Tag: Best Picture

• 2015 OSCAR BEST PICTURE OVERVIEW

  

  An overview of all eight 2015 Best Picture nominations

  Jamie Greening

  February 17, 2015

  All, Culture, Movies

  2015 Oscars, American Sniper, Best Picture, Birdman, boyhood, Oscars, Selma, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash

• AND THE WINNER IS . . . GREENBEAN’S OSCAR PICKS

  Before we begin, let me humbly remind you that I picked the winner for the last two years (Argo, The Artist) as well as most of the other categories.  So, having reminded you of that, let’s get straight to the prognostication, shall we?  If you like, you can detour here and read my synopsis of…

  Jamie Greening

  February 26, 2014

  All, Culture, Movies

  12 Years a Slave, 2014 Oscar, Alfonso Cuaron, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Picture, Judi Dench, Julia Roberts, Matthew McConaughey, Oscar predictions, Philomena

• WHAT IS OSCAR (2014) THINKING WITH THESE 9 NOMINATIONS?

  Back when I was a local church pastor one of the things I had to do was get inside of people’s heads.  This was true of the weekly work of preaching but also true of individual one on ones.  It was my job to figure out not what people were saying, but what they meant. …

  Jamie Greening

  February 26, 2014

  All, Culture, Movies

  2014 Oscar Best Picture, American Hustle, Best Picture, Frozen snubbed by Oscar, Gravity, Nebraska, Oscar, Sandra Bullock, The Wolf of Wall Street, Tom Hanks

• 2013 BEST PICTURE PART TWO: FROM PI TO ZERO

  Okay, so yesterday I posted my brief review of the alphabetical first five 2013 nominees for best picture at the Academy Awards.  Today I finish the list.  The back four are much stronger than the first five.  Tomorrow or maybe Thursday I will post my ‘summary’ of the themes and make some predictions. Life of…

  Jamie Greening

  February 19, 2013

  All, Church, Movies

  Best Picture, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Chastain, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Oscar, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty