My Top 5 Biggest Oscar Mistakes of 2014

A quick write-up of the 5 biggest, stupid, dumb mistakes the Oscars made this year when they announced their nominees. Keep in mind this post is before the winners themselves are announced, so I'm only including bad choices for nominations and the corrections I would have made to rectify them.

5. Life Itself isn't the Best Documentary...?

Name 5 documentaries from 2014 that are better than Life Itself. Can't do it? Neither can anyone else. This emotional film about the life and work of Roger Ebert was one of the best documentaries of the decade, and won over everyone who watched it. This is the kind of movie that is practically designed to appeal to the film crowd, and its exclusion here is about as glaring as if they hadn't nominated The Artist for Best Picture back in the 2011 awards year.

My Top 25 Movies of 2014: Part II (#10-1)

Miss the rest of my top 25 movies of 2014? Look no further, for I just so happen to have a link for it somewhere in here...ah, here it is: *points at this link*. Click on that and it will send you to part 1! Now, onto my top 10. And it is quite a spectacular top 10, I might add.

10. Under The Skin
Directed by Jonathan Glaser

One of the most bizarre, creepy, and imaginative sci-fi/horror movies of the decade, this is a movie that focuses more on the subtleties of its character development and atmosphere than anything else. Scarlett Johansson gives one of the best performances of her career as one of the most interesting and complex roles she's taken on, with great support from a strong cast of characters. All of this paired with great music and equally awesome visuals help make this one of the best movies of the year.

My Top 25 Movies of 2014: Part I (#25-11)

I've counted down my favorite male performances of the year, my favorite female performances of the year, and (essentially) my least-favorite/most disappointing movies of the year. But now that I've gotten the lists no one cares about out of the way, it's time to make the list a few less people will not care about: my favorite movies of the year!

As always, this list is entirely subjective, so any and all comments about how wrong I am for liking something more than something else should be kept to a minimum -- in other words, quiet in the peanut gallery!

25. Enemy
Directed by Denis Villeneuve

Bizarre and slightly chaotic, this dark, symbolic tale of a man and his doppelganger is both an excellent showcase of Jake Gyllenhaal's skills as an actor and a great example of the effectiveness of a psychological drama when it doesn't succumb to the predictable tendencies often found within the genre.