This Article is From Mar 02, 2014

Oscars 2014: Maps of this year's Best Film nominees

Highlights

  • It should be no surprise that the Best Picture line-up at the Oscars this year leans heavily towards films about or set in America. In terms of pure geography, only in two films do the events play out in a setting other than the country that is home to the Oscars (and even in those, the main characters are American ) - Captain Phillips in which the MV Maersk Alabama is hijacked off the African coast, and Gravity in which two astronauts find themselves lost in space.
  • So, as the United States of Hollywood fastens its seat belts for Oscar day, we mapped this year's nine Best Picture nominees as info graphics to make it easier to place each film's plotline.
New Delhi: It should be no surprise that the Best Picture line-up at the Oscars this year leans heavily towards films about or set in America. In terms of pure geography, only in two films do the events play out in a setting other than the country that is home to the Oscars (and even in those, the main characters are American ) - Captain Phillips in which the MV Maersk Alabama is hijacked off the African coast, and Gravity in which two astronauts find themselves lost in space.

So, as the United States of Hollywood fastens its seat belts for Oscar day, we mapped this year's nine Best Picture nominees as info graphics to make it easier to place each film's plotline.
















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