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10 Possible Oscar Contenders From The First Half Of 2015

2015 has flown by fast, and we're somehow already half-way through the year, which means it's time to start thinking about that most hallowed of Hollywood traditions: the Academy Awards. The latter half of the year is sure to be dominated by what is referred to as "Oscar bait," from prestige period dramas about individuals who challenged the conventions of their eras (that's The Danish Girl, Suffragette and Joy this fall) to thrilling adventure-dramas about individuals battling against the odds in order to survive (The Revenant, In the Heart of the Sea).

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Paolo Sorrentino’s follow-up to his spectacular The Great Beauty is being hailed as another masterpiece, eloquent and elegant in its treatment of the human body and time’s ravages. The lensing (by Luca Bigazzi) is predictably splendid, and reviews say that Sorrentino’s setting of the film in a spa resort gives it an otherworldly, melancholy quality not dissimilar to such classics as 8 1/2 and Last Year at Marienbad.

More optimistic than The Great Beauty but just as philosophical, it’s being called one of the director’s most accessible films to date, and the Academy likely won’t pass up the chance to honor a filmmaker just now being discovered by general audiences in the U.S.

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