Sentences with phrase «leading role category»

«Get Out» received a nomination for best picture, and Daniel Kaluuya is one of five actors competing in the leading role category.

Saoirse (23) has star earned a nod in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role category for Lady Bird and is up against Victoria & Abdul's Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins (The Shape of Water), Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) and Margot Robbie (I, Tonya).

Tom Hanks got bumped from the Best Actor in a Leading Role category with Christina Bale, Bruce Dern, Leonardo DiCaprio, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthew McConaughey taking the nods while Hanks» «Saving Mr. Banks» co-star, Emma Thompson, lost the Best Actress in a Leading Role nomination to Amy Adams, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Judi Dench and Meryl Streep.

In the Female Actor in a Leading Role category, the nominees are Anne Hathaway for Rachel Getting Married; Angelina Jolie for Changeling; Melissa Leo for Frozen River; Meryl Streep for Doubt; and Kate Winslet for Revolutionary Road.

In the Male Actor in a Leading Role category, the nominees are Richard Jenkins for The Visitor; Frank Langella for Frost / Nixon; Sean Penn for Milk; Brad Pitt for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; and Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler.

As expected, Jessica Chastain is the frontrunner for Best Actress in a Leading Role category with Jennifer Lawrence right behind.

UPDATE: 2:49 pm Eastern Time — Jessica Chastain was originally listed in the Best Actress in a Leading Role category for «The Death & Life of John F. Donovan» but director Xavier Dolan announced that her role was cut from the film.

Phoenix could be Allen's first actor to win in the Best Actor in a Leading Role category, which, personally, I think he's overdue for, but, at the very least, we can expect a nomination, after Academy voters snubbed the actor for an indelible performance in Spike Jonze «s «Her,» two years ago.

In the movie categories, the revenge thriller scored nods for Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, with Frances McDormand singled out in the Female Actor in a Leading Role category, and Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell both shortlisted in the Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.

With his win for his role in Lincoln, Day - Lewis became the first actor to win three Oscars in the Best Actor in a Leading Role category, prompting him to make a joke at presenter Meryl Streep's expense about how he had actually been picked to play Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady first.

The movie had majority of the nominations for Ghana but missed out on Best Actress in Lead Role Category.

Juno also received Oscar noms in the best picture, director and actress leading role categories.

Not exact matches

Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.

In 2003, Bob accepted the Category Lead role for wine, spirits and beer at Sam's Club US in Bentonville, AR.

In this role, he leads the development and delivery of SCA's proprietary technologies for supply chain cost management, category sourcing, and optimization.

The easiest category to pick among all the nominations is Lead Actor - Benedict Cumberbatch does so far and away the best in his role, it will be an injustice if anyone else wins.

The other categories were: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Morgan Freeman), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Dan Aykroyd), Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Bruno Rubeo, Crispian Sallis), Best Costume Design (Elizabeth McBride) and Best Film Editing (Mark Warner).

Eddie is nominated in the category of Leading Actor for his role as Lili Elbe in «The Danish Girl «at the EE British Academy Film Awards.

His only nomination in the category for Best Actor in a Leading Role resulted in Hoffman's first Oscar win.

The strong performance, combined with the general lack of lead female roles of substance, virtually guarantees she'll compete in Best Actress category at the Oscars, as she is elsewhere.

In the EDA «Best of» categories — which parallel those used by other voting organizations — Jessica Chastain and Daniel Day Lewis were honored for their leading roles, with supporting role awards going to Anne Hathaway and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Fellow winner Kate was nominated twice in the leading actress category for her roles, one for The Reader and one for Revolutionary Road.

Comedy Series, Comedy Veep (1st win in this category) Lead Actress, Comedy Julia Louis - Dreyfus, Veep (6th win, 4th consecutive from this series, from 20 nominations from 3 series) which means that two iconic characters Lisa Kudrow's «Valerie Cherish» and Amy Poehler's «Leslie Knope» were never rewarded for their genius Lead Actor, Comedy Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent (1st win for this role, 7 total nominations from 3 series) Supporting Actress, Comedy Alison Janney, Mom (6th win, 2nd consecutive for this role, 10 total nominations from 3 series) Supporting Actor, Comedy Tony Hale, Veep (2nd win for this role from 3 nominations) Writing, Comedy Veep (1st writing win for this series from 2 nominations) Director, Comedy Jil Soloway, Transparent (1st directing win for this series)

Matthew McConaughey won Best Actor in a Leading Role, a category shared with Christian Bale (American Hustle), Bruce Dern (Nebraska), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave), while his co-star Jared Leto took home Best Actor in a Supporting Role, beating out Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips), Bradley Cooper (American Hustle), Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) and Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street).

While Léa Seydoux made the cut for her arguably supporting role, Adèle's astounding lead performance in Blue is the Warmest Color was relegated to the Most Promising Actress category.

Meanwhile Joe Cole has been named in the category for Leading Actor courtesy of his role in Hang The DJ, the fourth stand alone episode from the fourth series of Black Mirror.

In the mix: Meanwhile Joe Cole has been named in the category for Leading Actor courtesy of his role in Hang The DJ, the fourth stand alone episode from the fourth series of Black Mirror

The only category change was when Benicio del Toro won Lead here and then won the Supporting Actor Oscar in 2000 for his role in Traffic, clearing the way for Russell Crowe to win the Oscar for Gladiator.

Yes, Skarsgard swept earlier acting races, but the SAG Awards lumps leading and supporting roles into this catch - all category, which meant he was competing against De Niro, who starred in the Madoff biopic «The Wizard of Lies.»

The role of Takumi Nakamura is said to be a «lead role» but as we've seen with people like Will Forte in «Nebraska,» the studios are never afraid to push the «lesser known» actor in Supporting, no matter how much «category fraud» it commits.

Not only did «Moonlight's» Mahershala Ali and «Fences»» Viola Davis earn Oscars for their supporting roles — the first time two African American actors won in both supporting categories in the same year — Ruth Negga was nominated for her lead role in «Loving» and Denzel Washington earned his seventh acting nomination plus a shot at best picture as one of the producers of «Fences.»

And the blonde beauty's career has gone from strength to strength since Suicide Squad, with the star being among the nominees for the Best Actress category for the upcoming Academy Awards on Sunday night for her leading role in I, Tonya.

While some have deemed Viola Davis» performance in Denzel Washington's «Fences» to be a supporting turn, the HFCS recognized it to be a leading role and nominated her in the Best Actress category, which she won.

Carol brings up another key issue in the best - actress predicament: category fraud, the term for what happens when a performer in a lead role campaigns for a supporting Oscar (often at the insistence of the film's marketing team), theoretically increasing their chances of ultimately winning a statuette.

• OSCAR WINNING ROLES: If by some miracle Bryan Cranston won he'd be the second actor to win for playing a previous Oscar winner (the first being Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator) • GENDER: If by some miracle Eddie Redmayne won it'd be the first leading actor win for a female character though not the first Oscar win for someone playing another gender — that was Linda Hunt as a male photographer in The Year of Living Dangerously (1983) • MULTI-HYPHENATES: Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio have also been nominated outside of acting categories.

Dame Judi Dench has been nominated in the Best Actress category ahead of this year's Academy Awards for her lead role in the British film Philomena,...

Ananda: Emma Stone Because: Since no one has a problem writing a great supporting role for a female (if only lead roles were the same), this category should have at least five more names in it (Laura Dern?

Since there are so few strong leading roles for women, actresses now must find their juice in the so - called «Supporting» categories.

Nominees in the first set of categories will be revealed at 8:22 a.m. ET / 5: 22 a.m. PT, while nominations in some of the most prestigious categories — such as Actor in a Leading Role, Actress in a Leading Role and Best Picture — will be revealed at 8:38:30 a.m. ET / 5: 38:30 PT.

I'd argue that Mara has just as much of a lead role, as does Alicia Vikander in «The Danish Girl,» although she, too, received a nomination in the supporting category.

But Anthony Hopkins is Anthony Hopkins, and certainly the Lead Actor statue is more prestigious than Supporting, even if the role is pretty clearly designed for the Supporting category.

Because her thinking man's Ilsa act in The Reader is at least conceptually riskier than her put - upon dishrag Debbie Downer in Revolutionary Road, we were that close to throwing her by the wayside in this category, especially because there's a clearly superior crypto - leading role in the mix (Rosemarie DeWitt, whose titular character in Rachel Getting Married has been shut out of a lot of races thus far, but we feel anyone who actually watches enough of the film to justify throwing their vote toward frontrunner Anne Hathaway should have no other choice but to recognize DeWitt's equally tricky, equally attention - stealing performance).

I think everyone but McAdams has a serious chance to win this award, and I'm wondering if the indecisiveness of the category will lead to a dependable face like Winslet taking the award, creating the very strange experience of my being upset and disappointed that Kate Winslet won something for a role she performs well.

Joe Cole was nominated in the category for Leading Actor - which was won by Sean Bean - courtesy of his role in Hang The DJ, the fourth stand alone episode from the fourth series of Black Mirror.

Carell's flashy, ostentatious performance is just the sort of thing Academy voters fawn over, and while his positioning in the lead category isn't as patently insane as Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, it's still a clear supporting role that ended up pushing out actors like Ralph Fiennes and David Oyelowo, both of whom were the actual leads of their respective films.

Jack: It's clearly a leading role, and should be campaigned as such — given that she'd be a dark horse in any category, you may as well go for the right one.

Although Carell's role is the one that might appeal more easily to the Academy due to his veteran status and the physical transformation involved (including a prosthetic nose), Tatum has received superlative reviews himself, which combined with the prominence of his role would seem to demand that he be placed in the Leading category along with Carell.

Davis has been a presumed victor ever since October, when she announced she would run in the supporting category for a role that many would view as a lead.

Deserves to Win: Melissa Leo (Frozen River) Overlooked: Sally Hawkins (Happy - Go - Lucky), Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) Best Supporting Actor Will Win: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) I predicted this outcome when The Dark Knight was released way back in July, although the late Heath Ledger really belongs in the lead actor category, given how his spellbinding performance as The Joker overshadowed that of Christian Bale in the title role.

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