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And Open Road's 2016 Oscar Best Picture winner Spotlight is still in theaters and is getting close to a new cumulative threshold.

This year's Oscar Best Picture winner and nominees Spotlight, Brooklyn and Room continue to hold their own.

What You Need To Know: Coming off a streak that has seen them produce a Best Picture winner («No Country For Old Men «-RRB- and the biggest box office hit of their careers («True Grit «-RRB-, the Coen Brothers have probably been afforded the opportunity to make whatever they want.

They believe themselves immune to it but trust me, there is a dividing line, which is the main reason there hasn't been a Best Picture winner with a female lead since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

The details: Alejandro G. Iñárritu chases his Best Picture winner Birdman with an expensive and ambitious Western opus.

«12 Years A Slave,» the eventual Best Picture winner, was a very close runner - up, earning a 96 % from 320 reviews.

The impact of that win on the Academy was minimal (though the film at least earned two Oscar nods it wouldn't otherwise have received), but the same can't be said of last year's choice: shrugged off by audiences and boasting no heavyweight industry names, «The Hurt Locker» became the most critic - steered Best Picture winner in Oscar history, as every major critics» group in America lined up behind the indie Iraq drama to raise its profile in the face of the threatening populist shadow cast by «Avatar.»

That first weekend in December is a prime launchpad for awards season fare, read that's where Fox Searchlight launched its best picture winner The Shape of Water, and its best actress winner The Black Swan eight years ago.

Brad Pitt missed the Oscars to work on a sculpture.The 53 - year - old actor was one of the producers on Best Picture winner «Moonlight» but was...

But at this point last year Boyhood was a much stronger frontrunner, was the perceived Best Picture winner and began its losing streak here, to Birdman.

West Orange, New Jersey resembles the 2000 Best Picture winner but the atmosphere is different.

The adaptation was a smashing success in every respect, performing very well at the box office for its exciting thriller elements, while its writing, directing, editing and cinematography would earn it eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, a first for an R - rated film (although 1969's X-rated Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, had been re-rated to an R in 1971).

A small part as Anne Boleyn in Best Picture winner «A Man For All Seasons» was a mere taster for more full - on roles in cult sixties hit and Palme D'Or winner «Blow - Up», and her first Oscar - nominated performance in «Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment».

Continuing with box office stats, this is the 2nd year in a row the Best Picture winner won with less than $ 40M at the box office at the time of the ceremony and the third year in a row with sub-100M winners.

After Sunday's disastrous Oscars mix - up, in which La La Land was accidentally announced as the Best Picture winner instead of Moonlight, Steve Harvey has offered to help smooth things over.

There is a new edition in Jeff Beachnau's hilarious Worst Picture / Best Picture series on the way where he takes the Razzie Worst Picture winner and Oscar's Best Picture winner and mashes them up in a contrast and compare review.

This Best Picture winner is way more than just a movie about a woman who falls in love with a fish creature.

Curiously her screen daughter in that best picture winner Jean Arthur, an even bigger star, shares her same birthday (for the year of 1900) 1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (an early step in creating the cinema) 1903 Author and screenwriter Nathanael West is born in NYC.

It sounds like the front runner but it'll have to buck that huge trend of the best picture winner also being the best director winner.

From its relatively unknown and young cast, to its slow and purposeful narrative, The Florida Project has a lot in common with last year's Best Picture winner.

HollywoodNews.com: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen the first Best Picture winner, «Wings,» starring Clara Bow, Charles «Buddy» Rogers, Richard Arlen and Gary Cooper, as part of a celebration of Paramount Pictures» 100th anniversary, on Wednesday, January 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater -LSB-...]

Then there's the DGA, which has matched the eventual Best Director winner 16 of the last 20 years and the eventual Best Picture winner 15 of the last 20 years.

The Revenant: Handsomely assembled and gorgeously photographed, the most trying aspect of watching this year's probable Best Picture winner isn't enduring the bear attacks, equine corpse mutilations, or midnight snacking on organ meats; it's simply trying to figure out why we're seeing what we're seeing.

Best Picture winner Spotlight becomes the 6th film to win BP and only one other award and the first to do so since 1952's The Greatest Show on Earth, which also just won Screenplay.

Last year's Best Picture winner was Her, a Warner Brothers film.

Some breakout filmmakers are even the sons of self - made billionaires who have already enjoyed an successful producing career, including producing a Best Picture winner («12 Years A Slave «-RRB-.

He's now turned that seed, that dream, that unlikely aftershock of a sequel of a Best Picture winner into a new movie — the 7th film in the Rocky saga and one of the best of the year, Creed.

The last Best Picture winner to lose WGA was 2004's...

The Wizard Of Oz premiered in LA at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Mr. Smith of course premiered in the D.C, and Gone With The Wind (Best Picture winner) premiered in the Atlanta at a festival.

Gurus link In our ongoing search for Oscar's best picture winner, which doesn't necessarily define the best film in a given year, we continue to grope around in the dark.

With «Sully,» Eastwood delivers his best film since 2004's Best Picture winner, «Million Dollar Baby.»

Having already directed a Best Picture winner, McQueen commands a good bit of Oscar cache.

First things first, Moonlight was the best film of the year; a deserving Best Picture winner at the Oscars (albeit in farcical circumstances) and hopefully a landmark in the direction filmmaking is due to head.

That moment when the surest best picture winner since Schindler's List was announced, Hollywood reacted with one final weary round of applause, and Oscar - party attendees everywhere started collecting their coats.

On second viewing, this was confirmed when it became apparent how these memorable scenes were actually part of a very nuanced and touching portrayal in how memories and life experiences effect our own identities throughout our lives and the aspects of those identities that we choose to reveal to those around us — and a Best Picture winner that fully deserves the accolade is such a rare achievement nowadays!

It's almost hard to believe that the same decade that gave us My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music also gave us a Best Picture winner about a male prostitute and his scumbag pimp, but Midnight Cowboy «s place in Oscar history is secure.

The next 11 years show a striking break with tradition, with an average of only 4.3 Oscars per Best Picture winner:

When Faye Dunaway erroneously declared La La Land the best picture winner over Moonlight at Sunday night's Academy Awards, the crew backstage was the first to realize her mistake.

However despite those major differences, for the past four years running the Spirit Award has shared its Best Picture winner with the Academy Awards: «12 Years a Slave» (with 2013 in consideration), «Birdman» (2014), «Spotlight» (2015), and «Moonlight» (2016).

Sure, they share the same silly premise, but watching them back to back makes it clear what a unique touch del Toro (who moved on from this project to direct recent Best Picture winner

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David Lean's 1957 Best Picture winner doesn't hold up for me as well as some of his other films, but it's still got legs.

The strong leading man has driven the Best Picture winner for the past seven years.

This is always an interesting category because the winner usually falls into one of two (or sometimes both) categories: a major action film or the Best Picture winner.

The initial predictions that were released on March 6 named Martin Scorsese's upcoming crime thriller «The Irishman» as the probable Best Picture winner, also slated in the top spots for Director, Supporting Actor for Al Pacino, and Film Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker.

«With the notable exception of â $ œCrashâ $, every Best Picture winner of the past 20 years has been a good movie.»

Usually, though, a Best Picture winner will only win Score if a sweep is afoot, and hardly ever does the rest of the time because in years when the Academy spreads the wealth, they seem to divide the films they like along the lines of tech, craft and major categories.

Few modern filmmakers are as knowledgeable and impassioned about film history as Guillermo del Toro, whose newly crowned Best Picture winner, «The Shape of Water,» is — let's face it — a TCM's lover's wet dream.

The PGA has matched the Oscar for Best Picture in 19 of its 27 years, although last year it chose «The Big Short» instead of eventual Best Picture winner «Spotlight.»

This would mark the beginning of a long working relationship between Scorsese and Ballhaus that would include five additional collaborations — «The Color of Money» (1986), «The Last Temptation of Christ» (1988), «Goodfellas» (1990), «The Age of Innocence» (1993), «Gangs of New York» (2002), which earned him the last of his three Oscar nominations, and the Best Picture winner «The Departed» (2006).