I see everything and I actually thought the best pictures of the year were The Diary of a Teenage Girl and Testament of Youth, but they didn't even come close to getting nominated. Of those that were nominated? The Big Short was the most original and well done of all the films. It told a very complex story so well that I wanted to see it again and did. Bridge of Spies was a very well done, traditional film, although rather predictable.

Brooklyn was a really glossed-over, Hollywood-ized, romantic version of immigration — they should have screened [Elia] Kazan's America America to see what immigration was really like in the fifties. Believe me, you didn't come over in a room shared with one other person, you came over in steerage with 60 people and two bathrooms, and the reason everybody was up on top of the deck was because every smelled down below; and when you arrived you didn't live in a nice boarding house with a lovely landlady cooking delicious meals for you, you lived in tenement housing, three or four to a room. They didn't study the period and it pissed me off.

Mad Max: [Fury Road] was really remarkable — it's a movie I would not want to see again, but I have to say that he [George Miller] really made a ride on an intense rollercoaster and it was jaw-dropping. The Martian was entertaining but predictable. The Revenant was the most overblown, over-hyped piece of crap ever — I mean, honestly. I think it's gonna win, sadly, because people buy into all the PR about how hard it was to make, but I don't care. There was something anti-human about this movie; there was no humanity and I didn't like anybody.

Room was kind of amazing — just telling a complex story so well. I liked Spotlight but I didn't love it — I think it was more about glorifying the journalists than about what happened to the victims, which bothered me — and they patted themselves on the back so much about this movie that it really turned me off. I put Big Short at number one and left the other lines blank — mathematically, I don't want to throw things off and help another movie. They really should have just one line.

My vote: (1) The Big Short, (2) none, (3) none, (4) none, (5) none

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