Sentences with phrase «best director nomination»

One thing the BAFTAs also did was firm up Luca Guadagnino's potential Best Director nomination for Call Me By Your Name, which got a pretty decent boost from the British contingent.

While he'll still struggle to achieve the heights of stardom to which he once rose, landing a Best Picture, Best Actor, and, most shockingly, a Best Director nomination for his 2016 war drama is one of the most unexpected film stories of the decade.

As well as a best picture (drama) nod, the film also picked up five other nominations, including a best actress (drama) inclusion for McDormand, and a best director nomination for McDonagh.

So if you're going to pick a woman out of the crowded field of women this year for a Best Director nomination — only the 5th in their 90 year history — the best bet is to go with Gerwig.

Dunkirk Teaser Here's the very quick new tease for Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk which seems certain to net him that Best Director nomination that's eluded him so long if it's any good at all, it being a WW II movie and him being «overdue» and such.

Elsewhere, Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird also did well (despite Gerwig herself losing out on a Best Director nomination in a male - centric category), as Saoirse Ronan won Best Actress, Musical Or Comedy, and the film took home the trophy in its category.

But with a preferential ballot and last year's decision to render the necessity for a Best Director nomination obsolete it's anyone's game.

If Eddie Redmayne receives a Best Actor nomination for The Danish Girl with his «performance» in Jupiter Ascending sandwiched between two Academy recognized roles, it will perhaps be amongst the most baffling cases of cognitive dissonance in some time (almost as baffling, it seems, as Tom McCarthy receiving a Best Director nomination the year he released The Cobbler, but that is for another time).

While it didn't garner a Best Picture nomination or best director nomination for Paul Thomas Anderson, the film's acting ensemble earned three nods total, with Joaquin Phoenix earning a nomination for Best Actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman getting one for Best Supporting Actor, and Amy Adams snagging a nod for Best Supporting Actress.

What The Imitation Game, distributed by The Weinstein Company, won't get is a best director nomination, which might just lose it the best picture game.

Behn Zeitlin famously surprised as a Best Director nomination for «Beasts of the Southern Wild.»

Though the latter came away empty - handed at Cannes, Haneke has had great success with the Academy (including a Best Director nomination) and can not be counted out.

The thing is that only two of those have a corresponding Best Director nomination.

And it's historic,» Dern told Gerwig of her best director nomination — the fifth woman in academy history to be so recognized.

First it was Lincoln, next it was Zero Dark Thirty, then no — it was neither of those because the one people liked the most was given an extra 11th - hour boost by the infamous «Ben Affleck snub» when he failed to receive a Best director nomination.

Spotlight has no Best Director nomination at the BAFTAs.

The first year of the new millennium was conquered by «Gladiator,» but will perhaps be better remembered for Steven Soderbergh's near - unprecedented double Best Director nomination and the record - breaking 10 nods nabbed by «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,» the most ever for a foreign film.

Juno also was certainly a nicely nominated flick, so by now Reitman is a proven favorite of the Academy, especially considering his Best Director nomination for Juno.

#OscarsNotSoWhite Jordan Peele is only the fifth African - American filmmaker to pick up a Best Director nomination for his none - more - zeitgeisty horror «Get Out».

Braveheart picked up late steam after Ron Howard failed to get a Best Director nomination.

The having no Best Director nomination at the Oscars stat Last known failure: 2012 — Ben Affleck and Argo.

Best Supporting Actor win, Best Actor Win, Best Screenplay nomination, Best Director nomination.

Director Ava DuVernay may have been snubbed for a Best Director nomination two years ago, but she was duly recognized this year for helming Netflix's searing documentary about mass incarceration of black people in the United States.

Despite Best Picture wins for movies like Hitchcock's psychologically spooky Rebecca and Jonathan Demme's suspenseful classic The Silence of the Lambs, as well as the Best Director nomination awarded to The Sixth Sense's M. Night Shyamalan, it's safe to say that genre movies just can't catch a break with this awards body.

Peele's nomination is also noteworthy, with him becoming just the fifth African - American to score a best director nomination, a field that also includes John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood), Lee Daniels (Precious), Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) and Barry Jenkins (Moonlight).

While Denis Villeneuve missed out on a best director nomination for Blade Runner 2049, the film did pick up a number of nods in other categories.

And in terms of historical stats, it won big with SAG and BAFTA... but wait, it didn't even get a Best Director nomination, so it can't win Best Picture, can it?

It's also the first of the director's movies to land him a Best Director nomination, and may be the most broadly appealing of his films so far.

Don't get me wrong, its a damn shame that Miguel Arteta who directed Beatriz at Dinner was technically eligible for a Best Director nomination this year but did not get the campaign needed to make it happen.

We all * knew * that Essie Davis would be nominated for The Babadook, Gugu Mbatha - Raw would be nominated for Beyond the Lights, and Ava DuVernay would pick up a Best Director nomination for Selma... but even when we know it's going to happen, it's still intensely gratifying to see justice served and to see the Academy make their choices with the deep wisdom and sophisticated taste that we've come to expect from them year in and year out.

This year's list included seven actors of color, three African American writers (including the late August Wilson, who wrote the screenplay for Fences), and a Best Director nomination for Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), who becomes only the fourth black director nominated in the Oscars» history after John Singleton, Lee Daniels, and Steve McQueen.

Third, Three Billboards was not eligible for the WGA — got hit with a pretty rough controversy or backlash — then missed a Best Director nomination at the Oscars.

Other than Martin McDonagh not getting a Best Director nomination, it's the stats champ — has been and still is.

Steven Spielberg was famously so certain that he was going to get a Best Director nomination that he had a film crew on hand recording the announcement.

Nolan will finally land the Best Director nomination, and the picture could win multiple awards through the crafts as well as Best Picture.

Four years later, Alfred Hitchcock — already a four - time nominee who was responsible for Best Picture - winner Rebecca — released Psycho, which earned him his fifth and final Best Director nomination, as well as three other nods, including one for Best Supporting Actress for Janet Leigh.

(Memorably, Spielberg hired a camera crew to record his live reaction when he received his presumed Best Director nomination... which didn't happen, much to his chagrin.)

And while Hooper didn't make the Best Director Oscar cut for Les Miserables, he did land a DGA nomination for that film — a film for which his direction is largely responsible for its shortcomings — so it's probably wise to count him among those vying for a Best Director nomination.

I also think that it's a writer's movie, not a director's movie, so the fact that it doesn't have a Best Director nomination doesn't scare me from predicting.

Ridley Scott earned a Best Director nomination for The Martian, joining Miller, Haynes, Iñarritu, and Villeneuve in that category.

Ava DuVernay is the first African - American woman to get a best director nomination, and its lead, also up for best actor, is another Brit: Spooks star David Oyelowo.

There is no question that Denis Villeneuve has been on a roll of late enjoying great success with movies like his Oscar - nominated foreign - language film Incendies, Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival and now Blade Runner 2049, which is earning buzz for a second consecutive Oscar Best Director nomination following last year's Arrival.

It's no secret that Lee labored over this one for many years, and the Academy is likely to recognize his magnificent accomplishment with at least a Best Director nomination.

Argo, Ben Affleck's third feature film, is looking more and more like a lock for the Best Picture prize at Sunday's Oscars, and even if the man himself didn't get a Best Director nomination, it's still a remarkable culmination of one of the most fascinating second acts in Hollywood.

Selma at least has a best picture nomination, but no best director nomination for Ava DuVernay.

Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel) picked up his first - ever Best Director nomination.

With countless snubs under his belt from the prestigious Academy Awards, Christopher Nolan may have found his ticket to his first Best Director nomination.

Lady Bird and The Post were this year's unlucky movies, but the fact Greta Gerwig scored a Best Director nomination speaks volumes for her, so she should be comforted by that.

This marks his 2nd Best Director nomination (the first was for Capote).

(Kudos to the Academy for recognizing Schnabel's brilliance with a Best Director nomination.)