The Oscars are one of the biggest film awards ceremonies in the world. They're one of the most prestigious awards anyone in the film business can win. They've been going since 1929. They're called the Oscars after the golden statue which is given out to the winners.I chose to look at the best actress nomination because I was given it during class, and the nominations for the category are:
- Cate Blanchett ("Carol")
- Brie Larson ("Room")
- Jennifer Lawrence ("Joy")
- Charlotte Rampling ("45 Years")
- Saoirse Ronan ("Brooklyn")
- Helen Mirren ("The Woman in Gold")
- Maggie Smith ("The Lady in the Van")
I'm choosing to look at Jennifer Lawrence in "Joy" because she is a favourite actress of mine and "Joy" from what I have seen in the trailer looks very good. I feel that she will be a frontrunner for the awards because many people love her acting because she is very talented. Here is the trailer for it:
The production companies for "Joy" are Annapurna Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, TSG Entertainment and Davis Entertainment.
Annapurna Pictures have produced films like "American Hustle", "Her" and "Springbreakers"; from looking at their films they are quite a small company with the amount of films they have produced and the popularity of them but most of them have had a brilliant reception, with their lowest being given 67% 'Rotten Tomatoes' however that was their first film ever which was released in 2012. Their most popular film is "American Hustle" which made $250,600,000 from box office. They have co-produced all of their films with different companies, naming a few: The Weinstein Company, Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. At first look they seem to be an 'Indie' film production company because they mainly only deal with smaller films.
Fox 2000 Pictures/ 20th Century Fox this is an extremely popular production company and have created hundreds of films which have had very high domestic grossing films including "Avatar" which made $760,507,625 and "Independence Day" which made $306,169,268. They make very high quality films, so I expect Joy to be of high quality.
TSG Entertainment have produced many good films including "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Birdman" which grossed $103,000,000 worldwide.
Davis Entertainment is the more popular of the two having released many high-grossing films, their highest being "I, Robot" which earned $144,801,023 in domestic gross. Unlike Annapurna Pictures they have released some films that haven't been co-produced some being Dr. Doolittle 2 and Eragon. After looking at their history of production they have released many good quality films that have earned nominations so with their extensive knowledge along with Annapurna Pictures' reception in theatres the film should do well.
The film is distributed by 20th Century Fox and received wide theatrical release on 25th December 2015.
