Oscars: Best Picture Nominee
Drinking Games

Are you getting excited about the Oscars but haven't seen any of the nominations? What better way than to become acclimated with these new "Best Picture" drinking games!

Birdman

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Drink every time:
  • Whatever's happening doesn't seem real.
  • Someone refers to Raymond Carver as "Carver".
  • Riggans brings out the napkin.
  • Edward Norton ruin's the moment.
  • Emma Stone is on a roof. 
  • Something breaks. 
  • Edward Norton is in his underpants.
  • They mention a real celebrity's name. 


Finish your drink: 
  • You see the drummer 
  • When you notice a cut. (I don't think you will but you're already going to be really drunk)

Boyhood

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Drink every time:
  • Mason progresses in age
  • Someone drinks (Twice for one of Olivia's breadwinners)
  • One of Olivia's men lectures Mason
  • A song is used as a timepiece to date the movie
  • You realize Ethan Hawke doesn't age
  • You recognize a horrible fashion trend you used to rock

Finish your drink:
  • The first time Mason gets drunk
  • When the moment seizes you

Selma

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Drink every time:
  • The words "Negro/s" "Brother/s" or "Dream" are said
  • Oprah is on screen
  • You're embarrassed to be white (Not white? Drink for progress)
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives a speech to a crowd 
  • An African American is assaulted
  • A historical footnote is shown onscreen
  • Old civil rights footage is shown
  • Someone engages in a protest
  • A gospel song is sang or played (John Legend and Common counts) 

Finish your drink:
  • When a bomb blast occurs

The Theory of Everything

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Drink every time:
  • Stephen has an awkward interaction with someone (Twice if it's a girl)
  • Someone drinks
  • There's a montage
  • Someone is impressed with Stephen Hawking's intelligence
  • A character makes a quip referencing science or high culture
  • A chalkboard is onscreen 
  • Space is referenced
  • Stephen shows a new sign of his condition

Finish your drink:
  • When someone in your party cries
  • Stephen gets his "voice" back

The Imitation Game 

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Drink every time:
  • Alan insults someone
  • "Enigma" "War" "German" and "Germany" are said
  • Alan is socially awkward
  • A montage happens
  • Alan doesn't understand a joke or tries to tell one
  • Tea is drank or referenced
  • Alan is running
  • Old video is shown


Finish your drink:
  • When enigma is broken

The Grand Budapest Hotel

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Drink every time:
  • Keys are shown hanging on a hook
  • The "Hotel Budapest" is said out loud
  • An actor from a previous Wes Anderson movie makes an appearance 
  • Someone has a bloody nose
  • Characters are seen through a window 
  • Nudity is shown on screen
  • The characters are on a train

Finish your drink:
  • When "Boy With Apple" is stolen

American Sniper

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Drink every time:
  • Someone says the words: "Seal" "Oorah" or "Sniper"
  • A sniper round is fired
  • Someone dies 
  • Anytime Chris feels the need to rescue someone in distress 

Finish your drink:
  • On 9/11

Whiplash

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Drink every time:
  • Andrew does something that disappoints you.
  • Fletcher yells at someone.
  • Fletcher makes drummers switch seats.
  • Andrew and his father watch a movie together.
  • Fletcher accuses someone of sabotage.
  • Someone throws something.
  • Andrew is bleeding.
  • A CD is shown being put into a player.
  • "Shaffer" is said.
  • JK Simmons says "Not my fucking tempo"
  • They mention how Charlie Parker got the name "Bird"

Finish your drink:
  • When J.K. Simmons has displayed every range of emotion on the acting spectrum.