The 87th Academy Awards: Birdman v Boyhood | Retrospective 

The “Cool Girl” monologue in Gone Girl should’ve been more than enough to secure a nomination and win for the film. The fact that it was snubbed is ridiculous.

Love that you snuck in “Everything Everywhere” frame when talk about The Grand Budapest Hotel 😂😂

The way Promising Young Woman performed tells me that with today’s Academy Gone Girl would be an easy Picture nominee and maybe even a Screenplay winner.

All these years later and how many times I watched Nightcrawler, it makes me angry that Jake Gyllenhaal got snubbed for Best Actor. That was such a memorable, transformative and committed that performance and should’ve been an automatic lock for Best Actor. Both Eddie Redmayne and Michael Keaton were fantastic in their movies but he was my favorite lead actor performance in 2014. Not only that but Gone Girl almost getting completely snubbed as that was one of my favorite films of 2014. Should’ve gotten in for Picture, Director, screenplay, cinematography, music and editing. A fast paced gripping and engaging thriller from start to finish. I also think Rosamund Pike should’ve won, she was my favorite female performance leading or supporting in 2014. One final snub was The Lego Movie not nominated for Best Animated Film. A surprise critically acclaimed animated film that’s hilarious, witty, smart, clever, energetic and one of my favorite animated films of the 2010’s decade. I don’t care if it had live action in the 3rd act as I felt like those scenes were important to the film. In the lineup, I do think How To Train Your Dragon 2 deserved to win which I think is how you do a great sequel. I really liked Big Hero 6 but Dragon 2 was my second favorite animated film of 2014 behind Lego Movie.

Do Million Dollar Baby vs. The Aviator vs. Sideways next! That race was the same as Parasite, 1917, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Can’t believe I’m just noticing the EEAAO snippet when your talking about The Grand Budapest Hotel. Nice.

This was the Oscar season that got my into Oscar predicting and made me discover some of my all time favourite movies. Very nostalgic to walk down memory lane and have a look what could've been. Been hooked on the Oscars ever since.

I think people need to STOP SAYING that Julianne got a career Oscar due to the overdue factor. They could have nominated her for anything in between those nominations but they didn't (A Single Man, The Kids Are All Right). Still Alice is easily one of Moore's career best (which is saying a lot as she has tons of excellent performances under her filmography), SHE IS THE FILM. A lot of people including the Alzheimer community (which lauded her performance) and obviously the industry love that performance BECAUSE SHE SWEPT THAT SEASON. Not to mention a 4 million budget little indie drama made $45million worldwide. How many similar movies can achieve that? Away From Her? 45 Years? It is obvious that people who have actually seen the film responded well to her performance. The only group that is in denial obviously is the Gone Girl fanatics.

These videos are the best, but I love listening to you and brother bro speak about these films as you're discussing the noms, either agreeing or disagreeing with each other. It makes your content unique and different from other channels :(

my favorite tidbit about this Oscar is that every single movie nominated for best picture won at least one oscar: Birdman: several (picture, director, screenplay, etc.) Boyhood: Supporting Actress American Sniper: Sound Editing Grand Budapest Hotel: several (score, costumes, makeup/hair, production design) Imitation Game: adapted screenplay Selma: Original song Theory of Everything: Best Actor Whiplash: several (editing, sound mixing, supporting actor)

One other aspect of Birdman's popularity is that it was the first big critique of superhero films, and this was right around when people were starting to get sick of the familiar Marvel formula.

Honestly, people say Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler was the big Best Actor snub but Ralph Fiennes hit hardest for me. The Grand Budapest Hotel should have won Best Picture. Also, Boyhood won BAFTA as well

Ralph Fiennes missing for Grand Budapest was a true shame

Personally, 2014, 2017 and 2019 have my favourite slate of Best Picture nominees of the 21st century: several 10/10 movies each year and a number of other great nominees, great winners from each too

I still can not believe we aren't talking about that year's most embarrassing snub for best picture Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas

Roger Ebert was the most critical person toward the documentary branch of the academy. He was a great man and that film had Steve James directing it and so many filmmakers in it.

2014 was in my opinion the best movie year of the last decade, 2019 would be close for me. My Top 2 Favorite Films that year were Whiplash and Birdman. Whiplash is one of my favorite films of all time. A truly inspiring, captivating, thrilling and incredible movie with still career best performances from Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons, fast paced directing and editing, memorable lines, how this movie makes you feel sorry for Andrew and want to root for him and most of all one of the greatest endings I’ve ever seen. As for Birdman, it was one of the most unique and one of a kind films I’ve ever seen. I remember first watching it unsure what to think of it despite liking the acting, originality and cinematography. But the second time watching it and subsequent viewings, I absolutely love it. Terrific cast, ambitious story, amazing cinematography and does an incredible job with the one take filmmaking. Even though I would’ve been jumping with joy had Whiplash had a chance of winning Best Picture. I’m satisfied with Birdman winning Best Picture and a very interesting type of movie to reward Best Picture to. I liked Boyhood and admired the filmmaking of that movie. The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Imitation Game were some of my favorites in the lineup.

I don’t know if you realize how entertaining these videos are. Amazing content

I think this was the first time each Picture nominee got a win somewhere after the ten nominee extension

Bennett Miller getting a Directing nom but Foxcatcher missing a Picture nom is still shocking to me. I embraced that though., Just proves that the director's branch loves doing their own thing and nominate deserving work. And yes that includes snubbing Villeneuve for Dune.

I love these retrospectives! I would love to see one for 2013 (12 years a slave/Gravity)

Even though he finally won his second Last season Hans Zimmer not winning Original Score for Interstellar is still insane to me.

“Babe wake up, The Oscar Expert just dropped an Oscar retrospective”

Ik it would NEVER happen but imagining Isao Takahata winning for The Tale of the Princess Kaguya warms my heart so much

Gosh, really love the retrospectives. Keep em coming!

I was about to ask about this video yesterday because you mentioned in a video that there would be a retrospective soon, but here it is!

Thanks for all the content man. Your channel is awesome!

Finally, I've been looking forward to this for a long time!!

How time flies... Birdman and Gone Girl two of my most memorable the last decade for sure. Keep it up.

Love your retrospectives. Thank you

Absolutely loved Laura Dern in Wild. Can anyone think of another nominated performance that only takes place in flashbacks? She was highly effective and heartbreaking in this.

Gone Girl and Wild deserved to get into Best Picture. I still love these films today.

Great shoutout to the Under The Skin score! One of the best of the modern era for sure

FINALLY!!!!! Since this series started I always wanted this one!!!!

Interstellar should have won by a mile the Oscar for best score.

Nightcrawler is one of my favorite movies of all time so the 2015 Oscar’s just piss me off lol

Great video, this was the first year that I started to follow award season closely. I loved Boyhood so much!

Some ceremonies suggestion for Next Retrospective: 1973: The Sting vs Exorcist. Basically the sting only won the DGA. it didn't get any BAFTA noms (actually none of nominees made it to best film at BAFTA), it only got one globe nom which it lost (and still won Oscar for screenplay), despite exorcist winning Globes. 1974: Godfather Part 2 missed Bafta and didn't win ANY globes, but still won 6 oscars including best picture. 1981: Chariots of fire triumphing over Reds and Raiders of the lost ark. Despite it not winning any screenplay awards, and having 1 globe nomination. While Reds took both WGA and DGA, and had 12 nominations. Wins were also crazy with Raiders winning 5, Chariots winning 4 and Reds/On Golden Pond winning 3. 1985: Out of Africa sweeping. Probably some of the most unprecedented winners ever. Spielberg snubbed, and Colour purple won 0 oscars. Brazil got snubbed in many categories, and Ran got directing nomination. 1992: Crying Game vs Unforgiven. Pretty interesting best picture race. Marisa Tomei upset. Howards end somehow winning screenplay. Dracula winning 3 awards. Aladdin getting 5 noms. Also only 3 films getting more than 5 nominations. 1995: Braveheart vs Appolo 13 vs Sense and Sensibility. CRAZY best picture race, and probably one of the biggest upsets in the category, weird original screenplay race, and some glaring snubs. 2000: Gladiator vs Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon vs Traffic. Crazy best picture/director/actor race. Massive upset in supporting actress category. A lot of interesting nominees in general. 2001: Beautiful Mind vs Gosford Park vs Moulin Rouge. Another crazy best picture race. Overall an interesting year. Shrek winning BAFTA for screenplay, Moulin Rouge taking PGA, etc. 2015: Spotlight vs Revenant vs Big Short race. Controversy and 'oscars so white' phenomenon. Mark Rylance and Ex Machina upsets. 2018: Green Book. 2019: Parasite winning.

These are so damn insightful I love it

Love the detail in this video!

Brother bro :(

Boyhood is a movie I have respect for but just can’t get into. I really wanted to love this movie, largely because Richard Linklater and I have a very similar upbringing in Houston, but I just didn’t think it worked as a cohesive whole. I get that’s kind of the point, it’s just not for me, and this was solidified by two later movies that I think did what Boyhood tried better: Moonlight (reflecting the passage of time while also having a thesis on life rather than the thesis just being, life) and Lady Bird (more subjective, but capturing the kind of upbringing and prepubescent emotional state I had).

Justice for Gyllenhaal!!

Best Retrospectives!

33:40 is all the reasons Austin can win for Elvis P.S Do Oscar films of 2015 please!

I think an interesting retrospective would be One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest v.s. Jaws. I think that was an interesting year, just for the amount of classics that year.

The Grand Budapest Hotel was the one I was rooting for but Birdman was still an excellent win and achievement. Am I ever going to get that Nope review? Curious what you think the Oscar chances are because while I don’t know if it is Academy friendly, I do believe it is Peele’s best yet and being about filmmaking does not hurt. The cinematography is really worthy.

More of these vids please

The fact American Diaper got best picture and actor nominations over much better films like Nightcrawler, Gone girl and Wild... what was the academy thinking

I love Boyhood so much.

Meryl's nomination annoyed me for the first time. Chastain was amazing in A Most Violent Year.

You should do more of these retrospectives.

A brilliant analysis! A few others that I’d like to see at some point: - 2012 (The Artist) and 2018 (The Shape of Water); In retrospect, I kinda feel like those years are similar to this year in terms of how predictable the wins were (except Best Actress of 2012, lol). -2013 (Argo); Nuts Director, Actress and Supporting Actor lineups. -2016 (Spotlight) -2002 (A Beautiful Mind) and 2003 (Chicago): Rather ambiguous. And 2009 (Slumdog Millionaire): Dark Knight snubbage.

Hans Zimmer not winning best score for interstellar was, and still is, the snub of the century.

Boyhood should have won. I'll die on that hill.

I dont know if everyone would be down for this but you should do a retrospective on a REALLY old Oscar race (like silent era when the academy was in its infancy) just for fun to see where the academy has come from. I personally think a retrospective of looking at the very first Oscars and how the academy screwed up from the very start by ignoring Metropolis would be fascinating. Again this could be too niche and if so I get it. But I think it could be fun.

You should do a The Oscar Expert Awards!!

The ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ subliminal is next level. Bless you.

Honestly Beyond The Lights should have been nominated for multiple oscars in 2014. In particular for Gugu Mbatha Raw and Minnie Driver for best actress and best supporting actress. Even Gina Prince Bythewood for original screenplay, maybe possibly sound or one more nom for another song from the film

The Lego Movie snub is such a jaw-dropping snub... wow!

Um where is Brother Bro?

When are you coming up with your Oscar 2023 predictions??

9:35 I saw that! And it paid off too.

This is by far my favorite year of film.

I felt like The Grand Budapest Hotel was the best out of the eight, and actually, I can consider Interstellar (while not even nominated for best picture) the top film of the nominees

The Lego Movie getting snubbed was disappointing, but The Tale of the Princess Kaguya was one of the best animated films of the decade and if that film was number 5 then I’m happy that The Lego Movie didn’t kick it out

Damn, when was the last ya'll did one of these videos?

Boyhood is EVERYTHING to me. I still can’t believe what happened to it that season.

2012 film season please, the Ben Affleck Director snub, Jennifer Lawrence vs Jessica Chastain

Anyone know where he gets those posters behind him? They’re sweet

Updated 2023 predictions video release date?

The best actor award was jake's and only jake, the fact that he didn't even get nominated for that phenomenal performance is beyond me !

Are these videos ever coming back? :(

I'll never forget peoples reactions to the lego movie snub. I'm pretty sure it was because the academy were confused about what specific style it ws going for with the use of digital instead of stop motion along with like 5 minutes of live action but it is a travesty it did'nt win.

Upgrade predictions soon?

I read somewhere that Linklater is filming a new movie over a 20 year period. Can anyone confirm that?

needs brother bro

12:04 I disagree. Whiplash and American Sniper were definitely Top 5 possibilities.

Is there any speculation that the reason why The Lego Movie wasnt nominated for Best Animated Feature was due to the scene with Will Ferrel and his son?

9:40 I saw that and I love it

Rosamund Pike not winning the Oscsr for Gone Girl is CRIMINAL

1:04:13 - Maybe if you just watch Big Hero 6 you would know it's absolutely great. Literally one of my favorite animated films of all time. Can't wait to show it to my nephew in a few years.

Great year for cinema in general...lot of landmark achievements

That EEOAO glance, im dead 😭

wasn't the lego movie snubed because it has a live action scene at the end?

Maybe the best animated lineup ever

I remember how everyone thought early on this will finally be the year of two women directors nominated (Ava Duvernay & Angelina Jolie) and then both did not make it. It took another 6 years to happen with Zhao and Fennell.

2010 oscars with hurt locker vs avatar would be cool

What a great year! So many wonderful films. Makes you realise just how weak this year was. COVID still impacting perhaps?

you should to the 2002 season.

Pls do 86th! I wanna know the gravity vs 12 years a slave race, also the grave snubbery of inside llewyn davis, and most surprisingly for me how the act of killing did not win best documentary (when ppl were predicting it even for a best picture nom)

I think Linklaters got a good chance to win animated for Apollo 10 1/2, loved that movie

Had the Academy rewarded Moore for Boogie Nights, Pike would have won in a cake walk.

It makes sense that Eddie and Julianne won both their characters delt with disability

Chicago vs. The Pianist, please

1. Whiplash 2. Grand Budapest 3. Birdman 4. Boyhood

Lol the flash of EEAAO 😂

I still think pike should have won

5:40 why the heck is Tom Cruise on this picture??

Keaton should've won. One of the biggest snubs of all time