Sentences with phrase «best picture category»

Can you have a Best Picture category with two «wonder» titles?

Yet, when it comes to the best picture category, the preferential ballot is used.

Interestingly enough, that was also when the Best Picture category was expanded, just as it is now.

The love for stories driven by women even applied to the Best Picture category, with four of this year's Best Actress nominees fronting films there (The Shape of Water, The Post, Three Billboards, Lady Bird), which isn't often the case with Oscar.

Even on the shorter Oscar calendar, it's difficult not to perceive the Dreamgirls snub in the Best Picture category as a sign of even - still receding enthusiasm.

There always seemed to be at least somewhat of a chance that it would make it into the Best Picture category as one of those token nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of Unbroken, but it was also just as likely to get bumped by more mainstream fare like Gone Girl or Interstellar or a similarly positioned low profile picture like Nightcrawler.

There always seemed to be at least somewhat of a chance that it would make it into the Best Picture category as one of those token nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of

In the Best Picture category, «Birdman,» «Boyhood,» «Grand Budapest,» «Gone Girl,» «The Imitation Game,» «Selma» and «The Theory of Everything» were joined by «Nightcrawler,» «Unbroken» and «Whiplash.»

Rounding out the best picture category were the romantic drama «Call Me by Your Name,» the Winston Churchill biopic «Darkest Hour,» the coming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird,» the period romance «Phantom Thread,» the Pentagon Papers drama «The Post» and the smash hybrid of horror and social satire «Get Out,» which picked up four nominations overall, including writing and directing nods for Jordan Peele and a lead actor nomination for Daniel Kaluuya.

His sci - fi thriller Inception broke through the barrier of earnestness to the best picture category in 2011 and it scored him a second screenplay nod (the first was for Memento) but it looks like he might finally get the ultimate recognition for his next film Dunkirk.

But the biggest threat to Cuarón in this category and the Best Picture category is surely 12 Years a Slave, which has nine nominations overall.

It was also a more expansive year, with the Best Picture category expanding to a varied group of 10 competitors — the better to draw more and younger eyeballs.

«Fences» is also nominated in the Best Picture category.

Beauty and the Beast: Diamond Edition Rated G Available on DVD / Blu - ray combo Back when the Oscars only had five movies in their best picture category, Disney's Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film to ever be nominated for Best Picture.

• Steve Pond asks five important questions about the expanded Best Picture category.

This follows its success at the equivalent New York critics awards, where Jenkins, Ali and Laxton all won in the same categories (though it lost out to La La Land in the best picture category), and its strong showing at the Gotham awards, a key independent - cinema oriented ceremony.

But I attribute this exception more as praise for the Academy for including such films like Her and Nebraska in the Best Picture category because in most years these could have been edged out by more mainstream picks like Saving Mr. Banks or August: Osage County.

Once the Academy decided to expand the Best Picture category to include ten nominees, it suddenly made the groups that already decide on ten, the National Board of Review, the American Film Institute and the Broadcast Film Critics (I...

Amazon also didn't crack the best picture category in 2018, with its hit box office comedy starring Kumail Nanjiani.

The same scenario played out along slightly different lines in 1999 when Saving Private Ryan — whose battle sequences transposed some of Platoon's brutal modernism to the context of World War II — earned Steven Spielberg a second Best Director Oscar but the film was upset in the Best Picture category by Shakespeare in Love, a film whose virtues were perceived to be more literary than visual.

The film is a critical darling and a commercial success, and it's an unusual choice for the Best Picture category; below, we dig into why.

Non-American films rarely see much glory in the best picture category — The Artist was able to win, for example, only because it didn't contain any foreign language.

When Sundance 2014 wrapped, most of the buzz surrounded two films that eventually found themselves in the Best Picture category for next week's Oscars, Damien Chazelle's Whiplash and Richard Linklater's Boyhood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In the Best Picture category, Harvey Weinstein struck again.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.»

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.»

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.

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

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.»

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

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

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

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.