Possibilities for OSCARS 2014

With some experience and observation it is not difficult to presume that best contenders for the Best picture this year may be Tracy Letts Pulitzer Prize winning play named August: Osage County which is about a dysfunctional family; the film with the same name has an Excellent ensemble Cast including Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, that alone is enough to buy this film a nomination at OSCARS for best picture. Other then this another high contender is 'The Monuments Men' directed, co-produced and co-written by George Clooney; a Wartime Drama with a group of people trying to protect some precious artwork from Nazis. Other then these two The Great Gatsby featuring Leonardo Decaprio is also up in the nomination list. All these high profile films deserve to be nominated but as a personal opinion I will say that there is one other Movie ''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' that deserves the top position due to exceptional story, perfect music and created with courage to point out some realities that need to be addressed. Its too good not to be at least considered for the top spot.

It is most probable that the contenders for this years Best Director will be Tom Hanks for Saving Mr. Banks, Michael Fassbender for Twelve Years a Slave, Mark Rufflo for Fox Catcher and Mathew McConaughey for The Wolf of Wall Street. It seems like the Oscar for best actor will also result in some tough competition as Lenardo Dicaprio and Tom Hanks will be competing via The Wolf of Wall Street and Captain Phillips Respectively. on the other hand for best Actress, Meryl Streep seems to be a very strong contender along with Judi Dench for Philomena and Sandra Bullock for Gravity.

  

Television and Film industry has been active for a century now in many countries round the globe, Worlds well known and most popular Film industry is Hollywood. Every year different award ceremonies are conducted to honour and celebrate the leading personalities in the world of cinematic s. Different Awards like Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards and Tony Awards are bestowed upon out performers in Film , Television, Music and Theater industries respectively. All the other Awards were formed and modelled after the success and popularity of Academy Awards a.k.a OSCARS. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(AMPAS) organizes the Formal ceremony each year to give out these Awards, AMPAS was first conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer E and presented OSCARS for the first time at a ceremony in Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1929.

Ellen DeGeneres

Motion Pictures Academy has announced that Ellen DeGeneres will be hosting this years Oscar Award Ceremony at 8 p.m, March 2 2014 on ABC. It will be the second time first being the one in 2007, that she will get to entertain everyone at the ceremony with her natural ability to make people laugh. They really did made the right decision by choosing Ellen, it may even raise their ratings this time triple fold. 

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Ellen hosting the show is very exciting for me but what's even more exciting is that this year Pakistan will submit a movie for Foreign Film Category after almost 50 years. Pakistan first submitted a film named 'Jago hua savera' for the category back in 1959 and then the second one in 1960 named Ghunghat. A committee free from state involvement has been formulated with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy chairing it and includes the Writer of 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' Mohsin Hameed; Directors Mehreen Jabaar, Akifa Mian and Samina Peerzada along with actor Rahat Kazmi and Arts Academic Framji Minwalla. With the revival of cinema in Pakistan this year Sharmeen will have 23 well directed movies to select from and it sure will be very difficult choice to make!