{"id":38002,"date":"2016-02-27T00:06:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T05:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=38002"},"modified":"2021-07-15T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:17:10","slug":"oscars-2016-know-your-nominees-best-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/27\/oscars-2016-know-your-nominees-best-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"OSCARS 2016: Know Your Nominees: Best Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2016<\/p>\n

In the days leading up to the 88th Academy Awards, FilmBuffOnline will be offering profiles on all the nominees in the major categories. Some may be well know, others might be new to you, but if you need a refresher on these Best Picture nominees, here it is.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Big Short
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\"KnowProducers<\/strong>: Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner<\/p>\n

Release date: <\/strong>December 23, 2015<\/p>\n

Box office gross as of February 24, 2016: <\/strong>$121,632,622<\/a> (Domestic: $67,308,897, Foreign: $54,326,725)<\/p>\n

IMDB<\/a>\u00a0Synopsis:<\/strong> Four denizens in the world of high-finance predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight.<\/p>\n

Number of Oscar Nominations: <\/strong>5 (Best Motion Picture of the Year; Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role; Best Achievement in Directing; Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay; Best Achievement in Film Editing)<\/p>\n

Other awards for this film<\/strong>: Received 17 other Best Film\/Picture nominations, with one award.<\/p>\n

Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer:<\/strong> 88%<\/a> (220 Positive Reviews, 29 Negative)<\/p>\n

Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus:<\/strong> The Big Shor<\/strong>t approaches a serious, complicated subject with an impressive attention to detail — and manages to deliver a well-acted, scathingly funny indictment of its real-life villains in the bargain.<\/p>\n

Dissenting Opinion:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cIt’s hard to like so much about a film… & yet to feel ultimately a little underwhelmed by it all… I look at all of these individual parts that I liked, & they don’t come together to create a finely tuned whole that is greater than the sum.\u201d\u2013Mark Hughes, Forbes<\/p>\n

Official Site: http:\/\/www.thebigshortmovie.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n