For one thing, the recent track record of these late
summer dramas is decidedly mixed - while The Help indeed connected with Oscar, Lee Daniels» The Butler's
summer box office went unrecognized by the Academy, and it is the latter film that Get On Up seems to resemble more, what with it being a biopic that attempts to tell the
entire life story of its subject, which, as discussed in the previous installment in regards to Unbroken, is a questionable proposition with today's Academy.