Weekly Blog, Week 3

My blog this week will be about Barkhad Abdi, and how he was nominated for best supporting actor. From what I have heard and read this man, not long ago was just a limo driver. Not that long ago his whole world was changed. An audition was held for parts of the upcoming movie Captian Phillis and the 28 year old decided to take a shot at it since he has had a bit of experince in the film industry working behind the camera. The recieved the role of Tom Hank's co- star. Not only did he land the part but he did a great job and earned nominee. I haven't seen the movie myself but by the sound of it he did a pretty well job and I do belive he does deserve the nominee.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/16/showbiz/movies/oscars-2014-nominee-reactions-barkhad-abdi/index.html?c=movies

Weekly Blog, Week 2

This week for my blog I will be talking the nominations for the Academy Awards again. This time I will be talking about the movie Wolf on Wall Street. The Wolf on Wall Street was nominated for many awards. One was for the leading role for Leonardio DiCaprio. I did agree with this nomination, I recently went to go see the movie and I have seen a lot of DiCaprios movie and I have to say he did an excellent job with this one and truly believed his character, even though I'm used to seeing him as this loving caring guy in romantic movies, he really did step up and proved he was meant to play that  role. Jonah Hill was also nominated for supporting role, I thought Jonah was the perfect supporting role because he's this goofy guy you wouln't think would be so successful, it was a perfect combination and he worked great with DiCaprio. Other nominations for this movie were for Directing, Best Picture, and Writing( Adapted Screenplay). I agree with the Directing nomination and Best Picture, because the way it was shot in the way the camera was used way it was framed really helped with moments when he was so far away from his goal and had weak moments when he wasn't so powerful. The picture was great it really also does deserce that award. I do disagree with the nomination for Writing, because I do think there could of been some changes in the story itself, some parts towards the end could of been fixed to make more of an impact. Yet, besides that I think this movie desreves mostly all of the nominations and do hope they win them. 

Weekly Blog, Week 1

My blog this week is about the nominations for the academy awards. One nomination that stood out to me is for feature animated film. The croods was one to be nominated for this category. I watched the croods but didn't watch the other nominated films but from seeing the croods I can say that is was a great choice to have been nominated for featured animation film. The film was all you could ask for in a kids film. Even though I'm a teen I was an amusing film to watch with my family. I strongly think that it has a very good chance at winning the award and hope it does.