Sentences with phrase «academy award voters»

I think coming off of two inferior films by Scorsese standards (Cape Fear and The Age of Innocence) that cooled off Scorsese's reputation in the eyes of Academy Award voters and Casino was overlooked.

He's well known for his stage portrayals of larger - than - life characters — including Dracula and Sherlock Holmes, among others — but his perfectly modulated performance here is one of managed disappointment, something apparently too subtle for Academy Award voters to recognize.

It's a no - brainer to see why 20 Feet From Stardom struck a resounding feel - good chord with Academy Award voters.

On a night where Hollywood could have made its biggest statement about #TimesUp and #MeToo, Academy Award voters played it predictably and disappointingly safe.

It's the type of anti-hero that Academy Award voters love to hate.

When the dust settled Tuesday morning after announcement of this year's Oscar nominees, it was clear that Academy Awards voters had diversity and inclusion on their minds.

Academy Awards voters may very well feel differently about it.

Not exact matches

Academy voters were a bit more generous, awarding The Danish Girl with four Oscar nominations (though even they ignored Suffragette).

The big surprise, of course, was Sean Penn, whose best actor award showed that Academy voters are prepared to reward old - fashioned technique: Penn's Harvey Milk was an elaborately, even brilliantly detailed impersonation of a gay man.

The Academy frequently likes its Britpics chirpy and digestible, and «Made in Dagenham» (already retitled from its original, less awards - friendly moniker «We Want Sex») boasts five words very dear to voters» hearts: «Based on a True Story.»

La La Land made history at the 74th Golden Globe Awards, winning in all categories it was nominated in - a record seven trophies, including Best Picture - Comedy / Musical, cementing it's frontrunner status for Best Picture as Academy voters...

I have no doubt that there were several # 1 votes by Academy voters during the nomination process, but so many other movies were more beloved that year that, as a seasoned awards watcher, to complain about The Passion not being nominated is pretty ridiculous.

If not: «The Light That Never Fails» from Meru Lowdown: Going out on a limb here that the Academy music branch can't say no to the great track from The Weeknd just like they couldn't as Grammy award voters.

But what about those movies deserving of awards that open during the summer, which may as well be a decade ago to some Academy voters?

While it remains a travesty that Fargo was snubbed in favor of The English Patient at the 69th Academy Awards, voters thankfully got it right with the Coen's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's, No Country for Old Men.

In accepting his «Best Director» Oscar statuette for The Awful Truth, Leo McCarey famously opined that Academy voters had given him the award for...

And while The Shape of Water has been recognized by film journalists and critics, it has also attracted big attention by industry voters, including nominations from the Screen Actors Guild, the Director's Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America and the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs).

Since one of the most enjoyable parts of any Oscar season is the healthy debate these awards provoke, The Times» film critics and reporters offer up their personal favorites among the academy's chosen best pictures, as well as picks for the voters» biggest oversight.

Here's hoping Oscar voters have a long memory for next year's Academy Awards, because if The Upside of Anger had been released three months ago, Joan Allen would have given Hilary Swank a run for her gold.

Of course, it takes a fully realized performance to win an Academy Award, but sometimes it takes just a single scene to win the heart of an audience member — or an Oscar voter.

They are formulated using a combination of personal impressions (from advance screenings), publicly available information (release dates, genres, talent rosters and teasers / trailers often offer valuable clues), historical considerations (how other films with similar pedigrees have resonated), precursor awards (some groups have historically correlated with the Academy more than others) and consultations with industry insiders (including fellow members of the press, awards strategists, filmmakers and voters).

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their nominations for the 2018 Oscars this morning, sticking relatively to the script written out by awards season pundits, critics» groups and Golden Globes voters.

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.

Whenever the question of «What good are the Academy Awards» gets thrown around, I tend to let people bluster their way around subjects like out - of - touch voters and million - dollar ad campaigns and vanity and spectacle and hostility to art.

Both are nominated in their respective categories at the upcoming Academy Awards; given the strong overlap between guild members and writing voters in AMPAS, those results could well repeat themselves at the March 4 ceremony.

The voters for the Academy Awards have been going wild about her exceptional work for weeks.

As the Academy Awards draws nearer, this issue, currently making its way to voters» mailboxes, aims to bring readers into that bubble as well.

is not necessarily the stuff for awards, with more than a few Academy voters likely recoiling from the extremity of Aronofsky's work.

Depp's turn earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, the summer attraction lingering in voters» minds unusually long and over more serious, conventionally Oscar - friendly cinema.

Only 15 % of participants who identified as Republican voters said they felt the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had made the right choice for the annual awards ceremony's top prize.

The next year, David Fincher's «The Social Network» had an even more impressive, and nearly unanimous, run through the critics» awards — and while that may have helped establish it as the alternative to «The King's Speech,» it wasn't enough to persuade Academy and guild voters to forsake that crowd - pleaser for something chillier, more artful and more appealing to critics.

The 90th Academy Awards are still a while away, but with plenty of high quality movies already on voters» radars, now is the time for studios to start making moves to ensure that their films are given the recognition they deserve.

They can still end up with strong constituencies among awards voters — but if so, those constituencies will more likely be among guild and Academy members than critics.

Harvey Weinstein has never been one to put much faith in the length of Academy voters» memories, so as usual, he's favoring a late - year release plan for his presumed awards contenders — the prospects of which I was discussing only the other day.

When this year's Oscar nominees were announced, we noted that Academy voters had given us the whitest, malest, most deflating awards season in recent history.

The Canadian actress has won fervent critical acclaim for her chameleonic performance as a group of wildly different clones, as well as smaller prizes such as the Critics» Choice Television Award, but has yet to earn recognition from the famously habit - prone voters of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

When I remarked in a post yesterday that the upcoming awards season looks a little short on the high - profile biopic contenders so beloved of Academy voters, I had a feeling I was forgetting something obvious.

So my advice to the precursor awards — those that shouldn't be disbanded altogether, at any rate — is similar to that I gave Academy voters in last week's column: think for yourselves.

Though the N.B.R. Awards Gala tends to diverge from the Oscars when it comes to winners, perhaps Gerwig will be making a similar speech on a much bigger stage just a couple months from now — provided Academy voters love Lady Bird as much as every industry gala does.

There are months of awards handed out that build that narrative and the Academy voters, for some reason, seem to just fall in line.

It's a very good film and deserving of awards, but if we're talking about a 70 % white male middle - aged Academy we have to think about what movies directed by women those voters respond to, and they are responding to this one.

The blitzkrieg of award season is right around the corner, and with it, we can expect an onslaught of stunt performances, designed to wow Academy voters and feature editors (and also viewers?)

It remains to be seen if Netflix can successfully turn its would - be Oscar contenders into must - sees for Academy voters by hiring top Oscar campaigners, sending out screeners to members who already are subscribers, mounting events and Q&A s, and playing the awards game.

Here are our six favorites — presented with fingers crossed that SAG members, the Academy, and other awards voters agree!

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