Sentences with phrase «academy award movie»

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(Fortune already wrote about the companies and movie studios that are behind this year's biggest Academy Award nominees.)

Of course, some of the nominated films are still in theaters, and winning a big haul at the Academy Awards is known to result in a bump at movie theaters, which is all the more reason for studios to pull out all the stops in their awards - season marketing efAwards is known to result in a bump at movie theaters, which is all the more reason for studios to pull out all the stops in their awards - season marketing efawards - season marketing efforts.

The deal gives iQiyi streaming rights to a list of about 200 Warner Bros. movies, from the Harry Potter film franchise to Academy Award - winner Gravity.

No wonder, then, that seven of the films on our list of movies that feature entrepreneurs have been nominated for Best Picture in the Academy Awards (of them, Forrest Gump won the top honor in 1994).

Now, the movie's Academy Award aspirations, as well as Fox Searchlight's quest to justify the money it spent at Sundance, are up in the air as long as Parker and his past remain under the microscope.

Warner Bros. and Mad Max: Fury Road walked away from Sunday night as the biggest winners at the 88th Academy Awards — at least, in terms of the movie's overall awards Awards — at least, in terms of the movie's overall awards awards tally.

After all, last year's top - grossing movie, the third installment in The Hunger Games series, was nominated for exactly zero Academy Awards.

None of the movies nominated for a best film Academy Award this year have been labeled «religious,» but many have deeply spiritual overtones.

Believe it or not, there are some great movies from the last year that didn't receive any nominations for the Academy Awards, which will air later this February.

Every year, movie lovers from around the world watch the Academy Awards to celebrate the best films of the year.

At Carolina Parent, we're excited about the Raleigh premiere of Deadline, a movie starring Steve Talley and Academy Award - nominee Eric Roberts, on Wednesday, April 18.

The production eventually wrapped, and the movie ended up winning 2 Academy Awards.

and Ian McEwan (writer for the movie Academy Award nominated movie Atonement).

Ironically, the hearing and movie showing was to take place the same day that Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D - Queens) wanted to show «Spotlight,» this year's Academy Award best picture winner, as part of a roundtable she is holding on the issue of child sex abuse.

Ghana had a maximum of fifteen (15) nominations with five (5) films for the upcoming 2016 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAAs) to take place in June.

A state assemblywoman's desire to use Academy Award - winning movie «Spotlight» to boost her fight to help child sexual abuse victims has run into a roadblock — her own chamber's leadership.

Don't rely on the Academy Awards next month if you are seeking to know whether the movies deemed great today will survive the test of time.

They borrowed heavily from the nonviolence playbook of Mahatma Gandhi and one evening brought a projector to the village to play the Academy Award - winning movie about the Indian independence leader's life.

When an ABC News Poll asked 1028 Americans earlier this year which movie should win the 2003 Academy Awards, 42 % named the eventual winner, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, compared to only 16 % who voted for the runner - up, Seabiscuit.

Ms. Lansing was Chair of the Motion Picture Group of Paramount Pictures from 1992 to 2005, where she oversaw the release of more than 200 films including Academy Award winners Forrest Gump, Braveheart, and highest grossing movie of all time, Titanic.

Maybe if I began to meditate I'll began making Academy Award nominated movies like Lynch's Mulholland Drive.

Emma Stone has acted in movies like Crazy, Stupid, Love; The Help; and Birdman, and has been nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes.

It's a rare interview with Academy Award winning actress Reese Witherspoon that doesn't reference her own self - confessed type A tendencies and as the mother of two children, founder of her aptly named production company Type A Films and her impressive movie resume, it would appear the sky's the limit for this apparent overachiever.

Daniel Kaluuya has appeared in two of the most influential movies in the past year — Get Out (which earned him a Best Actor nomination) and Black Panther — so it comes as no surprise that he looked like a total star at the Academy Awards on Sunday.

I was there with several of my sister bloggers and a crowd of movie fans who braved the weather to dress up, watch Academy Award nominated short films and then get down at the after party.

Some of the most famous Maryland references in movies and television include «Annapolis», starring James Franco and where the United States Naval Academy is based, and the award - winning HBO show «The Wire,» which was set in Baltimore.

Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award - winning actress who became popular after playing the title role in the Lara Croft blockbuster movies, as well as Seven Names of God.

While «Schindler's List» won 7 Academy Awards (including Best Picture, Best Director and Best -LCB- adapted -RCB- screenplay), and 11 Academy Award Nominations (including Best Actor - Liam Neeson), it is a movie that left this reviewer a little uneasy.

The new movie is the latest work of Academy Award - nominated documentarian Liz Garbus (The Farm: Angola, USA [on which she was a co-director]; Bobby Fischer Against the World; Love, Marilyn).

I thought Paris Hilton could not make movies until I saw this waste of time - now she seems like an Academy Award winner.

Note that most other awards organizations treated Damien Chazelle's Whiplash script as an original screenplay, but the Academy considered it to be an adapted screenplay for reasons known only to the Academy (Chazelle has previously released a single Whiplash scene as a short film to raise funds to complete the full movie, which is apparently the source of the problem).

Though it's among the best - reviewed movies of the year and is just about guaranteed to be 2011's # 1 film by earnings, don't expect Deathly Hallows Part 2 to score a Best Picture Academy Award win like Lord of the Rings: Return of the King did.

The two of them talk of escaping this place, but Emmett has a bigger idea... A movie of the human spirit against all disgusting odds; they were probably hoping for Academy Award nominations with this one.

Resuming his movie career with 1962's Taras Bulba, Salt went on to win an Academy Award for his screenplay for 1969's Midnight Cowboy; nine years later, Salt, Robert C. Jones, and Nancy Dowd shared an Oscar for Coming Home (1978), his final film.

The second film's success was perhaps even more staggering than the first: The Godfather, Pt. 2 garnered six more Oscars, including a win for Coppola in the Best Director category; Robert DeNiro won his first Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor field; and the movie itself became the first and only sequel ever to win Best Picture honors.Next, Coppola began adapting the Joseph Conrad novel Heart of Darkness, transferring its story to the heart of the Cambodian jungle at the height of the conflict in Vietnam.

Dorsey's movie career ranges from heavy drama (WALK THE LINE), to lighthearted family comedy (JUST LIKE HEAVEN, Disney's GIRL VS. MONSTER, and the American Girl series MCKENNA SHOOTS FOR THE STARS), but her appearance in the Golden Globe ® and Academy Award ® nominated film MONEYBALL established her as a bona - fide star.

The movie earned the first Academy Award ever given for Best Picture, and Wellman's career was made.

I watched this movie because of the lead actresss Academy Award.

Winner of the very first Best Picture Academy Award, this film is one that every movie buff should see.

Every Academy Award winner is a great movie, but some rank higher than others.

Despite the fact that the movie is up for several Academy Awards, most of the reviews I've read tend to condem nearly every aspect of the story.

Of course, Wall - E still went on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but it's interesting to note that this year, with so many great animated movies to choose from, the Annies decided to go back and honour Pixar's Up with their top prize.

I have my doubts about this film and the cast, but if Academy Award nominated director Bennett Miller and Academy award nominated writer Dan Futterman feel this is the best cast for their movie, I trust their judgAward nominated director Bennett Miller and Academy award nominated writer Dan Futterman feel this is the best cast for their movie, I trust their judgaward nominated writer Dan Futterman feel this is the best cast for their movie, I trust their judgment.

Richard Gere stars as George, a homeless man struggling to find food and shelter in New York City, in Time Out of Mind — the new movie from Academy - Award nominee Oren Moverman.

Though it lost Best Picture to The Godfather (fair enough), Bob Fosse's movie musical holds the record for most Academy Awards won by a film that did not also win the big prize.

Academy Award - nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Netflix's newest original movie Come Sunday as the real - life Pentecostal pastor Bishop Carlton Pearson.

The voice cast includes Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley, Academy Award nominee Toni Collette, Elle Fanning (marking her fourth movie with Focus), Isaac Hempstead - Wright («Game of Thrones»), Emmy Award nominee Jared Harris («Mad Men»), Simon Pegg (Star Trek), Nick Frost (of Focus» upcoming The World's End), Richard Ayoade («The IT Crowd»), and Tracy Morgan («30 Rock»).

Yes, Cannes this year had some definite movies that will be in the conversation for Academy Award nominations, though -LSB-...]

With Coriolanus hitting the cinemas tomorrow, there is no time like the present to countdown the top five Ralph Fiennes movies — each of which has walked the Academy Awards Hall of Fame.

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