{"id":631,"date":"2013-12-17T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2013\/12\/17\/50-films-you-must-watch-before-oscar-night-2014\/"},"modified":"2013-12-17T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T00:33:09","slug":"50-films-you-must-watch-before-oscar-night-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2013\/50-films-you-must-watch-before-oscar-night-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Films you MUST watch before Oscar Night 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Awards.jpg\"<\/a>Thanks to my friend Marshall for this list. Here are his recommendations, based on critics’ awards, industry buzz and personal opinion.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12 Years a Slave<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 American Hustle<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gravity<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Captain Phillips<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nebraska<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Inside Llewyn Davis<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Wolf of Wall Street<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Her<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saving Mr. Banks<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 Dallas Buyers Club<\/p>\n

11.\u00a0 Lee Daniel\u2019s The Butler<\/p>\n

12.\u00a0 Philomena<\/p>\n

13.\u00a0 August: Osage County<\/p>\n

14.\u00a0 Blue Jasmine<\/p>\n

15.\u00a0 Rush<\/p>\n

16.\u00a0 All is Lost<\/p>\n

17.\u00a0 Fruitvale Station<\/p>\n

18.\u00a0 Frozen<\/p>\n

19.\u00a0 Enough Said<\/p>\n

20.\u00a0 Before Midnight<\/p>\n

21.\u00a0 The Great Gatsby<\/p>\n

22.\u00a0 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom<\/p>\n

23.\u00a0 Short Term 12<\/p>\n

24.\u00a0 Prisoners<\/p>\n

25.\u00a0 The Wind Rises<\/p>\n

26.\u00a0 Frances Ha<\/p>\n

27.\u00a0 Labor Day<\/p>\n

28.\u00a0 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug<\/p>\n

29.\u00a0 Lone Survivor<\/p>\n

30.\u00a0 Blue is the Warmest Color<\/p>\n

31.\u00a0 Iron Man 3<\/p>\n

32.\u00a0 The Book Thief<\/p>\n

33.\u00a0 Pacific Rim<\/p>\n

34.\u00a0 Monsters University<\/p>\n

35.\u00a0 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty<\/p>\n

36.\u00a0 Spring Breakers<\/p>\n

37.\u00a0 Mud<\/p>\n

38.\u00a0 The Croods<\/p>\n

39.\u00a0 Oz: The Great and Powerful<\/p>\n

40.\u00a0 Stories We Tell<\/p>\n

41.\u00a0 The Invisible Woman<\/p>\n

42.\u00a0 Despicable Me 2<\/p>\n

43.\u00a0 Star Trek: Into Darkness<\/p>\n

44.\u00a0 The Lone Ranger<\/p>\n

45.\u00a0 Ernest & Celestine<\/p>\n

46.\u00a0 The Past<\/p>\n

47.\u00a0 20 Feet from Stardom<\/p>\n

48.\u00a0 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire<\/p>\n

49.\u00a0 Blackfish<\/p>\n

50.\u00a0 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa<\/p>\n

Awards Show Schedule:<\/p>\n

People’s Choice Awards – Wednesday, January 8th (CBS)
\nGolden Globes – Sunday, January 12th (NBC)
\nCritics Choice (BFCA) Awards – Thursday, January 16th (The CW)
\nScreen Actors Guild Awards – Saturday, January 18th (TNT \/ TBS)
\nThe Grammys – Sunday, January 26th (CBS)
\nBAFTA Awards \u2013 Sunday, February 16th (BBC America)<\/p>\n

Independent Spirit Awards – Saturday, March 1st (IFC)
\nAcademy Awards – Sunday, March 2nd (ABC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to my friend Marshall for this list. Here are his recommendations, based on critics’ awards, industry buzz and personal opinion. 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12 Years a Slave 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 American Hustle 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gravity 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Captain Phillips 5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nebraska 6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Inside Llewyn Davis 7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Wolf of Wall Street 8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Her 9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saving Mr. Banks 10.\u00a0 Dallas Buyers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-ab","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}