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:00:30. > :00:51.Thriller, Secret in their Eyes, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor,
:00:52. > :01:06.We're looking ahead to Sunday's Oscars.
:01:07. > :01:15.I'm here with the wonder that is Danny Leigh and filmic
:01:16. > :01:16.oracle, Peter Bradshaw, from The Guardian.
:01:17. > :01:22.First up, Sacha Baron Cohen stars as the idiot brother
:01:23. > :01:26.of suave-but-deadly secret-agent, Mark Strong.
:01:27. > :01:45.Green earth. You are transmitting a request. Eyes on the target. I'm in
:01:46. > :01:48.pursuit. Bravo Two. Give up pursuit, now. I'd rather not. Hello, chaps.
:01:49. > :02:07.Room for another. Goodbye. Eyes on the target. Who the hell are
:02:08. > :02:17.you? Your brother. Took me 28 years. I finally found you. Oh, my God.
:02:18. > :02:21.You'll have to drive. Move. Don worry it's bulletproof. You can't
:02:22. > :02:28.hurt us. Us.. . We've got bulletproof glass. A roll it up.
:02:29. > :02:32.Roll it up. I wanted to make an action film that stood up for
:02:33. > :02:38.itself. Where there was kick ass action. This film is drawing upon
:02:39. > :02:44.the spy genre in a lot of ways. It's the beginning of a great action
:02:45. > :02:50.sequence and Sacha comes in and trips and makes everything
:02:51. > :03:00.(inaudible) Oh, the match is on. Set and, action, action, action! A I had
:03:01. > :03:03.a touch of clas phobia. Your body is screaming. This is not football.
:03:04. > :03:11.Forget the football. You're going to drawn. -- drown. I am anticipate
:03:12. > :03:17.getting out after the second penalty. Noooo! Is I needed to
:03:18. > :03:21.disappear. I've got the perfect place for you to hide. Back to
:03:22. > :03:27.paradise. That's your brother. Where have you been all these years? It's
:03:28. > :03:33.imperative no-one knows I'm here. Our lips are sealed. Mine around.
:03:34. > :03:37.She's talking about her vagina. OK, Nobby, seduce the agent in the green
:03:38. > :03:41.dress. You can't miss her. She's gorgeous. Oh, no, she is gorgeous.
:03:42. > :03:47.You want room From top to cleaned. Bottom. So funny I have to tell you,
:03:48. > :03:52.while we watched that, we were weeping with laughter? Apart from
:03:53. > :04:00.the two of us. Easter Island statues. That is what I was going
:04:01. > :04:08.for. I mean, Sacha Baron Cohen is a gee yus. Borat is genius. AliG is
:04:09. > :04:12.genus. The Dictator is good. We have been going down and down and down.
:04:13. > :04:16.Steve Coogan toureded a show called Alan partridge and some of the more
:04:17. > :04:21.unsuccessful characters. Basically, this is his unsuccessful character.
:04:22. > :04:29.There are big gross out laughs in it. One or two or three. No. The
:04:30. > :04:33.rest of it. It's 900. It's kind of weak, kind of sub-Hollywood action
:04:34. > :04:37.comedy. Everything is direction directed like action. The director
:04:38. > :04:41.is an action guy. He goes, bang, bang, bang. Strong seasoning, a good
:04:42. > :04:45.straight actor. . He is not a good straight man. He has to be straight
:04:46. > :04:51.man to Sacha. It's an entirely different skill. I've got to say, it
:04:52. > :04:59.pains me to say it. I bow to no-one in my admiration for Sacha Baron
:05:00. > :05:04.Cohen he has created comedy gee news, not this time. He has been
:05:05. > :05:13.doing it for 20 years. The you expect 20 years a comic actor will
:05:14. > :05:17.become introe spective and show they are familiar, unless they were
:05:18. > :05:22.making movies about tea bagging. It's pure filth. Sacha Baron Cohen
:05:23. > :05:25.is a filthy man. There is scene, everyone who sees this film will
:05:26. > :05:29.know the scene. I have never seen the like of. I'm closing my eyes now
:05:30. > :05:35.and still seeing it. You can play it your head. It will be legendary. It
:05:36. > :05:40.is. You can city there and go, we can't like it. It's - That is the
:05:41. > :05:44.tone of voice. I got it. It's laugh-out-loud funny. I went with
:05:45. > :05:48.Rory. With he were holding on to each other. We were weeping. At one
:05:49. > :05:54.point I was, "I'm going to be sick. " It feels slap dash. If they give
:05:55. > :05:59.anything longer than three seconds to breathe a little bit. The
:06:00. > :06:03.audience will get their phones out and text each other. Never allowed
:06:04. > :06:10.to relax and breathe with the comedy. He was always outrageous,
:06:11. > :06:13.but that was always meshed with satire, brilliant and sophisticated
:06:14. > :06:19.satire which was also laugh-out-loud stuff. It really was. It sat rised
:06:20. > :06:23.correctness, liberal correctness and bigotry and all those Brigg yant
:06:24. > :06:29.things. It feels ordinary. It feels ordinary. We will sound like twits
:06:30. > :06:33.talking about it. I hate it. It's great. It isn't his best If you pick
:06:34. > :06:40.work. On a film and talk about the fact accents are off. Normally most
:06:41. > :06:48.will think - Sacha Baron Cohen is a huge Peter Sellers fan. He would
:06:49. > :06:50.have got the accents right am he can't keep his northern accent
:06:51. > :06:56.straight. By the time you get to the last word of the sentence, he has
:06:57. > :07:01.gone back into Christ College Cambridge. It's a funny line. They
:07:02. > :07:06.had the premier in Leicester Square. Sacha Baron Cohen in his pants. They
:07:07. > :07:11.wouldn't have done it in Grimsby. I don't think he's aware that Grimsby
:07:12. > :07:15.is a real place. See it, you will love it. Hilarious.
:07:16. > :07:17.Next, psychological thriller, Secret in Their Eyes.
:07:18. > :07:19.A remake of an Oscar-winning Argentinian movie.
:07:20. > :07:21.It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts
:07:22. > :07:24.as a cop whose life is turned upside down when her daughter
:07:25. > :07:35.You could just ask her out. The beauty from Harvard Law. The blue
:07:36. > :07:39.collar fit. Don't be a dic. They found an unidentified female body in
:07:40. > :07:47.a garage dumpster. What are we doing guys. The body appears to be
:07:48. > :08:01.bleached inside and out. What is it? It's your daughter. What? ! Noo!
:08:02. > :08:06.Help. Death penalty would be too good for him. Our guy. I can't have
:08:07. > :08:10.you crushing him. You're letting him go, aren't you I'm sorry country
:08:11. > :08:19.he's guilty. We can't just let him walk.
:08:20. > :08:31.We're going to get him, no matter what it takes. Ray, Jess. I found
:08:32. > :08:35.him. How did you find him. Jts online. He was in the prison system.
:08:36. > :08:40.Can you go through the population in a year if you look at the faces
:08:41. > :08:49.every night. So I did. For a year. 13 years. Re-open the case. We've
:08:50. > :08:53.had multiple leads. They have all been false alarms. I don't have the
:08:54. > :08:59.stomach to watch him walk away again. Maybe we go about this a
:09:00. > :09:07.little less officially. No. Ray. Justice. I owe my daughter that. We
:09:08. > :09:15.have to find this guy before Jess does. My daughter was the thing that
:09:16. > :09:21.made me me. Nothing will ever change that. She's not going to stop. He
:09:22. > :09:30.can quit his job. He can change his name. He can dump his car. But I
:09:31. > :09:34.will still find him. I have to apologise because I've been in
:09:35. > :09:39.Canada, I'm going to say that a lot. Be proud. Ridiculous. I've only seen
:09:40. > :09:46.the original of this. This is absolutely down to you two. Is it as
:09:47. > :09:50.good? No, it's not. An honourable failure. Like the Vanishing what is
:09:51. > :09:55.the point of the remake. There isn't much point. This really tries to do
:09:56. > :09:59.something with the original. The original was about o two
:10:00. > :10:08.prosecutors, one of whom is in love with the other one. The cold case,
:10:09. > :10:11.the nasty cold case plays out in contradistinction to this poignant
:10:12. > :10:17.failed love affair. A third character which is a bloke.
:10:18. > :10:22.Hollywood remark recreates these characters, Chiwetel Edjifor who is
:10:23. > :10:26.in love with Nicole Kidman, like a waxwork throughout the fill. . Never
:10:27. > :10:30.been more unanimated within the fill. Julia Roberts is pretty good
:10:31. > :10:36.in this film. She gives a good performance. She is adrift in it.
:10:37. > :10:40.Her character is totally adrift. It's a shame am he gives an
:10:41. > :10:45.interesting performance. It would have made much more sense if
:10:46. > :10:51.Chiwetel Edjifor was in love with her. He is in love with Nicole
:10:52. > :10:54.Kidman. Frankly, it doesn't work. It's interesting. Tries to do
:10:55. > :10:59.something interesting with the original film. It doesn't work out.
:11:00. > :11:04.The original was a terrific movie. I think I think it's a failure. The
:11:05. > :11:09.original won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. If you were going to
:11:10. > :11:14.look at them and say which was the sophisticated winner of the Oscar
:11:15. > :11:19.for Best Foreign Film, you would have to think long and hard, and the
:11:20. > :11:23.other thing is grimesy. Julia Roberts I will give you. Chiwetel
:11:24. > :11:25.Edjifor is working too hard. Like a head of department on a team
:11:26. > :11:31.building week that has gone wrong. He is trying to keep it - That makes
:11:32. > :11:35.- Nicole Kidman, I don't want to sound ungallant. It's structured
:11:36. > :11:40.around flashbacks between now and then. There was a problem with
:11:41. > :11:46.Nicole Kidman doing then and now she looks exactly the same then and now.
:11:47. > :11:51.It draws your attention to the fact her face looks the same. There is no
:11:52. > :11:58.problem with that. We have beauty regimes, lord knows it. None of my
:11:59. > :12:02.faces - Me neither. None of my body. I look like Jeff Capes. It takes you
:12:03. > :12:05.out of the film. That is where the problem is. I will give you Julia
:12:06. > :12:08.Roberts. Definitely. So only five days to go until Leo,
:12:09. > :12:12.Sly, Alicia and the angry little red man from Inside Out,
:12:13. > :12:14.find out if they're 2016 Let's take a look at
:12:15. > :12:28.the runners and riders. Let's go. Place your bets. The race
:12:29. > :12:44.is on. It's time! It's the 88th annual Academy Awards.
:12:45. > :12:53.She's hilarious. Leading the race is survival epic The Revenant with 12
:12:54. > :12:57.nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. Action. This
:12:58. > :13:02.could be Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu second Oscar in a row. The first
:13:03. > :13:08.back-to-back win for a director in over 60 years. It could be fifth
:13:09. > :13:16.time lucky for long suffering Leo. Hot on its tail with 10 nominations
:13:17. > :13:21.is John Miller's rip roar Mad Max, fury road. It took audiences by
:13:22. > :13:27.storm. What a lovely day. The Martian has seven nominations. It
:13:28. > :13:32.picked up Best Comedy at the Golden Globes. Nothing for director, Ridley
:13:33. > :13:37.Scott. Steven Spielberg misses out on Best Director category. People
:13:38. > :13:40.are scared of this man. Despite Bridge of Spiesic ping up six
:13:41. > :13:48.nominations including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor. Could do
:13:49. > :13:53.you never worry? Would it help. Two true stories go head-to-head. I
:13:54. > :13:59.think that's the biggest story. With Boston Globe drama, Spotlight.
:14:00. > :14:03.No-one can get away with this. Competing with credit crunch film
:14:04. > :14:08.Big Short for Best Picture. What is that? Despite becoming one of the
:14:09. > :14:13.stop grossing films in history. Star Wars is left out from the Best
:14:14. > :14:21.Picture category. It's true. All of it. The composure earns his 50th
:14:22. > :14:26.nominations, John Williams. Got room for one more? It's been a
:14:27. > :14:33.controversial year with Snubs aplenty. 50s romance Carol is left
:14:34. > :14:40.out on the cold. Auto I can't help you with that. Havinged missed out
:14:41. > :14:45.on Best Picture nominations. The screenplay for Steve Jobs is
:14:46. > :14:50.forgotten. I don't feel rejected. The second year running that acting
:14:51. > :14:55.categories have been 100% white. Leading to a boycott of Sunday's
:14:56. > :15:01.ceremony. What is our objective. To dramatically overreact. Why are the
:15:02. > :15:07.big hitters like Beasts of no Nation, Straight out of Comton and
:15:08. > :15:18.Sicario missing in the major award categories? Despite being a knockout
:15:19. > :15:21.with audiences. Creed misses out. Ly gets his second nod for playing
:15:22. > :15:25.Rocky. Good call. This is our chance. The surprise hits of the
:15:26. > :15:29.year were captivity drama, Room. There is a world on the other side
:15:30. > :15:34.of this wall. What other side. Romance, Brooklyn. Enough. Both
:15:35. > :15:40.recognising Best Picture and acting cat countries.
:15:41. > :15:46.But do they stand a chance against juggernauts Mad Max and The
:15:47. > :15:58.Revenant? This Sunday all will be revealed. And Oscar belongs to you.
:15:59. > :16:06.Let's slow it weighed down. I hope I'm not being dramatic. Please! It
:16:07. > :16:11.feels like there is an enormous cloud over this year's Oscars. I
:16:12. > :16:16.think there are clouds, clouds about the fact that the Oscars which is a
:16:17. > :16:21.TV show and grew up as a TV show in America is not being watched by as
:16:22. > :16:26.many numbers and the movie that the Oscars were built on isn't being
:16:27. > :16:28.made that much because they are putting their weight behind
:16:29. > :16:32.blockbusters so those films are dying out and we can sit here as
:16:33. > :16:36.three white people to discuss it, the Oscars is so white and it is a
:16:37. > :16:41.controversy because it is scandalous. You have creed, Straight
:16:42. > :16:48.Outta Compton, any one of those films could have been nominated for
:16:49. > :16:54.Best picture. Where are those films and why haven't they been nominated?
:16:55. > :17:00.And also girlhood could have been nominated in my opinion. Can Chris
:17:01. > :17:04.Rock save it? He is really bold. It is a lucky break for the Oscars they
:17:05. > :17:07.had Chris Rock lined up and also that he agreed because it was a
:17:08. > :17:14.strange moment when the boycott began to circle. That could go very
:17:15. > :17:18.wrong for Chris Rock. He could go on and be having to say I didn't
:17:19. > :17:24.boycott it and should have done but now I have to front this whole
:17:25. > :17:30.wretched business. He is bold. He is a brave comic so if he owns it. The
:17:31. > :17:34.Oscars have that lucky break and people will be watching and there
:17:35. > :17:38.will be this fascination about what will happen when Chris Rock steps up
:17:39. > :17:43.to the microphone, without that it would just be another year. The
:17:44. > :17:45.Oscars blundered in with their own incompetence and behaviour that does
:17:46. > :17:50.not reflect well on them, they have lucked into a good year because
:17:51. > :17:54.Chris Rock being beaten presenter helps them. It is not necessarily
:17:55. > :17:58.good news for Chris Rock, it could go either way. He was one of my
:17:59. > :18:05.favourite hosts. He is brilliant, he is a great stand-up. People are wary
:18:06. > :18:09.but we are at a distance in Britain. I keep saying scandalous, but Creed
:18:10. > :18:13.is such a great movie and I love Stallone but the idea that Michael B
:18:14. > :18:17.Jordan has been -- not been monitored. And the idea that
:18:18. > :18:24.Straight Outta Compton, made up of so many brilliant parts. The white
:18:25. > :18:30.scriptwriter. It is completely crazy. I'm not saying the Academy is
:18:31. > :18:33.racist but if it was trying to do an impression of a racist organisation.
:18:34. > :18:37.And Idris Elba who could and should have been nominated. There is a
:18:38. > :18:43.whole other thing with beast of no nation put up by Netflix. That is
:18:44. > :18:48.for the old school movie industry who are nervous about that. The
:18:49. > :18:53.whole thing is old school. The Academy awards is the last surviving
:18:54. > :18:58.institution of the old movie industry, created in the 1920s, half
:18:59. > :19:02.a dozen old moguls saying here is what we will do, we will invent this
:19:03. > :19:06.evening and slap each other on the back because we know what is best
:19:07. > :19:10.and we think genre and typecasting is best and this is what works best
:19:11. > :19:17.and in 1953 when it was televised the whole thing became a vaudeville
:19:18. > :19:21.show which is an old-fashioned show business type, the way they all made
:19:22. > :19:24.their bones, all of the stars and moguls, so the whole thing became
:19:25. > :19:30.very conservative and essentially rather reactionary. I would say the
:19:31. > :19:33.Oscars is taking the hit for what is the problem of the film industry. I
:19:34. > :19:37.don't know why they let themselves do this but the Oscars has let
:19:38. > :19:44.themselves be the fall guy. How many editors have been nominated, black
:19:45. > :19:47.editors, nominated for an Oscar? 1969, Hugh Robertson, for midnight
:19:48. > :19:51.Cowboy. That shows there is a problem for the Oscars and a massive
:19:52. > :19:55.problem for the film industry. And no black best director at all, only
:19:56. > :20:02.three times and nothing at all. Let's look at the best acting
:20:03. > :20:08.categories. Here they are. I will write you a movie for 1200. You
:20:09. > :20:13.don't want your name on it? No, you don't want my name on it. We are
:20:14. > :20:19.doing different takes, subtle takes. Medium Phil takes and then big ones.
:20:20. > :20:28.Because you never know in the edit process where a scene is going to
:20:29. > :20:33.end up. I have to figure out a way to grow food here on a planet where
:20:34. > :20:38.nothing grows. Luckily I'm a botanist.
:20:39. > :20:42.I got the call that Ridley Scott wanted to direct it. Surprise. That
:20:43. > :20:49.was the end of my deliberations, I just said yes. What Alejandro wanted
:20:50. > :20:53.to do was create poetry in that story, to have very little chance of
:20:54. > :20:58.survival and the triumph of the human spirit. I'm not afraid to die
:20:59. > :21:04.any more. It's happening, the comeback of a superstar. Steve Jobs.
:21:05. > :21:07.The story is important because he's changed all of our lives, he's
:21:08. > :21:10.changed the way the world works and the way we interact with one another
:21:11. > :21:18.and how we watch films and listen to music. I sat in a garage with Steve
:21:19. > :21:22.Wozniak and invented the future. I look identical to my mum. My
:21:23. > :21:28.first-ever professional job was playing Violette in 12th night so
:21:29. > :21:37.this wasn't a surprise at all. It was really riveting for me to
:21:38. > :21:42.investigate. Thank you. Merry Christmas.
:21:43. > :21:48.Of course, subtext, the notion that every adult has a secret. I like
:21:49. > :21:55.that at. It is fantastic stuff to play with as an actor. It shouldn't
:21:56. > :21:58.be like this. I know. None of us could take ourselves too seriously
:21:59. > :22:02.when you have a seven-year-old around who is bouncing off the walls
:22:03. > :22:08.and thinks everything we are doing is hilarious and fun. I want a
:22:09. > :22:13.different story! No, this is the story you get.
:22:14. > :22:17.Never speak on my behalf about my business again.
:22:18. > :22:23.There's the story about to know yourself, about family, imagination,
:22:24. > :22:27.faith in yourself, ruthlessness. It should be me.
:22:28. > :22:32.There is only different elements to this movie that I hope people can
:22:33. > :22:36.walk away with all of them. The story is about this couple who
:22:37. > :22:39.have lived a rather extraordinary life together and something going
:22:40. > :22:44.little bit wrong. I'm going to go upstairs and have a
:22:45. > :22:53.bath, I have lots to do tomorrow. And its about the difficulty. I want
:22:54. > :22:56.to stop feeling I want to be an Irish girl in Ireland.
:22:57. > :23:00.Ireland will always be in my heart and I take it with me wherever I go.
:23:01. > :23:03.It is what home represents to you. It's that security that hopefully
:23:04. > :23:08.you get to a point where you are able to carry it with you and it
:23:09. > :23:15.keeps you safe. Some brilliant performances. I think you are not
:23:16. > :23:23.allowed to put a bet on the actor. Paddy Power will not let me! Is it a
:23:24. > :23:27.done deal? Has he served his time, I thought he would get it for Django.
:23:28. > :23:31.It's not just about this performance, is the Oscars story and
:23:32. > :23:38.that is that Leonardo DiCaprio will come and win the Oscar. Actors don't
:23:39. > :23:43.win Oscars, roles when Oscars. As soon as he opened the script for The
:23:44. > :23:47.Revenant, I would not say he just had to turn up but he just had to
:23:48. > :23:52.turn up and get into it and then it was a done deal. Really? I like The
:23:53. > :23:57.Revenant and I think he's perfectly fine in it but it doesn't feel like
:23:58. > :24:01.it's really about him. I love The Revenant, it's not just about the
:24:02. > :24:06.acting. I love Leonardo DiCaprio and he's perfect in it but it's about
:24:07. > :24:09.the whole immersive sensual experience, the whole big-screen
:24:10. > :24:14.experience, that's what The Revenant I think is about. You're seeing it
:24:15. > :24:20.through Leonardo DiCaprio's eyes, you are not looking at him. Good as
:24:21. > :24:23.he is he doesn't carry it the way he carried The Wolf of Wall Street but
:24:24. > :24:27.I think he's perfect in the role and head and shoulders above the other
:24:28. > :24:30.nominees, to be honest. Possibly Michael Fassbender, although Michael
:24:31. > :24:34.Fassbender should have got it for Mac Beth and not Steve Jobs. It is
:24:35. > :24:38.weird because Michael Fassbender and to an extent Kate Winslet are being
:24:39. > :24:45.nominated for getting through the script, for managing to memorise. --
:24:46. > :24:47.Macbeth. They are not bad performances but Aaron Sorkin is
:24:48. > :24:55.like an obstacle course for actors, if you manage to just say the words.
:24:56. > :24:59.Getting through to the end. Talk about Best Actress, is that Brie
:25:00. > :25:03.Larson's? I don't think it's as big a lock as it is for Leonardo
:25:04. > :25:08.DiCaprio. I think she will probably get it but I would prefer Saoirse
:25:09. > :25:13.Ronan to get it for Brooklyn because she has blossomed in that role and
:25:14. > :25:17.she gives a wonderful transparent performance. She delivers all of her
:25:18. > :25:22.thoughts and feelings in such a direct unmediated way directly to
:25:23. > :25:27.the camera in close up. Marion Cotillard is like that as well. I
:25:28. > :25:31.remember you saying that anyone else in that role could not have worked.
:25:32. > :25:35.That role could have gone quite wrong. I don't want to underplay
:25:36. > :25:40.Brie Larson because Jacob Tremblay is fantastic and he's a little boy
:25:41. > :25:44.and quite an inexperienced actor and she had to shepherd him through the
:25:45. > :25:46.role as well as delivering her performance, taking responsibility
:25:47. > :25:53.for someone else as well. I'm very fond of Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn as
:25:54. > :25:57.well. She is excellent. We have to talk about Best Supporting Actress.
:25:58. > :26:02.Best Supporting Actress? It could go Kate Winslet, I'd be happy. I like
:26:03. > :26:10.Rooney Mara. I think it will go to Alicia Vikander, in! In a. It should
:26:11. > :26:14.be Rooney Mara, that seemed like a done deal at the time of the
:26:15. > :26:18.nominations. Rooney Mara spoke out about the film being left out and
:26:19. > :26:22.maybe if there had been a gun going off on the table we would have got
:26:23. > :26:25.the best picture nomination and from that moment her odds started
:26:26. > :26:29.drifting out and she will not get the award. She is really a co-star,
:26:30. > :26:33.not really a supporting actress, with Cate Blanchett. Cate Blanchett
:26:34. > :26:40.would be a plausible win, she is superb. Old school. How would you
:26:41. > :26:45.feel if you were Todd Haynes? The fact he has no best director and no
:26:46. > :26:52.best picture, I hope he will get a One Direction bounce from not
:26:53. > :26:57.winning, his film is wonderful, Carol is a glorious film. I love The
:26:58. > :27:05.Revenant but it would be a tough one if Carol was up for it. Best
:27:06. > :27:08.Supporting Actor. I love still on in Creed, the perfect Oscars story,
:27:09. > :27:13.Stallone comes 40 years after Rocky and takes this award but is not the
:27:14. > :27:18.best performance. Mark Rylance is a totally different level. I love
:27:19. > :27:22.Creed and Stallone. Mark Rylance will get it. I would like to have
:27:23. > :27:25.seen Benicia Toro nominated for sick aria because he is such an
:27:26. > :27:27.interesting actor. Here is a reminder of the other eight films
:27:28. > :27:38.vying for best picture. I don't think like a bank, big bank,
:27:39. > :27:45.small bank, I like to make money. We have a Soviet spy. A full
:27:46. > :27:54.thermonuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. I'm on my way to
:27:55. > :28:01.America. Ikard buy you a future. You said a few vehicles in pursuit,
:28:02. > :28:08.maybe -- I can't buy you a future. We have three war parties. I got
:28:09. > :28:11.unlucky. I have to figure out how to grow four years of food on a planet
:28:12. > :28:19.where nothing grows. In your face, Neil Armstrong. Get to the boat. You
:28:20. > :28:30.are forgetting your place. My place is right here on the end of this
:28:31. > :28:38.rifle. Will he find us? No, he will never find us. The Boston priest. We
:28:39. > :28:41.need the full scope, that's the only thing that will put an end to this.
:28:42. > :28:46.We're going to tell this story and we are going to tell it right. We
:28:47. > :28:49.ended on Spotlight. I remember watching Spotlight and thinking it
:28:50. > :28:54.was the most wonderful and the most perfect Oscar Best picture win. It
:28:55. > :28:59.felt like a shoo-in but it isn't any more, is it? It is not, I watched it
:29:00. > :29:03.twice and got it more the second time. The first time was at the
:29:04. > :29:07.Venice film Festival and I thought it had a slightly plodding feel but
:29:08. > :29:10.the penny dropped and I realised the point is that is the drumbeat of
:29:11. > :29:18.investigative journalism. Without Google. You just work, work, work
:29:19. > :29:23.until it pays off. That is what the film is about, she will ever, going
:29:24. > :29:27.to the library, old-fashioned, pre-Google, pre-Internet, getting
:29:28. > :29:29.the cuttings file, the feeling of the yellow cuttings, I'm old enough
:29:30. > :29:36.to remember that. I was gripped by it, and it had a kind of 70s feel to
:29:37. > :29:41.it, this movie. But is The Revenant going to win? I think it will win. I
:29:42. > :29:44.think Spotlight should win but I come at it from the point of view
:29:45. > :29:53.thinking Mad Max should win. We disagree about this. Overrated film.
:29:54. > :29:56.The Oscars has this problem of where to connect with blockbusters, how
:29:57. > :30:01.does it connect with the films people will see? It has an uneasy
:30:02. > :30:05.relationship, The Martian and Mad Max get monitored, Star Wars doesn't
:30:06. > :30:10.get nominated. The Revenant ticks boxes that is a huge action thrill
:30:11. > :30:14.ride. It is a kind of blockbuster in the clothes of an arthouse movie and
:30:15. > :30:18.it has Leonardo DiCaprio through the executives love will stop this year
:30:19. > :30:21.it's the perfect Oscar winner at the executives and Academy love
:30:22. > :30:26.Inarritu, this wild man figure, the same with third man last year. I
:30:27. > :30:29.think The Revenant is a done deal but I don't think it should win.
:30:30. > :30:36.I want to be in your head on Sunday night when it implodes if whoever is
:30:37. > :30:46.speaking says - the Oscar goes to the Big Short. Will your little -
:30:47. > :30:52.will you openly weep? I wouldn't mind if Christopher won Best
:30:53. > :30:57.Supporting actor. I think it is a smug, shallow film decided to make
:30:58. > :31:02.liberals feel morally sue peopler on the subject of the crash. It wants
:31:03. > :31:08.to have its cake and eat. It it has anti-banker correctness. It slaves
:31:09. > :31:18.over bankers. It finds five or six bankers who did well out of the
:31:19. > :31:26.crash. It is the most over rated film. Christian Bale, very good.
:31:27. > :31:32.Grimsby is it your favourite film of the week It isn't. Skrooet skrooet.
:31:33. > :31:36.Well, that's it for this Oscar week - a good time to remember genius
:31:37. > :31:38.British cinematographer Douglas Slocombe who was nominated
:31:39. > :31:40.three times for an Oscar and died this week aged 103.
:31:41. > :31:43.He may never have won an Academy Award, but he was
:31:44. > :31:44.the man-behind-the-camera on masterpieces like Kind Hearts
:31:45. > :31:48.and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Italian Job and the first three
:31:49. > :31:50.Spielberg called him "my behind-the-scenes hero."
:31:51. > :33:10.Give me the whip Throw me the idol. Into time to argue. Throw me the
:33:11. > :33:17.idol, I'll throw you the whip. Give me the whip Adios, senor.