Academy Awards, USA 2015
| Won Oscar | Best Motion Picture of the Year Alejandro González Iñárritu John Lesher James W. Skotchdopole |
| Best Achievement in Directing Alejandro González Iñárritu | |
| Best Writing, Original Screenplay Alejandro González Iñárritu Nicolás Giacobone Alexander Dinelaris Armando Bo | |
| Best Achievement in Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki | |
| Nominated Oscar | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Michael Keaton |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Edward Norton | |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Emma Stone | |
| Best Achievement in Sound Mixing Jon Taylor Frank A. Montaño Thomas Varga | |
| Best Achievement in Sound Editing Aaron Glascock Martín Hernández |
Fox Searchlight
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Fox)
A Hollywood actor is having a serious mid-life crisis. Michael Keaton, who became a worldwide celebrity by playing a superhero named "Birdman" in the movies, tries to find himself by writing, directing and starring in his first Broadway play. At the last minute he hires Edward Norton, who almost manages to wreck the play with his ego and unpredictability. Meanwhile his personal life is a mess: his daughter is just out of rehab, his girlfriend thinks she is pregnant and his ex-wife shows up in his dressing room. The stress has caused him to hear the voice of his former superhero role in his head, leading him to become delusional at best and suicidal at worst. Unfortunately, all of these characters are so self-obsessed that we don't really care what happens to them. Iñárritu strings together a series of unbroken shots in the style of Robert Altman, but it just seems like a gimmick here to call attention to itself. Other than a couple of scenes, a confrontation in a bar with a critic and a CGI-laced rumination on the emptiness of Hollywood action/superhero movies, it's a pretentious with a capital P mess.
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