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Star movie critic Peter Howell handicaps the odds on the nine Best Picture contenders for the Feb. 26 Academy Awards.
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We're handicapping the odds on the nine Best Picture contenders for the March 4 Academy Awards, starting with the longshots.
We're handicapping the odds on the nine Best Picture contenders for the March 4 Academy Awards, starting with the longer shots.
Not exact matches
New York «s culture website Vulture wrote recently about the difficulty in forecasting this year's Best Picture Oscar race for reasons that include an especially diverse crowd of contenders, as well as last - minute controversies and an all - around «politically charged moment» in time.
Though the Best Actor category is often brutally crowded, Spall is likely one of the year's first legitimate Oscar contenders - and, the actor admitted at the same lunch, he's also a candidate for an unlikelier honor if the film catches on after Sony Pictures Classics releases it in December.
And fall is when studios roll out the cream of the crop, the serious contenders for best picture.
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The deadline for underclassmen to pull their name out of the NBA draft has come and gone, leaving us all with a relatively clear picture of how the nation's top contenders are going to look in 2017 - 18.
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This fascinating movie that will undoubtedly be a strong contender at the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and deservedly so.
It's a formidable Best Picture contender with a strong shot at nominations across - the - board with Kristin Scott Thomas more of a threat than people think for a Supporting Actress nomination (despite a now more robust competition than evident before Lady Bird and I Tonya crushed ideas about that particular race).
Tom Hanks» role in Captain Phillips - about a ship being hijacked by Somali pirates - is a strong contender for both Best Picture and Best Actor, despite no Golden Globe wins
Earlier in the year when the prestige pictures were vying for the early awards buzz, Angelina Jolie's Unbroken was kicked around as a contender.
Of these five contenders, Silver Linings Playbook is the one sure bet for Best Picture.
Director Ben Affleck's thriller is a bona fide contender for the Best Picture trophy, and Arkin's role as Hollywood producer Lester Siegel is both hilarious and genuinely moving.
Though widely considered a strong Oscar contender for best picture and star David Oyelowo, who plays Martin Luther King Jr., the film received no SAG nominations.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which was liked by many, doesn't seem like a strong contender, but it wouldn't be totally jarring if the Globe's voters want to honor a nice picture for the older demographic.
The creature (Doug Jones) watches as Emily (Sally Hawkins) shows him a card she purchased for him in «The Shape of Water,» one of the top contenders for the best picture Academy Award.
2007, for example, was seen as a fight between «No Country for Old Men» ($ 74 mil, 36th for the year) and «There Will Be Blood» ($ 40 mil, 66th), while the highest - grossing best picture nominee that year, «Juno,» still only 15th, wasn't really seen as a contender for BP.
This makes for a stellar lineup of headliners of Best Picture contenders in Chalamet and Kaluuya, indie darlings with Pugh and O'Connor, and the big budget superhero badassery of Thompson.
And with the coveted backing of Sony Pictures Classics, its captivating lead Daniela Vega could also be a dark horse contender for a historic Oscar nomination for a transgender actress.
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The documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selected five Documentary Short Subject contenders out of 61 eligible entries for the 89th Academy Awards to compete for the Oscar.
Royal drama picks up four Oscars, including best picture, best actor for Colin Firth, and surprise best director prize for Tom Hooper, while other fancied contenders falter
Voters tend to go for young and pretty in the female acting categories but the strongest thing any contender can have is Best Picture heat.
American Sniper: Clint Eastwood's latest box office smash is a stealth Best Picture contender, but will likely have to settle for simply making a ton of money.
Most teens see — almost exclusively — PG - 13 movies, and it's no secret that the Academy likes their pictures to be serious, adult stuff, which almost guarantees an R rating for the majority of awards contenders.
Both missed SAG Cast noms and Golden Globe Motion Picture nominations and now seem like contenders for just Mark Rylance and Saoirse Ronan, respectively.
It may not be the Oscar contender for Best Picture, but certainly could get a nomination for Costume Design.
Catching up with Academy Award nominees is a difficult proposition for movie fans, tickets cost nearly $ 10 a pop and stretching your dollar to watch nine Best Picture contenders is more than a little difficult.
The main contenders: Two films dominate the Oscar race for best picture.
But there's also a case to be made for three of the other contenders: Van Hoytema's innovative IMAX work for Christopher Nolan's World War II survival epic, Lausten's sublime imagery for Guillermo del Toro's Best Picture favorite, and Morrison's poetic work for Dee Rees» «Mudbound.»
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In any case, «Birdman,» «Boyhood,» and «The Theory of Everything» all continue to seem likely contenders for a Best Picture nomination.
«Boyhood» and «Theory» were both nominated for Best Motion Picture — Drama, while «Birdman» is a Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy contender.
As it turns out, the Gothams are starting to build a reputation for predicting the eventual Best Picture winner — not too shabby for a group with no Academy crossover and no specific voting tabulation, not to mention an organization that occupies such an early place on the timeline that not all eventual Oscar contenders have even debuted.
«The Martian» Ridley Scott may have his best shot at an Oscar with this sci - fi drama, which is also a contender for Best Picture.
Other pairs of performers — Denzel Washington and Viola Davis for «Fences» and Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman for «Lion» — found themselves on the shortlist, as well as leading actor contenders Meryl Streep for «Florence Foster Jenkins» (Paramount Pictures), Isabelle Huppert for «Elle» (Sony Pictures Classics), Natalie Portman for «Jackie» (Fox Searchlight Pictures), Andrew Garfield for «Hacksaw,» and Viggo Mortensen for «Captain Fantastic» (Bleecker Street).
«Spotlight» A contender for Best Picture, director and screenplay — as well as the supporting acting categories.
The other hot contender for Best Picture was the horror thriller GET OUT which earned Daniel Kaluuya the BEST ACTOR AWARD as the African - American boyfriend of a rich white girlfriend who goes home to meet her parents one weekend at their affluent estate, and discovers that his «having the creeps» is not unfounded.
«Selma» missed out on the recent SAG Award nominations altogether, so the fact that it earned a Best Motion Picture — Drama nod may mean it's again a likely contender for an Oscar Best Picture nomination.
Gorgeous sci - fi drama «Arrival» (a Paramount pickup from Shawn Levy's 21 Laps, FilmNation, and Lava Bear) landed eight nods, including Adapted Screenplay, Directing and Editing — a sign of strength for a Best Picture contender.
His definition of the term «underdog» ranges from genuinely fanciful contenders (Catherine O'Hara and James Gandolfini for «Where the Wild Things Are,» «In the Loop» for Best Picture) to names still very much in the race who have lately lost a bit of steam (Matt Damon, Jeremy Renner and Viggo Mortensen, all in the Best Actor category).
The five directing nominations tend to line up with the strongest Best Picture contenders, although snubbed director nominee Ben Affleck did win Best Picture win for «Argo.»
For two years in a row, we had fairly open and shut Best Picture contenders.
Most of the expected contenders came away with something to show from the nominations, including the scientific space adventure «The Martian» (including nods for star Matt Damon and director Ridley Scott), David O. Russell's matriarch portrait «Joy» (best picture, comedy and best actress Jennifer Lawrence).
Barry Jenkins» sophomore feature Moonlight is a serious contender for Best Picture, having racked up 156 wins this awards season including a recent Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture — Drama.
Yet, here it is, September, and already three female directors have films that are sure to be strong contenders for Best Picture.
«Get Out» is a best picture contender, and the first - time filmmaker was nominated for directing and screenwriting awards.
Even though the famous social networking website was only founded in 2004, the unofficial «Facebook Movie» has arrived in theaters today, and it's actually a very strong contender for Best Picture.