Sentences with phrase «picture at the critics»

When «The Shape of Water» won best picture at the Critics» Choice Awards, producer J. Miles Dale made an impassioned plea to Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger.

To no one's surprise, Boyhood won the Broadcast Film Critics Association's Best Picture at the Critics Choice Movie Awards, but also took home trophies for Best Director (Richard Linklater), Best Supporting Actress (Patricia Arquette) and Best Young Actor / Actress (Ellar Coltrane).

Not exact matches

Critics say the upheaval at Nanaimo Seniors Village is part of a larger picture of layoffs and wage cutting at health facilities around the province, practices allowed under legislation passed by the BC Liberal government to aid privatization.

Despite scattered favorable notices, most critics despised the picture (Roger Ebert remarked, «Here is a film so dreary and conventional that it took an act of will to keep me in the theater»), but it soared at the box and became one of the top grossers for several weekends.

HOSTILES Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures Director: Scott Cooper Screenwriter: Scott Cooper Cast: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Jesse Plemons, Adam Beach, Rory Cochrane Screened at: Critics» DVD, NYC, 12/7/17 Opens: December 22, 2017

At the Critics» Choice, best picture went to... «The Shape of Water.»

The project, which has proved a hit amongst critics at the fest and was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics for the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand, is written by Gonzalo Maza.

The film was rightly savaged by critics, made just $ 50,000 at the box office, which must be close to a record for a major studio production (it was produced by Disney subsidiary Hollywood Pictures), and essentially ended Eszterhas» career.

After the impact of these two features (the latter screening at Cannes and championed by such critics as Pauline Kael), Schepisi moved on to directing films overseas, including such varied works as Barbarosa (1982), Plenty (1985), Roxanne (1987), The Russia House (1990), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Last Orders (2001) and the HBO - financed Empire Falls (2005), which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television.

HBO drama Big Little Lies was the big TV winner at Thursday's 23rd Annual Critics» Choice Awards while The Shape of Water won best picture.

Sandra Bullock - The 19th Annual Critics» Choice Movie Awards at the Barker Hangar on January 16, 2014 - Arrivals at Barker Hangar - Los Angeles, California, United States - Thursday 16th January 2014 (2 Pictures)

Exalted audiences and approving critics confirm the hype: Black Panther's opening weekend box office numbers has usurped 2012's The Avengers as the top - grossing domestic opening for a Marvel movie at $ 235 million, and the picture has a 97 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Herzog's languid, meditative anti-horror film was completely at odds with both the times and stateside sensibilities and his film, Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht (or Nosferatu: The Vampyre as it was known in the US and UK), although critically praised by many, got lost in the sanguinary shuffle, deemed by some as pretentious and thought by some critics to be a pointless attempt to revisit a picture that was already perfect as is.

The filmmaker was also named best director by the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn., and his movie was nominated for best picture at the Oscars.

Boyhood took the audience award at the Gothams, after winning best picture from the New York Film Critics Circle earlier Monday.

Best Picture: The Birth of a Nation Last year at the Sundance Film Festival, critics and audiences predicted that writer - director - star Nate Parker's incendiary recreation of Nat Turner's 1831 slave uprising would be the movie to beat in the Oscar race for Best Picture.

Apparently everyone thought that meant there was no way «Argo» could win best picture — until it went on to win top prizes at the Critic's Choice, Golden Globe, PGA, and SAG Awards.

Americans are pretty fond of him too, judging by the fact that «Argo» has swept the top prize at the PGA, DGA, and SAG ensemble awards, along with best picture from the Golden Globes and Critic's Choice Awards.

When the New York Film Critics Circle finally announced that David O. Russell's «American Hustle» topped their annual Best Picture debate, the response at Sony may have started with a deafening «YAY!»

I'm one of those critics who considers it shameful that this film wasn't nominated for Best Picture or Best Director, and that it walked with a grand total of zero wins (it should have taken Costume Design, Score, and Supporting Actress at the least).

I've got My Review of «The Disaster Artist», plus a preview of «Just Getting Started» and a look at the Best Picture Critics Choice Awards race.

It's hard to believe a whole year has flown by that we were all studiously predicting The Tree of Life and Hugo to win Best Picture at the New York Film Critics only to then see that award go to The Artist.

Either way, at least one title from Oscar's Best Picture list will be missing from the Critics Choice.

«Yi Yi» picked up a swarm of awards upon release in 2000, including best picture from the National Society of Film Critics and best director at the Cannes film fest.

Christoph Waltz Monday 11th January 2010 2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards at Crimson - Inside Arrivals New York City, USA (7 Pictures)

At least one group of British critics selected «The Third Man» as the finest British picture of all time.

Carol wins Best Picture, Director, Screenplay and Cinematography at New York Film Critic Awards

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Praised by audiences and critics alike, Moneyball is set to contest the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture — Drama, Best Actor — Drama (Pitt), Best Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill) and Best Screenplay (Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin), and could prove to be a big player at the Academy Awards.

I added over 10 high - quality pictures of Blake at the Critics Choice Awards on December 11th.

Like AIDS related Best Picture nominee Dallas Buyers Club twhich some gay critics don't like at all and on principal but which factors into both of the gay - specific awards recently announced.

Spotlight won Best Picture at the 21st annual Critics» Choice Awards on Sunday night in Santa Monica, along with best original screenplay and best ensemble, but Mad Max: Fury Road took home nine prizes, with best director (George Miller) being the biggest.

Inspired by the 1954 Universal Studios monster movie classic Creature from the Black Lagoon, del Toro's take on the unique relationship between a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) and an amphibian man (Doug Jones) held captive in a research facility has dominated this awards season with a Best Picture win at the Critics» Choice Movie Awards, and a Best Director win for del Toro at the Golden Globes.

and Best Picture winner Chicago and then in 2006 - 2007 there was a huge wave of popular favorites like Dreamgirls, Hairspray, Enchanted and Sweeney Todd that managed to do solid business at the box - office as well as with the critics.

If A.I. is Spielberg's trickiest film, 2005's Munich is his most punishing, and for that, it struggled both at the box office and with a lot of critics — though it was a surprise Best Picture nominee.

Picture: Stanley Tucci - The London Critics» Circle Film Awards held at The May Fair Hotel - Arrivals - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 18th January...

Affleck, whose film was nominated for seven Oscars including best picture but not best director, accepted the award Thursday night at the Broadcast Film Critics Association's 18th annual awards in Los Angeles, joking as he took the trophy that he'd «like to thank the Academy.»

If critics have a function anymore besides carving their own gravestones on the marble of modern cinema, it's to point a finger at films like Junebug, which sounds like a thousand other pictures but is actually something all its own: a Southern Gothic in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor that treats its characters as more than plot - movers or cardboard caricatures.

Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano - The 21st Annual Critics» Choice Awards at Barker Hangar, Critics» Choice Awards - Santa Monica, California, United States - Monday 18th January 2016 (2 Pictures)

... The Broadcast Film Critics Association has announced that it has belatedly added Star Wars: The Force Awakens to the list of nominees for Best Picture at the 2016 Critics» Choice Awards.

Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano - 21st Annual Critics» Choice Awards - Arrivals at Barker Hangar, Critics» Choice Awards - Santa Monica, California, United States - Sunday 17th January 2016 (6 Pictures)

Recognition for the cast by year - end critics groups will likely be one of the most important ways that awards discussion around this March release can be revived at the end of the year, and if it can crack the field at the all - important Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards for Outstanding Ensemble, then a Best Picture berth would be looking very promising — as none of Anderson's previous films have been nominated before at this key precursor.

The upshot of his efforts is an overambitious production which, while not quite ready for primetime due to a gaggle of technical flaws, at least exhibits enough promise in terms of acting, plot and camera angles to make this critic curious to see Papas the Younger's next picture.

Boyhood was the only triple winner at the 80th New York York Film Critics Circle Awards — snapping up the Best Picture, Best Director (Richard Linlater) and Best Supporting Actress (Patricia Arquette) awards.

The Emma Stone — and — Ryan Gosling — propelled ode to trying to make it in L.A. won Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes in addition to taking home top honors at the Critics» Choice Awards, the Producers Guild of America Awards, the Directors Guild of America Awards, and the British Academy Film Awards.

The Pianist, which recently won the San Francisco Film Critics» Circle Award for the Best Picture of 2002, opens today at the Clay Theater.

If they spread the love, I could picture Toy Story 3 and Winter's Bone getting some love at the critics awards.

Labor Day is almost here and we're deep enough into the calendar year that when a film critic declares a picture to be «light - years the most entertaining movie of the year,» we sit up and take notice — even if the year as a whole has been almost entirely bereft of «entertaining» movies, or, at least, the kind of movies that aspire to merely entertain and not make you dwell on tragedy («Fruitvale Station»), the emptiness of our culture («The Bling Ring») or the struggles that come with aging and evolving with someone you love («Before Midnight»).

Bruce Dern - The 19th Annual Critics» Choice Movie Awards at the Barker Hangar - Arrivals - Los Angeles, California, United States - Thursday 16th January 2014 (4 Pictures)

His two previous films, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, have not only earned high praise from critics and been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, but have also performed extremely well at the box office.