2016 Academy Awards

In the past year some of my favorite films have been released and last night on February 28, the Academy nominated who the best was.

The obvious award everyone wanted to see was Leonardo Dicaprio winning best actor for the Revenant. And not only did he win best actor, but Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu won best director as well. The Revenant had to be filmed over a prolonged period of time due to the climate. Being filmed in northern Canada/Alaska there was very little daylight, so the cast would spend the non-film time rehearsing for perfection. Leonardo Dicaprio preformed amazingly by portraying the role of Hugh Glass, a 19th century fur hunter and navigator. Inarritu also did an extraordinary job filming and choreographing the cast in the movie.

Brie Larson won best actress for the movie The Room, which was a fictional portrayal of non-fictional accounts of woman being kidnapped and locked away in someones house. The story being very dramatic, Brie Larson did a very sentimental performance with Jacob Tremblay, the son she had while locked away.

The Departed

The Departed is my favorite Martin Scorsese movie. It is an amazing script and directed perfectly, but the cast of the movie carried the film to its Oscar.
It was funny seeing Scorsese going up to accept his award, when he got the microphone he asked, "can you reread the envelop? are you sure this is right?" It was about time he won an academy award for his work. Although he deserves most of the credit, like I said, the cast of the movie was the heart and brain of the movie. Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Alec Baldwin all can be in a movie without each other and still thrive. The fact that this was a cast is amazing, because if you compare them from back then to now, they have all reached great success in their careers. It's almost like Freaks and Geeks or Parks and Recreation, where the cast is 100% talented and each member goes on to achieve success.
I don't want to spoil the movie, so all I can say is The Departed is a great sequence of realistic crime twists in a south Boston police department and this movie will leave you at the last scene with your jaw on the ground.

Entourage

Probably the only good movie that originated from a television series,  Entourage cannot be compared to any other movie that started out as a TV show. Entourage, in my opinion, is perceived as a good show because it is a realistic fantasy of what people want to live. I doubt the Hollywood lifestyle is really like that, but with all the cameos and real life situations, it is seen as realistic.

Cameos are kind of what makes the show. Having actors and celebrities play themselves so often has never been done. But besides the cameos, Vinny Chase's "entourage" is the second likeable factor about the show. All of them came from nothing together, and they are enjoying the fame together. No matter what happens they stick by each other. Which is something that is a lot easier said than done. People love seeing good morals and bad habits mix, and Entourage is the epitome of that. For example, if Johnny Chase, Vinny's brother is having a bad week, the entourage will take him out partying. Cheering up your family members by going to a mansion in Malibu, Entourage offers a mix of good and bad priorities.