Nowadays, it’s safe to say that an Oscar is the biggest honor in the film industry.
As such, studios and filmmakers think they’ve cracked the formula: These movies are called Oscar bait.
Indeed, there are some prettyawful films that nevertheless had ambitions to stand on the Dolby Theater stage.
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Five years later, she won again for the Best Picture-winningMillion Dollar Baby.
It’s such a plainly formulaic movie that it genuinely feels like it came out of a bottle.
Some of those attempts were truly great movies, others were less remarkable… and then there’sCollateral Beauty.
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He receives unexpected answers and realize how loss can reveal moments of beauty.
“Terrifying” would be a more appropriate term.
Then cameAmsterdam, and things quickly fell apart.
From being aHitchcockGirl to winning an Academy Award and three Golden Globes, she was a true icon.
More particularly, it’s about the mythologization of her image and how it is consumed to this day.
Emilia Perezproposes all sorts of wild ideas that have proved offensive to both Latin Americans and the trans community.
This includesSia, who got ambitious and directed in the atrociousMusicone ofthe most boring Oscar-bait filmsof all time.
But being boring isn’t even the movie’s worst crime It’s being terrible all around.
like stick to singing, Sia.
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