It's Spielberg's best and truest action film since Jaws, relentlessly paced, pitch - perfectly acted (the young Fanning is almost certain to get a Best Supporting
Actress nod come Oscar time), and rife with moments of such horrifically poetic imagery that it's all you can do not to stop thinking about them long after the film has ended.
Not exact matches
A number of organized labor groups have lined up to provide early endorsements to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he seeks a third term this fall and faces a new primary challenge from
actress Cynthia Nixon, with the latest
nod coming from the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1500, New York's largest supermarket workers union.
Denzel Washington's adaptation of Fences
came made off with a Best Picture
nod and a handful of major nominations, with Washington doing double duty as Best Director and Best Actor; his costar Viola Davis takes one step closer to bringing home a Supporting
Actress statuette.
Among the names I'm particularly glad to see on the list are «The Illusionist» animator Sylvain Chomet (seven years after his first
nod), offbeat directors Gregg Araki and John Cameron Mitchell and «Another Year»
actress Lesley Manville — whose inclusion should come as some consolation for the missing Best Actress nomination many felt she deserved thi
actress Lesley Manville — whose inclusion should
come as some consolation for the missing Best
Actress nomination many felt she deserved thi
Actress nomination many felt she deserved this year.
Most of the expected contenders
came away with something to show from the nominations, including the scientific space adventure «The Martian» (including
nods for star Matt Damon and director Ridley Scott), David O. Russell's matriarch portrait «Joy» (best picture, comedy and best
actress Jennifer Lawrence).
I pointed out yesterday that Fox Searchlight is operating on a different plane when it
comes to turning out the vote for its movies, and alongside the aforementioned surprise little hit of the final quarter of 2007 ($ 85 million and counting), further evidence arrives in the form of Tamara Jenkins» The Savages, which, despite not (yet) having connected at the box office (it's made only $ 3.6 million in a month and a half of release), garnered an expected Best Original Screenplay nomination, but also a Best
Actress nod for Laura Linney, probably
coming at the expense of Angelina Jolie and A Mighty Heart.
Brendan Gleeson is an pleasant surprise in the Best Supporting Actor category, and while I anticipated Brad Pitt's appearance in that field for «Burn After Reading,» Tilda Swinton's Supporting
Actress nod for the same film is the kind of out - of - nowhere hometown favoritism that only BAFTA can
come up with.
However, when it
came time to nominate for the Academy Awards, enthusiasm had somehow died, and the film earned only five nominations, largely in lower - profile categories (the exception being Winona Ryder's
nod for Supporting
Actress).