The Academy Awards honor many things in movies but not some of the most important. Ahead of Sunday's Oscars, Associated Press film writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle make selections for their own awards - some more offbeat than others.
Sure, you could pick more violent encounters. But is there possibly anything more ferociously rock 'em-sock 'em than an author overhearing her husband say he doesn't like her latest book? In Nicole Holofcener's You Hurt My Feelings, it's the opening salvo in a painfully, hysterically acute examination of honesty in relationships.
In Ava DuVernay's too-overlooked Origin, much of the film's sense of humanity comes from the rich presences of the actors who float in and o
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