers around the world, and this Sunday could be the test of whether a viewer's favorite film executed just the right amount of excellence for the Academy to spread cheer. So, without further blabber on my part, here is what I think will be receiving each honor this weekend.
[Trailer] 12 Years a Slave
http://youtu.be/p6X-Ck4txLk
Wow. This powerful first trailer for 12 Years a Slave has Oscar bait written all over it, and honestly... I think it'll gain a lot of steam when it comes time for awards nominations. Directed by Steve McQueen (Shame), the film is based off of the memoir of the same name written by Solomon Northup, a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841. Chiwetel Ejiofor (American Gangster) stars as Northup with Michael Fassbender (Shame) portraying Edwin Epps, Northup's plantation owner. Also featured are Paul Dano (Looper), Brad Pitt (World War Z), Paul Giamatti (Sideways), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild), and others.
12 Years a Slave looks really good, but I'll temper my expectations as to how good until the film is released into theaters on October 18th.