Three Billboards earned seven nominations, a pretty stout total, but it's where the film wasn't nominated that is more interesting: Martin McDonagh was missing from the Best
Director nominations this morning.
Not exact matches
Also getting a best picture
nomination (as well as nods for star Brie Larson, adapted screenplay by Emma Donoghue from her novel and
director Lenny Abrahamson) was the singular «Room,» an emotional roller coaster whose success led to perhaps the biggest surprise of the
morning.
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.»
Jordan Peele had a lot to celebrate Tuesday
morning, including an Oscar
nomination for
director.
Irish
director Martin McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» earned seven Oscar
nominations Tuesday
morning, including best picture.
The film has already received dozens of honors this award season, and during this
morning's announcement of the Oscar
nominations, it racked up eight more, including nods for best
director and best picture.
With a conspicuous diss of Kathryn Bigelow, the un-nominated
director of «Zero Dark Thirty,» the Academy Awards
nominations were announced Thursday
morning.
Musical La La Land danced itself to 7 Golden Globe
nominations total this
morning, including Best Actor in a Musical / Comedy for Ryan Gosling, Best Actress in a Musical / Comedy for Emma Stone, Best
Director for Damien Chazelle, and Best Picture — Musical / Comedy.
Martin Scorsese — Denied a Golden Globe
nomination and a DGA Awards nom, the silence is deafening on the Silence
director this
morning.
Beasts of No Nation, Netflix's first foray into original feature film making, made a huge impact this
morning landing
nominations in Best Feature, Best
Director (Cary Fukunaga), Best Male Lead (Abraham Attah), Best Supporting Male (Idris Elba) and Best Cinematography.
The Shape of Water,
director Guillermo det Toro's «fish out of water» love story, led all nominees when the nominations for the 90th Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning, receiving thirteen, including Best Picture and both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for d
director Guillermo det Toro's «fish out of water» love story, led all nominees when the
nominations for the 90th Annual Academy Awards were announced this
morning, receiving thirteen, including Best Picture and both Best
Director and Best Original Screenplay for d
Director and Best Original Screenplay for del Toro.
«Hotel Transylvania»
director Genndy Tartakovsky was watching TV when the Golden Globes
nominations were announced Thursday
morning and didn't hear his movie — or any other animated titles — named.
No Golden Globe
Director or BAFTA film
nominations will make it difficult, especially when something like Phantom Thread came in and over-performed on Oscar
nomination morning.
That being said, the chances of these five being your Oscar nominated
directors are statistically very slim and the safe bet would be that Spielberg (or even Haynes) knock Miller or possibly even Scott from contention when Oscar
nominations are announced early Thursday
morning.
Who would have guessed, come
nomination morning, that «Changeling» would land 8
nominations (including mentions for Best
Director and Best Original Screenplay), while «Happy - Go - Lucky» gets zilch?
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).
With her
nomination on Tuesday
morning for Lady Bird, she becomes only the fifth woman ever nominated for Best
Director.