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I also think that it's a writer's movie, not a director's movie, so the fact that it doesn't have a Best Director nomination doesn't scare me from predicting.

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Analysts, however, said the nominations to the board — to be cut to 12 directors from a previous 18 and voted on by shareholders in April — would do little to distract from the problems accumulating for GE.

Shareholders also want the opportunity to nominate their own directors — known as proxy access — especially since they don't seem to like those put forward by the two members on Netflix's nomination committee.

This is a good year to throw precedent out the window, so I don't imagine that Three Billboards» lack of a Best Director nomination hurts it any more than the relatively low number of nominations for Get Out or Lady Bird hurt them, or Dunkirk's lack of acting or writing nominations hurts it.

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This interstellar film from acclaimed director Denis Villaneuve did manage to score quite a few nominations, including one for Best Picture.

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The movie was nominated for an impressive 13 Oscar Nominations including Best Picture, Best Director (Steven Spielburg), Best Actor (Danny Glover), Best Actress (Whoopi Goldberg), Best Supporting Actress Nominations for Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery, along with Best Supporting Actor (Adolph Caesar), and Best Original Musical Score for a Motion Picture (Quincy Jones) which was the first time in any Spielburg produced film that composer John Williams did not compose a film score for a Spielburg movie.

Ford became best known for his Westerns, of which he made dozens through the 1920s, but he didn't achieve status as a major director until the mid -»30s, when his films for RKO (The Lost Patrol [1934], The Informer [1935]-RRB-, 20th Century Fox (Young Mr. Lincoln [1939], The Grapes of Wrath [1940]-RRB-, and Walter Wanger (Stagecoach [1939]-RRB-, won over the public, the critics, and earned various Oscars and Academy nominations.

Since his film was only screened for the Hollywood Foreign Press he wasn't able to earn SAG or Critics» Choice nominations but now that the film has been seen and Plummer is all over it (with just nine days of shooting and as many days of post-production) this may be the easiest and best way for the Academy to recognize the efforts and ability of director Ridley Scott (if they don't give him a Best Director nomination, tdirector Ridley Scott (if they don't give him a Best Director nomination, tDirector nomination, that is).

From the all - star cast, to the historical premise, to Clooney's gilded track record behind the camera, I'd be surprised if it didn't pull off at least five nominations and mostly a lot more — Best Picture, Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Cinematography, Score, you name it, this has a strong shot.

«Hillbilly Elegy» «The Shape of Water» took home the biggest award at last night's Oscars ceremony, and while it didn't take home the statue for best original screenplay, writer - director Guillermo del Toro earned a nomination, and it's no surprise that his co-writer Vanessa Taylor is already prepping to write a new script.

The Producers Guild and Directors Guild did two things at the same time; it showed that Lion was a huge force to be reckoned with, earning nominations with both guilds, and showed that Martin Scorsese and Silence are done.

It's no secret we really like Moonlight — and, thankfully, the Academy did too, giving it eight nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Score.

Only once in DGA / Oscar history did only two directors from the DGA's list get Oscar nominations and of course, the one who won the DGA also won the Directing Oscar and Best Picture, Robert Wise and The Sound of Music.

Director Reed Morano, lead actress Elisabeth Moss, costume designer Ane Crabtree and production designer Julie Berghoff all received Emmy nominations for their efforts Thursday morning, as did Miller for his writing on the pilot episode, «Offred.»

Denzel Washington's adaptation of Fences came made off with a Best Picture nod and a handful of major nominations, with Washington doing double duty as Best Director and Best Actor; his costar Viola Davis takes one step closer to bringing home a Supporting Actress statuette.

Writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are the masters of the anti-hero, having done so before in Half Nelson (which earned Ryan Gosling an Oscar nomination), about a crack - addicted history teacher and Sugar, about a minor league baseball player.

Beasts of the Southern Wild also did well, picking up nominations for best picture, best adapted screenplay, best director (Benh Zeitlin), and best actress (Quvenzhané Wallis).

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

Don't forget: Ben Affleck didn't even get a nomination for Best Director and Argo STILL won Best Picture.

The Shape of Water is in it for screenplay and director, but without a SAG ensemble nomination (which it really did deserve) it's hard to see it pulling it out for Best Picture.

Although it would be quite something if it does win considering the time before Argo that a film won Best Picture (and Best Actress) without a Best Director nomination also had a (now) problematic view on race, Driving Miss Daisy.

Although it didn't pick up any awards, «Mad Max: Fury Road» had the most nominations with three in the best picture, best director, and best cinematography categories, further solidifying its shaky but continuously recognized position in the awards season race.

But the film couldn't get over a larger hump — it failed to land a best picture nomination and didn't score a director nod for Haynes.

After last years awesome survival - thriller THE GREY, how on Earth did Liam Neeson not get an Oscar nomination, one remake I was looking forward to was director Joe Carnahan's interpretation of Michael Winner's DEATH WISH.

In a strange turn, Foxcatcher didn't get a Best Picture nomination but its director, Cannes winner Bennett Miller, did.

As for the Best Director prize, «Birdman» director Alejandro González Iñárritu and Richard Linklater of «Boyhood» received nods — no surprise — and David Fincher of «Gone Girl» (which did not earn a Best Motion Picture — Drama nod) and «The Grand Budapest Hotel» director David Fincher also received nomiDirector prize, «Birdman» director Alejandro González Iñárritu and Richard Linklater of «Boyhood» received nods — no surprise — and David Fincher of «Gone Girl» (which did not earn a Best Motion Picture — Drama nod) and «The Grand Budapest Hotel» director David Fincher also received nomidirector Alejandro González Iñárritu and Richard Linklater of «Boyhood» received nods — no surprise — and David Fincher of «Gone Girl» (which did not earn a Best Motion Picture — Drama nod) and «The Grand Budapest Hotel» director David Fincher also received nomidirector David Fincher also received nominations.

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.»

Argo, Ben Affleck's third feature film, is looking more and more like a lock for the Best Picture prize at Sunday's Oscars, and even if the man himself didn't get a Best Director nomination, it's still a remarkable culmination of one of the most fascinating second acts in Hollywood.

Allen's previous romantic / comedy, Midnight in Paris (2011), did pretty well with the Academy, however, earning nominations for Picture, Director, Art Direction (now Production Design), and Original Screenplay (for which it won).

It is a joy to see The Grand Budapest Hotel do so well in the Globes, with nominations for best comedy / musical, best actor for Ralph Fiennes and best director for that remarkable and singular auteur, Wes Anderson.

Either way, the monumentally successful «Star Wars» has to make do with a handful of technical categories, while George Miller's critically beloved but hardly box - office shattering apocalyptic adventure has snagged Best Picture and Director nods among a total of ten nominations.

Its nominations include best drama and best director, and a well - deserved best supporting actress for Patricia Arquette, although it's disappointing that Ellar Coltrane was overlooked — perhaps the HFPA thought that he wasn't acting, just doing what came naturally.

Only Driving Miss Daisy won without a director nomination (along with Wings, which I don't count because it had only three nominations and Grand Hotel which happened so early in Academy history it can't really be a precedent).

Leone is even more notable than the other directors on our list as not only did he never receive an Oscar for direction he didn't even once get a nomination despite producing such classic Spaghetti Westerns like the trilogy of A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Director Tom Hooper, who's had such triumphs in recent years with both The King's Speech and Les Misérables, has over-indulged his leading man here, although it has to be said this type of big performance does tend to secure award nominations, particularly when the subject of gender confusion is involved.

I still think McCarthy will receive a nomination at the Oscars since the BAFTA lineup of directors has been so wishy washy over the years in terms of matching the academy, but I definitely don't think he is winning either award (Picture or Director).

For the past year, as Get Out has made a ton of money and nabbed multiple major award nominations, director Jordan Peele has spent a lot of time talking about what he wants to do next.

And while Hooper didn't make the Best Director Oscar cut for Les Miserables, he did land a DGA nomination for that film — a film for which his direction is largely responsible for its shortcomings — so it's probably wise to count him among those vying for a Best Director nomination.

The predictable critical acclaim it generated does not translate to a major awards season presence, but the film did get recognized with a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding British Film of the Year (ironic, given the setting and cast) and six nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards including Best Feature, Best Director, and acting nods for Lane, Keough, and LaBeouf.

But, as we saw, the best of year reviews for Carol didn't result in Best Picture or Director nominations at the Oscars.

(Memorably, Spielberg hired a camera crew to record his live reaction when he received his presumed Best Director nomination... which didn't happen, much to his chagrin.)

That's only for actresses) THR talks to the director of Book of Life - though disappointed by the lack of an Oscar nomination, he cherishes stories from fans about how it effected their families Towleroad arts teacher in Texas does «Uptown Funk» with students.

Braveheart won Best Director at the Globes, but didn't have a SAG ensemble nomination, but then went on to win Picture and Director anyway.

Honored with the French Legion of Honor in 2001, the 2000 Acapulco Black Film Festival's Best International Film Award for Le Conte du ventre plein (aka Bellyful, 2000), the 1999 Chicago Underground Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award, the 1987 Children's Live - Action Humanitas Prize for The Day They Came to Arrest the Book, a 1972 Tony Award nomination for «Don't Play Us Cheap», two 1971 Tony Award nominations for «Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death», along with a Grammy Award nomination and Drama Desk Award for this earlier musical, Melvin Van Peebles is more than a one - note film director.

When Ben Affleck didn't get an Oscar nomination for Argo, Ang Lee ended up winning Best Director.

(N.B.: McDonagh didn't land a best - director nomination; del Toro is a favorite in the category.)

It's arguably a better fit in that vein than some of the other female - focused contenders; Lady Bird certainly has its own momentum now, and it's entirely possible Natalie Portman will have successfully shamed the Academy (and possibly the DGA) into giving Greta Gerwig a nomination for Best Director, but that film doesn't play the abuse card the way Three Billboards does.

There's almost no way this doesn't get Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay nods, and after Jordan Peele's recent DGA nomination, he's a decent bet for a Best Director spot as well.