Did not deserve best picture

Stylistically I agree with you. I feel like the Revenant definitely deserved best director and cinematography because it was beautiful, but I didn't think it was solid enough story wise to win. I know part of the story is the brutality but it didn't have as big of an impact on me as others. I enjoyed Spotlight and it had a great cast. It was very good but not great. I thought The Big Short deserved to win. It's solid in every way in my opinion. Cast, directing, writing and was really informative in a unique and funny way while still discussing a serious crisis.

Spotlight had to win because it carried the interests of solid political lobby. In today's day and age, anything against the Church establishment is bound to get a few nods. They were obligated to give it Best Picture, although it failed to win anything else. Great work to Journalism to get to the bottom of sex scandals but not deserving the forced recognition. Wonder which lobby pushed harder? Was it Jewish lobby or Protestant lobby... toss of the coin!

The Revenant was so simple.

It easily deserved best picture. It featured an amazing screenplay that helped bring out some of the best performances by the actors involved. I just hope by this picture winning the award, it will help push Hollywood towards developing more original movies. Reboots and superheroes are getting rather tiresome.

I also agree that Spotlight didnot deserve Best Picture. I personally believe "Brooklyn", or "The Danish Girl" or even "Room" should have won Best Picture. Sometimes the Academy has it wrong.

I have not seen the Revenant, but I would agree this was not a Best Picture, by any standard. It was a good movie. Not a best picture.





Even if it means me taking a chubby, I will suck it up!

I can get what you all are saying
But I can see why it was chosen. In making a statement and being powerful while just using talking and speaking this film can be powerful and can grab you hold and not let you go.

Having just seen it, I have to agree with you. The characters all seemed rather one-dimensional, and there was no tension in the story at all, which is strange, considering the appalling events it was dealing with. I'm afraid I thought the acting was rather poor too. Perhaps my expectations were too high, but I must say it disappointed me.