2015 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2015 Academy Award Predictions — Best Makeup & Hairstyling

 

The Nominees:

  • Foxcatcher — Bill Corso, Dennis Liddiard
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel — Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier
  • Guardians of the Galaxy — Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, David White

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2015 Academy Award Predictions — Best Costume Design

 

The Nominees:

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel — Milena Canonero
  • Inherent Vice — Mark Bridges
  • Into the Woods — Colleen Atwood
  • Maleficent — Anna B. Sheppard
  • Mr. Turner — Jacqueline Durran

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2015 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies, Documentary

2015 Academy Award Predictions — Best Documentary Short Subject

 

The Nominees:

  • Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 — Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Dana Perry
  • Joanna — Aneta Kopacz
  • Our Curse — Tomasz Sliwinski, Maciej Slesicki
  • The Reaper — Gabriel Serra
  • White Earth — Christian Jensen

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2015 Academy Awards, Animation, Award Ceremonies

2015 Academy Award Predictions — Best Animated Short Film

 

The Nominees:

  • The Bigger Picture — Daisy Jacobs, Chris Hees
  • The Dam Keeper — Robert Kondo, Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi
  • Feast — Patrick Osborne, Kristina Reed
  • Me and My Moulton — Torill Kove
  • A Single LIfe — Joris Oprins

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2015 Academy Award Predictions — Best Original Song

 

The Nominees:

  • “Glory” Common, John Legend — Selma
  • “Lost Stars” Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois — Begin Again
  • “Everything is Awesome” Shawn Patterson — The Lego Movie
  • “Grateful” Diane Warren — Beyond the Lights
  • “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” Glen Campbell, Julian Raymond — Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me

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2015 Academy Award Predictions — Best Production Design

 

The Nominees:

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel — Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock
  • The Imitation Game — Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald
  • Interstellar — Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
  • Into the Woods — Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock
  • Mr. Turner — Suzie Davies, Charlotte Watts

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[Quickie] See This Movie: What We Do in the Shadows (2015)

 

What We Do in the Shadows is a horror comedy mockumentary coming from New Zealanders Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Concords) and Taika Waititi (Eagle vs. Shark), who both star in the film as well. It is a hilarious take on the vampire genre. Essentially, a camera crew is following around four flatmates who just happen to be immortal vampires as they try to get into clubs, clash with a similarly underwhelming pack of werewolves, and attempt to contain a newly anointed vampire who doesn’t know how to be discrete.

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Inherent Vice (2014) Movie Review

Inherent Vice is the latest from writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Thomas Pynchon. Pynchon’s work is often characterized by its density and difficulty. As such, some said Vice could not be successfully adapted for the screen.

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Is the Man Who is Tall Happy? (2013) Movie Review

Is the Man Who is Tall Happy? is a film by Michel Gondry (writer, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) in which he interviews famed linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky. During the interview, hand drawn animations created by Gondry depict Chomsky’s answers. Every so often, a small frame, inset in the animation, will show Chomsky as he is speaking. Their conversation delves into various alleyways, namely his philosophy on language and how we understand the concepts of the world through words and symbols.

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