Excellent review of why I thoroughly enjoy the film.
The Film:La La Land
The Pitch: A Star is Born Works Really Hard and Suffers Intense Humiliation and Rejection
Number of Nominations: 14
Which Categories? Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Editing, Best Original Score, Best Original Song (two nominations), Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing
Will it Win? Yes: it’s going home with a clutch of Oscars, including the Big One.
Hollywood loves nothing more than celebrating itself, even when a film viciously satirizes the city and the industry (The Player, Swimming With Sharks), so a major movie about a couple of ambitious young talents trying to get ahead in movies and music in Los Angeles was always going to appeal. With an astonishing fourteen nominations, critical praise and good box-office, Damian Chazelle’s follow-up to Whiplash is almost certainly…
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