Although we enjoy the Academy Awards every year, we always walk away with a sour taste in our mouths. Today I will continue my series on the Oscar winners. I will share my thoughts on who won, who should’ve won and who should’ve been nominated.
The first race I am going to tackle is the 2013 Best Picture race.
Here were the 9 films nominated for Best Picture.
- 12 Years a Slave
- Gravity
- American Hustle
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Her
- Philomena
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Captain Phillips
- Nebraska
Who Won?
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
12 Years A Slave was nominated for 9 Academy Awards and the film took home 3 Oscar trophies including Best Picture.
Who Should Have Won?: 12 Years A Slave
2013 was an absolute breathtaking year for film. Within the Best Picture alone you had 12 Years A Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street, Her and Captain Phillips, all films that were in my top 10 films of the year.
This battle is between 12 Years A Slave and The Wolf of Wall Street, I give the slight edge to McQueen and 12 years because of the impact that film left on you.
The acting from everyone within 12 Years was key in what made the film absolutely brilliant. Chitwetel and Lupita gave some of the best performances within a film you will ever see, this saw Lupita take home her first Oscar and put her name on the map.
John Ridley and Steve McQueen teamed up to provide a truly heartbreaking film that showcased to us the struggle of witnessing the times of slavery.
If for some reason you have never seen this film, please watch it.
Who Should Have Been Nominated? Prisoners
DRUM ROLL PLEASE booooooom bammmmmmm booooom bammmmm
Jake Gyllenhaal screwed by the Academy AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prisoners is hands down one of the best films ever made, it’s haunting, its vicious, its creative, its thrilling, its heartbreaking all while Denis Villeneuve gives us one of the best directions within a film of the decade and ZERO respect! ZERO! Jake wasn’t the only one even remotely snubbed, Hugh Jackman gave the best performance of his career in this film. He got overlooked!
For this film to have received only ONE, just ONE Oscar Nomination is an absolute plan disrespect of the art of this very film. I understand that it is a brutal watch and some of the scenes within the film are hard to watch because of the gruesomeness but that’s what made this film so great.
It truly was snubbed, not just for Picture but a host of other categories.
Who would you have picked as the winner? And what film was missing from being nominated?