{"id":1432,"date":"2013-03-02T13:57:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T13:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/02\/enough-with-argo-let-s-talk-oscars-2014\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T15:43:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T14:43:39","slug":"enough-with-argo-let-s-talk-oscars-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/enough-with-argo-let-s-talk-oscars-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough with Argo: Let\u2019s talk Oscars 2014?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now that Ben Affleck has shaved his good-luck Oscar beard, we believe it\u2019s safe to officially close the book on the 2012-13 awards season so we can cast a small peek at the treasures that await. What will the coming best picture race look like? Here are 10 candidates:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Great Gatsby<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Director, Baz Luhrmann; cast, Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Delayed from last year and, like all of Luhrmann\u2019s high-style, high-wire movies, guaranteed to be divisive, \u201cGatsby\u201d could well be this year\u2019s \u201cLes Miserables\u201d (without the singing) \u2014 a lavish, emotionally over-the-top, sweeping spectacle that aims to hold a mirror to modern times. Its schedule bump might prompt some doubts, but \u201cTitanic\u201d moved back its release date too, and it made out OK.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Monuments Men<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Director, George Clooney; cast, Daniel Craig, Clooney, Cate Blanchett.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a WWII action-thriller about a special platoon charged with saving art from the Nazis. Tension + higher purpose + Clooney = best picture? That equation worked this year with \u201cArgo,\u201d didn\u2019t it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Wolf of Wall Street<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Director, Martin Scorsese; cast, Leonardo DiCaprio.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The fifth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio has sex, drugs and securities fraud, not to mention mob elements, along with a script from Terence Winter, who, judging from his work on \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d and \u201cBoardwalk Empire,\u201d knows his way around the subject at hand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nebraska<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Director, Alexander Payne; cast, Bruce Dern, Will Forte.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Payne\u2019s road trips (\u201cAbout Schmidt,\u201d \u201cSideways\u201d) never disappoint. This one follows a son (Forte) reluctantly taking his irascible dad (Dern) from Billings, Montana, to Lincoln, Nebraska, to claim a magazine sweepstakes prize. Likely to be low-key, but that could work in its favour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Captain Phillips<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Director, Paul Greengrass; cast, Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hanks plays a cargo ship captain taken hostage by Somali pirates. Greengrass (\u201cUnited 93,\u201d \u201cBloody Sunday\u201d) knows how to craft compelling cinema from true stories, and it\u2019s about time the academy recognizes him for something. Hanks\u2019 presence should help pave the way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Foxcatcher<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Director, Bennett Miller; cast, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bennett follows his Oscar-nominated \u201cMoneyball\u201d with an altogether different true story \u2014 the relationship between paranoid chemical fortune heir John du Pont and an Olympic gold medal wrestler who was his longtime friend. For Carell, in particular, this has the potential to be a career changer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Labor Day<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Director, Jason Reitman; cast, Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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While out shopping for back-to-school clothes, a mother and her 13-year-old son come across a bleeding man in need of help. They bring him home and … it gets complicated from there. Reitman adapted the story from Joyce Maynard\u2019s poignant, coming-of-age novel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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August: Osage County<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Director, John Wells; cast, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The movie has the pedigree \u2014 Tracy Letts adapted his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play about a dysfunctional family coming together after a crisis. And it\u2019s being released by the Weinstein Co., so there\u2019s that. But Wells is primarily a TV director and dramas centered on family conflict often turn into tonal train wrecks. An iffy proposition, but, with this year\u2019s Oscar-winning producers Clooney and Grant Heslov on board, it\u2019s one that cannot be discounted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gravity<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Director, Alfonso Cuaron; cast, Clooney, Sandra Bullock.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Clooney (he\u2019s everywhere!) and Bullock play astronauts dealing with a mission gone bad. Cuaron (\u201cChildren of Men\u201d) is one of our most gifted directors and this will need critical raves to break through the academy\u2019s tendency to short-sheet sci-fi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fruitvale<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Director, Ryan Coogler; cast, Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Indie drama about the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old Bay Area man shot dead by a transit officer. Like \u201cBeasts of the Southern Wild\u201d last year, \u201cFruitvale\u201d took Sundance by storm, winning the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. Weinstein Co. bought the devastating drama at the festival, and based on the buzz and reviews, it probably will become a fixture in the upcoming award season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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