>Outside of Nightcrawler and Drive, I can't really think of
>any. (I refuse to acknowledge Sin City 2.)

you'd have go back before 2010...and look overseas:

The Aura (Spain 2005 I think)
Nine Queens (remade as the okay Criminal, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and John C. Reilly...I think)
Waz (2007 starring a very young and pre-Bronson Tom Hardy)
A Bittersweet Life (South Korea 2005)
The Chaser (2008 South Korea)

are a few titles to look for...

>
>I assume you're referring to the popularity of True Detective,
>primarily. Which I really loved.

Nope I wasn't at all. True Detective is great but I'm referring strictly to movies, not TV show...but TD could be seen as basically an 8 hour movie...
>
>I grew up writing noir detective parodies. God, I bet they are
>all so incredibly shitty.
>
>Sadly, I'm not remotely getting my expectations for this film
>to get into awards season at all. *Maybe* screenplay. Best
>Actor is going to be too much a dogfight with too many
>heavyhitters (who don't deserve it imo) for Gyllenhaal to
>sneak in. I'll be popping bubbly if he does though-- really, I
>only need him and Oyelowo to get into the category.
>(Admittedly, having seen Cumberbatch or Redmayne yet.)

yea...and we both know the Academy hates "Dark genre" movies like this...

yea, I need Oyelowo and Gyllenhaal to slip in and i'd be ok. though something tells me THAT won't happen for both of them, maybe ONE of them.

honestly, if I see McConaughey in there for Interstellar...solid performance, not remotely award worthy, i'm going to be pissed.

really, the Best Actor field should be (and could be):
Oscar Isaac (A Most Violent Year)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)
David Oyelowo (Selma)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)

I'm sure Redmayne is excellent in the Theory of Everything. But, I sense that he'll miss out because everyone is too P.C. and will be more concerned about honoring Turing aka Cumberbatch because of the atrocious England committed against him (and has Turing even been fully pardoned yet? SMH)

but we'll see...