Watch: Get Ready For The Oscars With This Beautiful 6-Minute Video Tribute To The Nominees

Movie lovers, the 2015 Oscars are almost upon us. As we wade through the cinematic doldrums of January (“Blackhat” and “Paddington” notwithstanding), let us reflect on the abundance of cinematic riches gifted to us in 2014. By all accounts, it was a damn good year for cinema, a year full of head-tripping thespians, excursions into outer space, European art capers, and biopics of everyone from Stephen Hawking to MLK. Any year where we get the seething, god’s-lonely-man psychosis of Dan Gilroy’s “Nightcrawler” alongside a family film as subversive and wickedly intelligent as “The Lego Movie” surely can’t be faulted for lack of variety. For those that need a quick refresher, a brand new Oscar promo video — edited by one Tomas Medero — has recently landed online and it’s a terrific reminder, if one was needed, of the films that made us laugh, cry, wince, and holler in rousing approval during this past year.

In spite of the deeply creepy opening voiceover...