The Artist (Oscar O-Meter: 10/10)
Directed By: Michel Hazanivicius
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Berenice Bejo
Synopsis:
Takes place in 1927 Hollywood and focuses on a silent movie star whose career seems about to be ended because of the arrival of the talkies. At the same time, a pretty young extra sees the new format as an opportunity to launch her star.
Oscar Nominations of 2011:
Best Actor
Best Actress Supporting
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Picture
Best Score
Best Screenplay (Original)
The Descendants (Oscar O-Meter: 9/10)
Directed Byr: Alexander Payne
Starring: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Judy Greer, Beau Bridges
Synopsis:
Set in Hawaii, a wealthy landowner takes his two daughters on a search for his wife's lover in the hopes of keeping his family together.
Oscar Nominations of 2011:
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Picture
Best Screenplay (Adapted)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Oscar O-Meter: 5/10)
Directed By: Stephen Daldry
Starring: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Hom, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, Viola Davis
Synopsis:
Eleven-year-old Oskar Schell is an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. And after finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. As Oskar roams the city, he encounters a variety of individuals, all survivors in their own way. Ultimately, Oskar’s journey ends where it began, but with the solace of that most human experience: community.
Oscar Nominations of 2011:
Best Actor Supporting
Best Picture
The Help (Oscar O-Meter: 8/10)
Directed By: Tate Taylor:
Starring: Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain
Synopsis:
Story follows a young white woman in the early 1960s in Mississippi who becomes interested in the plight of the African-American domestic servants that every family has working for them. She writes their stories about mistreatment, abuse and heartbreak, all just before the Civil Rights revolution.
Oscar Nominations of 2011:
Best Actress
Best Actress Supporting
Best Actress Supporting
Best Picture
Hugo (Oscar O-Meter: 7/10)
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, Sascha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Ray Winstone
Synopsis:
An orphaned boy secretly lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station and looks after the clocks. He gets caught up in a mystery adventure when he attempts to repair a mechanical man.
Oscar Nominations of 2011:
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Picture
Best Score
Best Screenplay (Adapted)
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
Best Visual Effects
Midnight In Paris (Oscar O-Meter: 5/10)
Directed By: Woody Allen
Starring: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen, Carla Bruni
Synopsis:
The story centers on a family traveling to Paris for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Oscar Nominations of 2011:
Best Art Direction
Best Director
Best Picture
Best Screenplay (Original)
Moneyball (Oscar O-Meter: 6/10)
Directed By: Bennett Miller
Starring: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Synopsis:
Based on a true story, Moneyball is a movie for anybody who has ever dreamed of taking on the system. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball's conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games. It's more than baseball, it's a revolution - one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he's tearing out the heart and soul of the game.
Oscar Nominations of 2011:
Best Actor
Best Actor Supporting
Best Film Editing
Best Picture
Best Screenplay (Adapted)
Best Sound Mixing
The Tree of Life (Oscar O-Meter: 8/10)
Directed By: Terrence Malick
Starring: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain
Synopsis:
The story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
Oscar Nominations of 2011:
Best Cinematography
Best Director
Best Picture
War Horse (Oscar O-Meter: 6/10)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis
Synopsis:
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets--British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter--before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse--an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure.
Oscar Nominations of 2011:
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Picture
Best Score
Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing
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