Fortunately, with the Golden Globe awards having come and gone I was able to get a jump on what you can assume might be nominated for the coveted Oscar.
The Descendants
The Artist
My Week with Marilyn
J. Edgar
The Iron Lady
All great movies in their own category, I mean what can you expect from a silent black and white? Well the actors in The Artist did a great job at showing you their emotions with only their facial expressions and their actions not to mention the sets and costumes warrant nominations. J. Edgar and The Iron Lady are both great history lessons along with well written story lines that keep you interested. J. Edgar does a better job at this than The Iron Lady, but Meryl Streep does such an amazing acting job you have to give her credit for the work she does with a rather slow story line.
J. Edgar which was a great film with amazing acting did not get a single nomination. Shocking! It had an excellent historical story line with great acting by all. J. Dench brings her A game and a biting tongue to her role. Leo nails his part as a hard working/ driven yet awkward character.
The Descendants while being incredibly sad it was a great movie! Every actor young and old did a great job at their characters which I give some credit to the Director whom is up for nominee and I think deserves to win. Alex Payne picked some amazing locations as well as actors for their roles.
Sid played by Nick Krause will have you busting up out loud.
My Week With Marilyn was good but I can't say great. I believe that the co-star Eddie Redmayne deserved a nomination for his role which was almost bigger than Michelle's, who did a fabulous job at portraying Marilyn. I didn't feel that Kenneth Branagh did anything for his role, but perhaps this is how Sir Laurence Olivier really behaved.
My vote goes to The Descendants.
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