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006 MARCH 2015 JB Hi-Fi
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T he winners of this year’s major Oscar categories hit the JB shelves this
month. Birdman beat the highly favoured Boyhood in the Best Picture
race, with the film’s director Alejandro G. Iñárritu – a consistently great
filmmaker – awarded Best Director. The best performances this year
were a tighter contest and harder to pick, with the exception of Julianne
Moore, who was always destined to claim a long overdue Best Actress
honour for her performance as an Alzheimer’s patient in Still Alice. The
guys, however, were all worthy of the award, with four of the nominees –
Bradley Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Steve Carell and Eddie Redmayne
– playing real-life characters and becoming them, rather than simply
portraying them. Michael Keaton’s terrific comeback in Birdman was the
hot tip, but when you watch The Theory of Everything (out June 4) you’ll
realise the Academy got it right – Eddie Redmayne is Stephen Hawking.
He’s also loads of fun as the villain in this month’s sci-fi spectacle from the
Wachowskis, Jupiter Ascending, delivering a truly hilarious performance
that’s as far removed from Hawking as the film is from reality.
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