Sentences with phrase «actress contenders»

Not only has it been 40 years since all five Best Actress contenders starred in Best Picture contenders, but it gets even worse with the expanded ballot.

More likely, four films will get in at the most, tying the record already set in 2012 when four Best Actress contenders were featured in films nominated for Best Picture.

[The Carpetbagger] • Tom O'Neil talks to Best Supporting Actress contender Penelope Cruz.

Meryl Streep will be run in Supporting, not lead, while Emily Blunt will be the lead actress contender for Into the Woods, a rep from Disney confirmed.

• Nathaniel Rogers picks his personal favorite supporting actress contenders so far.

Here's how I imagine it will unfold: Adams will make herself available for your consideration as a Best Actress contender for Arrival.

Bulking out the Weinsteins» Brit pack is Richard Ayoade's minor coming - of - age comedy «Submarine» and Ralph Fiennes's «Coriolanus,» which I maintain has a formidable Supporting Actress contender in Vanessa Redgrave — but little else.

And once they were on a roll with Times film writers Amy Kaufman and Mark Olsen, supporting actress contenders Hong Chau (Alexander Payne's «Downsizing»), Holly Hunter (Michael Showalter's «The Big Sick»), Allison Janney (Craig Gillespie's «I, Tonya»), Nicole Kidman (Sofia Coppola's «The Beguiled»), Laurie Metcalf (Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird») and Michelle Pfeiffer (Darren Aronofsky's «mother!»)

Your correspondent spotted best actress contenders Amy Adams and Emma Stone, Best Actor nominee Andrew Garfield, and Damien Chazelle, the La La Land writer and director whose film is up for a record 11 nominations.

The Academy has made strides in the last two years to increase its female membership, and the list of potential nominees features a number of best - picture and best - actress contenders with significant overlap.

Index (42 minutes) Longform discussion of this year's supporting actress contenders Nicole Kidman, Viola Davis, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Octavia Spencer, their futures, their films.

My own list of names for Supporting Actress contenders not listed above takes into consideration how certain contenders might be put in supporting either because the lead category is too crowded or they would rather win in the lesser category than be nominated and lose in the top tier.

Once you go back before the Academy expanded the Best Picture ballot, you see fewer supporting actress contenders linked to a Best Picture nominee or winner:

Best actress contender Portman, «Casino» star Stone will receive prizes on November 9 in Beverly Hills

We've been down this road before, with two best actresses contenders from France out of Cannes.

Lead actress contenders Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Meryl Streep and Sally Hawkins, clockwise starting left, embrace after Frances McDormand's win at the 90th Academy Awards.

Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara look like the strongest Best Actress contenders at this point — they may well share the honor, if the jury doesn't want to give Carol another major prize.

Best Actress contenders get there because of popularity, likability of star and character, great publicists, how much they «work the line,» and, not to put too fine a point on it, f*ck ability.

For Adams, this is incredibly beneficial — it would keep her out of direct competition with herself in Paramount «s Arrival as well as from fellow studio Best Actress contender Ruth Negga (Loving).

Also, as much as voters like their Best Actress contenders young, they often do like to know them a bit better than they know Winstead so far.

For all his personal dislike of the film, Wells can see the skill involved in the whole endeavour, and is quick to credit the achievement of Best Actress contender Sally Hawkins:

Likewise, the much - lauded Paddington 2 delighted audiences in North America as much as it has overseas, and Steven Spielberg's The Post entered wide release just in time to land Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress contender Meryl Streep.

Even for a movie year like 2017, in which a kickass assembly of Best Actress contenders seems assured, plenty of the potential nominees fall into predictable categories: the performers playing real - life «characters» (Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding); the brilliant ingénue (Saoirse Ronan as a conflicted teenager); the physical challenge (Sally Hawkins as a mute); Meryl Streep (this year also playing a real - life figure, Katherine Graham).

Starring Jason Mitchell, Garrett Hedlund, and serious supporting - actress contender Mary J. Blige, the Netflix drama has already picked up a Gotham Award and an Independent Spirit Award, two bellwethers for continued success in the statuette department.

It wasn't by coincidence that the three photos decorating the season's introductory installment of this column two weeks ago represented lead actress contenders in the 2010 Oscar race.

Of the Best Actress contenders so far this year, only Viola Davis stars in what will likely be a Best Picture nominee in a whole sea of films starring white men.

This news bodes well for «Three Billboards,» which also has a Best Actress contender in Francis McDormand and an Original Screenplay candidate in McDonagh.

And once they were on a roll with Times film writers Amy Kaufman and Mark Olsen, supporting actress contenders Hong Chau (Alexander Payne's...

A hit at the box office ($ 153 million worldwide) was Denis Villeneuve's brainy sci - fi thriller «Arrival» (Paramount), starring Telluride tributee and Best Actress contender Amy Adams, who did not land a Best Actress nod.

20th Century Fox Fox has best picture and actress contenders with «The Post» and Meryl Streep, respectively, but perhaps its best chance at a win lies in original song.

This year's Envelope Roundtable of supporting actress contenders was no exception.

Right now, Fox Searchlight is the only studio without a Best Actress contender so it's possible they'll pick one of these up.

Streep and Theron are only two strangely complex, not entirely likable Best Actress contenders.

Other best actress contenders are Maggie Smith for The Lady in the Van, Cate Blanchett for Carol and Saoirse Ronan for Brooklyn.

For those curious about the film's awards season prospects, Witherspoon clearly moves to the front of the pack of Best Actress contenders.

In a crowded field of best actress contenders, Bria Vinaite deserved to be nominated at this Sunday's Academy Awards.

Now let's look at our slate of Best Actress contenders, starting with the frontrunners.

Fewer are among the ranks of possible Best Actress contenders, however.

The reviews for Black Swan have me wondering whether or not Natalie Portman can become the leading Best Actress contender.

Scott Thomas» performance, rich but brief compared with those of this awards season's top supporting - actress contenders, did not get a nomination.

The unstoppable Amy Adams — the Academy loooooves Amy Adams — seems a prime Best Actress contender, while Denis Villeneuve has a good chance at Best Director.

This should be a «Thelma and Louise» deal with a pair of Best Actress contenders.

But of all the Supporting Actress contenders I've seen, Tomei remains my favourite.

Moore is a possible Supporting Actress contender and the film could find itself in Golden Globe consideration.

Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) * Could go Supporting — Currently I have Pike as a Supporting Actress contender, but I've heard that she'll at least initially be going Lead, so here she is.