The Oscars will finally be celebrated next Sunday 24 in Hollywood, as usual. The American movie industry and everyone who is related to it will try to look their best to enjoy their evening.
These past weeks we've been revising the main categories, and voting for our favourite nominees for supporting actor and actress, leading actor and actress and director. Now, it is the time for the BEST FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR.
These past weeks we've been revising the main categories, and voting for our favourite nominees for supporting actor and actress, leading actor and actress and director. Now, it is the time for the BEST FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR.
This week, the students will stop being students for a while, and forget they are in Spain, and will become members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Hollywood. Their task, and their resposibility, will be considerable: they will have to vote for the film which will receive the oscar for best feature film of the year. For that, you will have to focus on:
- Plot: what is the film about? Is the story appealing to the public? Is it interesting?
- The cast: who are the actors and actresses who play the main characters? Have they received any other awards? Are the well-known? How good is their performance, in your opinion?
- The director: is he a veteran or not? Have you seen any other films directed by him/her? Has he received any awards before?
- The language: Is it in English or in another language?
- Which are the reasons why your favourite film should win?
- Any other aspects you might consider important to comment on.
And the nominees are:
AMOUR, directed by Michael Haneke
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BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, directed by Behn Zeitlin.
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ARGO, directed by Ben Affleck
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DJANGO UNCHAINED, directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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LES MISÉRABLES, directed by Tom Hooper
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LIFE OF PI, by Ang Lee
For more information on the plot, cast, characters, etc, click on:
- Official website (Please, select an English-speaking country to see the website in English. If not, it will detect where you are and the website will be in Spanish. DON'T CHEAT!!)
- Wikipedia
LINCOLN, directed by Steven Spielberg
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SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, directed by David O. Russell
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ZERO DARK THIRTY, directed by Kathryn Bigelow
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AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...
'Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow airport. General opinion makes out that we live in a world of hatred and greed. I don't see that. Seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy but it's always there. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, none of the phone calls from people on board were messages of hate or revenge, hey were all messages of love. lf you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.'
