The Contenders:
Steve McQueen: 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell: American Hustle
Alfonso Cuaron: Gravity (winner)
Alexander Payne: Nebraska
Martin Scorsese: The Wolf of Wall Street
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Do the Hustle
Film: American Hustle
Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on laptop.
Format: DVD from Northern Illinois University Founders Memorial Library on laptop.
Slowly but surely I’m getting around to the most recent crop of Best Pictures. For today, this means one of the two pictures nominated for 10 awards. Sadly for American Hustle, it’s the film that came up 0-for-10 (Gravity was the other film with 10 nominations). For what it’s worth, Gangs of New York also went 0-for-10 and I love that movie, so I went into this with some expectations. It also got a lot of hype, so I had expectations on that end as well.
American Hustle is complicated as hell, probably too complicated for a full rundown on the plot, which means I’ll be talking more in generalities here. Why so complicated? Because it’s about a con, and a long con at that. There are a lot of players here and things quickly spin out of hand, which means that an accurate summation of events would be not only difficult but incredibly time consuming. So I’ll be hitting the high points rather than offering a complete blow-by-blow.
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