But I attribute this exception more as praise for the Academy for including such films like Her and Nebraska in the Best
Picture category because in most years these could have been edged out by more mainstream picks like Saving Mr. Banks or August: Osage County.
Not exact matches
The Heritage of World Civilizations: I picked up the seventh edition of this college textbook for $ 4 at a used bookstore
because I liked the
pictures and
because it was stressing me out that I was losing to my little sister in the history
category of JEOPARDY.
They fly nicely under the wire
because Hitwise, Comscore and Nielsen refuse to list AdultFriendFinder, Passion (same database as Adult FriendFinder but with a PG home page and users have to opt in to see naked profile
pictures), Alt and Outpersonals in the online personals
category.
And finally, Kurt makes a case for narrowing the Best
Picture category,
because he thinks some of this year's nominees are overrated.
What to keep an eye out for with these awards is really what wins the «Comedy»
category, not
because of what might win editing at the Oscars, necessarily, but what has consensus heat to win Best
Picture.
It's a good thing the Best Director
category didn't go the way of Best
Picture to accommodate more nominees,
because this year's campaign has only ever been a three - man race even in its most competitive stages.
Usually, though, a Best
Picture winner will only win Score if a sweep is afoot, and hardly ever does the rest of the time
because in years when the Academy spreads the wealth, they seem to divide the films they like along the lines of tech, craft and major
categories.
Going into the 1989 Oscars, there was a lot of speculation over the Best
Picture category, mostly
because, while Driving Miss Daisy was the frontrunner, its director, Bruce Beresford, wasn't nominated at all.
This is always an interesting
category because the winner usually falls into one of two (or sometimes both)
categories: a major action film or the Best
Picture winner.
My favorite VES
category might be «Outstanding created environment in an animated feature motion
picture»
because three of them are places you'd definitely want to visit for hours if you could exploring every pixel: The Boxtrolls Cavern, The Land of the Remembered from Book of Life, and Oasis (which I believe is Cate Blanchett's dragon sanctuary) in How To Train Your Dragon 2.
Non-American films rarely see much glory in the best
picture category — The Artist was able to win, for example, only
because it didn't contain any foreign language.
The victory for «The Shape of Water» is rather surprising
because, for the first time in over 20 years, a Best
Picture winner has won the top prize without having a nomination for Best Cast from SAG, along with another big surprise of not winning its respective Screenplay
category on the way to the top.
The Best
Picture race is extremely difficult to quantify
because unlike all the other
categories, it substitutes a weighted formula for a simple most - votes - wins model.
A Best
Picture nomination for that could be her ticket to the Oscars, but Witherspoon won't need that
because she's one of a few practically guaranteed to be nominated in one of the acting
categories.
A hard
category to predict
because the Academy of Motion
Pictures Arts and Sciences, in the interest of broader representation, keeps fiddling with the rules.
«The red message at the bottom of this
picture is
because I tried to select a third
category.
The real strength of
Picture Us In the Light is how deftly Gilbert demonstrates that to have a powerful narrative a book doesn't have to fit neat
categories because, after all, whose life does?
This
category has been given an increased emphasis in the past few rankings
because it's vitally important for clients to have a clear
picture of how their entire account is performing, rather than seeing only whether individual securities are up or down.