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Although Oscar winners Rachel Weisz (Agora) and Jennifer Connelly (Creation) were previously linked to the project, it is impossible to contemplate the magnificence and menace of the operatic film without the award - winning Portman (currently monopolising the 2011 best actress Academy Award race in what has rightfully been called the best work of her career) at its centre.

Ironically, this year seems to have an abundance of them, making for a potentially interesting Academy Awards race when all is said and done.

The film led the 2018 Academy Awards race with a massive 13 nominations, taking home four....

Like some gorgeously colored bird, La La Land — a full - on singing and dancing extravaganza — has swooped into the Academy Awards race, charming critics and audiences alike.

Over the past seven years, the Academy Awards race has often included one major contender of the quirky independent comedy variety.

A record 83 countries have submitted entries in the 2014 Academy Awards race for Best Foreign Language Film, the Academy announced on Thursday.

Another year, another Academy Awards race controversy.

A lot of the 2018 Academy Award races have been hotly contested, but Best Animated Feature hasn't been high on the debate list.

Not exact matches

The 89th Academy Awards are more than six months away, but this year's Oscars race already has its first controversy.

Louie Psihoyos, the film's director, describes Racing Extinction as an eco-thriller, similar to his previous Academy Award winning doc, The Cove, which followed the mass slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan.

Gilliam himself hasn't been in the awards race for some time, and he's not exactly one to get cozy with Hollywood in the way that the Academy normally rewards, but Zero Theorem could be the source of some left field nods, especially when it comes to star Christoph Waltz.

But Nolan was hardly alone in the Academy Awards snubs department, with a number of presumed shoo - ins not being invited to this year's ceremony — a surprise in the final leg of the awards season horse race that left some in Hollywood struggling to make sense of the omisAwards snubs department, with a number of presumed shoo - ins not being invited to this year's ceremony — a surprise in the final leg of the awards season horse race that left some in Hollywood struggling to make sense of the omisawards season horse race that left some in Hollywood struggling to make sense of the omissions.

Given that SAG treat the Best Ensemble category as their own Best Picture honor, the award has, in years past, been an indicator of shifting momentum in the Academy's top race: «Shakespeare in Love» and «Crash» both foreshadowed their Oscar night upsets in this category.

We're continuing on with our weeklong preview of the upcoming 85th Academy Awards, and after running down both acting categories it's time to take look at some of the other races.

Wes Anderson nervously awaits the Oscar race outcome for «Grand Budapest Hotel,» up for nine Academy Awards

Aside from Allen in an Original Screenplay, Director, and Picture race, the early word is that we need to begin to pencil in Academy Award winner Kate Winslet for one of the highly sought - after Best Actress spots.

In an amazing interview with Academy Award winning actor, Denzel Washington, Washington reveals his experiences in Hollywood, race in the movie industry, and provides some amazing acting tips for aspiring actors.

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With the exception of the best picture prize, which is a tight Oscar race, most of Sunday night's winners are expected to take home statuettes again at the Academy Awards on March 4.

Less important is the fact that a horror movie that addressed race and social issues won best adapted screenplay, which is a seriously promising turn for the Academy Awards.

In the past, one movie or actor has often emerged as a clear frontrunner in the weeks before the Academy Awards ceremony, but this time, many Oscar races are leaving even industry insiders scratching their heads.

Now the race is wide open, and is expected to go at a dizzying pace, with announcements to come from the Golden Globes, the Directors Guild, the Producers Guild, SAG - AFTRA, the Independent Spirit Awards and many film critics» associations from across the nation, leading up to the actual announcement of the Academy Award nominations.

This season's favorite to «Blind Side» the Academy Awards with a sentimentalized tale of race relations and a feisty white woman leading the charge is The Help (Touchstone), based on the bestselling novel by Kathryn Stockett and directed by her childhood buddy Tate Taylor.

The nominees for the upcoming Academy Awards will be announced later this week, though the Globes have left the Oscar race without a conclusive favourite.

With six nods in total, it cements the streaming giant's place at the movie industry table, with Amazon — which won last year's race to become the first streaming player to win an Academy Award — only picking up one nomination this year: Best Original Screenplay for The Big Sick.

With less than a full week now until the Academy Awards, we're continuing to focus in on a few of the races that might still be up in the air.

That film won two Academy Awards and while Frankenweenie isn't expected to match that total, it is considered one of the leading candidates in this year's Best Animated Feature Oscar race.

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Still, the race proves to be quite exciting, thanks in great part to the heavy investment on the characters in Steve Tesich's (The World According to Garp, American Flyers) Academy Award winning script.

A few months ago, I took a look at writers and directors in the 2015 Oscar race who have previously been nominated for Academy Awards but yet to take home the gold.

Tom Beasley takes a shot at predicting the final shortlists for the Academy Awards... The Academy will release their shortlists for the Oscars tomorrow, lighting the touchpaper on the final furlong of the awards seasonAwards... The Academy will release their shortlists for the Oscars tomorrow, lighting the touchpaper on the final furlong of the awards seasonawards season race.

The Brits are back in the Oscar race big - time, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, and Rosamund Pike among the first - time Academy Award hopefuls who will be duking it out in the leading categories.

By Sean O'Connell hollywoodnews.com: One of the fiercest races being fought in the run - up heading to the Academy Awards appears to be in the Best Animated Feature category.

Racing Extinction (Director: Louie Psihoyos)-- Academy Award - winner Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a unique team to show the world never - before - seen images that expose issues surrounding endangered species and mass extinction.

Academy Award ® winner Hilary Swank plays a no - nonsense FBI agent determined to bring the Logans to justice and keep them from racing away with the loot in this high speed caper from director Steven Soderbergh.

It's that time of the year again, award season, where each and every award counts when it comes to the race for that glorious Academy Award at the start of the new award season, where each and every award counts when it comes to the race for that glorious Academy Award at the start of the new award counts when it comes to the race for that glorious Academy Award at the start of the new Award at the start of the new year.

When the little girl's paternal grandmother (Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer) seeks custody, a legal battle ensues that forces the families to confront their true feelings on race, forgiveness and understanding.

As the Academy Awards approached, La La Land pulled ahead of Moonlight in the Best Picture race.

The film's visual effects are superb (they won an Academy Award) and soundtrack will leave anyone's heart racing and on the edge of the seat.

Moonlight, from Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney, won the WGA Original Screenplay award last night, a coup of sorts since the film was moved over to Adapted by the Academy (where it's Oscar - nominated) so most felt the WGA race was between La La Land and Manchester by the Sea.

Bringing an end to one of the most wide open best picture races in years, «The Shape of Water» — a fantastical fable about a mute woman who falls in love with an aquatic creature — claimed the top prize Sunday night at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out...

While other awards bodies and critics groups jostle and move their dates around to position themselves as the «tastemakers» of the race, the NBR is the oldest and longest - running organization to give out film awards, even preceding the creation of the Academy Aawards bodies and critics groups jostle and move their dates around to position themselves as the «tastemakers» of the race, the NBR is the oldest and longest - running organization to give out film awards, even preceding the creation of the Academy Aawards, even preceding the creation of the Academy AwardsAwards.

As one of the steadiest bellwethers of the Academy Awards, the SAG Awards have considerable sway on the Oscar race.

Given its timing on the awards calendar, Santa Barbara has an impact on the Oscar race, due to its local contingent of Academy voters and high - profile media coverage.

The 2014 Oscar race was in need of a frontrunner for best actress, and following the first screening of Still Alice at the Toronto Film Festival, they found it in long overdue Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore (The Hours, Far From Heaven).

Just one year after taking home the awards for Best Picture and Best Director for his film, «Birdman,» Alejandro G. Inarittu finds himself back in the race as his new film, «The Revenant,» led all films nominated today for the 88th Annual Academy Awards with (12) nods, including Best Picture and Best Dirawards for Best Picture and Best Director for his film, «Birdman,» Alejandro G. Inarittu finds himself back in the race as his new film, «The Revenant,» led all films nominated today for the 88th Annual Academy Awards with (12) nods, including Best Picture and Best DirAwards with (12) nods, including Best Picture and Best Director.

It's interesting since the announcement that the Academy would shift «Moonlight» to the Adapted Screenplay race, we've started to see a trend in the regional critics, when the earlier awards were giving it love in Original Screenplay.

As I've mentioned recently, this film was one of the last of the unseen Academy Award hopefuls, so now the Oscar race has ever -LSB-...]

In addition to A Monster Calls, current and upcoming releases from Focus include The Boxtrolls, the new family event movie from LAIKA, directed by Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable with a voice cast that includes Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, and Tracy Morgan; the true - life dramatic thriller Kill the Messenger, starring Jeremy Renner; the romantic drama The Theory of Everything, directed by Academy Award winner James Marsh and starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Stephen and Jane Hawking; Black Sea, the suspenseful adventure thriller starring Jude Law for director Kevin Macdonald; the romantic drama A Little Chaos, directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet; Tarsem Singh's Selfless, starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley; Leigh Whannell's Insidious: Chapter 3, the newest chapter in the terrifying horror series; Sinister 2, directed by Ciaran Foy; and Stephen Hopkins» Race, starring Jeremy Irons, Jason Sudeikis, and Stephan James as the legendary athletic superstar Jesse Owens.

Academy Award - winning Cold War thriller based on Alister MacLean's bestseller stars Rock Hudson as an American nuclear submarine captain in a deadly race against the Soviets to find a downed satellite beneath the polar ice cap.