With the Oscar season coming to an end, it's time to give out some awards. For the past couple of years, there have been no run away hits to call an easy winner for Best Picture. Normally it is chopped down to a field of five with two main competitors. This year is no different as Les Miserables and Zero Dark Thirty are the front runners for Best Picture this year.
Now while both are good in their own right, the voters would be hard pressed to award either movie the winner because both directors have already had their turn in the spot light. Les Miserables director, Tom Hooper, already won for The Kings Speech in 2010 which was up against The Social Network and beat it out for the winner. While Zero Dark Thirty is directed by Katherine Bigelow, the director of The Hurt Locker, which won in 2009. This new movie is Bigelow's first movie since winning the big award and becoming the first woman to do so.
I personally am rooting for Zero Dark Thirty to win because it is based in a real setting from an original screenplay staring true events. Les Miserables is a successful musical and while it was executed well on screen, the source material and drama were not as elevated as Zero Dark Thirty. The dark real tone of Zero Dark Thirty pushes the realism in movies and thus should win Best Picture.
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