Oscar Predictions-Film Awards (i)-2014

Best Director

Most likely winner : Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity. Without his directorial input, this film could be quite dull and just a person floating about waiting to try to not get hit by debris. It takes a concerted effort to create the tension of this film.

Backup Pick : Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave. A film that sticks in the memory and is very unsettling, as are all of McQueen's works so far. A necessary film and one that must have been very difficult to direct. An excellent reflectively meditative look at one of the most difficult topics.

Most deserving : Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity. This is a film that is going to be mentioned as a changer in cinema. A vision of future cinema and another progression on what is possible using 3-D. To create a film that is both grandiose as well as subtle, is an immense achievement.

Best Adapted Screenplay

Most likely winner : John Ridley for 12 Years a Slave. The script is very good and it has momentum going with it judging from the critics receptions even though it has been light on the awards. There can be no denying that some of the scenes created are masterpieces in screenplay as well as acting and direction. The one flaw is that the synergy of all aspects of the film is so good it may take away from recognition of the importance of the script.

Backup Pick : Ethan Hawke, Julie Delphy and Richard Linklater for Before Midnight. The best screenplay perhaps because the film is all dialogue driven. Feels less like a film than a fly on the wall. Completely improvisational feel and one of the wittiest and most absorbing films of the year. Everything about this movie is one which speaks to the importance of a screenplay. The camerawork and acting is great but really anyone can tell the screenplay is the driver of this.

Most deserving :Ethan Hawke, Julie Delphy and Richard Linklater for Before Midnight. They deserve this, as they have for all the films of the trilogy. It's one of the best series of our lifetime. To even make a sequel to Before Sunrise was exceedingly ambitious and to follow it up with two films that match up to the amazing quality of the first, is a testament to film making and screenwriting achievement.

Best Original Screenplay

Most likely winner : Spike Jonze for Her. As far as original goes, this screenplay defines that. Set in a possibly near future it manages to give a story of robot-human love (not so original) but make it beautiful and tragic and very much real, instead parody or silly.

Backup Pick : Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell for American Hustle . David O. Russell has over the past few years brought back the character driven film. This one is another excellent study into four characters trying to get ahead. And it's a comedy drama which is excellent when done by Russell with a crime backdrop, which is my favourite genre.

Most deserving: Spike Jonze for Her. The originality of this story should be enough to win. Not outright original but the reworking of an idea as old as the Pygmalion myth set in modern times or future times, since the time frame is blurred. It's as much a study of current life and relationships as anything.

best comedians of the decade

criteria : must do stand-up comedy. only judged from stand up and sketch . 10.Demetri Martin why: He likes constructing palindromes. That's reason enough. Uses all sorts of visual aids and sketches. Great with the one liners too. Most unconventional comedian since Gallagher.Maybe. 9. Russell Brand why: Obnoxious, loud and very strange. Known as much for his off stage antics than his comedy. But one of the best young 'angry' comedians out there. Although there's a sneaking suspicion the accent makes him cool (er). 8. Robin Williams why: Back in2002 with LIVE on Broadway, the show broke several records for a comedy show. Showed he's still funny, hasn't let success go to his head and can still make it all up on the spot. 7. Ricky Gervais why: In the Office for the first part of the century, everywhere else for the last. Most people know him for his film roles, but he's great on the stage too. Doesn't shy away from the controversial topics. And it isn't

Best Films of the Decade - 2010s - Third Part

11. Get Out (2017)- Directed and written by Jordan Peele. Horror seems to be an excellent medium to describe racism and it's somewhat amazing how obvious it seems in hindsight. One of the best debuts of a director in recent times, with a script that amps up the tension marvelously and serves up a twist in the tale that was impossible to see coming. Normally horror movies are seen as niche, but this film was popular with the wide audience and also at the award ceremonies further proving everyone was able to be captured by the film's quality. There has been talk of the film fitting into horror-comedy, probably due to Peele's comedy background, but while it is never laughably funny but does serve as a clever satire on the state of racial affairs. 12. The Death of Stalin (2017) - Directed by Armando Iannuci. Written by Armando Iannuci, David Schneider and Ian Martin. Few topics are as ripe for satire as the workings of communist governments (provided one can

Best Films of the Decade - 2010s - Second Part

As always, a giant list. The first 10 can be pretty much interchangeable depending on my mood. 21. John Wick (2014) - Directed by Chad Stalehski . Written by Derek Kolstad. Keanu Reeves already had experience as the face of an action franchise but it's possible in the future that we remember more for John Wick than as Neo. A film that came out of almost nowhere and managed to simultaneously be a homage and a way forward for action movies. Building off of an extensive source of knowledge of the films of John Woo, Jean Pierre Melville, anime and spaghetti westerns, it's the closest anyone has come to replicating the Gun-Fu Hong Kong classics. The well crafted world of John Wick keeps expanding too, with even more additions to the series in the works. Long may it continue. 22. Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - Directed by Denis Villeneuve . Written by Michael Green and Hampton Fancher. A sequel to one of the most beloved and acclaimed sci-film films of

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