Sentences with phrase «best picture contenders»

After watching some of this year's Best Picture contenders, I was inspired to find connections to Learning and Development.

«Lady Bird» also garnered Gerwig a nomination for best original screenplay and is one of nine best picture contenders.

Its Rotten Tomatoes ratings were right on par with Boyhood and Birdman, the top two Best Picture contenders.

Not only has it been 40 years since all five Best Actress contenders starred in Best Picture contenders, but it gets even worse with the expanded ballot.

Also, judging by the work of Tilda Swinton and Jessica Chastain it's more clear than ever how much these nominations are tied to Best Picture contenders.

Joy may not be as strong as the filmmaker's three consecutive Best Picture contenders, but it is still a very strong film and one that tells a woman's story with nary a concern for romance.

Consider that James Ivory still doesn't have one despite being a masterful oft imitated but never duplicated director behind three major Best Picture contenders (and many other beautiful films) and never having won an an Oscar and being 88 years old.

In terms of nominations, since 1970, roughly 114 (counted myself, so give or take) out of 200 nominations were nominees in Best Picture contenders.

This year's nominees are nowhere near as satisfyingly autonomous, with no less than three Best Picture contenders extending their influence here, but as we've said before, this is one of those years the Best Picture ripple effect isn't necessarily a bad thing.

And, by virtue of the guild results thus far, those two films are the understood top two Best Picture contenders.

We're handicapping the odds on the nine Best Picture contenders for the March 4 Academy Awards, starting with the longer shots.

We're handicapping the odds on the nine Best Picture contenders for the March 4 Academy Awards, starting with the longshots.

Until recently, Best Picture contenders were typically also some of the most - seen films of the year, which helped attract massive TV audiences come Oscars night (55 million people tuned in to watch Titanic take home the Oscar).

Star movie critic Peter Howell handicaps the odds on the nine Best Picture contenders for the Feb. 26 Academy Awards.

Well, look for Best Picture contenders and work your way back from there.

1997 — Titanic + 1998 — Saving Private Ryan * 1999 — American Beauty + 2000 — Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon * 2001 — Fellowship of the Ring * 2002 — Road to Perdition (posthumous to Conrad L. Hall) 2003 — Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World * 2004 — The Aviator * 2005 — Memoirs of a Geisha 2006 — Pan's Labyrinth (no Best Picture contenders were nominated) 2007 — There Will be Blood * 2008 — Slumdog Millionaire + 2009 — Avatar * 2010 — Inception * 2011 — Hugo * 2012 — Life of Pi * 2013 — Gravity * 2014 — Birdman + 2015 — The Revenant * 2016 — La La Land *

4/5 of the adapted screenplays are from Best Picture contenders, and 4/5 of the original screenplays are from Best Picture contenders.

So far this year, the pickings have been pretty slim for Best Picture contenders.

It was David and Goliath, ex-husband vs. ex-wife, mentor vs. protege, biggest blockbuster of all time vs. one of the lowest grossing Best Picture contenders ever.

Awards Daily has the short list of 11 films that the Best Picture contenders are down to.

Among possible Best Picture contenders, this list starts to look a bit bleak.

Clint Eastwood's «American Sniper» and Ava DuVernay's «Selma» debuted at AFI FEST (taking place this year from November 10 — 17) before becoming Best Picture contenders.

Although those looking for below the line support for Best Picture contenders should note the inclusion of «The Revenant» and «Mad Max: Fury Road.»

For two years in a row, we had fairly open and shut Best Picture contenders.

The five directing nominations tend to line up with the strongest Best Picture contenders, although snubbed director nominee Ben Affleck did win Best Picture win for «Argo.»

Something about the preferential ballot and the expanded number of Best Picture contenders shifted things so that Best Supporting Actress overlapped more with Best Picture.

I'm also thankful that this Oscar season is dominated by brilliant work by women, and that the top three Best Picture contenders are stories with female leads.

The latter still has a chance what with those three SAG nominations, but I'd guess the other three are all but done as Best Picture contenders.»

Catching up with Academy Award nominees is a difficult proposition for movie fans, tickets cost nearly $ 10 a pop and stretching your dollar to watch nine Best Picture contenders is more than a little difficult.

Since the Academy expanded their Best Picture slate to as many as 10 nominees, the BFCA has matched almost all of the Best Picture contenders, missing only one each year.

Talking to academy members the past couple of weeks, I heard an earful about all the problems they had with various best picture contenders — «Why'd she have to... that fish?»

It should come as no surprise, then, that the film is also predicted to be one of the 10 Best Picture contenders.

This makes for a stellar lineup of headliners of Best Picture contenders in Chalamet and Kaluuya, indie darlings with Pugh and O'Connor, and the big budget superhero badassery of Thompson.

I've bolded the Best Picture contenders via the pundit consensus thus far.

Another strong Best Picture contender includes the heartbreaking drama Manchester by the Sea (+800).

Rooney Mara, Una — Although Una is going to have a slightly tougher road, partly because of the subject matter but also because it won't be a Best Picture contender, Mara's performance is off - the - charts great.

It's a formidable Best Picture contender with a strong shot at nominations across - the - board with Kristin Scott Thomas more of a threat than people think for a Supporting Actress nomination (despite a now more robust competition than evident before Lady Bird and I Tonya crushed ideas about that particular race).

Can it be a Best Picture contender (I don't think so).

But if you are tied to a strong Best Picture contender your job is always going to be easier to slide into those categories than it would be otherwise, unless the performance on its own is exceptional, like Charlize Theron in Monster, Halle Berry in Monster's Ball, etc..

But del Toro's «The Shape of Water» is just as good, comes with a large dollop of emotion and, importantly, is a best picture contender.

It's also a likely Best Picture contender in the upcoming Oscar season.

,» the advantage may go to the Best Picture contender.

Hollywood Elsewhere: «Sad & ghastly as the story is, ’12 Years A Slave» is a humanist masterpiece & a slamdunk Best Picture contender right out of the gate.»

They are either anchored to a Best Picture contender or a film that was close to being a Best Picture contender.

Furthermore, it's possible that the film might struggle to be seen as more than a performance showcase — Jones and Fiennes might well be in the running, depending on the strength of the categories, but it'll really need strong reviews out of TIFF to be a Best Picture contender.

American Sniper: Clint Eastwood's latest box office smash is a stealth Best Picture contender, but will likely have to settle for simply making a ton of money.

If the Oscars were really about pure craft, rather than wins being attached to a popular Best Picture contender, Baby Driver would have this one in the bag.

(One Academy voter recently admitted, anonymously, to having rejected Get Out, Jordan Peele's deeply innovative and urgently important Best Picture contender, out of hand — precisely because, the voter groused, «as far as I'm concerned, they played the race card.»)

Chalamet's work in Call Me by Your Name, a film I think is a more potent Best Picture contender than Darkest Hour, may well challenge the conventional wisdom.

Supporting Actress nominations are very often connected to either a nominated lead performance or a Best Picture contender.