Sentences with phrase «actress film category»

Ilich Mejia: The Supporting Actress film category left out both Pfeiffer and Kidman and I only broke five of my wine glasses.

Not exact matches

The ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, honors the best films of 2016 in 24 categories, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.

Adonaijah Owiriwa and Izu Ojukwu's movie, «76» a 2016 Nigerian historical fiction drama film which stars Ramsey Nouah, Chidi Mokeme, Rita Dominic and Ibinabo Fiberesima, won in five categories, which includes, Best Actress in Drama / TV / Movies (Rita Dominic), Best Director (Izu Ojukwu), Best Art Director (Pat Nebo), Best Costume Designer (Pat Egwurube).

Emma Stone could also make a play in Best Supporting Actress, and the tech categories will all be there for the film to make its play for.

Voting is open until December 12 at 11:59 p.m. Categories include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, Best Documentary, Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, Best Musical Score, and the Russell Smith Award (for best low - budget or cutting - edge independent film).

The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

French love story «Blue Is the Warmest Color» won in all categories it was nominated for, including foreign language film and young actor / actress for the film's lead, Adele Exarchopoulos.

Notable examples of people of color representation in the nominations pool come in the documentary category where the black male director of «Strong Island,» Yance Ford, is the first openly trans person to have a film nominated, and in foreign - language film where «A Fantastic Woman,» starring Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega, is a possible winner.

This year, she's nominated in the lead actress category for her portrayal of a bereaved mother in director and screenwriter Martin McDonagh's best picture - nominated film.

Best Actress: It's been making the rounds on the internet in recent weeks the fact that the films that annually contend for the Best Actress Oscar are almost never winners, or even nominees in any other categories.

Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer — Second time both actresses have been nominated in same year but first time in same category for different films.

But chances are slim that it can truly impact the Oscar chances for the film, which has three nominations: Best Actress for Blanchett, Best Supporting Actress for Sally Hawkins and Best Original Screenplay for Allen, his record - breaking 18th nomination in the category.

Expect the daring Helen Hunt — who won Best Actress for As Good as It Gets, another film in which she appeared nude — and Academy favorite Amy Adams — who's been nominated in the category three times in the last seven years — to appear alongside Hathaway and Field on the ballot.

There is some talk of Kate Winslet potentially splitting her own vote in this category, but given the far higher profile that «The Reader» enjoys on this island, I sense that the actress's fans will converge on her nomination for that film.

The film also won in the categories for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actress in a Supporting Role, which went to Hollywood darling Lupita Nyong» o.

There were three big hitters in the Golden Globes» comedy film categories — Get Out, Lady Bird, and I, Tonya — and Lady Bird ended up walking away with the top prize, winning Best Motion Picture: Comedy or Musical, along with Best Actress in a Motion Picture: Comedy or Musical for its star Saoirse Ronan.

The Australian actress made a point of thanking every other person who was also nominated in her category, and took the opportunity to insist that films with a strong female cast make money.

The other films nominated in the category at the 64th Golden Globe Awards were The Departed, The Queen (for which Helen Mirren won Best Actress — as well as the Academy Award), Bobby and Little Children.

Why a person is nominated for a supporting actor or actress Oscar often has a lot to do with riding coattails, which probably explains why it takes so long for awards prognosticators to pin down the nominees in these two categories: It's all about waiting to see which films catch fire at the box office — or on the blogosphere, where most Oscar campaigns seem to be launched nowadays.

How, for instance, do you have 6 nominees for most categories but only 4 for Best Actress in an Action picture and only nominate supporting actresses for that prize and leave out two leading women who really carried their films with aplomb: Mary Elizabeth Winstead in 10 Cloverfield Lane and Blake Lively in The Shallows.

Nominee: Actress Ellen Page and Actor Michael Cera are shown in a scene from the film «Juno,» which was nominated in the best picture category of the Academy Awards.

Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and actor John Krasinski («The Office») follow at 8:38 ET to reveal these categories: actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, directing, editing, foreign language film, original score, picture, production design, visual effects, adapted screenplay and original screenplay.

While its Oscar prospects at the moment still seem remote and to concentrate on leading actress Adèle Exarchopoulos and perhaps the screenplay, Sundance Selects hopes that good word of mouth from the festivals will propel the film from a remote hopeful to a surprise nominee in several categories.

But if they don't — if any of these powerful movies about women get snubbed for best picture, or the women that anchor them get left out of the best - actress race in favor of films that won't make a dent in any other category (I see you, Victoria & Abdul)-- it might be time for a serious intervention.

UPDATE: 2:49 pm Eastern Time — Jessica Chastain was originally listed in the Best Actress in a Leading Role category for «The Death & Life of John F. Donovan» but director Xavier Dolan announced that her role was cut from the film.

It was certainly the most anticipated category for Irish film buffs, but sadly Saoirse lost out to Frances McDormand for Best Actress.

Carol brings up another key issue in the best - actress predicament: category fraud, the term for what happens when a performer in a lead role campaigns for a supporting Oscar (often at the insistence of the film's marketing team), theoretically increasing their chances of ultimately winning a statuette.

The film's star Keisha Castle - Hughes landed an Academy Award nomination for Best Lead Actress, becoming what was then the youngest nominee ever in the category.

Dame Judi Dench has been nominated in the Best Actress category ahead of this year's Academy Awards for her lead role in the British film Philomena,...

Three of the film's four Oscar nominations came in technical categories: costume design, art direction, and song; the fourth was for Penélope Cruz, earning a chance to repeat her previous Supporting Actress win.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS I don't know why I'm resisting the very alluring pull of Penelope Cruz in this category — it's certainly a terrific performance in a terrific and undervalued (by the Academy, at least) film — but the voices in my head have been telling me «no» all season.

Prior to their Oscar wins in respective categories, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.

There's a neat parallel between this and the comedy - actress category, with the competition essentially coming down to two films and two sets of squabbling cinematic mothers and daughters.

In the last two years, wins in key categories at the Indie Spirits have also synced with the Oscars: At the 2014 ceremony, 12 Years a Slave took best feature, Matthew McConaughey took best actor for Dallas Buyers Club, Cate Blanchett won best actress for Blue Jasmine, Jared Leto took the best supporting actor trophy for Dallas Buyers Club, Lupita Nyong» o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave as well as the film's screenwriter John Ridley for best screenplay.

But though the Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated the film in six categories — Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score — it lost in all of them, to three different films.

Other winners in the film categories were Lady Bird for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical); Guillermo del Toro for Best Director for The Shape of Water; Gary Oldman for Best Actor (Drama) for Darkest Hour; Saoirse Ronan for Best Actress (Comedy or Musical) for Lady Bird; James Franco for Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) for The Disaster Artist; Allison Janney for Best Supporting Actress for I, Tonya; In the Fade for Best Foreign Feature; Coco for Best Animated Feature; Alexandre Desplat for Best Original Score for The Shape of Water; and «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman for Best Original Song.

I hope that Daniela Vega is one of the few actresses from a foreign film to cross over into the acting category with success.

While the film did manage to win Best Picture and Best Actress in the Comedy / Musical categories at the Golden Globes, the film failed to receive a Best Director nod there, and also failed to get Best Film and Best Director nods at the BAFTA Awards.

Among other accolades, the film has been nominated for three Critics Choice Awards in recognition of Jacob Tremblay (Room) in the Best Young Actor / Actress category, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Hair and Makeup.

But the film's momentum was hurt on Monday, when the Globes omitted it from all categories, including best picture, best director and best actress for Gal Gadot.

So once again, I have created my imaginary awards nominations in the following categories: best film, best director, best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best documentary and best screenplay.

The film's distributor, A24, is campaigning for Larson as best lead actress, but it's promoting Tremblay as a supporting actor — a decision that's given rise to accusations of «category fraud» — when a lead performance is nominated as a supporting one to boost its chances.

It was bypassed by the main groups in New York and L.A., but it won in Boston and among the New York online critics — and so far in the best picture, best director, best actor and best supporting actress categories, it has won more awards than any other film.

A potential win in this category with precedent is Cate Blanchett's «Bob Dylan» from Todd Haynes's I'm Not There, but that precedent is Cate Blanchett's Katharine Hepburn from Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, and though pundits are right to wonder if the Academy will want to give this fussy actress a second Oscar so soon after her last one, Blanchett may lose for representing a film that comes on intellectually strong and is possibly more obnoxious than American Gangster.

Rooney Mara gave my favorite female performance of the year, and she probably has the most raw screen time of any of the actresses in this category (being the absolute lead of the film will do that for you).

THE 88th ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS The Complete List of Winners... and some commentary BEST PICTURE Spotlight BEST DIRECTOR Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant BEST ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant BEST ACTRESS Brie Larson, Room BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy, Spotlight BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, The Big Short BEST EDITING Margaret Sixel, Mad Max Fury Road BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Son of Saul, Hungary BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Emmanuel «Chivo» Lubezki, The Revenant First to win three back to back Oscars in this category.

On a night where Ronan won Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, and her film won Best Picture, Musical or Comedy, Gerwig was not listed as one of the directing category's five (all - male) nominees.

Timing is everything, and The Birth of a Nation was simply eclipsed by four much better films about African - American families: the Oscar - nominated films Fences, Hidden Figures & Moonlight, as well as Loving (nominated in the Best Actress category).

Besides a win for her screenplay, Campion's leading lady Holly Hunter and her 11 - year - old discovery, Anna Paquin, were rewarded in the actress categories for the same film — a situation that has happened just 10 times.

The British actress's rivals in the prestigious category included Cate Blanchett for the Bob Dylan film I'm Not There, and 13 - year - old Irish star Saoirse Ronan for Atonement.