from “Birdman”/© Fox Searchlight
I’ll be watching the Oscars on Sunday — won’t you? Today at Word and Film, I look at the five nominees for Best Director: Wes Anderson (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”), Alejandro González Iñárritu (“Birdman”), Richard Linklater (“Boyhood”), Bennett Miller (“Foxcatcher”) and Morten Tyldum (“The Imitation Game”). Whether the relationships in extended families to the ripple effects of human connection and the passage of time, each has a sensibility he’s driven to express in his works. Happy viewing!