Sentences with phrase «best picture winners»

LAFCA and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have rarely agreed on best picture winners.

Because the last three Oscar best picture winners — «Argo,» «The Artist» and «The King's Speech» — played both Toronto and Telluride, it's easy to understand the impulse to call the race even before the leaves have started to turn and several other high - pedigree contenders (Martin Scorsese's «Wolf of Wall Street,» David O. Russell's «American Hustle» and the biographical drama «Saving Mr. Banks» among them) have screened.

Clark Gable became the first actor to star in back - to - back Best Picture winners, when this seafaring drama (separated by seven Gable vehicles but no other Oscar ceremonies)

Definitely a better film that most of the Best Picture winners of the past 5 years.

A Man For All Seasons Year: 1966 Directed by: Fred Zinnemann Starring: Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Orson Welles, Susannah York, John Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave Why it's essential: This might be the one film that feels out of place among the Best Picture winners of the 1960s.

But how many of the previous 89 best picture winners are we still watching today?

The top four contenders aren't just all possibilities here, they're also all legitimate contenders for Best Picture and looking at the recent trend of Best Picture winners, it's a screenplay win that is its closest ally.

Which Best Picture winners to prioritize?

The golden age of movie musicals saw four Best Picture winners as the Academy fell in love with the likes of Julie Andrews, and directors like George Cukor and Robert Wise got their big Oscar wins.

Most Best Picture winners are made for roughly $ 20 million and then make more than $ 50.

With $ 37.7 million in domestic ticket sales since its release in October, «Birdman» is one of the lowest grossing best picture winners ever, underscoring the unusually wide gap this year between Oscar nominated films and box - office results.

Once seen as a waning force in the film industry calendar, the world's oldest film festival has regained its status as a kingmaker for award - season hopefuls, with a record of launching films that have gone on to enjoy success at the Academy Awards, including two recent best picture winners in Spotlight and Birdman, and the film that took home the highest number of Oscars this year, La La Land.

Every year since then, the Original Score winners have all been Best Pic nominees or Best Picture winners.

Topics include the awards potential of «Shutter Island,» the Best Picture push for «Toy Story 3» and our opinions on the Best Picture winners of the last decade.

Murray Weissman, the veteran awards strategist behind seven Academy Award Best Picture winners, died of pancreatic cancer on Dec. 28.

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

Our Oscar wonk Marshall Flores made an exhaustive chart detailing Best Picture winners from the beginning.

To whit, here's a breakdown of the Best Picture winners this millennium and how many statues each film won in total:

Anyone with even tangential interest in the Oscars can note the ongoing trend of Best Picture winners debuting early in the season, meaning anything that would release post-Gothams is already at a significant disadvantage.

Goodman has had roles in the last two Best Picture winners and the narrative is beginning to write itself.

It should be noted that the extent of the alignment of the Gothams and the Oscars basically ends after the Best Picture winners; acting categories are approached differently and therefore don't really have the opportunity to coalesce.

All of these and the others I didn't mention presently hold a higher user rating on IMDb than Cavalcade's lowly 6.2, which trails all but Cimarron (6.0) among Best Picture winners.

I've seen 50 Best Picture winners and I haven't disliked a single one... even ones I'm not too fond of like «The Best Years of Our Lives» or «Braveheart.»

As his primary case study, he cites the bizarre contrast between two back - to - back Best Picture winners, wholesome musical «Oliver!»

If you look at recent past Best Picture winners, most were seen either at Telluride or at Venice and Cannes prior.

Grant, who plays Ladybird Johnson, also starred in Best Picture winners «The Artist» and «No Country for Old Men.»

Not only has Telluride either world - or U.S. - premiered eight of the past nine Oscar best picture winners (including both «Moonlight» and «La La Land» last year, though technically, only one of those counts), but the ratio of genuine discoveries to cinematic disappointments is impossibly high — an appropriate enough designation for a mountain town where the air is thin and one can saunter in off the street and buy legalized recreational marijuana.

The Academy is not above patting itself on the back, and indeed the past two Best Picture winners have portrayed Hollywood in a positive light.

Which is to say that the Best Picture winners, with seemingly increasing frequency, are prone to parsing the zeitgeist without delving deeply into any of the sundry particulars — which makes sense because, as popular film edges ever closer to its dream of total inoffensiveness, the picture that's celebrated as the year's best must be the one that best democratizes the annual caboodle.

The last four Spirit Best Picture winners have gone on to pick up the Best Picture at the Oscars, Moonlight, «Spotlight, «Birdman,»12 Years a Slave.

Best picture winners also usually win for their writing.

Since 2000, only three NYFCC Best Picture winners have failed to earn the Oscar equivalent (Mulholland Dr., United 93 and Carol).

Just something to pay attention to before year end critics» groups announce their Best Picture winners.

I can count the Best Picture winners and nominees on one hand that make that very short list.

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Previous OFCS Best Picture winners include Mad Max: Fury Road, The Grand Budapest Hotel and 12 Years a Slave.

«Rain Man» may actually be one of the more overrated Best Picture winners.

And once upon a time, the public had a much bigger appetite for bespoke Best Picture winners.

The film's reputation has held up better than many other»80s Best Picture winners.

If, however, yesterday's Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature winner, Get Out, manages to take tonight's top prize, then it will even outdo the last few Best Picture winners at the box office to top nine digits.

Of the first - weekend limited release Best Picture Nominees currently in theaters, most are in the same realm in terms of box office totals as the Best Picture winners of the past several years.

I'm actually a fan of «Chicago» (one of the decade's strongest Best Picture winners, if you ask me), but it's Bill Condon's ingeniously conceived adaptation that did the heaviest lifting on that project and, to my mind, is largely responsible for its success.

Much in the way Scott Rudin has owned the Oscar circuit for sometime, Gardener and Kleiner have established themselves as an awards magnet for their films as seen by their two previous Best Picture winners («Moonlight» and «12 Years a Slave») and their three other nominations for «The Tree of Life,» «Selma,» and «The Big Short.»

Jodie Foster and Hilary Swank both have two in lead, but both of them starred in Best Picture winners when they won their second.

Ultimately, that ending (and the preferential ballot) probably hurt La La Land even more than the so - called backlash — most Best Picture winners (with the possible exception of The Hurt Locker and MAYBE Birdman) have satisfying endings.

Director Paul W.S. Anderson and his writers borrow heavily from Best Picture winners Titanic and Gladiator for their decidedly not - Oscar - worthy disaster epic Pompeii.

If it were possible to combine «Gladiator» and «Braveheart» into a single film and then surgically extract virtually everything that made those Best Picture winners pure movie magic, what you'd wind up with would be a lifeless, longwinded, anti-epic very much along the lines of Ridley Scott's latest.

Using our unique ratings systems culled from top critics, we've ranked all the best picture winners over nearly three decades.

Featuring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep, the tale of women fighting for the right to vote shows the type of liberation that voters love in their Best Picture winners.

There are certainly formulas which have proven to be successful for Best Picture winners as well as Best Actor and Actress.