Sentences with phrase «best picture categories»

It was to cure the problem of so many genre movies with so few Best Picture categories.

Last year, my former colleague Joe Reid noted that the Best Actress and Best Picture categories rarely coincide.

There were enough movie musicals that year for the Golden Globes to have separate Comedy and Musical Best Picture categories.

While Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» snagged nominations in the Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Picture categories, the director herself was shut out.

Her costar Joel Edgerton and director Jeff Nichols both got the heave - ho, and the movie was outright ignored in the Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture categories.

Since the HFPA has two best picture categories — Best Motion Picture, Drama, and Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy — it's unlikely to break any of the deadlock between Moonlight and La La Land.

The Silence of the Lambs opened up the Best Picture categories genre requirements, Miramax established itself as a major player on the indie scene with Best Picture squarely in its sights, and Steven Spielberg went from being official Oscar bridesmaid to one of its all - time favorites.

Considering Lee's pedigree, he has to be in with a shot at Best Director again, although keep an eye on this one in the screenplay and Best Picture categories.

Oscar season is only just beginning, but already the movie isn't being treated like a serious contender, even with a Best Picture category that could support up to ten nominees.

But we also think this will be strongly considered in the Best Picture category, as well as directing and writing,

This week we field queries concerning «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,» documentary features aimed at the Best Picture category, «Black Swan»» s Oscar potential and Lesley Manville's lead actress campaign for «Another Year.»

Though we've kicked Entertainment Weekly's Dave Karger's teeth in when it comes to the overall number of correct predictions for the last few years, our track record has unfortunately not extended to the Best Picture category.

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI has been nominated by the Academy Awards in the Best Picture category.

Director David O. Russell's comedy drama and Alfonso Cuarón space epic both received nominations in the Best Picture category, along with nominations for their leading male and female performances.

The Best Picture category includes an eclectic mix of genre - spanning features from animated features to sci - fi dramas to action - packed blockbusters.

All of those films were nominated in the Best Picture category.

Alone with «American Hustle,» it was the only one of the 10 movies up for a Golden Globe best picture that also collected a SAG nomination for ensemble, the acting union's equivalent of the best picture category.

«Big Short» not only snuck into the Best Picture category but it earned McKay a Best Director nod, an Adapted Screenplay nomination (shared with Charles Randolph) and the film took an Editing slot as well.

In the Best Picture category, it's looking like things are boiling down to a showdown between «The Post» and «Lady Bird.»

Since the film academy expanded the best picture category six years ago, 55 movies have been nominated for that honor.

The Best Picture category can include up to ten nominees.

And finally, Kurt makes a case for narrowing the Best Picture category, because he thinks some of this year's nominees are overrated.

The things we obsessed on — expanding the Oscars» Best Picture category to 10 films to better accommodate blockbusters — now seem like busywork, as do some of the films we obsessed about.

Along the way, he has won three Oscars with one coming in the Best Picture category for Schindler's List and two in the Best Director category for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.

Mike Leigh's «Happy - Go - Lucky» and Disney - Pixar's animated hit «Wall - E» tied for runner - up in the best picture category.

The Best Director Oscar category quite often mirrors the Best Picture category, with the winners in both matching up year after year.

This week I'm focusing on designs from films nominated outside of the Best Picture category, say for acting, Best Foreign Language Film, etc..

But 1996 was the first year that indies dominated the Academy Awards to the point that only one major studio release, «Jerry Maguire,» was even nominated in the best picture category, which was won by «The English Patient.»

In 2010, the Academy expanded its best picture category from five to a maximum of 10 movies.

Bennett Miller is the first director to be nominated since the expansion of the Best Picture category to not have his film up for the big prize.

It was therefore all but inevitable that a property as adored as 1991's «Beauty and the Beast,» the first animated film to not just compete in Oscar's Best Picture category but also top the $ 100 million box - office mark, would receive a 21st - century makeover after «Cinderella» and «The Jungle Book» followed the rousing $ 1 billion worldwide box - office reception for «Alice in Wonderland.»

Since the film academy expanded the category in 2009, the only time the best picture category did not include a film by a DGA - nominated director was in 2011, when voters passed over David Fincher's «The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.»

The Best Picture category also included previous award winners The Descendants and The Tree of Life.

In fact, not a single film in last year's Best Picture category was released before October.

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.

«JACKIE» NOT in Best Picture category, but received 6 nominations.

The Best Picture category is an honor bestowed on the very best that cinema has to offer in the calendar year, and I believe we would do well to remember that this is not a moniker that is exclusive to dramas.

The Academy Awards have long had a gender - disparity problem in their Best Picture category.

Going into the 1989 Oscars, there was a lot of speculation over the Best Picture category, mostly because, while Driving Miss Daisy was the frontrunner, its director, Bruce Beresford, wasn't nominated at all.

I was really disappointed Blade Runner 2049 was not nominated in the Best Picture category.

Last year's ceremony, also hosted by the late - night personality, concluded with an unforgettable envelope mix - up during the best picture category; although Lionsgate's «La La Land» earned the most statues, A24 indie «Moonlight» claimed the top prize.

The Best Picture category consisted of almost exactly what you'd expect, but with Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close just sneaking in there.

The Oscars notoriously expanded to 10 nominees in the wake of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight getting shut out of a Best Picture category that only had five.

In the Best Picture category, Harvey Weinstein struck again.

At this point the best picture category looks like a horse race between «Brokeback Mountain» and «Crash,» with «Crash» gaining in the turn.

That viewers don't quite know how to receive Hugo is one of the strikes against the film, and may affect its chances in the Best Picture category.

Eight films featured in the Best Picture category: The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, Room, and Spotlight.

Only 21 movies in the 81 years of the Oscars have gone on to win the Best Picture category without first winning a Golden Globe.

The film as a whole should and likely will find a home in the Best Picture category, but it is Negga who delivers Loving's standout performance.

At least it was nominated, although it converted only one of its nine nods into an award (for best screenplay) and lost in the best picture category to John Ford's family saga How Green Was My Valley.