Movie reviews

BEFORE THE OSCAR GALA
 
Who would I like to win?
 
Leonardo di Caprio because he did more than any other actor in history.  I'm not even talking about his eating sushi (raw fish) and steak tartare (raw meat) on the screen but that he entered the horse carcass! I wouldn't ever do it and I suppose most people, even actors, wouldn't either. Respect for commitment and authenticity. If he didn't get it even this year, it would be outrageous.

Among the others who absolutely should get an Oscar is Roger Deakins for cinematography in "Sicario" - he elevated cinema to a whole new level of brutality, just like "Oldboy" years ago marked a new level of showing cruelty, now did "Sicario" and that's mostly due to the cinematography - so naturalistically nightmareous it's weird that actors didn't run from the filmset. Alan Robert Murray should by the way get an Oscar for sound editing as it completet the horror in the movie. 

Also Lenny Abrahamson for directing and Emma Donoghue for the adapted screenplay of "Room" - an exceptional storyline, where after, like I had thought, the climax, long continuation follows and it's no less hard-hitting than the first part of the film (who's seen it, knows where the division line goes). On the whole, that second part is the most meaningful because the events which inspired the first half were reported all over the world, while what happens to such persons afterwards disappears from the media even thought it's no less frightening.  

In the foreign language category Laszlo Nemes for "Son of Saul" which is impossible to forget. 

In the visual effects category Richard McBride for the bear scene in "The Revenant" - the computer-generated bear looks like a real one.