Sentences with phrase «best picture race»

Call Me by Your Name, which made it into the Best Picture race and earned a Best Actor nomination for Timothée Chalamet, simply would not have worked without Hammer.

crowed screenwriter Colin Welland from the Oscar stage in 1982, hoisting aloft his just - awarded awarded statuette for «Chariots of Fire» — and anticipating one of the bigger upsets in the history of the Best Picture race, as the modest British sports drama upended Warren Beatty's grand political epic «Reds.»

Now that the New York Film Festival has changed the conversation somewhat about the Best Picture race, we're now headed into the AFI Film Festival, which has actually been known to dramatically shake up the Oscar race in recent years.

And though Martin Scorsese's Silence isn't making as many waves in the best picture race as you might expect, Neeson's veteran status could push him into a category that's usually friendly territory for well - known actors with a long history in the business.

The Producers Guild Awards made history Sunday night, with the Best Picture race ending in a tie for...

And now, with wins for Best Film Editing, Best Adapted Screenplay and, potentially, Best Director coming, some are arguing an upset by the film in the Best Picture race is still in the cards.

Wonder Woman, however, keeps popping up, which tells me that there is a slim chance it will make it through to the Best Picture race, marking another milestone in the process.

Those really are the biggest predictors and determiners, of the Best Picture race at least.

Though competition from Warner Brothers» already successful The LEGO Movie and Disney's upcoming Big Hero 6 will likely be fierce, the Dragon franchise has generated a large amount of goodwill (the first entry would have likely won in a year that had not featured as formidable a contender as Toy Story 3, which also featured in the main Best Picture race) that could give it the advantage.

[The Playlist] • Gregg Kilday writes up the Best Picture race as he sees it.

While the film somewhat missed the mark, and disappeared quickly from the Best Picture race, Lawrence came from near - nowhere to be nominated for Best Actress.

As an active gambler, I have your handy - dandy guide to making money betting on the Oscar Best Picture race:

, Timothy Gray of Variety has suggested that the 2013 Best Picture race should include nearly double the amount of nominees from last year.

Over at Awards Daily, Sasha Stone has taken it upon herself to whittle down the Best Picture race to a brisk 11 - title list, and it makes for sobering reading: «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» «The Dark Knight» «Doubt» «Frost / Nixon» «Gran Torino» «Milk» «Rachel Getting Married» «The Reader» «Revolutionary Road» «Slumdog Millionaire» «The Wrestler» I -LSB-...]

With enormous box office under its belt and a Cinemascore core rating of A +, is it even possible that the Academy could embrace the film in next year's Best Picture race?

But 2017 offered two hugely popular superhero movies - «Wonder Woman» and «Logan» - that merit serious consideration in the best picture race.

Over at Forbes, Mark Hughes's handicapping of the best picture race suggests that four films are locks for nominations («Call Me by Your Name,» «Dunkirk,» «The Post» and «The Shape of Water»), and two more titles are «highly likely» to join them («Lady Bird» and «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»).

When I first started this website in 1999, Cannes took place way too early to matter at all in the Oscar race — so much so that hardly anyone even reported on it in terms of films headed for the Best Picture race.

The Golden Globes did not nominate them, which is the only indication that these aren't primed and ready for the Best Picture race.

In so doing, we're looking at a doozy of a Best Picture race — one that inadvertently omits the most daring while huddling up to the least daring.

The combination of strong writing and an eclectic cast has led many a family drama into the Best Picture race in the past.

The New York Film Festival has a tradition of pushing films into the Best Picture race, but has so far it has not produced a winning film.

The 10 - episode series will provide the ultimate film buff's analysis of the Best Picture race.

That could go either way, as you'll see later on, but the A-list producer is no stranger to the Best Picture race.

If «Straight Outta Compton» can use this momentum to land a PGA nod it could sneak into the Best Picture race.

It will be yet another year where most of the films in the Best Picture race are driven by the male narrative — give or take a Gravity.

Overall, the pic seems a tad too studio-esque to land in the Best Picture race.

The Best Picture race is extremely difficult to quantify because unlike all the other categories, it substitutes a weighted formula for a simple most - votes - wins model.

Joining him to discuss the Best Picture race and more generalized discussion about supporting actressing in 2017 are: Andrew Carden (Awards Connection / Gold Derby) Chris Feil (The Film Experience), Candice Frederick (Reel Talker), Erica Mann (NYC Film Chick), and Kevin P O'Keeffe (Into).

We were thrilled when the Academy's cinematography branch filled their slate last year with movies well outside of the best picture race.

Since SAG is now SAG - AFTRA, we have to take their choices with a wee bit of skepticism in saying «actors rule the Best Picture race.»

It's possible, though the Best Picture race is really anyone's game at this point.

Plus, the narrative for one film or another could shift based on the Oscar nominations — if Jordan Peele or Greta Gerwig are snubbed in Best Director, might that galvanize support behind their film in the Best Picture race («The Argo Effect»)?

Joining The Master in the Best Picture race Ben Affleck's Argo, Leos Carax's Holy Motors, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom and Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty.

Can this movie about people living on the fringes in an Orlando motel crack the Best Picture race?

After two straight years of getting the Walt Disney Company into the Academy Awards» Best Picture race, DreamWorks Pictures fell short in 2013, lacking a Spielberg period drama or a surprise crowd - pleaser like The Help.

With this year's best picture race being such a wide - open free - for - all, I've gone back and forth on my own prediction a couple of times.

Compared to many of the other films in this year's Best Picture race, its chances of winning are low; we discuss why, and what it means that it was nominated at all.

It's a horror film, for starters, and a very funny one at that, which is two strikes against it: Neither horror nor comedy shows up in the Best Picture race very frequently.

The date here that interests me most is the comparatively early slot given to European arthouse charmer «The Artist,» which I've already suggested might be the likeliest of the Weinsteins» current titles to find its way into the Best Picture race.

Conventional wisdom cast this year's best picture race as «the exciting underdogs» v «the stolid favourites».

And that is the unknowable Best Picture race.

But movies about women have a funny way of disappearing from the Best Picture race, because the tastes we're dealing with across - the - board tend to be male.

The last film in the Best Picture race is «Selma,» which surprised many by only earning (2) nods.

Things look even more dire for women as the subject of films in the Best Picture race when you just look at nominees over that same period.

The fact that this strange fish has been deemed a «safe» choice among this year's nominees underlines what a vibrant, provocative, exciting best picture race we were handed.

We can debate the reasons why «Moonlight» prevailed over «La La Land» in last year's best picture race — maybe it was the movie that better reflected the moment, perhaps new voters gravitated toward a new sensibility, possibly an aversion to

It might be the most polarizing film in the Best Picture race, but the film has worn Hollywood down.

Apparently «Slumdog Millionaire» was «a close third in the best picture race.»

Given the rise of Woody Harrelson with that Screen Actor's Guild nomination and the overall assumed strength of Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri in the Best Picture race, it could well happen again.