86th Academy Awards Analysis and Predictions: Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay & Best Director

Andrew: Hello readers! It's Day Four of Two Tickets For...'s analysis and predictions for this Sunday's 86th Academy Awards! Yesterday we covered a couple of the biggies in Best Lead Actor and Best Lead Actress, which you can read HERE if you missed those. Today we continue discussing some major awards as we tackle Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director. That will also be the order we go in, so let's get to it!

Best Original Screenplay

The nominees for Best Original Screenplay are:

- American Hustle, by Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell

- Blue Jasmine, by Woody Allen

- Dallas Buyers Club, by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack

- Her, by Spike Jonze

- Nebraska, by Bob Nelson

A: Okay Sarah, I think this is actually a pretty competitive category as I could see four of these nominees being legit contenders (Nebraska being the only one not). Give me your thoughts on Best Original Screenplay.

Trying Something New, and We're Not Ashamed of It!: Our Video Review of "Shame" (2011)

Andrew: Hello readers! We're trying something new here on Two Tickets For... where we're going to do a video review of any movie that we haven't seen before and are just now catching up on DVD/Blu-Ray. If it has a positive reception and we can make them better as we go, maybe we'll make it a regular feature!


For our first foray into doing a video review, we watched last year's NC-17 film Shame starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. So check out our video below for our review! (And yes, yes we did use iMovie on Sarah's MacBook Pro. Go us!)

Two Tickets For.. Reviews: Shame (2011)