Film, Opinion

Ten Tremendous Oscar Bait Failures

Posted: February 20, 2017 at 7:34 pm   /   by   /   comments (2)

Joy (2015)

  • Domestic Total Gross: $56,451,232
  • Production Budget: $60 million
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 60%
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Although this did earn an Academy Award nomination for Jennifer Lawrence’s titular role, it was also the film that made us realize that director David O. Russell’s go-to-troupe is not unstoppable.We now know that simply teaming up with Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro does not guarantee Oscar gold. Reviews were favorable overall, but criticism of the film’s misguided and depressing approach to dramatize the life of the woman who invented the Miracle Mop was nearly unanimous.