Leading the pack with six nominations is Todd Haynes» Carol, which will contest the Best
Picture award against Anomalisa, Beasts of No Nation, Spotlight and Tangerine.
Not exact matches
Regular
awards - watchers will know that the NSFC is generally the most highbrow of the critics» groups, as well as the most independent - minded — last year, they went wholly
against the Oscar grain, giving Best
Picture to «Waltz With Bashir» and four major
awards to «Happy - Go - Lucky.»
James Franco along with brother Dave Franco, were supposed to hold a TimesTalk Wednesday - the event was cancelled as the New York Times cited «recent allegations»
against James (both
pictured Tuesday at the National Board of Review Annual
Awards Gala in New York)
The same would hold true of a Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that wins actors
awards, the Best Actor race more than any other acting category is closely tied to the Best
Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle
against competitors in stronger films overall.
It garnered seven Academy
Award nominations, including Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal
against winner Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)-RRB-, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role from the earlier stage production, and in her film debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won only one Oscar for Best Art Direction - Interior Decoration.
A compelling cross of a couple of Academy
Award - winning Best
Pictures, A Beautiful Mind and One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, capable of holding its own up
against those similarly - themed, screen classics.
Moonlight, Barry Jenkins's mesmerizing coming - of - age film set
against the Miami crack epidemic, prevailed at the 89th annual Academy
Awards, winning best
picture over frontrunner La La Land, after it briefly lost to La La Land.
The Hurt Locker, the intense war drama about explosives experts in Iraq, took top honors in the 13th annual Online Film Critics Society
Awards, winning Best
Picture against fellow nominees Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man, Up, and Up in the Air.
Hollywood's
award - season prognosticators are busy divining the Oscar chances of prestige
pictures like Christopher Nolan's summer box office hit Dunkirk
against festival darlings such as Guillermo del Toro's Venice - winning aquatic interspecies love story The Shape of Water and unseen 800 - pound gorillas like Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers exposé The Post.
Regular
awards - watchers will know that the NSFC is generally the most highbrow of the critics» groups, as well as the most independent - minded — last year, they went wholly
against the Oscar grain, giving Best
Picture to «Waltz With -LSB-...]
It was the first Oscars since the avalanche of sexual abuse allegations
against numerous Hollywood figures — most notably the
awards - hungry producer Harvey Weinstein, who was booted from the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences's rolls in the autumn.