Best picture?

Rating: 10/10 (15 January 2015)

With the Oscar nominations out yesterday, I was almost certain that interstellar would be nominated for best picture, best director and maybe best screenplay, but no. 2014 brought some great films to the screen, birdman, imitation game, boyhood,grand Budapest hotel and that's where I draw the line, other than interstellar, they were some of the best films of the year, not the best. Without doubt interstellar is the best movie made in 2014 and showcases some of Nolan a best work to date. From the visionary director of the dark knight, memento, the prestige and inception, 4 of the greatest films ever made and he is yet to be nominated for best director, even though he is, the best director, constantly achieving phenomenal films that overshadow all nominated films of the year. This wouldn't be the first Nolan film to be snubbed of best picture (I'm looking at you slum dog millionaire). I wasn't surprised that it didn't get the praise from academy members than it deserves as they are all pigheaded 60 year old men. Wouldn't be the first sci-fi film to be left out of major categories. With the exception of avatar, lord of the ring trilogy and Star Wars and inception no science fiction films have ever been nominated for best picture (gravity was science fact rather than fiction) avatar was closest to winning best picture (and should have. But they wanted to include female directors out of pity) . Let's face it, inception should have beat the kings speech, avatar should have beat the hurt locker and likewise the dark knight and et. As I was saying plenty of great sci-fi movies didn't make the Oscar cut, 2001: a space odyssey, empire strikes back, return of the Jedi, close encounters of the third kind, blade runner, Jurassic park and back to the future, while district 9 was nominated it wasn't a generic sci-fi movie. Get your act together academy and give Nolan his long awaited Oscar. In 10 years people aren't going to remember any movie of 2014 (except birdman, mainly for the cinematography), but what they will remember is interstellar, for its technical plot and accuracy toward fact rather than a bunch of cgi vomited onto a screen. Godfather good