Sentences with phrase «academy voters in»

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.

Wonder Woman, the massively successful superhero film, also got a nod from the Producers Guild, a keen sign that it might get some true recognition from Academy voters in categories beyond technical achievement.

It's impossible to read the minds of Academy voters in any definitive way, and I wouldn't be honest if I didn't put my own prejudice out there: I'm not exactly the world's biggest fan of Guillermo del Toro's film.

Not exact matches

A former publicist, DuVernay never shied away from the issue, tweeting to her 600,000 - plus followers that «shame is a helluva motivator» after the Academy tweaked its membership rules to bring in more minority voters.

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

Because of James Cameron's involvement and its huge box - office gross, «Avatar» probably had these nominations in the bag before any Academy voter even saw the movie.

The Academy's membership demographics have changed more in the last four years than in the previous 20, and as a result, we know less about what voters will or won't do than we ever have.

The performances are that undeniable, and I think they will resonate strongly with the actors» branch, the biggest group of voters in the Academy.

In the first major act of rebellion at the autumn conference voters clearly rejected schools minister Sarah Teather's attempt to water down a motion stating that «conference is concerned by the establishment of academies and free schools under coalition government policy».

Older, sadder and wiser, they were there to demonstrate that they get voter concerns about petrol prices and school standards (Basildon's troubled academies are front page news in the Echo), manufacturing and help for remote regions (Essex?).

If 80 % of eligible voters have Internet access and 10 % of them are undecided, the search engine effect could convince an additional 25 % of those undecided to vote for a target candidate, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

If Boyhood captures this year's best picture trophy as widely expected, it will mark the second year in a row that Academy voters have opted for the year's best - reviewed film.

The theme of a reluctant gentile trying to save Jews from Hitler's minions should be appealing to Academy voters, who named Schindler's List the Best Picture of 1993, but may induce Holocaust fatigue in some viewers.

It's a slightly leftfield choice, but expect it to gain momentum — especially in a year when the Academy and Oscar voters are quite rightly looking to make amends for too often ignoring African - American stories and talent.

I have often felt like Anne tries to couch her opinions in terms of what the Academy's preferences are or what this monolith of voters would like, but it just seemed to stick out more this time.

In our conversation last month at the DGA Theater in front of a packed house of Academy and key guild voters, she discusses why she was attracted to taking on the movie, her first theatrical feature since 2003's MonsteIn our conversation last month at the DGA Theater in front of a packed house of Academy and key guild voters, she discusses why she was attracted to taking on the movie, her first theatrical feature since 2003's Monstein front of a packed house of Academy and key guild voters, she discusses why she was attracted to taking on the movie, her first theatrical feature since 2003's Monster.

With three best - picture Oscars in the last 10 years, out of 12 nominations, the specialty film label has outpaced far bigger rivals thanks to a consistently off - beat slate of independent releases that have clicked with audiences and academy voters.

Along with Fazal, BAFTA winner Adeel Akhtar was also in front of the packed house of Academy and key guild voters.

Expect Academy voters to lose their hearts to Luca Guadagnino's emotionally naked tale of first love set in northern Italy in the summer of 1983.

From Emily Blunt in «The Devil Wears Prada» to Robin Williams in «Mrs. Doubtfire,» we've rounded up the most underappreciated actors doing what Academy voters seem to fear: making us laugh.

Star Denzel Washington and writer - director Dan Gilroy joined me onstage at the DGA Theater in front of a packed crowd of Academy and key guild voters for a conversation about where Washington's unique character came from — a socially backward activist who really has never left the spirit... Read

A block of Academy voters seem to love stories set in the UK of the past, even if the past is recent.

«He always puts me in places I don't want to be,» Lachman told me during Deadline's The Contenders event this month in front of an SRO crowd of Academy and guild voters... Read

«He always puts me in places I don't want to be,» Lachman told me during Deadline's The Contenders event this month in front of an SRO crowd of Academy and guild voters at the DGA Theater.

By Sean O'Connell hollywoodnews.com: Best Actress nominee Glenn Close could be in for a big Oscar telecast IF there are a large number of Irish voters in the Academy.

In the past, certain actors racked up nomination after nomination simply off of goodwill from the Television Academy even though the average voter had never seen their show.

The event lasted all day in front of a packed, invitation - only audience of Television Academy voters and PGA, SAG - AFTRA, WGAW and DGA members.

Oscar campaigning is in full swing and Hugh Jackman is on the cover of Variety, a favourite read of Academy voters.

In doing so, the Academy subverts the one and only thing good thing the precursors can do: give Oscar voters the time to reconsider their options and / or to become better aware of movies they might have otherwise skipped.

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.»

The SAG does have some crossover with Oscar voters, but that union is so large that only a small slice of its voting bloc is in the Academy.

Academy voters for the 2016 Oscar nominations apparently «never let go» of their fondness for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, both nominated for their respective roles in Alejandro G. Iñárritu's The Revenant and Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs.

The only stick in the spokes could be Song of the Sea and The Tale of the Princess Kayuga but I'm willing to bet that both went too under - seen by Academy voters to be serious contenders.

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...

What a shame that Jessica Chastain's fiery turn in «Miss Julie» went unnoticed by Academy voters.

The balloting procedure is conducted honestly and reflects a collective opinion, which was demonstrated this year when the Academy voters had the curiosity to seek out Demian Bichir for best actor for his deeply convincing performance as a Mexican gardener in Los Angeles in «A Better Life.»

Gary Oldman says he spent more than 200 hours in a makeup chair over the course of making Darkest Hour — and that's the kind of dedication that resonates with Academy voters, particularly when the end result is this seamless.

I think Bullock is tremendous in «Gravity,» but academy voters will think of her performances as Sandra in outer space, so she's out.

We don't know how the Academy ranking is going to go but there is the possibility that a large number of voters will block vote for women to help women, to show the world that they care about women in the industry, to make up for Hillary's loss; for all of those reasons it's possible we could see wins, like we saw at the DGA in the television categories.

Because while one is accustomed to the mercurial whims of the Academy voters, the total exclusion of JC Chandor's period thriller seems nonsensical in the extreme.

Some veterans remain in the mix as well; Alexander Payne's Downsizing and George Clooney's Suburbicon both debuted to mixed reviews, but seem likely to play better with Academy voters who are already fans.

Easily the best list of Best Picture candidates the Academy has compiled in years, though we say that as if the blame for the dismal crops of years past falls in the laps of the voters and not that of the studios that make the movies in the first place.

For that matter, if academy voters took international cinema seriously, they might have spared a thought for Beya, a Congolese woman who had never acted on - screen before giving her mesmerizing performance in «Félicité» (shortlisted as Senegal's entry for the foreign - language film Oscar).

Since the film academy expanded the category in 2009, the only time the best picture category did not include a film by a DGA - nominated director was in 2011, when voters passed over David Fincher's «The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.»

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.

That, of course, means that it will be included in next year's Oscar race, testing the very limits of Academy voter's memories and securing its spot on various bloggers «Top 10 Oscar - Worthy Films That Didn't Come Out in The Same Two Months Every Other Oscar - Worthy Film Does» lists.

In a piece entitled «Unmasking Oscar», the paper discovered that Academy voters are 94 percent Caucasian and 77 percent male, while their average age is 62.

But with only one win between the two filmmakers (Scorsese's The Departed) in that stretch, their nominations likely speak more to the compulsory voting habits and pre-digested tastes of Academy voters than to the merits of either Nebraska or The Wolf of Wall Street.

In the years I've been watching the Oscar race I have never seen such a stark disconnect between Academy voters and the rest of the ticket buying public out there.

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