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It's also a likely Best Picture contender in the upcoming Oscar season.

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.

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.

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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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Chris Cillizza (now at CNN) broke down the Democrats mentioned as potential 2020 contenders now that U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is out of the picture, and put Cuomo in Tier II.

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Distributor Sony Pictures Classics has pulled off a number of wins in this category, and, in Andrei Zvyagintsev's «Leviathan,» which took the screenplay award at Cannes, the studio has another strong contender, a movie that weaves naturalism, allegory and dark humor into a multi-layered masterpiece.

With the strength of «The Shape of Water» in Best Picture, she is likely the firm 2nd place contender however.

Brian Grazer, nominated as producer of a best - picture contender «ÄúFrost / Nixon, «Äù came off the stage, made a beeline to Danny Boyle «Äôs table, and wrapped him in hugs.

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

Of the Best Actress contenders so far this year, only Viola Davis stars in what will likely be a Best Picture nominee in a whole sea of films starring white men.

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.

This year's Best Picture race is a wild one, filled with early contenders to emerging favorites to unexpected hits and just about everything in between.

But if you are tied to a strong Best Picture contender your job is always going to be easier to slide into those categories than it would be otherwise, unless the performance on its own is exceptional, like Charlize Theron in Monster, Halle Berry in Monster's Ball, etc..

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.

I'm hearing (not altogether surprising) rumblings that Robert Downey Jr.'s role in Joe Wright's «The Soloist» is larger than Jamie Foxx's homeless violinist Nathaniel Ayers and that he'll be pushed as a leading actor contender by the good folks at Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks SKG.

The independents tag also underscores that four of the most - nominated contenders were released by indie or boutique distributors: Miramax, The English Patient; October, Secrets & Lies; Gramercy, Fargo; Fine Line, Shine — the second Best Picture nominee from Australia, and arguably the most «Hollywood» movie in the running.

A handful of limited - release Best Picture nominees are going into tonight's awards with some box - office wind in their sails, placing most of tonight's contenders on par with most recent recipients of the top prize.

Furthermore, it's possible that the film might struggle to be seen as more than a performance showcase — Jones and Fiennes might well be in the running, depending on the strength of the categories, but it'll really need strong reviews out of TIFF to be a Best Picture contender.

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.

Meanwhile, Fox Searchlight will debut its best - picture contender «12 Years a Slave» in 18 theaters this weekend.

But he certainly can't be refering to this year's Best Picture race — while there may still be a scattering of homophobes alarmed by the relatively polite «Milk,» it's hard to see how any of this year's contenders could seriously ruffle feathers in the industry, or in society at large.

If the Oscars were really about pure craft, rather than wins being attached to a popular Best Picture contender, Baby Driver would have this one in the bag.

In most cases, the adapted screenplay category of a given Oscar race is packed with Best Picture nominees or contenders.

Why we're predicting it: Sony Pictures Classics does very well in this category, but can their 3 contenders make it?

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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.

Chalamet's work in Call Me by Your Name, a film I think is a more potent Best Picture contender than Darkest Hour, may well challenge the conventional wisdom.

20th Century Fox Fox has best picture and actress contenders with «The Post» and Meryl Streep, respectively, but perhaps its best chance at a win lies in original song.

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 categoryIn 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 categoryin the race who have lately lost a bit of steam (Matt Damon, Jeremy Renner and Viggo Mortensen, all in the Best Actor categoryin the Best Actor category).

We address queries regarding «Black Swan» as a potential dark horse Best Picture winner, lurking nominee hopefuls in that field, the fact that the category is not called «Best Makeup in a Good Movie» and... contender drinking games?

For two years in a row, we had fairly open and shut Best Picture contenders.

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.

Because the list of «Best Picture» contenders has been expanded over the years, the film could land a «Best Picture» nod if it receives universal acclaim and manages to garner in some worthy box office success.

But I didn't walk out of «Get Out» thinking that it was going to be a legitimate contender for a Best Picture Oscar, more than a year in the future.

1) what could be the big winner in terms of a sweep, and what could be the winner as a «second favorite» best picture contender.

Thanks primarily to good timing, this year's Academy Award contenders for best picture drew in an ex...

In recent years, films like «Brokeback Mountain,» «Juno,» «Slumdog Millionaire» and «The King's Speech» have bubbled up in this frame as real contenders to take the lead in the Best Picture fielIn recent years, films like «Brokeback Mountain,» «Juno,» «Slumdog Millionaire» and «The King's Speech» have bubbled up in this frame as real contenders to take the lead in the Best Picture fielin this frame as real contenders to take the lead in the Best Picture fielin the Best Picture field.

In 1997, the Italian film Life Is Beautiful (La Vitta È Bella) was a surprise contender in that year's best picture contestIn 1997, the Italian film Life Is Beautiful (La Vitta È Bella) was a surprise contender in that year's best picture contestin that year's best picture contests.

The Academy has made strides in the last two years to increase its female membership, and the list of potential nominees features a number of best - picture and best - actress contenders with significant overlap.

He's the surest bet so far for an Oscar in directing, and his film is the strongest contender yet for best picture.

Based on the events surrounding a 1962 world featherweight match in Helsinki between Mäki, the unlikely Finnish contender, and Davey Moore, the U.S defending champion, Kuosmanen's film works simultaneously with and against the tropes of the boxing picture.

Todd McCarthy has posted his review of Birdman from Venice and it looks to be a solid Oscar contender in the major categories, picture, acting, directing, writing, as well as the techs, like cinematography.

In terms of awards chances, the film is an outside contender for Best Picture and Best Director, but I think Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay are very likely.

So if guys like Tapley and Feinberg turn out to be right, you're really looking at only one Best Actress contender in the entire Best Picture lineup — unless Florence Foster Jenkins miraculously gets in for BP.

Sony Pictures Classics» limited US theatrical run in April only recently crossed the $ 1 million mark and Oscar talk has already shifted from this year's ceremony to next, as the real contenders near release.

For the film to be a contender for picture, the «Inside Out» script by Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley will likely have to be held in such high regard that it too is a contender for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.