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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).

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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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Oscar season is only just beginning, but already the movie isn't being treated like a serious contender, even with a Best Picture category that could support up to ten nominees.

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

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 del Toro's «The Shape of Water» is just as good, comes with a large dollop of emotion and, importantly, is a best picture contender.

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.

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.

Talking to academy members the past couple of weeks, I heard an earful about all the problems they had with various best picture contenders — «Why'd she have to... that fish?»

It has the backing of a major studio — Paramount Pictures — with only one other serious contender (The Big Short) to promote.

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.

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

The latter still has a chance what with those three SAG nominations, but I'd guess the other three are all but done as Best Picture contenders.»

I'm also thankful that this Oscar season is dominated by brilliant work by women, and that the top three Best Picture contenders are stories with female leads.

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.

Something about the preferential ballot and the expanded number of Best Picture contenders shifted things so that Best Supporting Actress overlapped more with Best Picture.

Universal Pictures Universal's deal with Blumhouse Productions was expected to yield horror hits, but now it's produced a major Oscar contender.

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.

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.»

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).

It's too early to say whether it's a contender for Best Picture but I feel fairly confident that Bullock, along with Cate Blanchett, and Julie Delpy, are right at the top of the pile for Best Actress at the moment.

Based on the 2008 novel by Matthew Quick, the film has all the ingredients of a Best Picture contender, beginning with its excellent cast.

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.

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.

It finished with a domestic gross of $ 18.6 million, generating a healthy profit on the very reasonable $ 5 million budget and actually outperforming a couple of more extensive Oscar contenders from the same distributor, Sony Pictures Classics (Whiplash and Foxcatcher).

Open Road Films would be an interesting choice; they're the reigning Best Picture distributor (Spotlight) and their major (only) push this year, Bleed for This, was not only met with middling reviews at Telluride, it doesn't have a Best Actress contender to compete against.

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.

We're handicapping the odds on the nine Best Picture contenders for the March 4 Academy Awards, starting with the longshots.

Steve Jobs and The Martian also emerged as awards contenders, with Kate Winslet winning Best Supporting Actress and Aaron Sorkin winning Best Screenplay, plus Matt Damon winning Best Actor and Ridley Scott's sci - fi winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy.

We're handicapping the odds on the nine Best Picture contenders for the March 4 Academy Awards, starting with the longer shots.

None of these flaws, however, is likely to matter with Academy voters, as The Hours looks and sounds too much like a prototypical Best Picture contender to resist.

The general rule of thumb with screenplay, of course, is that the hotter the Best Picture contender the more likely it is to win for its screenplay, witness the debacle of last year where Tony Kushner's marvelous screenplay was supplanted by Chris Terrio's very charming and entertaining Argo.

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).

This year's nominees are nowhere near as satisfyingly autonomous, with no less than three Best Picture contenders extending their influence here, but as we've said before, this is one of those years the Best Picture ripple effect isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Musical or Comedy designation landed Phoenix a Best Actor nod at the Golden Globes (his second straight one in that category perhaps qualifies him for the «funnyman» label), but the film could not get a Best Picture nomination despite a field with only two legitimate Oscar contenders.

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The other three Adapted Screenplay slots will likely go to knee - jerk contenders, i.e. the scripts that best correspond with probable Best Picture hopefuls.

Joy may not be as strong as the filmmaker's three consecutive Best Picture contenders, but it is still a very strong film and one that tells a woman's story with nary a concern for romance.

More than just announcing a film's release, this simplistic and darkly ironic ad marks a bold move for Fox Searchlight Pictures, and augments their reputation as a studio wont to crash the Oscar season with a surprise contender.

Almost all of the prime Oscar contenders showed up in the CCMA nominations, with a few exceptions: Steve Carell failed to land a Best Actor nomination for «Foxcatcher,» and that film wasn't nominated for Best Picture.

Not only has it been 40 years since all five Best Actress contenders starred in Best Picture contenders, but it gets even worse with the expanded ballot.

Same story with Brenda Fricker in 1989, Adrien Brody in 2002 or even 1981's surprise Best Picture winner «Chariots of Fire,» all contenders with deep, even vocal, pockets of support who nonetheless never lost their dark - horse status.

But sometimes conventional wisdom exists for a reason, and we're following the crowd here, with actresses representing many of the major best - picture contenders, one beloved up - and - comer (Gerwig), and one veteran who's all but guaranteed a win (Davis).

Could a glut of worthy contenders lead to a best - picture category bursting with 10 nominees?

Its Rotten Tomatoes ratings were right on par with Boyhood and Birdman, the top two Best Picture contenders.

Sticking with the SAG five feels right here, though Octavia Spencer («The Shape of Water») is always a threat, particularly in a serious best picture contender.