Sentences with phrase «best picture nominees»

The other animated film to land a best - pic nod, and the only one to do so in a year of only five Best Picture nominees, was Disney's «Beauty and the Beast» in 1991.

While I'm unsure whether I'm a fan of the rule change that implemented a fluid number of Best Picture nominees (and won't pass judgment until the experiment plays out -LSB-...]

Nine or 10 Best Picture nominees Not only is «Beauty and the Beast» the only animated film to be nominated for Best Picture in a year with only five Best Picture nominees, but the creation of the Best Animated Feature category has made it all - but - impossible for any other animated film to crack a five - film list.

The mid -»60s were a grim time for Hollywood both artistically and economically, as reflected by a truly lacklustre brace of Best Picture nominees at the 1966 awards: alongside Robert Wise's excruciatingly cheerful nuns «n» Nazis romp were ranged the likes of «Doctor Zhivago», «Darling» and something called «A Thousand Clowns».

This year, a documentary about penguins marching across Antarctica has so far outgrossed all five best picture nominees.

We should again point out, regrettably, that there has been a dramatic drop in the number of Best Picture nominees that even have Best Actress nominees in them at all.

For proof that festivals are of consequence to the Oscar race, look no further than last year's roster of Best Picture nominees.

[Notes on a Season] • Years that could have used 10 Best Picture nominees.

But most people thought at least one would find the support, especially when you consider the rare feat that Stuhlbarg pulled off this year: appearing in no less three Best Picture nominees.

We mostly are just farting around, playing an Oscar game: Name the actor that appeared in both Best Picture nominees!

Rolling Stone tool film critic Peter Travers predicts this year's Best Picture nominees has gifted us with his Top 10 of the year.

Second place will receive a DVD or Blu - ray of their choice from last year's Best Picture nominees (select options)

With 5 best picture nominees you could see Malick getting in but Tree of Life missing.

While this decade has seen first - half Best Picture nominees like «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» «Midnight in Paris,» «The Tree of Life,» «Toy Story 3» and «Winter's Bone,» the field is far thinner this year.

The Best Picture nominees include The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire, Frost / Nixon, Milk and The Reader and the directors of these five films were nominated as well.

The Dark Knight getting snubbed is one of the reasons we now have the potential for 10 Best Picture nominees each year, and audiences were very upset by this year's snub of Wonder Woman — a film that became a cultural revelation last summer.

«Violent» is now appearing on or has risen on some critics» or writers» picks for Oscar Best Picture nominees.

Looking at this year's batch of Best Picture nominees, it's a varied group of big hits like Get Out and Dunkirk, both of which premiered long before «awards season» kicked off in the fall.

Dramas, and to a lesser degree musicals, have dominated the Best Picture nominees and winners since the 1970s.

Other best picture nominees included Fox Searchlight Pictures» «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» which earned seven; Martin McDonagh was recognized for his original screenplay and not his directing, as many projected.

This breakfast staple features in five out of the nine Best Picture nominees at the 90th Academy Awards.

This weekend saw three Best Picture nominees re-expanding (Moonlight, Fences, Arrival) to capitalize on their Oscar nominations each adding a million plus to their already successful grosses.

Even if Birdman is well received, Searchlight has managed to score two Best Picture nominees before, with 127 Hours and Black Swan in 2010.

It also amassed more than five of its nine fellow Best Picture nominees, including media fixture The Social Network and Aronofsky - produced The Fighter.

This was the final year The Academy enforced 10 mandatory Best Picture nominees.

Although we chart on a possibility of 10 nominees, I'm basing our accuracy on our actual top 8 since that ended up being the number of Best Picture nominees.

With Oscars on Sunday, moviegoers will definitely make a point about seeing this year's crop of best picture nominees specifically those still in theaters, read The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; The Post, Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Lady Bird, and Phantom Thread.

Additionally, their shortlist of Best Picture nominees has been a pretty close mirror of the expanded Oscar Best Picture list in recent years.

Anyway, unless everyone is slightly underestimating the appeal of the other four Best Picture nominees it's up against, Moonlight will probably get its due here — especially as it remains the only particularly plausible threat to La La Land's (probably inevitable) end - of - the - night victory.

All 10 films were Best Picture nominees and six were Best Picture winners.

Ryan Gosling sees himself on a dish towel; kids reenacting this year's Oscar films; the Best Picture nominees if they had different directors; and British teens describing the NFL.

Tied with four is the Aaron Sorkin - scripted «Steve Jobs,» though it failed to join the best picture nominees.

The other five best picture nominees were shut - out.

We will be giving out DVD copies to the nine Best Picture nominees.

Most of the time, the some of the year's Best Picture nominees do come from earlier in the year — sleeper films that pundits already whip through but that the Academy maybe didn't get to see.

Much like last year, one of the Best Picture nominees for the Academy Awards ended up taking the top prize with Spotlight winning Best Feature, not to mention a prize for the film's director Tom McCarthy, who also got a prize along with Josh Singer for the film's script.

Best Picture nominees that lost (top shelf) Grand Illusion, Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, The Maltese Falcon, The Magnificent Ambersons, It's a Wonderful Life, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Sunset Blvd., Shane, Anatomy of a Murder, Dr. Strangelove, Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, Nashville, All the President's Men, E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial, The Right Stuff, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Saving Private Ryan, Brokeback Mountain, Winter's Bone

He had the biggest - grossing movie of the best picture nominees.

Three Best Picture nominees were featured on the Black List.

Four of this year's supporting actors were from Best Picture nominees, not that that necessarily means anything.

If either of the Best Picture nominees just mentioned win this prize as well as Best Director, it'll be the 36th film to do so.

More complications: The late - arriving American Sniper is the only one of the Best Picture nominees to qualify as a real box - office smash.

Edward Norton stars in two of the Best Picture nominees, Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The number of Best Picture nominees directed by African American directors is a pretty small list to begin with - Precious, 12...

In an interesting bit of trivia, for the first time since expanding the category, all 8 Best Picture nominees took home at least one award.

The other four best picture nominees are «Call Me by Your Name,» «Darkest Hour,» «The Post» and «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»

Moving on to Best Supporting Actor, let's look at how they're tied in with Best Picture nominees and winners in the era of the expanded ballot:

So that means while some movies they nominated, like Best Motion Picture — Drama nominee «Boyhood,» will most likely earn a nod when Oscar Best Picture nominees are announced, others, like Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy nominee «Pride,» most likely will not.

Best Picture nominees 2012: a ranking Zero Dark Thirty, Amour, Lincoln, Django Unchained, Silver Linings Playbook, Argo, Life of Pi, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Les Misérables

The five Best Picture nominees are a worthy — if fairly dark — class this year, lightened only by the inclusion of the indie - ish comedy «Juno.»