Awards Profile: Across the Universe

This film has no shot at getting any Oscar nominations. It is terrible. It takes everything bad about love stories and puts it all together with some Beatles' music. Jim Sturgess failed to live up to expectations and Evan Rachel Wood was laughable. The cinematography was some of the worst I've ever seen and the direction is muddled, at best. About 30 minutes into the film, it switches gears completely from being a classic musical to a symbolic/music video with acting. Eddie Izzard, while extremely funny, appears in a scene that should have been cut completely. "Across the Universe" is also predictable and cliche in every way.

But I wouldn't be writing this if I believed it had some shot at getting an award. If there was an Oscar for Best Cameo Performance, this year's winner would probably be Bono in this film. He plays a hippie philosopher who sings "I Am The Walrus" while on acid in a scene, which looking back at, makes absolutely no sense. Joe Anderson might also appear on some people's Best Supporting Actor lists for playing the brother of Wood's character who is reluctantly sent off to Vietnam. He is given the best songs and has a fantastic voice and his acting is very well-honed to.

Awards Possibilities:

Best Supporting Actor-Joe Anderson

Best Cameo Performance-Bono (I wish this was real)