That's because the studios wait until the Holiday Season to release their best films in theaters, given how
Academy voters tend to forget pictures and performances from earlier in the year.
«She just blew everyone away,» he said, «but
Academy voters tend to not go for comedy.»
Not exact matches
American History films
tend to sit well with
Academy voters (Lincoln, 12 Years A Slavery), so don't act too surprised if The Keeping Room ends up being an early Oscar candidate.
This year, these two slots could be taken up by Unbroken and American Sniper because inside the insular world of
Academy voters, with only five slots for nominating, and not the freedom of ten, they
tend to «vote with their heart.»
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.
one of the few things I've noticed about the
academy decisions is that
voters tend to reward young (and hot) actresses.
While I wouldn't go so far to suggest that connection is top of mind for most
Academy voters, I do wonder about its potential effect on a voting body that
tends to respond positively to films that ruminate or comment on the movies themselves, which this film does, in a roundabout way.
The 90 - odd members of the Globes - bestowing HFPA have always
tended to vary from the choices of the considerably larger pool of
Academy voters, whose ranks have swelled to nearly 7,500 this year with the addition of 1,457 new members, many of them women and people of colour.
They
tend to split their votes up more among many fine films than the
Academy voters do.
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.
Lily Gladstone, «Certain Women» (IFC Films)
Academy voters who
tend to fall for huge, flashy performances should study Gladstone's work in «Certain Women.»