Oscar worthy movies about the finance world

The 93rd Oscar Academy Awards starts in a few hours but due to COVID restrictions this year is Academy Awards like last year will be online only. Before we get into which movies and actors were nominated for which awards let’s look back at 4 Oscar nominated movies revolving around finances.

The Wolf of Wall Street

This 2014 movie is one of the top movies about investment and the Stock Exchange. The movie was inspired by the memoirs of American businessman Jordan Belfort portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie. 

Belfort is a former successful stockbroker in the 90s who founded his own brokerage house but unfortunately he made a lot of money illegally and was finally sentenced to three years in prison.

The Wolf of Wall Street is in the Guinness book of world records for the most swearing in one film!

The movie was nominated for five awards: best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, best actor and best supporting actor but did not win any of them.

Up

One of the most well known animated movies is Up, a movie many considered as the ultimate romantic story period up was produced by Pixar in 2009 and tells the story of Carl who spent his whole life saving up for romantic trip with his wife. Unfortunately his wife died before they could go on that trip so Carl decided to lift up his house with helium balloons and take that trip in the place he had the best memories with his wife.

The movie was nominated for five Oscars: best animated feature, best original score, best picture, best original screenplay and best sound editing. It won the first two. 

Michael Clayton

This 2008 movie was inspired by famous American lawyer Michael Clayton who handled many a fraud case for his clients. Clayton was a fixer with many clients until one case involving the failure of his business with his drug addict brother caused them to lose a lot of money.

The movie was nominated for best picture, best director, best actor, best supporting actor and best supporting actress and it only won best supporting actress. 

Slumdog Millionaire

This British movie was produced in 2008 and was adopted from Q&A and offered by Indian author Vikas Swarup. The movie tells the story of Jamal Malik the poor boy 1,000,000 Indian rupees on “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire”.

 Suspected of cheating he was arrested by the police and interrogated over each correct answer he gave. The movie won 8 Oscars: best picture, best director, best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, best original score, best sound mixing, best film editing, and best original song. 

It was also nominated for best sound editing and best original song.