A Bruised Ego: 2017

Sunday, February 26, 2017

The 89th Academy Awards- If I Picked the Winners

A very quick rundown of my picks for the Oscars this year. I won't go into detail about why I picked each one, this is just a very basic list with some purty pictures. La La Land probably will and should win the majority of its awards in my opinion, but there are a few areas where I think other films came up just slightly better in terms of their execution on a technical level. It boils down to La La Land versus Moonlight in terms of genuine quality and cinematic importance and originality for the most part. It's a very tight race in a lot of ways and some of these choices were surprisingly hard to pick- there were some where I felt it almost a bit unfortunate to not pick one film over or another and its merely details and nitpicks over small things in the losers that had the victor win out.

As always I intentionally 'overlook' (i.e. ignore) the Short Films, Documentaries, and Animated Stuff by virtue of me not having seen them.

Best Visual Effects

Kubo and the Two Strings