All tagged Oscar Bait

Loving

  Love against all odds is the most horrifying, and often heart wrenching, of genre conventions. To know as a society that this not only happened to the Lovings, but generations upon generations of mixed families, is absolutely grotesque. 

Sing Street

The inspiration behind bands such as Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, and The Cure are explained, unpacked, and rehashed by the Sing Street band in a truly inspiring ode to Carney’s teenaged generation.

Big Eyes

While the subject of the film is upsetting, it's not stirring enough to warrant any nominations. It's a run of the mill biopic dealing with an interesting if tepid subject. Second, it's a strange kind of film, for various reasons. It makes sense for Burton to gravitate towards this film, as it deals in curiously odd looking paintings

Cake

What people remember most about this film was that Jennifer Aniston only wore a little, if no, makeup throughout the shooting of this film.  As huge as this is (sense the sarcasm?) what many others remember is everyone saying that Aniston was a contender for a Best Actress nomination at the 2015 Academy Awards.