19th "An Irish Boy" FILM Awards RECAP!!

P.S. Check out the list of 2014 films I've seen

OUTSTANDING PICTURE:

01. Boyhood (Produced by Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring & John Sloss)

02. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Produced by Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales & Jeremy Dawson)

03. Selma (Produced by Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner & Oprah Winfrey)

04. Under the Skin (Produced by Nick Wechsler & James Wilson)

05. The Immigrant (Produced by James Gray, Anthony Katagas, Greg Shapiro & Christopher Woodrow)

06. A Most Violent Year

07. Two Days, One Night

08. Mommy

09. Birdman

10. We Are the Best!

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR:

Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel

J.C. Chandor for A Most Violent Year

Ava DuVernay for Selma

Jonathan Glazer for Under the Skin

Richard Linklter for Boyhood

OUTSTANDING LEADING ACTOR:

Ralph Fiennes as M. Gustave in “THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL”

Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis Bloom in “NIGHTCRAWLER”

Oscar Isaac as Abel Morales in “A MOST VIOLENT YEAR”

Jack O’Connell as Eric Love in “STARRED UP”

David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. in “SELMA”

OUTSTANDING LEADING ACTRESS:

Marion Cotillard as Sandra in “TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT”

Essie Davis as Amelia in “THE BABADOOK”

Scarlett Johansson as The Female in “UNDER THE SKIN”

Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Noni Jean in “BEYOND THE LIGHTS”

Julianne Moore as Alice Howard in “STILL ALICE”

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Josh Brolin as Det. Christian F. “Bigfoot” Bjornsen in “INHERENT VICE”

Michael Fassbender as Frank in “FRANK”

Ethan Hawke as Mason Evans Sr. in “BOYHOOD”

Ben Mendelsohn as Neville Love as in “STARRED UP”

Edward Norton as Mike Shiner in “BIRDMAN”

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Patricia Arquette as Olivia Evans in “BOYHOOD”

Jessica Chastain as Anna Morales in “A MOST VIOLENT YEAR”

Carrie Coon as Margo “Go” Dunne in “GONE GIRL”

Elisabeth Moss as Ashley Kane in “LISTEN UP PHILIP”

Tilda Swinton as Mason in “SNOWPIERCER”

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Richard Linklater for Boyhood

Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel

Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias for Love is Strange

J.C. Chandor for A Most Violent Year

Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler

OUTSTANDING ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Screenplay by Gillian Flynn; Based on Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Screenplay by Gillian Robespierre; Story by Gillian Robespierre, Karen Maine & Elisabeth Holm; Based on Obvious Child written by Anna Bean, Karen Maine & Gillian Robespierre, Obvious Child

Screenplay by Gia Coppola; Based on Palo Alto by James Franco, Palo Alto

Screenplay by Walter Campbell & Jonathan Glazer; Based on Under the Skin by Michel Faber, Under the Skin

Screenplay by Nick Hornby; Based on Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed, Wild

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:

Big Hero 6 (Directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams)

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Directed by Dean DeBlois)

The Lego Movie (Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller)

Song of the Sea (Directed by Tomm Moore)

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Directed by Isao Takahata)

OUTSTANDING ART DIRECTION:

Production Design by Adam Stockhausen; Set Design by Anna Pinnock for The Grand Budapest Hotel

Production Design by David Crank; Set Design by Amy Wells for Inherent Vice

Production Design by Suzie Davies; Set Design by Charlotte Watts for Mr. Turner

Production Design by Marco Bittner Rosser; Set Design by Christiane Krumwiede & Malte Nitsche for Only Lovers Left Alive

Production Design by Ondrej Nekvasil; Set Design by Beata Brendtnerova for Snowpiercer

OUTSTANDING BREAKTHROUGH/DEBUT:

Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood)

Carrie Coon (Gone Girl)

Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac: Volume I)

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle/Beyond the Lights)

Jack O’Connell (Starred Up/Unbroken)

OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Emmanuel Lubezki for Birdman

Darius Khondji for The Immigrant

Bradford Young for A Most Violent Year

Autumn Duraid for Palo Alto

Daniel Landin for Under the Skin

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN:

Milena Canonero for The Grand Budapest Hotel

Mark Bridges for Inherent Vice

Patricia Norris for The Immigrant

Kasia Walicka-Maimone for A Most Violent Year

Sharen Davis for Selma

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY:

Citizenfour (Directed by Laura Poitras)

Elaine Strich Just Shoot Me! (Directed by Chiemi Karasawa)

Jodorowsky’s Dune (Directed by Frank Pavich)

Life Itself (Directed by Steve James)

National Gallery (Directed by Frederick Wiseman)

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE OF THE YEAR:

Birdman (Lindsay Duncan, Zach Galifinakis, Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Merritt Wever)

Gone Girl (Ben Affleck, Lisa Banes, David Clennon, Carrie Coon, Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit, Neil Patrick Harris, Boyd Holbrook, Lola Kirke, Scoot McNairy, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Tyler Perry, Rosamund Pike, Missi Pyle, Emily Ratajkowski, Sela Ward, Casey Wilson)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Fiennes, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Owen Wilson)

Into the Woods (Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Lila Crawford, Johnny Depp, Daniel Huttlestone, Anna Kendrick, Billy Magnussen, MacKenzie Mauzy, Chris Pine, Lucy Punch, Meryl Streep, Tracey Ullman)

Selma (Common, Colman Domingo, Omar Dorsey, Carmen Ejogo, Cuba Gooding Jr., Andre Holland, Niecy Nash, Alessandro Nivola, David Oyelowo, Wendell Pierce, Giovanni Ribisi, Tim Roth, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Keith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Lorraine Toussaint, Tom Wilkinson, Oprah Winfrey, Ledisi Young)

OUTSTANDING FILM EDITING:

Sandra Adair for Boyhood

James Herbert and Laura Jennings for Edge of Tomorrow

Barney Pilling for The Grand Budapest Hotel

Paul Watts for Under the Skin

Martin Pensa and John MacMcMurphy for Wild

OUTSTANDING FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

Force Majeure (Directed by Ruben Östlund)

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour)

Mommy (Directed by Xavier Dolan)

Two Days, One Night (Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)

We Are the Best! (Directed by Lukas Moodysson)

OUTSTANDING MAKEUP:

Frances Hannon & Mark Coulier for The Grand Budapest Hotel

Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou & David White for Guardians of the Galaxy

Peter King & J. Roy Helland for Into the Woods

Rick Baker, Toni G & Arjen Tuiten for Maleficent

Jeremy Woodhead for Snowpiercer

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE:

Jonny Greenwood for Inherent Vice

Alex Ebert for A Most Violent Year

James Newton Howard for Nightcrawler

Joe Hisaishi for The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Mica Levi for Under the Skin

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG:

“Private Property”, Beyond the Lights (Music and Lyrics by The Dream)

“For the Dreaming and Dancing”, How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Music by Jon Thor Birgisson; Lyrics by Shane MacGowan)

“Hanging Tree”, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (Music and Lyrics by Suzanne Collins, Jeremiah Caleb Fraites & Wesley Schultz)

“Hal”, Only Lovers Left Alive (Music and Lyrics by Yasmine Hamdan)

“Glory”, Selma (Music and Lyrics by Common & John Legend)

OUTSTANDING PERFORMER OF THE YEAR:

Jessica Chastain (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, Interstellar, A Most Violent Year)

Willem Dafoe (The Fault in Our Stars, The Grand Budapest Hotel, John Wick, A Most Wanted Man, Nymphomaniac: Volume II)

Scarlett Johansson (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Chef, Lucy, Under the Skin)

Tilda Swinton (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Only Lovers Left Alive, Snowpiercer, The Zero Theorem)

Mia Wasikowska (The Double, Only Lovers Left Alive, Tracks)

OUTSTANDING SOUND EDITING:

Alan Robert Murray & Bub Asman for American Sniper

Erik Aadahl, Jason W. Jennings, Ai-Ling Lee, John Marquis, Greg ten Bosch & Ethan Van der Ryn for Godzilla

Randy Thom, Michael Silvers, Mac Smith & Jeremy Bowker for How to Train Your Dragon 2

Tae-young Choi for Snowpiercer

Steve Browell, Johnnie Burn & Ed Downham for Under the Skin

OUTSTANDING SOUND MIXING:

John Casali, Michael Keller & Mike Prestwood Smith for Into the Woods

Junior Cyrus Baron, James Bolt, Andy Koyama, Matteo Marciano, Danny Michael & Martyn Zub for John Wick

Robert Hein, Drew Kunin,Jonathan David Midgley, Karym Ronda & Dominick ‘The Dominator’ Tavella for Only Lovers Left Alive

Anna Behlmer, Mark Holding, Tae-young Choi & Terry Porter Snowpiercer

Nigel Albermaniche, Johnnie Burn, Steve Single & Ashley Smith for Under the Skin

OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS:

Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett & Erik Winquist for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Dan Cervin, Kelly Coe, Eric Frazier, Tommy Frazier, James Kozier, Graphic Layout, Eric Lemay, Kyle T. Moore, James Paradis, Randy Parks, Ron Seida, Matt Sleep, Corey Tornack, Scott R. Treliving, Joel Whist & Dan Youngs for Godzilla

Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner & Paul Corbould for Guardians of the Galaxy

Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter & Scott Fisher for Interstellar

Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie * Cameron Waldbauer for X-Men: Days of Future Past

MOST NOMINATIONS:

9 nominations: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Under the Skin

7 nominations: A Most Violent Year

6 nominations: Boyhood, Selma

5 nominations: Snowpiercer

4 nominations: Inherent Vice

3 nominations: Birdman, Gone Girl, How to Train Your Dragon 2, The immigrant, Into the Woods, Nightcrawler, Only Lovers Left Alive

2 nominations: Beyond the Lights, Godzilla, Guardians of the Galaxy, Palo Alto, Starred Up, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Two Days, One Night, Wild

1 nomination: American Sniper, The Babadook, Big Hero 6, Citizenfour, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Edge of Tomorrow, Elaine Strich Just Shoot Me!. Force Majeure, Frank, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Interstellar, Jodorowsky’s Dune, John Wick,  The Lego Movie, Life Itself, Listen Up Philip, Love is Strange, Maleficent, Mommy, Mr. Turner, National Gallery, Obvious Child, Still Alice, Song of the Sea, We Are the Best!, X-Men: Days of Future Past

MOST WINS:

5 wins: Boyhood

3 wins: The Grand Budapest Hotel

2 wins: The Immigrant, Under the Skin

Still Alice

1 win: Birdman, Citizenfour, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Interstellar, Into the Woods, Palo Alto, Selma, Still Alice, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Two Days, One Night

OUTSTANDING PICTURE

Boyhood (Produced by Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring & John Sloss)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Produced by Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales & Jeremy Dawson)

The Immigrant (Produced by James Gray, Anthony Katagas, Greg Shapiro & Christopher Woodrow)

Selma (Produced by Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner & Oprah Winfrey)

Under the Skin (Produced by Nick Wechsler & James Wilson)

AND THE WINNER IS:

BOYHOOD (PRODUCED BY RICHARD LINKLATER, CATHLEEN SUTHERLAND, JONATHAN SEHRING AND JOHN SLOSS)

With this win Boyhood total wins amount to five from six nominations. The film this award along with director, supporting actress (Arquette), original screenplay & film editing. The film was also nominated for supporting actor (Hawke).

Boyhood in the end was just took good to ignore as my favourite film of the year. Many talk about how the 12 years is a gimic but really it is not and this story before the 12 years is a great film and the fact that it was filmed over 12 years just adds onto this already great film. Richard Linklater his entire career has always tackled the theme of time and this is the best example of that showing how time really transforms everyone. This is Cathleen Sutherland and Jonathan Sehring’s first wins and nominations. John Sloss was previously nominated for I’m Not There (2007). This is the fourth win (third this year) and eighth nomination for Richard Linklater having previously won for animating Waking Life (2001) and this year for directing/writing Boyhood. He was also nominated for director School of Rock (2003), writing Before Sunset (2004) & Before Midnight (2013) and animating A Scanner Darkly (2006).

OUTSTANDING MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Ralph Fiennes as M. Gustave in “THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL”

Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis Bloom in “NIGHTCRAWLER”

Oscar Isaac as Abel Morales in “A MOST VIOLENT YEAR”

Jack O’Connell as Eric Love in “STARRED UP”

David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. in “SELMA”

AND THE WINNER IS:

RALPH FIENNES AS M. GUSTAVE IN “THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL”

This is the first win and second nomination for Ralph Fiennes having previously been nominated for The Duchess (2008).

Ralph Fiennes has given great performances in the past full of drama but as M. Gustave in The Grand Budapest Hotel he gives one of the funniest performances in recent memory. Fiennes was perfect casting for the role unlike previously attached Johnny Depp because unlike Depp Fiennes is seems willing to make fun of this type of persona and is better suited to the class filled role of Gustave and in this role Fiennes really knows how to mix comedy, tragedy and great drama altogether to form this perfect type of performance. Fiennes has been doing great work inconsistently since his breakout in 1993 and with Fiennes he defines another type of performance I feel he should to keep giving because it is ingenious work. Fiennes really shows his great talent in his character’s final moments where we see this great character trajectory come to a depressing end and Fiennes handles the role of this unbeatable character with such class which is why I fell so in love with his performance.

OUTSTANDING FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Marion Cotillard as Sandra in “TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT”

Essie Davis as Amelia in “THE BABADOOK”

Scarlett Johansson as The Female in “UNDER THE SKIN”

Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Noni Jean in “BEYOND THE LIGHTS”

Julianne Moore as Alice Howard in “STILL ALICE”

AND THE WINNER IS:

JULIANNE MOORE AS ALICE HOWARD IN “STILL ALICE”

This is the sixth win and eleventh nomination for Julianne Moore having previously won individually and with the ensemble of Boogie Nights (1997), Far From Heaven (2002) and with the ensembles of The Hours (2002), I’m Not There (2007) and The Kids Are All Right (2010). She was also nominated for Magnolia (1999), A Single Man (2009) and with the ensembles of The Big Lebowski (1998) and Magnolia,

Julianne Moore among this list of great actresses is just on another level in terms of talent yet again giving an incredible performance as Alice Howard in Still Alice. Moore makes the material and film of Still Alice much more effecting then it has any right to be because usually these type of stories can come off quite emotionally manipulative and tright but somehow Moore makes the film quite good through her towering performance. She owns this screen for most of the film giving quite a unique performance for the actress in playing each moment except a few quite subtle calling back to her winning performance in Safe nearly 20 years ago. It can never go without saying how much different colours Moore brings to all of her performances and with Still Alice it cannot be helped but praising this performance to the heavens and the fact that after years and years of brillIant work that her chance to finally get reconized by the category with a career award for a deserving performance will be one of the most satisfying moments in recent oscar history.

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR

Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel

J.C. Chandor for A Most Violent Year

Ava DuVernay for Selma

Jonathan Glazer for Under the Skin

Richard Linklter for Boyhood

AND THE WINNER IS:

RICHARD LINKLATER FOR BOYHOOD

This is the third win (second this year) and seventh nomination for Richard Linklater having previously won for animating Waking Life (2001) and this year for writing Boyhood. He was also nominated for director School of Rock (2003), writing Before Sunset (2004) & Before Midnight (2013) and animating A Scanner Darkly (2006).

Richard Linklater has such a nuanced style of direction and this really comes out in full force effect in Boyhood where the 12 year journey of all these characters of the Evans family is allowed to play out in quite effecting moments. Linklater allows his characters and world to just live in the moment and has always done that in his career with Boyhood being the most extreme example of how great his direction can be. An example of Linklater’s best work in this feature is how he can make simple scenes feel quite devastating where you always expect the worse to happen but like real life nothing horrific usually happens and this is why his direction can be quite underappreciated.

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Richard Linklater for Boyhood

Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel

Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias for Love is Strange

J.C. Chandor for A Most Violent Year

Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler

AND THE WINNER IS:

RICHARD LINKLATER FOR BOYHOOD

This is the second win and sixth nomination for Richard Linklater having previously won for animating Waking Life (2001). He was also nominated for director School of Rock (2003), writing Before Sunset (2004) & Before Midnight (2013) and animating A Scanner Darkly (2006).

While the coming of age story is in no way the most original story of the year screenplay is not always about how original the story is but with Boyhood my main reason in choosing it as my winner is because of how great this story if written by Richard Linklater. Linklater just has a way of writing dialogue and situations where it just feels as if you are watching your life on screen like myself who basically saw myself growing up on screen as Mason. The way he writes characters also works to his universe where they live on screen and the fact his characters work so well mixed with his dialogue is what makes his screenplay my favourite of the year.

OUTSTANDING ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Screenplay by Gillian Flynn; Based on Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Screenplay by Gillian Robespierre; Story by Gillian Robespierre, Karen Maine & Elisabeth Holm; Based on Obvious Child written by Anna Bean, Karen Maine & Gillian Robespierre, Obvious Child

Screenplay by Gia Coppola; Based on Palo Alto by James Franco, Palo Alto

Screenplay by Walter Campbell & Jonathan Glazer; Based on Under the Skin by Michel Faber, Under the Skin

Screenplay by Nick Hornby; Based on Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed, Wild

AND THE WINNER IS:

SCREENPLAY BY GIA COPPOLA; BASED ON PALO ALTO BY JAMES FRANCO, PALO ALTO

This is the first win and nomination for Gia Coppola.

Palo Alto in the end was the year’s best adapted screenplay taken from the collection of interconnected short stories written by nearly renaissance man James Franco published in 2010. The story of Palo Alto the film is yet again another coming of age tale following a group of young teenagers and seeing them follow one another down quite troubling path’s is quite fascinating to watch. Gia Coppola a third generation Coppola following her grandfather Francis and aunt Sofia shows the great talent of the family creating this screenplay and all together great debut feature.

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG

“Private Property”, Beyond the Lights (Music and Lyrics by The Dream)

“For the Dreaming and Dancing”, How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Music by Jon Thor Birgisson; Lyrics by Shane MacGowan)

“Hanging Tree”, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (Music and Lyrics by Suzanne Collins, Jeremiah Caleb Fraites & Wesley Schultz)

“Hal”, Only Lovers Left Alive (Music and Lyrics by Yasmine Hamdan)

“Glory”, Selma (Music and Lyrics by Common & John Legend)

AND THE WINNER IS:

“GLORY”, SELMA (MUSIC AND LYRICS BY COMMON & JOHN LEGEND)

This is the first win and nominations for Common. John Legend wins his first after two previous nominations writing songs for Waiting for ‘Superman’ (2010) and Django Unchained (2012).

Glory in the end if for me the year’s best original song. Selma really ends on such a strong note because of footage shown of the actual Selma marches but this song really is what defines the ending of the picture. The song is quite relevant to our modern times even to a point were lyrics of the song mention marching in Ferguson. The chorus of the song is just something that while never leave my mind and make me remember the song all over again. However it is the Common rap that really makes the song stand out as much as it is making it almost an anthem song for our modern generation struggling with race relations.

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCORE

Jonny Greenwood for Inherent Vice

Alex Ebert for A Most Violent Year

James Newton Howard for Nightcrawler

Joe Hisaishi for The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Mica Levi for Under the Skin

AND THE WINNER IS:

MICA LEVI FOR UNDER THE SKIN

This is the first win and nomination for Mica Levi.

No score has moved me to places I never expected more then first time composer Mica Levi’s score for Jonathan Glazer’s third feature film Under the Skin. Each composed for this film is completely memorable and whenever I first think of this great film the score always is the first because of how impactful it is for the film. Levi’s work is haunting and alien like in how in follows The alien of the film and it never lets go of the audience as you ride with it. The synths of certain pieces of the film are very organic and almost hypnotic in how they pull you the audience into this universe.

OUTSTANDING ART DIRECTION

Production Design by Adam Stockhausen; Set Design by Anna Pinnock for The Grand Budapest Hotel

Production Design by David Crank; Set Design by Amy Wells for Inherent Vice

Production Design by Suzie Davies; Set Design by Charlotte Watts for Mr. Turner

Production Design by Marco Bittner Rosser; Set Design by Christiane Krumwiede & Malte Nitsche for Only Lovers Left Alive

Production Design by Ondrej Nekvasil; Set Design by Beata Brendtnerova for Snowpiercer

AND THE WINNER IS:

PRODUCTION DESIGN BY ADAM STOCKHAUSEN; SET DESIGN BY ANNA PINNOCK FOR THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

This is the first win and third consecutive nomination for Adam Stockhausen. He was previously nominated for Moonrise Kingdom (2012) & 12 Years a Slave (2013). This is Anna Pinnock’s first win and second nomination previously being nominated for The Fifth Element (1997).

The Grand Budapest Hotel is yet another Wes Anderson film which means great production/set design is done and being no surprise this film is still some quite impressive visual work. The Grand Budapest Hotel as the title suggests and is just on another level in terms of design being one of the most visually striking sets ever created for an Anderson film with each part of the hotel being just as special as the other. The work done on this film feels quite vibrant and exciting as we go from location to location with other designs outside the hotel looking just as beautiful as the hotel itself with the prison escape sequence being set in a quite unique style prison.