Major oscar snub here

Rating: 10/10 (9 March 2019)

I was really hoping this movie had won the academy award for 2014's Best Motion Picture. But of course it didn't and instead lost to Birdman. I still haven't seen that film to this day. Whiplash was the only film in that category that I had actually watched.
What made Whiplash so great and remarkable of a film it is, is everything that Andrew(Miles Teller) had to endure from such a harsh band teacher, or should I say more of a mentor to Andrew.
I think it is safe to say that everything that Andrew had endured might have indeed been done intentionally by Terence Fletcher(J.K. Simmons). He is the one who redeemed Andrew, because he basically put him through such a harsh series of events. Terence broke Andrew down as a person and saw who he was, but didn't necessarily manipulate him. Terence became the "Joe Jones" of the story in the film.
In the movie Andrew was faced with 2 different drummers who were equally as driven as him to succeed as the main player. And Andrew finally came on top only because fletcher knew that's what Andrew would've loved to hear, once Fletcher goes off on him in that scene before Andrew got in an accident, Andrew stopped playing for the orchestra and essentially had time to recuperate and stop exerting himself and stressing himself out on playing good enough. Then once he is given the opportunity to come back after confronting Fletcher at that bar, he basically set Andrew up by offering him to play for his new band after Fletcher got fired from the original orchestra. As we see later on Fletcher reveales to Andrew that he knows that Andrew told on him resulting in Fletchers departure from the original school. Once Andrew is told by Fletcher about how he knows, Fletcher attempts to humiliate Andrew by having the band play something that Andrew has no clue how to play on the drums. He gets discouraged and walks off stage and hugs his father as he is about leave. Then comes the epic finally in which he is truly about to redeem himself as he walks back on stage and starts playing Caravan, the song he had basically mastered early on. He cues in the rest of the band and Fletcher, and in that final scene Andrew truly shows his preservation and true hunger and passion for it, almost like the final performance in Black swan. That is what made this film undeniably a masterpiece.