The Revenant Was The Best Directed Movie Of
2015, The Oscars Got It Right
Honestly, it couldn’t have gone to anyone
else. This year the Academy Award for Best Director went to Mexican director
Alejandro Iñárritu for his exemplary work on The Revenant. It was a crowded
field and anyone could have won, but at the end of the day the award once again
went to Iñárritu. As incredibly easy as it would be to say that we didn’t see
this coming, that simply would not be the case.
We really cannot say that we are surprised
to hear that Alejandro Iñárritu won this year’s Oscar for Best Director. The
Revenant strikes an absolutely perfect balance between technical complexity and
beautiful simplicity. We can heap as much praise as we want upon the
performances of men like Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, but at the end of the
day the most pivotal factor in the creation of a movie as raw and brutal as The
Revenant is Alejandro Iñárritu. He’s the man who guides those who create the
beautiful cinematography, and he’s the man who directs the perfectly acted
scenes.
Honestly, just look at this brief moment
from The Revenant to get the smallest understanding as to why Alejandro
Iñárritu completely deserves the award for his historical epic this year:
Alejandro Iñárritu’s win makes an
unreasonable amount of sense. While The Revenant tells an incredibly simple
story, it does so in in equally incredibly complex manner. The job falls on
Iñárritu to ensure that actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy deliver
believable yet nuanced performances while still maintaining the integrity of a
true story. In the beautiful creation of The Revenant, Iñárritu utilized
numerous techniques from his previous Oscar win Birdman that became his
trademark style. However, unlike Birdman, the techniques he used took place not
in a small, contained studio, but outside in a world that notoriously fought
back against the production of this film.
I’ve said it before: the fact that a movie
was difficult to make doesn’t make it worthy of an Oscar, but a director’s
ability to hold everything together and create a work of art as wholly
beautiful as The Revenant most certainly is deserving of Oscar recognition.
Of course, that’s the beautiful thing about
the world of film: it really isn’t a black and white affair. Who do you think
deserved to win this year’s Best Direct Oscar? Let us know what you think in
the comments and keep the conversation going!
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