If I Ruled the Oscars there would be no pretentious and horribly inaccurate bio-pics, no plotless dramas, no hipster indies. Instead, we’d be awarding genre films. With this being a rough year, I’m keeping my nominations short and sweet. Just 5 best of categories.
Nominations for Best Feature Film
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Maleficent
- Predestination
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
Nominations for Best Animated Feature Film
- Big Hero 6
- The Boxtrolls
- How to Train Your Dragon 2
- The Lego Movie
- Penguins of Madagascar
Nominations for Best Screenplay
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- The Lego Movie
- Predestination
Nominations for Best Character Creation (a combination of makeup, effects, and performance)
- Beauty and the Beast – The Beast
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – Caesar/the apes
- Guardians of the Galaxy – Rocket
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Bilbo/Thorin/Tauriel
- Maleficent – Maleficent
Nominations for Best Song/Use of a Song
- Come and Get Your Love – Guardians of the Galaxy
- Everything Is Awesome – The Lego Movie
- The Hanging Tree – The Hunger Games
- Little Boxes – The Boxtrolls
- Once Upon a Dream – Maleficent
It was a reasonably good year, with some top notch choices, but not a lot of them. I was straining for a 5th nominee in each category. As for editing, I’m saving that for my Worst of the Year nominations.
And to make this a little easier on me (I’m cutting myself a good deal of slack), I only counted films that had 2014 dates in IMDB, which knocked out a few Internet favorites.