23rd of February... My first humble opinion is of course about last nights glorious 87th Academy Awards. Yeay! I had my favorites set long ago and I am an impenetrable fanatic so anyone trying to convince me that my favorites are not that good is doomed to listen to an hour long lecture about how I'm right.
My three favorite movies this year were respectively Whiplash, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Gone Girl. Gone Girl did disappoint me with just one nomination in best lead actress for Rosamund Pike -which I believe was well deserved- which they could't get. I am not going to make much comment on this since I haven't yet seen the winning performance of Julianne Moore. But my biggest disappointment was Gone Girl not even getting a nomination in best original screenplay. In my humble opinion, at the times when most of the content is already used and even overused in the movies, a movie that is able to capture you from the first minute and make you wonder of what happened the entire time and manages to suprise you with even the simplest elements makes one of the best mystery stories of this decade of original script writing. This years winner in this category was Birdman.
The movie that made me fall in love with Wes Anderson's work all over again and cleared up almost all of its nominated categories was The Grand Budapest Hotel. The first thing you should know about me is that I'm a sucker for beautiful colors. And I can very honestly say that I have never seen a movie that has this brilliant usage of colors. Aside from the entertaining script, amazing acting and the amazing score that pulls you right into the no-less than fantastic world of Anderson; the costumes, the makeup and the wonderful production design were the elements that truly deserved their golden statue. I was personally rooting for this great film to add the best achievement in cinematography to their collection but I guess still the academy gave The Grand Budapest Hotel the acknowledgement it merit.
Finally, Whiplash... How do you begin to talk about a film like Whiplash? Did you know that this movie was shot only in 19 days and the entire process of the filming and editting was completed in only 10 weeks. This really did create a great contrast with Boyhood.
The script, the acting, the music... Even when I say that every aspect of the movie was beyond perfect for me, still there is this charm about it that I can't explain with my words but only with my ridiculous gestures and my meaningful but funny facial expressions which unfortunately you can't see. I did give all of my own oscars to Whiplash -including best animation and documentary- but I guess they don't really care about the awards I give =/.
So the golden man that made me the happiest is the best supporting actor that went to J.K. Simmons. Oh the charisma of that man... Terrence Fletcher is the character that you'll love to hate, if not the character you'll just love so much that you won't figure out what's wrong with him. I believe the magic of this film comes from the perfect combination of the prodigal acting of J. K. Simmons and the multitalents of Miles Teller. I knew that he was a very good actor but those drums... They certainly took me by suprise. Spoiler alert: that blood on the drumset is not all fake blood. Ouch! Talk about commitment.
The movies also won the best film editting award with Tom Cross. I did mention the 10 weeks thing right? The final Oscar they earned was best achievement in sound mixing. Even though I believe that they did fully earn this award I also admit that it was a little bit unfair to the other nominees since before the sound mixing process the material the movie gives is divine on itself. I'm not underestimating the great on the sound production but the music pieces on itself was able to dazzle the audience. My heart was with Whiplash also when the winner of best adapted screenplay was being announced but I think I can let go of that one.
The script, the acting, the music... Even when I say that every aspect of the movie was beyond perfect for me, still there is this charm about it that I can't explain with my words but only with my ridiculous gestures and my meaningful but funny facial expressions which unfortunately you can't see. I did give all of my own oscars to Whiplash -including best animation and documentary- but I guess they don't really care about the awards I give =/.
The movies also won the best film editting award with Tom Cross. I did mention the 10 weeks thing right? The final Oscar they earned was best achievement in sound mixing. Even though I believe that they did fully earn this award I also admit that it was a little bit unfair to the other nominees since before the sound mixing process the material the movie gives is divine on itself. I'm not underestimating the great on the sound production but the music pieces on itself was able to dazzle the audience. My heart was with Whiplash also when the winner of best adapted screenplay was being announced but I think I can let go of that one.
Aside from seeing my favorite movies being honored one of the moments I enjoyed the most on the entire show was the performance of Lady Gaga. I really didn't see that coming. Beig a huge fan of The Sound of Music, I tried to hold on to my tears for the whole performance. And the moment I failed to hold them was when the no less than a goddess Julie Andrews entered the stage.
The Oscars were between 2:00 and 7:00 am in my timeline and being on a sunday -which is being on my mondays dawn- it was a challange staying up for the whole show. But if you're going to sacrifice your sleep for something, make sure that it is as epic as this years Academy Awards was.
Thank you for reading my humble opinion.
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