Another strong Best
Picture contender includes the heartbreaking drama Manchester by the Sea (+800).
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.
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
Sony
Pictures Classics has a slew of Documentary Feature
contenders that
include «Red Army» and «The Salt of the Earth.»
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.
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.
It was also a big day for Call Me By Your Name, which lead all film noms with a total of six
including best
picture, but Universal / Blumhouse's Get Out continued to prove it's a serious
contender this season with five noms for the Jordan Peele movie
including best
picture, director, screenplay, editing and male lead Daniel Kaluuya.
2015
PICTURES: Hollywood
Contenders — Preliminary potentials in alphabetical order At this time of the awards season the Hollywood
Contenders list
includes the following 2015 features (in alphabetical order): Black Mass..
Other
contenders for Best
Picture include Jordan Peele's horror hit Get Out, Christoper Nolan's war drama Dunkirk, Phantom Thread, Darkest Hour, The Post, and the acclaimed Call Me By Your Name.
But check out what Lady Bird has going for it at the Oscars: five nominations that
include acting, directing and writing nods, potent backup for a Best
Picture contender.
Greta Gerwig's comic coming - of - ager has five Oscar nominations that
include acting, directing and writing nods, potent backup for a Best
Picture contender.
But the best - known
contenders include Andrey Zvyagintsev's powerful «Leviathan» (a surprise Russian selection), Pawel Pawlikowski's arthouse hit «Ida» (Poland), Nuri Bilge Ceylan «s Cannes Palme d'Or winner «Winter Sleep» (Turkey), the Dardenne brothers» affecting «Two Days, One Night» with Marion Cotillard (
pictured, Belgium), Xavier Dolan's bold «Mommy» (Canada), Kornel Mundruczo's brutal «White God» (Hungary), Abderrahmane Sissako's wrenching «Timbuktu» (first - time competitor Mauritania), Damian Szifron's blackly humorous anthology film «Wild Tales» (Argentina) and Ruben Ostlund's subtle but telling «Force Majeure» (Sweden).
Now that the autumn months are upon us, popcorn
pictures are out and more traditionally grown - up fare (
including the yearly parade of awards
contenders) is in.