Sentences with phrase «picture contenders did»

Not exact matches

Can it be a Best Picture contender (I don't think so).

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.

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

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.»

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.»

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.

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's well - intentioned, smartly written and for the most part un-embarrassing; qualities one doesn't find too often these days in a Best Picture contender.

I almost always end up predicting nine Best Picture nominees, and am doing so again this year, given how broad support seems to be among many contenders.

The last two winners of the Best Picture Oscar came from Fox Searchlight, the mini-major which doesn't have a stronger contender on its menu this season.

While that Best Picture nominee, the first ever animated feature to be so honored and the only one to do it when there were only five contenders, obviously owed a huge debt to Jean Cocteau's landmark 1946 adaptation of the classic Jeanne - Marie Leprince de Beaumont fairy tale, thanks to lush characterizations, superb animation, brilliant set pieces and a marvelous soundtrack it instantaneously entered the pantheon of all - time great Disney classics.

Consider that James Ivory still doesn't have one despite being a masterful oft imitated but never duplicated director behind three major Best Picture contenders (and many other beautiful films) and never having won an an Oscar and being 88 years old.

We all like to talk about Oscar's bias against comedy... but when one does emerge as a contender, many of us immediately see it as some lightweight usurper: I still can't believe The Artist was the film to beat for Best Picture in 2011.

No one seriously considered Defiance as a Best Picture contender and it doesn't match the genre qualifications.

Phantom Thread: If you'll allow me to pat myself on the back here, I did predict that Phantom Thread would end up as a Best Picture contender.