So with Gone Girl kicking off the official awards season earlier this month, I have created a guide to what movies to see if you're interested in awards shows, or if you just like to see good movies. I can't promise that every movie will deliver, but each has potential. The movie title is listed, along with the plot, and nominations it could possibly receive. (Note: Only major nominations, so picture, director, and the four acting categories. No technical nominations.)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel
The adventure of Gustave H, the famed concierge at the Grand Budapest Hotel in Europe and his lobby boy who becomes his most loyal friend. After being framed for the murder of his lover and sent to prison, he and his lobby boy conspire to break him out and catch the real killer. All set to the backdrop of the hotel system in Europe during the Nazi invasions of upcoming WWII.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- Wes Anderson, Best Actor- Ralph Fiennes, Best Original Screenplay
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Nat Wolff, Willem Dafoe
The love story between Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, two teenagers who met in a cancer support group. Hazel, bound to an oxygen tank, is depressed and has almost given up hope, until she meets Augustus, an optimistic cancer survivor in remission, who shows her how to love life again, and not let her illness define her.
Possible Nominations: Best Actress- Shailene Woodley, Best Adapted Screenplay
Starring: Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette
The life of a young man named Mason, from age 5 to age 18, as he navigates adolescence, a dysfunctional family, and struggles to choose between the influences of his divorced parents his protective mother and easygoing father. Mason finally has to split and figure out who he really is.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- Richard Linklater, Best Supporting Actor- Ethan Hawke, Best Supporting Actress- Patricia Arquette, Best Original Screenplay
Starring: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, William Hurt, Isabelle Huppert, Bill Hader, Viola Davis
The tragic romance between Conor Ludlow and Eleanor Rigby, a couple who fall madly in love, but split when Conor wakes up to find Eleanor has left and abandoned him. After he searches and finds her, he finds a much different girl than the one he knew, and tries to reclaim a love and pick up the pieces of a past that's too far gone.
Possible Nominations: Best Actress- Jessica Chastain
Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Carrie Coon, Neil Patrick Harris, Kim Dickens, Tyler Perry
After his famous wife Amy disappears and is presumed dead, Nick Dunne is thrown in the center of a mass media circus surrounding her disappearance, and immediately becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance and suspected murder. However, Nick is adamant he had nothing to do with it, and struggles to maintain his innocence as details of their rocky marriage are revealed through Amy's diary. Based on the record-breaking best-selling novel.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- David Fincher, Best Actor- Ben Affleck, Best Actress- Rosamund Pike, Best Supporting Actress- Carrie Coon, Best Adapted Screenplay
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Vincent D'Onofrio, Billy Bob Thornton
Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his small hometown after the death of his mother, only to find that his estranged father, the longtime respected city judge has been accused of a hit-and-run murder. The two must reconnect and put their pasts behind them, if they are to work together to clear his name.
Possible Nominations: Best Supporting Actor- Robert Duvall
Starring: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell
Andrew Neyman is a promising young drummer, who enrolls in one of the most prestigious jazz schools in the nation, overseen by the respected band director Terence Fletcher. However, Andrew and the other new students realize how far their teacher will go, when he stops at absolutely nothing, even resorting to physical and emotional abuse, to have the greatest studio band.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor- Miles Teller, Best Supporting Actor- J.K. Simmons, Best Original Screenplay
Starring: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña
As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre of WWII, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Out-numbered and out-gunned, they face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany. (Entirely fictitious)
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- David Ayer, Best Actor- Brad Pitt, Best Supporting Actor- Logan Lerman
Starring: Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Ryan
A washed up movie star, famous for playing the classic superhero known as "Birdman", is cast in a revival of his character's adventures in a Broadway play. He must throw away his ego in order to reclaim his past glory. Michael Keaton is cast in this parody and satire of his own "Batman" fame and disappearance from the screen after the films.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- Alejandro González Iñárritu, Best Actor- Michael Keaton, Best Supporting Actor- Edward Norton, Best Supporting Actress- Emma Stone, Best Original Screenplay
Starring: Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Chris O'Dowd, Jaedan Lieberher
A young boy struggling to cope with his parents' divorce and moving to a new town, finds an unlikely friend and protector in his misanthropic, loudmouthed, and hedonistic war veteran of a neighbor. Vincent takes the boy under his wing, against the wishes of his protective mother, and shows him how to appreciate life through very unconventional methods.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor- Bill Murray, Best Supporting Actress- Naomi Watts, Best Original Screenplay
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Bill Paxton, Rene Russo
After he is rejected by many of the city's news companies, Lou Bloom decides to start his own freelance crime journalism in L.A, and discovers the underground crime in his city. He fights corruption as he quickly learns that the juiciest stories are the ones where someone has to get their hands dirty.
Possible Nominations: Best Actor- Jake Gyllenhaal
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck
After a second Dust Bowl leaves the United States' food supply scarce and the world in danger, an engineer and single father joins a group of explorers to utilize a new wormhole to travel out of our Solar System. Leaving his heartbroken daughter behind, and not knowing when or if he'll ever return, he sets off to try and find a new world for humans to inhabit.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- Christopher Nolan, Best Actor- Matthew McConaughey, Best Actress- Anne Hathaway, Best Supporting Actress- Jessica Chastain
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, David Thewlis
Stephen Hawking is a brilliant physician, who can see patterns and solve problems like no one else can. He balances his work with science with his relationship with his fiancé Jane, until both are threatened when he is diagnosed with a motor neuron disease, which leaves him in a wheelchair and unable to utter a single word. With his new wife (and some technology)'s help, he is able to communicate his ideas to the world.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- James Marsh, Best Actor- Eddie Redmayne, Best Actress- Felicity Jones, Best Adapted Screenplay
Starring: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave
Jon du Pont, is a troubled multimillionaire who invests in an Olympic wrestling team known as "Team Foxcatcher". Suffering from undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, he takes an unhealthy interest in Mark Schultz, a young wrestler and takes him under his wing. Until one fateful night when everything changes, and his obsession goes too far. Based on the incredible and shocking true story.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- Bennett Miller, Best Actor- Steve Carell, Best Actor- Channing Tatum, Best Supporting Actor- Mark Ruffalo, Best Original Screenplay
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong
The true story of Alan Turing. Turing was a mathematician who was approached by the British government during WWII to attempt to crack Enigma, the unbreakable code the Nazi's used for all communications. Breaking it would give the Allies a great advantage, and Turing teamed up with four other mathematicians to build the world's first computer to crack it.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- Morten Tyldum, Best Actor- Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Supporting Actress- Keira Knightley, Best Adapted Screenplay
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Gaby Hoffman, Laura Dern
Based on the memoir of the same name by Cheryl Strayed, recounting her 1,100 mile solo hike. After her mother, with whom she was incredibly close, passes away, and her marriage fizzles Cheryl turns to a life of heroin abuse and promiscuous sex. She decides she needs to get away from her life, and finds herself on an incredibly journey of self-discovery.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress- Reese Witherspoon, Best Supporting Actress- Laura Dern, Best Adapted Screenplay
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio del Toro
In 1970, the peak of the hippies and the stoners, a inept alcoholic and drug-addicted detective Doc Sportello is approached by his ex-girlfriend. She wants him to help her find her rich business magnate boyfriend, who she believes has been captured for ransom. He investigates, only to find he's in much deeper than he assumed.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Actor- Joaquin Phoenix, Best Supporting Actor- Josh Brolin, Best Supporting Actress- Katherine Waterston, Best Adapted Screenplay
Starring: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson
J.M.W Turner is undeniably one of the greatest artists of the impressionist movement that struck Great Britain. Chronicling the last quarter of his life, as he struggles with blindness and a country who thinks he should retire, the history of the country through the lens of the eccentric artist.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- Mike Leigh, Best Actor- Timothy Spall, Best Original Screenplay
Starring: Emily Blunt, James Corden, Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp
In a fictional universe where all the Grimm fairy tales coexist, two characters appearing as minor characters in many of the stories finally get their own. The Baker and his Wife have been cursed childless by a witch, and must reverse the curses she placed on fractured versions of fairy tale characters if they hope to have a family. Based on the Broadway musical.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress- Emily Blunt, Best Supporting Actress- Meryl Streep, Best Supporting Actress- Anna Kendrick, Best Adapted Screenplay
Starring: Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund
The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, the town delinquent who turned into an Olympic athlete, setting numerous records in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He went into the Air Force during WWII, where his plane crashed into the ocean and he survived at sea for 47 days, only to be captured and spend the rest of the war tortured brutally in a POW camp in Japan. Based on the best-selling non-fiction book.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- Angelina Jolie, Best Actor- Jack O'Connell, Best Supporting Actor: Domhnall Gleeson, Best Supporting Actor- Miyavi, Best Adapted Screenplay
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller
The true story of US Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, known as the most lethal sniper in American history. Based on the autobiography Kyle wrote about his tour in Iraq, it displays the horrors of war, and the remorse felt from 225 claimed kills (160 of which are confirmed). It also tells the story of his early adulthood and life as a husband and father, and his struggle with PTSD after returning home. Based on the book.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- Clint Eastwood, Best Actor- Bradley Cooper, Best Supporting Actress- Sienna Miller, Best Adapted Screenplay
Starring: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzmann, Danny Huston
Walter Keane rose to national fame after he arose as the artist of a multitude of paintings with big eyed characters, that quickly became the first commercial success of the art movement in the 60s. However, his wife Margaret painted every single one, and he took credit for them, robbing her of the recognition and forcing her to paint and lie for years.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- Tim Burton, Best Actress- Amy Adams, Best Supporting Actor- Christoph Waltz, Best Original Screenplay
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Albert Brooks, Catalina Sandino Moreno
A crime drama set in NYC in 1981, the city's most violent year in history. Centered on the lives of an immigrant and his lower-class family, as he tries to expand their business and opportunities in America. However, the rampant destruction and violence threatens to suck them all in.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor- Oscar Isaac, Best Actress- Jessica Chastain, Best Supporting Actor- Albert Brooks
Starring: David Oyelowo, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Wilkinson Tim Roth, Carmen Ejogo, Cuba Gooding Jr.
The story of Martin Luther King Jr, and his work with President Lyndon B. Johnson to spearhead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in America, and the historic march Dr. King led from Selma, Alabama to the state's capital, Montgomery.
Possible Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director- Ava DuVernay, Best Actor- David Oyelowo, Best Supporting Actor- Tom Wilkinson, Best Supporting Actor- Tim Roth, Best Supporting Actress- Oprah Winfrey, Best Supporting Actress- Carmen Ejogo
Starring: Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish
Alice is a cognitive psychologist and practices with her husband. They're happily married and have three kids, all adults. She has everything, until she can't remember their names. Alice is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. Her family struggles to help her while she's slipping away.
Possible Nominations: Best Actress- Julianne Moore, Best Supporting Actress- Kristen Stewart
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