Sentences with phrase «argo wins»

Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades» worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture despite very conspicuously not being nominated for its director, not having even remotely close to the year's highest nomination tally (it trails behind four other films), and not having even a halfway plausible shot at winning more than two other categories aside from this one.

Mind you, if either Silver Linings or Argo wins Best Picture they will have to make Academy history to do so.

If Lincoln, Silver Linings, Zero Dark Thirty, Life of Pi, Beasts of the Southern Wild or Argo wins this year they will win one for the home team.

If Argo wins this award, it'll be a bigger travesty than if it wins Best Picture.

Then again, if Argo wins they get to see gorgeous George Clooney and equally gorgeous Ben Affleck take the stage.

Lady Bird winning is to me no better or worse than Argo winning.

(Ben Affleck's Argo won without a director nod in 2013, but that year was bananas.)

Can Argo win?

The only exception to that was the year Argo won Oscar, but wasn't eligible for FISA.

Last year, Argo won the top prize.

When Argo won best film, Ben said: «I want to thank my wife... for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases.

Not exact matches

Before The New Yorker, Nick was a senior editor at Wired, where he assigned and edited the feature story that was the basis for the Oscar - winning film Argo.

when Ben Affleck won the Academy Award for Argo, he publicly declared to his wife that «Marriage is work.»

For correctly guessing all six winners (Best Movie: «Argo,» Best Director: Ang Lee, Best Actor: Daniel Day - Lewis, Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz and Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway), she wins a $ 100 gift certificate to the Mattituck Cinemas, courtesy of Times / Review NewsGroup.

Congrats to Argo and Ben Affleck for winning Best Picture.

Does Argo deserve to win Best Picture?

And, in the same period, the lowest winning Metascore was Argo's 86.

Goodman known mostly for scene stealing bit parts in Oscar winning pictures like «Argo» or «The Artist» is the real star of the film.

Who will win: I have no idea but I'll say Robert De Niro for Silver Linings Playbook Who might win: Alan Arkin, Argo or Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln.

And, as Mark Harris pointed out last night on Twitter, even if Gerwig doesn't get a nomination, that perceived «snub» will propel her towards a win (the Argo effect).

Well, the Golden Globes have come and gone again - leaving Ben Affleck with the best director award for his film Argo, which also won best drama.

Argo's composer Alexandre Desplat has been nominated multiple times and has won the award once, so he can't be completely discarded but his chances are minimal.

Argo's best picture win topped off a successful night at the Academy Awards ® for movies originating on Kodak film.

We forget Affleck is an Oscar - winning screenwriter for Good Will Hunting and directed the Best - Picture winner in Argo.

Past OFCS Awards winners that went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture include «12 Years a Slave,» «Argo,» «The Hurt Locker,» «American Beauty,» and «No Country for Old Men.»

Past OFCS Awards winners that went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture include «Argo,» «The Hurt Locker,» «American Beauty,» and «No Country for Old Men.»

Argo is one of my absolute favorites of the year that I predict will win some Oscars, hopefully for Affleck in lead actor and director.

After the big weekend for Ben Affleck's Argo, winning...

The perverse trivia - mad side of me is actually hoping that Argo ONLY wins Best Picture because it would be such a fun statistic to obsess over and reference in future years, don't you think?

The recent indicators point to Argo, but it will have to defy history to win.

After months of speculation, tireless campaigning, and a lot of experts flip - flopping their picks, the film that seemed to be the frontrunner from the start won the top prize when «Argo» was named best picture at the 85th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night.

Then you get to Argo, which was written by Chris Terrio, which also won Best Picture and Screenplay.

Ironically, now there are those who think the Poor Ben Theory might swing the other way; he might be winning too much and it's time for the other camp — the one that says Come - On - «Argo» - Isn't - Really - That - Good - Let's - Take - It - Down - A-Peg — to kick in.

Apparently everyone thought that meant there was no way «Argo» could win best picture — until it went on to win top prizes at the Critic's Choice, Golden Globe, PGA, and SAG Awards.

«Argo» added another prize to it's list of wins, with screenwriter Chris Terrio sharing the 25th Annual USC Libraries Scripter Award with the two men responsible for the source material of his script: journalist Joshuah Bearman, who wrote the article «The Great Escape» for Wired Magazine, and Antonia J. Mendez, who penned the autobiography «The Master of Disguise.»

While not a huge surprise, considering the momentum of «Argo» as of late, the film faced stiff competition, most notably from «Lincoln,» which was adapted by Pulitzer Prize - winning writer Tony Kushner from the acclaimed book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Is it possible that maybe «Argo» was going to win all along?

Clea DuVall is an acclaimed actor whose credits over the past twenty years include the cult favorites But I'm a Cheerleader and The Faculty, Rodrigo Garcia's Passengers, David Fincher's Zodiac, and Ben Affleck's Oscar - winning Argo, as well as the TV shows Veep, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, Better Call Saul, American Horror Story, New Girl, The Newsroom, and Carnivàle.

Things are coming to a head at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards this Saturday night, where «Argo» will either continue it's dominance with Ben Affleck winning Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures or Steven Spielberg finally gaining some ground by winning for «Lincoln.»

In related news, the studio has brought in Oscar - winning writer Chris Terrio, who worked with star Ben Affleck on «Argo,» to pen a draft of the sequel.

Affleck's «Argo,» which he starred in and directed, won the Academy Award for best picture earlier this year.

Some think «Argo» winning is tied to Ben Affleck failing to land an Oscar nomination for directing; we examine this theory.

Affleck has never exactly been the most dynamic actor in my opinion, but in the other films he's both directed and starred in — The Town and the Oscar - winning Argo — he knew how to pace the action, build suspense and make you care about what happened.

Iroinically, «Amour» is expected to win best foreign film at the Oscars, with «Argo» predicted to win best picture.

Don't forget: Ben Affleck didn't even get a nomination for Best Director and Argo STILL won Best Picture.

«Argo» proved to be an awards juggernaut overseas, as well, winning best foreign film over such entires as Denmark's «A Royal Affair» and the Belgian drama «Bullhead.»

«Argo» Wins Best Drama, «Les Miserables» Wins Best Musical.

After winning an Oscar for Best Picture of 2012, Warner Brothers Studios has decided to re-release Argo to home video in a Declassified Extended Edition.

The collection includes «Live By Night» along with 2010's «The Town,» directed by Affleck and starring Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner and Blake Lively; 2012's «Argo,» which won three Academy Awards ® (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing) and was directed by Affleck and starred Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin and John Goodman; and 2016's «The Accountant» starring Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, and Jon Bernthal.

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri — 5 years, 23 before that (no Director nom)-- Argo The Shape of Water — 22 years (no SAG Cast nom)-- Braveheart Phantom Thread — 32 years (no major guild win)-- Out of Africa Lady Bird — 37 years (no below - the - line nominations)-- Ordinary People Call Me By Your Name — 84 years (fewer than five nominations)-- Cavalcade Get Out — 84 years (fewer than five nominations)-- Cavalcade Darkest Hour — 85 years (no directing or writing nominations)-- Grand Hotel Dunkirk — 85 years (no acting or writing nominations)-- Grand Hotel The Post — 85 years (no directing or writing nominations)-- Grand Hotel