All 89 Easiest Image Oscar Winners Ranked

Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Written by: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo

The different Oscars it obtained: Iñárritu (Easiest Director); Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo (Easiest Current Screenplay); Emmanuel Lubezki (Easiest Cinematography)

What it beat for Easiest Image: American Sniper, Boyhood, The Sizable Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Every thing, Whiplash

Gleefully overblown in every blueprint, Birdman opened to on the whole rapturous opinions about Michael Keaton’s welcome comeback, the supporting performances of Edward Norton and Emma Stone, and the camera work of Emmanuel Lubezki (which made the film inquire of adore one staunch shot), and the film on the whole. Easiest when Birdman swept the guild awards —the Veil Actors Guild award for Easiest Ensemble, the Directors Guild award for Iñárritu, and the Producers Guild award for the film — did horror delivery up to position in: Could well presumably the Academy also mediate Birdman became if truth be told better than Richard Linklater’s sexy, loving, humane success for the ages, Boyhood? Yes. Yes, it did. In Birdman, Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, a un-stress-free-house reflect version of himself: an feeble actor from a superhero franchise of yore, struggling to advance abet abet to hunt down relevance and validation. (Thank god Keaton became in Spotlight in 2015, a film by which he became in a space to if truth be told blow their own horns his refined, gleaming talents.) In his Broadway directing/writing/acting debut, Riggan is surrounded by caricatures of theater fools. These contain Mike (Norton), a hothead egoist and well-known particular person of the stage; Lesley (Naomi Watts), a desperate actor and woman who never ceases asserting phrases adore « This is Broadway, and I’m here finally! »; and Laura (Andrea Riseborough), Riggan’s girlfriend and co-well-known particular person, who does not make as a character previous trying more from Riggan. Without its achievements in cinematography, Birdman would possibly perchance maybe well maybe be viewed for what it is miles: an indulgent character dramedy dipped in magical realism about the worst, most aggravating folks we are in a position to — if we’re lucky — never meet. There are movies on this listing that own not feeble effectively after a long time. Birdman, with its references to bloggers and virality and Meg Ryan’s plastic surgical map, has managed to if truth be told feel dated already. Staring at it again, I felt that the feathered, threatening resolve of Birdman spoke for me when he said to Riggan, « How did we stop up here? This place is faulty. »