Showing posts with label The Big Short. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Big Short. Show all posts

Monday, February 29, 2016

Analyze This: Why "Spotlight" Beat "The Revenant" And "The Big Short" To Win Best Picture

The Big Short | Trailer | Paramount Pictures UK Mon Feb 29 09:00:00 EST 2016 00000153-2d34-d604-abd3-bf3fbcce0000 Well, that was exciting. Going into yesterdays Oscars, most prognosticators were predicting and expecting The Revenant to win Best Picture it was a huge hit, took the BAFTA and the DGA (the guild that most often lines up with Best Picture), and was widely expected to win...
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Oscar snubs include "The Big Short," Sylvester Stallone and yes, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"

THE BIG SHORT Movie CLIP # 1 "The Big Short" should have seen its stock rise higher. As deserving as best picture winner "Spotlight" is for the honor, a good case could have been made to honor the dramedy about the 2008 financial crisis. "SPOTLIGHT" WINS BEST PICTURE, LEO TAKES HOME FIRST OSCAR Oscar-winning screenwriters Adam McKay and Charles Randolph managed to turn complex economic...
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"reThinking" The Big Short

The Big Short | Trailer | Paramount Pictures UKThe critically acclaimed, now Oscar-winning film The Big Short has helped form the impression among the American people that the private sector caused the financial crisis. But does this impression align with the facts? Is the 2008 crisis a relatively straightforward, moralistic tale of Wall Street greed and human foibles run amok? Or are government institutions and policies...
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