| The Big Short | |
|---|---|
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| 5 Nominations / 1 Win | |
| Year | 2015 |
| Director | Adam McKay |
| Writer | Charles Randolph, Adam McKay |
| Starring | Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling |
| 88th Academy Awards | |
The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Adam McKay. It is based on the 2010 book of the same name by Michael Lewis, about the financial crisis of 2007–2008 brought on by the build-up of the housing market and credit bubble. The film stars Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt. Distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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Nominations
- Best Adapted Screenplay — Charles Randolph, Adam McKay
- Best Director — Adam McKay
- Best Film Editing — Hank Corwin
- Best Picture — Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
- Best Supporting Actor — Christian Bale
Plot[]
In 2005, eccentric San Jose-based money manager and heavy-metal music enthusiast Michael Burry studies thousands of individual loans bundled into highly rated mortgage bonds and makes a startling discovery. When slick young Wall Street banker Jared Vennett catches wind of Burry’s strategy, he uses a tower of tumbling Jenga blocks to persuade hot-tempered hedge-fund manager Mark Baum that he too should invest millions in credit default swaps. Initially skeptical, Baum and his contentious team of wise-cracking young analysts undertake their own investigation. Meanwhile, 20-something money managers Jamie Shipley and Charlie Geller also stumble upon the housing-market bubble. Hoping to break into the financial big leagues, they enlist banker-turned-environmental-doomsayer Ben Rickert, who uses his connections to help them make their own bet against Wall Street.
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