Which Films Lead the Tech Races at the 2017 Oscars?
The Oscar nominations were announced this morning. Here's a look at the cinematography, editing, sound and visual effects categories.
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Good Grief: Trauma and Loss at Center of 2016’s Oscar Bait Movies
While watching Natalie Portman's eyes well up continually as the young widow Jaqueline Bouvier Kennedy in Pablo Larrain's arty biopic Jackie, I realized GRIEF is this Oscar season's primary theme. Portman's Jackie walks dazedly through sets familiar from House of Cards in what to my untrained eyes look like a pink Chanel suit, suitably blood stained following her husband's 1963 assassination-by-sniper. This Jackie is in an echo-chamber of grief while the father of her children and the country, JFK, lies on the cold steel of a pathologist's table, brains here and body there. She snaps at her brother-in-law Bobby (a lost Peter Sarsgaard), bristles at that ambitious Texan-turned-president LBJ, confesses to craggy John Hurt as "The Priest," and weaves her Camelot blarney to Billy Crudup's mellifluous-voiced "The Journalist." Greta Gerwig remains lost under a wig bigger than her part as the First Lady's lady-in-waiting Nancy Tuckerman.
