Life of Pi: 2013 Best Picture Nominee

Posted by Charmaine Blake on Feb 18th, 2013 in Action Adventure, Drama, Oscar Buzz | 0 comments

Life of Pi: 2013 Best Picture Nominee

Everyone who have seen Ang Lee’s Life of Pi definitely left theaters in awe due to the beautiful cinematography and story of Pi. Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Yann Martel, Life of Pi is one of the movies that everyone will be able to enjoy and learn from. This movie is about a beautiful adventure that leads Pi to a spiritual journey where he finds alliance with a Bengal Tiger. Life of Pi has 11 Oscar nominations including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Visual Effect. Check out the article below on why Life of Pi deserves to win this year’s Academy Awards:

“Why Life of Pi Deserves To Win The Oscars

Name: Life of Pi

Release date: Nov. 21, 2012

DVD release date: March 12, 2013

Run time: 2 hours, 6 mins.

Box office: Opening weekend: $30.5 million; Total domestic box office: $106 million; Worldwide gross to date: $548 million

Rotten Tomatoes score: 88 percent

Life of Pi movie math: (‘Calvin and Hobbes’ + ‘Open Water’) x George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” / (Noah’s Ark + metaphors) x π x ∞

Tweetable description: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Stuck in a boat with a Bengal tiger? Create your own reality.

What Lisa Schwarzbaum said: Watching the director’s first 3-D project, I found myself drifting off, thinking, ”How did Ang Lee make that CG tiger look so excellently tiger-y? How did he make the stars so twinkly?” And then I thought, ”Gee, the director has worked so hard on this, and so meticulously. What craftsmanship!” But that’s not the same thing as being swept away.

Number of Oscar nods: Eleven — second only to Lincoln, Pi helmer Ang Lee will vie for Best Director and writer David Magee for Best Adapted Screenplay, plus a boatload of below-the-line nods (Best Cinematography, Editing, Score, Original Song, Production Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects).

Movie’s Oscar history: Ang Lee was nominated for Best Director of 2000′s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, then he won in 2005 for directing Brokeback Mountain. His films Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger, and Brokeback were all nominated for Best Picture. Screenwriter Magee was nominated for a 2004 Oscar for Finding Neverland. Chilean cinematographer Claudio Miranda was the director of photography on 2008′s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the first entirely digitally filmed movie nominated for a Best Cinematography Oscar.

What it has won thus far: American Film Institute Movie of the Year; Broadcast Film Critics Association (Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects), British Academy of Film Awards (Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects), Golden Globe (Best Original Score), Art Directors Guild (Excellence in Production Design for a Feature Film)

Why it should win: Yann Martel’s 2001 strange and wondrous bestselling novel Life of Pi was considered unfilmable — Ang Lee told EW this was his longest and “most uncertain” project. (Read more here.) Somehow he managed to capturing teenage Pi’s life-changing adventure — and use survival as a metaphor for spirituality without being heavy-handed. 3-D was used subtly to perfection, and Richard Parker the Tiger is a stunning achievement in CGI. Especially during the parts when Pi is lost at sea (most of the movie), all of the visual effects beautifully enhanced the spare narrative to create this fully realized world that leaves you thinking about life and all its question marks for weeks to come.”

The rest of the article can be read at Entertainment Weekly

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Charmaine Blake loves movies, musical theater listening to music and taking pictures of anything that she finds interesting. She is a voracious reader and writer, and enjoys her time writing for New Movie Launches. Charmaine loves spending time with her pets and currently has a Siberian Husky, a toy poodle and a cat.