Oscar Best Picture Nominee: The Grand Budapest Hotel

With the Oscars coming up in a little over a week, I decided I would take these next few days to discuss my opinions of the Best Picture Nominees.

"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
Directed by Wes Anderson
Written by Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness, based on the writings of Stefan Zweig
Starring Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham and Saoirse Ronan

The owner of an outdated hotel tells the story of his beginning as a Lobby Boy of the hotel and his adventures with his Mentor, Gustave H.

Truly, unequivocally one of Wes Anderson's most Wes-Anderson-y movie ever. There is no doubt while watching this who had creative control throughout production. Everything from set design, to costumes and hair, acting, shot choices and even story shrieks Anderson.

Get on with it!

This is undoubtedly the quirkiest movie of the nominations. It retains it's silliness at every twist and turn. Backed by an impossibly perfect soundtrack and cinematography techniques that had previously been forgotten by modern filmmakers, I consider this Anderson's best film to date.

The story is a classic one, filled with danger and romance and prison breaks and topped with cleverly absurd humor. The performances are eccentric and necessarily so. There would be no other way to create the world without them. 

While it is a long shot that this will win Best Picture, it is certainly one of the front runners and definitely one of the more fun films nominated.

My Rating: 10/10