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Jamie Daily

California

My name is Jamie. I am a 24 year old who devotes my life to movies.

Interests: movies, editing, books, food, youtube

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Hi Oscarites! Just in case you missed it, we have moved! This website will be removed on August 31, 2014, so please head on over here if you want to keep up with Jamie Daily and my journey of blogging through the Oscars, one nomination at a time! -Jamie Continue reading

Posted Aug 12, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Jamie Daily is moving to Wordpress!

Hey guys! I am in the process of moving the site (and all 150 posts) to wordpress. This site will remain up, although inactive, through August, 2014. If you want to keep up with me and my journey, please click on the following link and subscribe/change your RSS feed. New... Continue reading

Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Helium (2014) Review | Jamie Daily

Helium (2014) 86th Academy Awards 5/5 Stars Nominated for 1 award, which it won. Won Best Live Action Short Subject (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson). Watched May 5, 2014. I am not surprised that Helium won this year's Oscar. It was cute, touching, well written, and used all twenty three minutes... Continue reading

Posted Jun 26, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Frozen (2013) Review | Jamie Daily

Frozen (2013) 86th Academy Awards 5/5 Stars Nominated for 2 awards, of which it won both. Won Best Animated Feature Film (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho), and Best Music-Song ("Let it Go" by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez). Watched May 1, 2014. Frozen is probably on of my favorite... Continue reading

Posted Jun 18, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Searching for Sugarman (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

Searching for Sugarman (2012) 85th Academy Awards 2013 3/5 Stars Nominated for 1 award, which it won. Won Best Documentary Feature (Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn). Watched April 14, 2014. Searching for Sugarman is half horror story and half fantasy for musicians. Two South Africans are in search of what became... Continue reading

Posted Jun 4, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Dirty Wars (2013) Review | Jamie Daily

Dirty Wars (2013) 86th Academy Awards 2014 1/5 Stars Nominated for 1 award. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature (Jeremy Scahill, Richard Rowley). Watched April 18, 2014. I am going to be honest--Dirty Wars is a hard movie to review. I wasn't the biggest fan. This documentary following an investigative journalist,... Continue reading

Posted May 27, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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12 Years a Slave (2013) Review | Jamie Daily

12 Years a Slave (2013) 86th Academy Awards 2014 4/5 Stars Nominated for 9 awards, of which it won 3. Nominated for Best Actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Best Supporting Actor (Michael Fassbender), Best Costume Design (Patricia Norris), Best Director (Steve McQueen), Best Film Editing (Joe Walker), and Best Production Design (Adam... Continue reading

Posted May 23, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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The Impossible (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

The Impossible (2012) 85th Academy Awards 2013 4/5 Stars Nominated for 1 award. Nominated for Best Actress (Naomi Watts). Watched March 27, 2014. I try to stay away from descriptions of the movies coming up on my list, but I vaguely knew that The Impossible was about a tidal wave.... Continue reading

Posted May 13, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Asad (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

Asad (2012) 85th Academy Awards 2013 2/5 Stars Nominated for 1 award. Nominated for Best Live Action Short Film (Bryan Buckley, Mino Jarjoura). Watched April 2, 2014. I watched Asad right around the time that I watched Captain Phillips. Both portray the current climate of Somalia and its violence both... Continue reading

Posted May 2, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Gravity (2013) Review | Jamie Daily

Gravity (2013) 86th Academy Awards 2014 5/5 Stars Nominated for 10 awards, of which it won 7. Nominated for Best Picture (Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman), Best Actress (Sandra Bullock), and Best Production Design (Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard). Won Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki), Best Director (Alfonso Cuarón), Best Film... Continue reading

Posted Apr 28, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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A Royal Affair (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

A Royal Affair (2012) 85th Academy Awards 2013 5/5 Stars Nominated for 1 award. Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film (Nikolaj Arcel). Watched March 18, 2014. A Royal Affair is one of those films where I forget that I am reading subtitles. The story was so engaging, the characters so... Continue reading

Posted Apr 23, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Mondays At Racine (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

Mondays at Racine (2012) 85th Academy Awards 2013 3/5 Stars Nominated for 1 award. Nominated for Best Documentary Short (Cynthia Wade, Robin Honan). Watched March 12, 2014. Mondays at Racine is a well done documentary short that is so much more than just a story about women with cancer. The... Continue reading

Posted Apr 11, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Captain Phillips (2013) Review | Jamie Daily

Captain Phillips (2013) 86th Academy Awards 2014 5/5 Stars Nominated for 6 awards. Nominated for Best Picture (Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca), Best Supporting Actor (Barkhad Abdi), Best Film Editing (Christopher Rouse), Best Sound Editing (Oliver Tarney), Best Sound Mixing (Chris Burdon, Chris Munro, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood... Continue reading

Posted Apr 2, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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The Invisible War (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

The Invisible War (2012) 85th Academy Awards 2013 3/5 Stars Nominated for 1 award. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature (Amy Ziering, Kirby Dick). Watched March 10, 2014. The Invisible War is a devastating documentary that discusses the victims of rape within the US military and how it has negatively affected... Continue reading

Posted Mar 25, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Lincoln (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

Lincoln (2012) 85th Academy Awards 3/5 Stars Nominated for 12 awards, of which it won 2. Nominated for Best Picture (Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy), Best Director (Steven Spielberg), Best Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones), Best Supporting Actress (Sally Field), Best Adapted Screenplay (Tony Kushner), Best Original Score (John Williams), Best... Continue reading

Posted Mar 21, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Review | Jamie Daily

Dallas Buyers Club (2013) 86th Academy Awards 2014 4/5 Stars Nominated for 6 awards, of which it won 3. Nominated for Best Picture (Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter), Best Film Editing (John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa), and Best Original Screenplay (Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack). Won Best Actor (Matthew McConaughey), Best Supporting... Continue reading

Posted Mar 20, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Paperman (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

Paperman (2012) 85th Academy Awards 2013 5/5 Stars Nominated for 1 award, which it won. Won Best Animated Short Film (John Kahrs). Watched March 4, 2014. Paperman is one of the cutest shorts ever and the clear winner from the 2013 nominations. It is a black and white short with... Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Despicable Me 2 (2013) Review | Jamie Daily

Despicable Me 2 (2013) 86th Academy Awards 2013 4/5 Stars Nominated for 2 awards. Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film (Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri) and Best Original Song ("Happy" by Pharrell Williams). Watched March 7, 2014. I liked Despicable Me 2 quite a lot. It has been a... Continue reading

Posted Mar 14, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) 85th Academy Awards 2013 3/5 Stars Nominated for 2 awards. Nominated for Best Costume Design (Colleen Atwood) and Best Visual Effects (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Michael Dawson, Neil Corbould, Philip Brennan). Watched February 26, 2014. Snow White and the Huntsman is an entertaining film worthy of... Continue reading

Posted Mar 10, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 85th Academy Awards 2013 5/5 Stars Nominated for 5 awards, of which it won 1. Nominated for Best Picture (Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Migan Ellison), Best Actress (Jessica Chastain), Best Original Screenplay (Mark Boal), and Best Film Editing (Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg). Won Best Sound Editing... Continue reading

Posted Mar 7, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Review | Jamie Daily

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 86th Academy Awards 2014 4/5 Stars Nominated for 5 awards. Nominated for Best Picture (Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joey McFarland, Emma Tilinger Koskoff), Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill), Best Director (Martin Scorsese), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Terence Winter). Watched January... Continue reading

Posted Mar 5, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Hate the Oscars? This is why I don't.

I think I have only seen one or two of the Oscar nominated films this year, and I like it that way. I actually do it on purpose. I don't like seeing the films (for my blog) until after the awards show so that I know the winners. I like... Continue reading

Posted Mar 1, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Django Unchained (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

Django Unchained (2012) 85th Academy Awards 2013 4/5 Stars Nominated for 5 awards, of which it won 2. Nominated for Best Picture (Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone), Best Sound Editing (Wylie Stateman), and Best Cinematography (Robert Richardson). Won Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz) and Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino).... Continue reading

Posted Feb 28, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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How to Survive a Plague (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

How to Survive a Plague (2012) 85th Academy Awards 2013 4/5 Stars Nominated for 1 award. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature (David France, Howard Gertler). Watched February 18, 2014. Regardless of its content and message, How to Survive a Plague is exactly the type of documentary that I like. It... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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Flight (2012) Review | Jamie Daily

Flight (2012) 85th Academy Awards 2013 5/5 Stars Nominated for 2 awards. Nominated for Best Actor (Denzel Washington) and Best Original Screenplay (John Gatins). Watched February 10, 2014. Flight is a deceptive movie dressed up as a less-than-average B film with a decent cast. Its advertising was less than stellar... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2014 at Jamie Daily

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