TOP 5 MOVIES THAT WON THE OSCAR IN 2014
00:00 - Intro
This YouTube video will feature a countdown of the top 5 movies that won the Oscar in 2014. It will include the trailer, genre, release year, and evaluation of each movie. The movies featured will be Birdman, The Imitation Game, Boyhood, American Sniper, and Whiplash. The video will provide an objective overview of each movie, without any personal opinions.
00:00:05 - Birdman
Description: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a 2014 American black comedy-drama film directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. It stars Michael Keaton as Riggan Thomson, a faded Hollywood actor best known for playing the superhero Birdman, as he struggles to mount a Broadway adaptation of a short story by Raymond Carver.
Genre(s): Comedy-drama
Release Year: 2014
Evaluation: 8.1/10
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfLoE6hanc
00:03:06 - The Imitation Game
Description: The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as real-life British cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who decrypted German intelligence codes for the British government during World War II.
Genre(s): Historical drama
Release Year: 2014
Evaluation: 8.0/10
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuPZUUED5uk
00:05:46 - Boyhood
Description: Boyhood is a 2014 American coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, and Ethan Hawke. The film was shot intermittently over a period of twelve years, from 2002 to 2013, and depicts the childhood and adolescence of Mason Evans Jr. (Coltrane) from ages six to eighteen as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents (Arquette and Hawke).
Genre(s): Drama
Release Year: 2014
Evaluation: 7.9/10
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0oX0xiwOv8
00:07:41 - American Sniper
Description: American Sniper is a 2014 American biographical war drama film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Jason Hall. It is loosely based on the memoir American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (2012) by Chris Kyle, with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. The film follows the life of Kyle, who became the deadliest marksman in U.S. military history with 255 kills from four tours in the Iraq War, 160 of which were officially confirmed by the Department of Defense.
Genre(s): Biographical war drama
Release Year: 2014
Evaluation: 7.3/10
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99k3u9ay1gs
00:09:52 - Whiplash
Description: Whiplash is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It depicts the relationship between an ambitious jazz drummer (Miles Teller) and an abusive instructor (J. K. Simmons). The film premiered in competition in the US Dramatic Category at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2014, and won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic Film.
Genre(s): Drama
Release Year: 2014
Evaluation: 8.5/10
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d_jQycdQGo