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An auspicious breakthrough for Mitchell (who scored a Best Director nomination last week from the Independent Spirit Awards), the film excels through harmonious design elements that serve an open metaphor that dynamically allows various interpretations — and also rattle even the toughest of nerves.

Not exact matches

It's the one metaphor The Rider's writer and director, Chloé Zhao, allows herself in her second movie, which debuted at last year's Cannes Film Festival before getting a surprise slew of nominations at this year's Film Independent Spirit Awards, prior to its stateside release.

So Greta Gerwig is in a really great position coming out of last night because she just needs the key nominations: DGA and an Oscar nomination for Director.

It's been a trivia note ever since as the last time a film won the big prize without a Best Director nomination to back it up and it's unlikely that the feat will be repeated any time soon.

«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.

McCarthy has followed his highly acclaimed debut with two more praised dramedies as writer / director, 2008's The Visitor (which surprised some when it earned long - underappreciated Richard Jenkins a Best Actor Oscar nomination) and last year's universally approved Win Win.

This year's voting period, extended a week from last year, fell right in the middle of the Golden Globe winners as well as BAFTA, Producers Guild and Directors Guild nominations.

Director Oliver Hirschbiegel is a prodigious talent, whose best known movie, Downfall — the 2004 account of Adolf Hitler's last days — garnered an Academy Award nomination for best foreign language film and launched an enduring internet meme.

This is the Greek director's second English - language feature after The Lobster, which earned a much - deserved best - screenplay nomination last year.

Given the early raves director Rian Johnson's «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» received at its premiere Saturday in Los Angeles, some fans may have been looking to see if the film would receive any love in the Golden Globes nominations.

After getting a standing ovation at an Academy screening last fall, Mel Gibson has landed a Best Director nomination for «Hacksaw Ridge» in a competitive field that includes Damien Chazelle and Barry Jenkins

Their last three Best Directors (and 6 of the last 10) received an Oscar nomination.

Director Denis Villeneuve just broke through big time with Arrival last year, which earned 8 Oscar nominations including one for himself as Best Director.

And consider the astonishing four nominations (director, screenplay, cinematography, editing) for the Brazilian film «City of God,» which was ineligible in last year's foreign film category because the Brazilians refused to nominate their brilliant and angry film.

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.

The last time Nicolas Cage and director Mike Figgis worked together, the result was Leaving Las Vegas, which scored four Oscar nominations and saw the actor go home with a Best Actor gong.

Bertolucci had already received a Globe nomination as Best Director for Last Tango in Paris in 1974, and would later be nominated again, for The Sheltering Sky in 1991.

Last year, Amazon had a huge breakthrough success in their film division, with Manchester by the Sea becoming an indie hit, followed by a bunch of Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and wins for star Casey Affleck and writer / director Kenneth Lonergan's screenplay.

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.

At the Academy Award nominations last week, the film paced the field with 13 nominations, including Best Picture and Director.

And though David O. Russell has been on a nomination hot streak of late, with American Hustle capping a trio of Best Director nominations over the last four years for the filmmaker, his chances, which seemed much higher back when his crime caper stormed onto the scene last December, have since fizzled along with the film.

Last year's closing night film, Foxcatcher, went on to garner five Oscar nominations, including Best Director, Best Actor (Steve Carell) and Best Supporting Actor (Mark Ruffalo).

Left out: Greta Gerwig, director of Lady Bird, was notably absent from the shortlist — despite the film receiving nominations for Original Screenplay, Leading Actress and Supporting Actress and winning two Golden Globes last week

There is no question that Denis Villeneuve has been on a roll of late enjoying great success with movies like his Oscar - nominated foreign - language film Incendies, Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival and now Blade Runner 2049, which is earning buzz for a second consecutive Oscar Best Director nomination following last year's Arrival.

When you collate these wins and nominations (just in the last 14 years, let me remind you) to women nominated for Best Director in the narrative - feature category, the disparities are embarrassing and ignoble.

The Globes is famously a ceremony that creates space for comedies and musicals, unlike the Oscars, so it is probably fitting that the biggest nomination winner is the crazy, madcap, hellzapoppin» and entirely brilliant Birdman, which has seven nominations, including best actor, comedy or musical (Michael Keaton), best supporting actor (Edward Norton) and best director — these last two categories applying to both drama and comedy / musical.

Altman received five Academy Award nominations for best director, his last for one of the auteurist highlights of the early 21st century, «Gosford Park.»

The last of the Directors Guild of America's DGA Awards nominations were unveiled today.

When: November 21st Why: The last time that director David O. Russell got this much talent together, it resulted in a movie that earned seven Oscar nominations (including two wins in the Supporting Actor and Actress categories) and landed on just about every Top 10 list in the country.

«Star Wars: The Last Jedi» leads the Empire Awards 2018 with nine nominations including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.

As far as overall nominations were concerned, The Revenant led the way with 12, including one for last year's Best Director winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu as well as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor nods for stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.

The having no Best Director nomination at the Oscars stat Last known failure: 2012 — Ben Affleck and Argo.

And yet these are two directors whose films have combined for 37 nominations and nine wins in the last seven years, so it would be fairly absurd to underrate their chances too much.

She re-teamed with Oyelowo for last year's acclaimed Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic, «Selma,» which scored a Best Picture nomination, though it was widely believed that DuVernay was snubbed in the Best Director category.

A worried nation releases one long breath, and fluttering hearts calm themselves as, at long last, the Producer's Guild Of America — the guild that America really cares about, as opposed to, say, actors, directors, or writers — has released its nominations for 2014 awards.

While 2049 «s director was snubbed by the Academy this time around, following a Directing nomination last year for inventive sci - fi mystery Arrival, his art house blockbuster was recognized with four Oscar nominations, for Best Production Design, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects, winning in the latter category.

With nominations now from the Golden Globes, Critics» Choice, and the SAG awards, I, Tonya's Oscar chances are looking good, but it all started for the film early last month when stars Margot Robbie, Allison Janney and Sebastian Stan, along with director Craig Gillespie and writer Steven Rogers appeared in front of a packed house of AMPAS and key guild voters during Deadline's 7th Annual The Contenders awards season event at the DGA Theatre.

Greta Gerwig, director of Lady Bird, was notably absent from the shortlist — despite the film receiving nominations for Original Screenplay, Leading Actress and Supporting Actress and winning two Golden Globes last week.

The director nominees are Fincher, Hooper, Aronofsky, Russell and the Coens, so - despite the Best Picture nominations for The Kids Are All Right and Winter's Bone - neither Cholodenko nor Granik will echo Kathryn Bigelow's success last year.

Todd Haynes's lesbian drama wins Dorians, despite missing out on best film and best director Academy nominations last week, though Rooney Mara remains favourite to take best supporting actress

Last season, Jordan Peele broke the mold with «Get Out» and earned a much - deserved Best Director Oscar nomination (and Original Screenplay win).

An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel «The Price Of Salt,» we're in Sirkian melodrama territory here, though likely without the same kind of stylistic aping as the great «Far From Heaven,» and as usual, Haynes has rustled up a killer cast: after their last collaboration on «I'm Not There» won her an Oscar nomination, Cate Blanchett returns to work with the director, while Rooney Mara looks to have her best material since «The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo» (also in the support cast: «Portlandia» and Sleater - Kinney's Carrie Brownstein, awesomely).

But with a preferential ballot and last year's decision to render the necessity for a Best Director nomination obsolete it's anyone's game.

Remarkably for someone who hasn't directed a film for more than a decade, it's very good indeed, fully deserving of the six Oscar nominations it received last week — including a slightly unexpected but no doubt very welcome Best Director nod for Gibson himself — and standing up to comparison with Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima and even Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter.

The Golden Globes released their nominations this morning, and surprise surprise, not a single woman director was nominated for the second year in a row (the last woman director to be nominated was Ava DuVernay for Selma in 2015).

Sundance is known for launching the careers of promising new talent, like first - time writer - director Ryan Coogler, who premiered the harrowing «Fruitvale Station» at last January's festival - a film that earned three Independent Spirit Award nominations, including best first feature.

But after the last five years or so of Oscar history, the technical achievements and total nominations for Shape start to align with movies like Gravity, The Revenant, and La La Land: big, impressive feats of moviemaking that win Best Director with ease only to falter in Best Picture.

Why we're dying to see it: The film has a strong pedigree, Adams has been nominated for five Oscars and the director's last film, «Sicario,» received three Oscar nominations.

Schnabel's film - making career has been on a steady upward trajectory since he made Basquiat in 1996, and his last feature, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, received near - universal acclaim, including a best director Oscar nomination.

Shareholders of the Toronto - Dominion Bank («TD Bank») and the Royal Bank of Canada («RBC») voted in the last few weeks on shareholder proposals made to confer additional proxy access rights to shareholders in the nomination of directors to the respective... Continue Reading