Sentences with phrase «oscar winning shot»

Not exact matches

Now, future generations can look back at Oscar history and say... «What!?!? The director of «Taxi Driver,» «Raging Bull» and «GoodFellas» won an Oscar for «The Departed»?!?» Well, look at it this way: John Ford, famous for great American Westerns like «Stagecoach,» «My Darling Clementine,» «She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,» «The Searchers» and «The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,» won four Oscars for direction, and not one of them was for a Western.

A win by either of those films over Spotlight or PGA winner The Big Short would be a shocking upset and an undeniable shot fired over the bow at the Oscars.

The Sting won Oscars while fooling its audience into thinking Paul Newman and Robert Redford's grifters have been shot dead — except it was actually part of an elaborate ruse to get back at their nemesis.

Marshall Flores, Ryan Adams, and I mostly talk about Get Out this week on «All This and the Oscars Too,» but we also discuss the general prospects of what has the best shot at winning in the major categories.

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.»

«Fruitvale Station,» the tale of the BART shooting of Oscar Grant III, was also a big winner at the confab, with the film's Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan winning breakthrough director and breakthrough actor, respectively — and presaging good things at the Spirit Awards, if not the Oscars.

In an interview with W magazine last month, the only man to have won three lead actor Oscars said the decision was directly related to shooting Phantom Thread.

The great cinematographer Winton Hoch, one of the few lensers to win the Oscar for the Western genre, also shot other Wayne features: Ford's «Three Godfathers,» «The Quiet Man,» which won Oscars in 1952, «The Searchers,» and the non-Western «Jet Pilot,» Von Sternberg's 1957 drama.

The Post should still do well with PGA / DGA and the Oscars, but, at least in my world, winning Best Picture is a slightly longer shot.

The Weinstein campaign machine thrust these movies into the center of the conversation so loudly they elbowed out other, less ostentatious works that had no shot at winning Oscars the next day.