4. Before Midnight: Best Picture

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Before Midnight looked like a sure thing for a Best Picture slot until Gravity and 12 Years a Slave came and stole all its buzz. Now it’s a long shot, but I like to dream big. Midnight is one of the year’s true masterpieces, instilling our faith in the power of the sequel. It’s the greatest entry yet in the series, one that only gets better with age. Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke give us what has been hailed as the greatest love story in cinema, and I’m hoping we can drop in on them again nine years from now.