The nominees for the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation were announced today and I was amused to see how closely they resembled my If I Ruled the Oscars nominees for best screenplay.
My Awards:
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- The Lego Movie
- Predestination
Bradbury Awards:
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- The Lego Movie
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
- Interstellar
The Bradbury awards have 6 nominations and included one film that wouldn’t qualify for mine due to lacking fantasy/SF content, so if we take theirs down to 5 by eliminated Birdman, the only difference is Predestination vs Interstellar. I suspect that too few people saw Predestination for it to be nominated. Plus, Interstellar can look good if you don’t think about it too hard. The whole incessant exposition thing (so much exposition – see Nolin’s 2001: A Space Odyssey) takes it out of the running so that makes the lists identical where it counts.