The last screener to come in before the voting deadline (barely making it), is Alexander Payne’s black-and-white Nebraska

Nebraska

Stars: Bruce Dern, June Squibb, Will Forte, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk
Director: Alexander Payne
Premise: From IMDb: “An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.”
Oscar Chances: Good: Although, the film isn’t based on an Alexander Payne screenplay, there’s every reason to believe the film will follow in the path of his previous films. While Best Picture may not be assured, it looks like Bruce Dern should get a nomination as well as June Squibb and the screenplay is likely to get nominated. Other nominations may be a bit tougher to get.
Campaign-Proposed Categories:

• Best Picture (Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa)
• Best Director (Alexander Payne)
• Best Original Screenplay (Bob Nelson)
• Best Actor (Bruce Dern)
• Best Supporting Actress (June Squibb)
• Best Supporting Actor (Will Forte, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk)
• Best Cinematography (Phedon Papamichael)
• Best Film Editing (Kevin Tent)
• Best Production Design (Dennis Washington, Beauchamp Fontaine)
• Best Costume Design (Wendy Chuck)
• Best Makeup and Hairstlying (Robin Fredriksz, Waldo Sanchez)
• Best Sound Mixing (Jose Antonio Garcia, Frank Gaeta, Patrick Cyccone Jr.)
• Best Sound Editing (Joe Iemola)
• Best Visual Effects (Lawson Deming)
• Best Original Score (Mark Orton)

Rotten Tomatoes:
91% (8.0 average rating) (162 critics; as of 12/14/13)
Metacritic:
86 out of 100 (45 critics; as of 12/14/13)