Eight 2014 Academy Awards references for the attention-span-challenged
8. American Hustle: Batman, Lois Lane and Katniss screw over Hawkeye.
7. Captain Phillips: Woody’s ship gets hijacked by pirates not of the Caribbean.
6. Dallas Buyers Club: The Lincoln Lawyer battles AIDS with help from the 30 Seconds to Mars guy.
5. Gravity: Miss Congeniality is lost in space with Fantastic Mr. Fox.
4. Her: Johnny Cash falls in love with a computer, voiced by the Black Widow.
3. Nebraska: MacGruber and Saul Goodman try to put Frank from Big Love in a retirement home.
2. Philomena: M reconnects with her long-lost son, Alan Partridge.
1. The Wolf of Wall Street: The Great Gatsby makes piles of money and cocaine with “Jonah Hill” from This Is the End.