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In the past, both moviegoers and Oscars voters have proven willing to separate art from troubled artists in the past, handing nominations and awards to stars such as Woody Allen and Roman Polanski.
Betts had one of the better defensive seasons in recent memory, according to advanced stats, and he should get a boost from the voters who prefer to think of the award as the Most Valuable Player on a Contending Team.
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The claim that he lied to voters and made a U-turn on a pledge to write off student debts is about as honest as a centre forward diving in the penalty area to con a referee into awarding a spot kick.
While Nixon has strong political connections and name recognition in the city that was the backdrop for her Emmy Award - winning role as lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the HBO comedy «Sex and the City,» her star power among upstate voters is less certain.
He made some good points but he also suggested that voters could have two boxes on their ballot papers at election time - one to vote as normal but another to award, if they chose, say # 3 in annual funding to that same party.
The HFPA voters — a relatively small group as far as major awards bodies go — typically make some oddball selections, and while not all of their film choices were favorites among the film critic community, the voters seemed to avoid any laughably bad selections this year.
Her has emerged as a surprise front - runner in the awards race with voters falling for Spike Jonze's tender love story between a lonely writer (Joaquin Phoenix) and a Siri - like computer operating system (Scarlett Johansson)
HBO's freshman comedy «Veep» received mixed reviews, but Emmy voters loved veteran actress Julia Louis - Dreyfus, who won the best comedy actress award for her turn as a caustic U.S. vice president.
A more conservative scenario will have voters choosing Lincoln for both awards; this is likely as these awards are rarely divided between two films.
How many voters in his corner could seriously argue their vote as anything other than an award for career achievement over the quality of his specific performance in Darkest Hour?
Jolie and her co-writer Loung Ung visited last month's 7th annual Deadline's The Contenders all - day awards - season event at the DGA Theater to talk about their film (as part of Netflix's presentation) to a packed house of AMPAS and key guild voters.
Though director Wes Anderson's offbeat movies such as «Royal Tenenbaums» and «Moonrise Kingdom» have never gotten awards love from the guild, this year SAG voters reversed the trend, bestowing «The Grand Budapest Hotel» with a best ensemble nod — perhaps not surprising given the movie's deep roster of talent, including Ralph Fiennes, Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody, Jude Law, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Tilda Swinton and Owen Wilson.
But as they told a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild voters at Deadline's 7th annual The Contenders awards - season event last... Read
On the one hand, it's a fool's errand trying to predict the BAFTA nods, as they can frequently be the most perverse and contrarian awards voters of the lot.
Whether it's adherence to Ms. Barber's facts (whose faithfully - told story can be read here) or an overreliance on period nostalgia (which surprisingly keeps pop culture out of sight), something about this didn't resonate for me quite as it did for many viewers and award voters.
La La Land made history at the 74th Golden Globe Awards, winning in all categories it was nominated in - a record seven trophies, including Best Picture - Comedy / Musical, cementing it's frontrunner status for Best Picture as Academy voters...
It, in part, explains why Patricia Arquette is widely considered to be the frontrunner for her award, but her hirsute Boyhood counterpart Ethan Hawke is at best running a fairly distant second or third for turning in equally nuanced work as an only part - time functional father figure — and why Oscar voters gave Robert Duvall's far more flamboyantly flawed, piss - n» - vinegar patriarch a free pass to just be happy for the nomination once again.
As voters from the major organizations begin to cast their votes — the New York Film Critics Circle, whose awards will be announced Thursday, SAG, and so on — they should not forget the joy, verve, and comedic skill that Haddish brought to Girls Trip and help build momentum for an Oscar campaign.
I have no doubt that there were several # 1 votes by Academy voters during the nomination process, but so many other movies were more beloved that year that, as a seasoned awards watcher, to complain about The Passion not being nominated is pretty ridiculous.
If not: «The Light That Never Fails» from Meru Lowdown: Going out on a limb here that the Academy music branch can't say no to the great track from The Weeknd just like they couldn't as Grammy award voters.
But what about those movies deserving of awards that open during the summer, which may as well be a decade ago to some Academy voters?
Peter O'Toole seems to have the best shot at stealing the award as a dark horse candidate, but only because he's friends with many of the voters.
Moonlight was indeed the voter's choice, but as La La Land stormed through other awards — the pair were given the wrong card, and Dunaway went guns - blazin» and cocked it all up.
So please, voters, resist the urge to hand Damien Chazelle this particular award and go instead with the flavorful dialogue and novelistic texture of Hell Or High Water; the rich characterizations of 20th Century Women; the world - building and deadpan hilarity of The Lobster; or the all - of - the - above of Manchester By The Sea, which confirms Lonergan as one of the great dramatists working in movies today.
If Ratatouille still retains a viable contender as a spoiler, it's not because audiences continue to drink whatever Pixar puts in the Kool - Aid that gets, as Laurie Anderson would say, «ah - dults» hailing each of their new movies as the studio's everlasting masterpiece of classic filmmaking (making it simply a matter of time before one of them actually wins an award outside the best animated feature playpen), but rather because its presence in this category might remind voters that one or two of the striking writers aren't just trying to feed their own mouths.
You'd think a proven, previously - awarded commodity bearing the full weight of a ginormous one - woman show, weaving in and out of hangovers and maternal instincts for well over two hours, would delight both the Oscar voters who slipped Gena Rowlands into the 1980 lineup for Gloria (to which director Erick Zonca's gutsy melodrama is obviously indebted) as well as the voters who have actually seen a film by Derek Jarman.
Since one of the most enjoyable parts of any Oscar season is the healthy debate these awards provoke, The Times» film critics and reporters offer up their personal favorites among the academy's chosen best pictures, as well as picks for the voters» biggest oversight.
Oscar voters are also notoriously easy marks for war films as well so don't be shocked if this starts getting year - end award consideration buzz
And yet, I realized, as a new voting member of the Online Film Critics Society, that every awards voter and every writer compelled to produce a Best of 2011 list is doing just that, comparing different creations against each other and ranking accordingly.
(Washington, DC, February 22, 2018) The satirical tale of one man's encounter to meet his girlfriend's family captured the imagination of filmgoers having the identical effect on voters as Jordan Peele's horror film, Get Out, towered over the competition garnering seven awards, including Outstanding Picture at the 18th Annual Black Reel Awards toawards, including Outstanding Picture at the 18th Annual Black Reel Awards toAwards tonight.
Although the film has not screened for critics or awards voters yet, she is already receiving Oscar buzz for her supporting role as Fantine — a part her mother understudied in the long - running stage show's first national tour.
Certainly one of the most acclaimed, as well as harrowing movies on display at our big 5th annual awards season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline (which took place in front of a packed DGA house full of AMPAS and Guild voters earlier this month) was Son Of Saul, Hungary's official entry into the Best Foreign Language Film race.
The last time the critics» awards converged on one film to such an extent was in 1997, when they rallied behind «LA Confidential» as the discerning voter's alternative to «Titanic» — it didn't work that time, of course, but let it never be said that critics aren't as collectively calculating as the savviest Hollywood publicists.
As the Academy Awards draws nearer, this issue, currently making its way to voters» mailboxes, aims to bring readers into that bubble as welAs the Academy Awards draws nearer, this issue, currently making its way to voters» mailboxes, aims to bring readers into that bubble as welas well.
While the Globes do not share any of the same voters as the Oscars, they are often seen as precursors due to the awards being televised, giving stars a good chance to practice their potential Oscar speech.
Only 15 % of participants who identified as Republican voters said they felt the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had made the right choice for the annual awards ceremony's top prize.
Looking at it from an awards standpoint, it's an instant Oscar contender and should find its admirers from voters of all generations, as well as general audiences.
One dispiriting theory as to why Three Billboards has done so well with audiences, critics, and award voters is that it entertains the comforting thought that there could be hidden decency in the deplorable — be they racist cops, marching white supremacists, or just the asshole relative you argue with on Facebook.
The next year, David Fincher's «The Social Network» had an even more impressive, and nearly unanimous, run through the critics» awards — and while that may have helped establish it as the alternative to «The King's Speech,» it wasn't enough to persuade Academy and guild voters to forsake that crowd - pleaser for something chillier, more artful and more appealing to critics.
Harvey Weinstein has never been one to put much faith in the length of Academy voters» memories, so as usual, he's favoring a late - year release plan for his presumed awards contenders — the prospects of which I was discussing only the other day.
The Canadian actress has won fervent critical acclaim for her chameleonic performance as a group of wildly different clones, as well as smaller prizes such as the Critics» Choice Television Award, but has yet to earn recognition from the famously habit - prone voters of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
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One exception may be Brooks, whose unexpected turn as a vicious kingpin offers a chance for voters to make up for the award they should have given him for Broadcast News.
It's also having a bit of a moment this season as two of the most beloved films of the year, «Three Billboards» and Jordan Peele's «Get Out,» wield dark humor with aplomb as both audiences (and awards voters) are eating it right up.
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.
We're going with Mary J. Blige, who has become a standout in her first awards season as a representative of her daring film Mudbound; Octavia Spencer, a former winner who is both well - liked and part of a film industry voters seem to love; and Holly Hunter, perhaps the biggest underdog in this category, but a four - time nominee who proved with her surprise nomination for Thirteen in 2004 that, when Oscar voters are given the chance to notice her, they'll take it.
First, James Franco saw his runaway train of an awards season derail when assault allegations arose just as Oscar voters were turning in their ballots.
As a voter in the awards and talking with other journalists at the event, it was clear Nissan's efforts to get the Titan to the event and the truck itself both factored into the voting.