Sentences with phrase «picture frontrunner»

I know, it's been less than a month since industry awards revealed that The Social Network was probably never our Best Picture frontrunner, but even then the only honor Geoffrey Rush has wrestled from an unkempt Bale's twitchy fingers, not counting SAG's ensemble award, was a prize from the Central Ohio Film Critics Association.

The film recently won the Producers Guild award and is cementing itself the Best Picture frontrunner just a month out from the Oscars.

It bodes well that Best Picture frontrunner Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was able to score here, checking off yet another guild.

We really do not seem to have a Best Picture frontrunner yet.

The Golden Globes managed to leave their mark on the awards race Sunday night, shaking up a number of races while also confirming a few frontrunners, including the current Best Picture frontrunner, who is now stronger than ever before.

The awards began to pour in, making the film seem like the Best Picture frontrunner, and then, a Golden Globe, a television acceptance speech... the gold guy was within reach.

It's the first day of fall and the Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals have wrapped and by now a Best Picture frontrunner has usually emerged.

I think it is time to start taking it seriously as a Best Picture frontrunner.

The likely winner, it appears, fresh off a BAFTA victory, is Alexandre Desplat for his work on the Best Picture frontrunner «The King's Speech.»

It's a strange year, with an unusual best - picture frontrunner («Boyhood») that has rarely appeared to be comfortable as a frontrunner.

While Up in the Air (2009) didn't wind up with any Oscar wins, it was a Best Picture frontrunner at one point and managed a fair amount of nominations.

Within hours of its premiere at TIFF, Silver Linings Playbook became the new Best Picture frontrunner and its cast became a major part of the awards conversation.

What was somewhat shocking were the lack of nominations for perceived semi-Best Picture frontrunner «The Martian» and the strength of «Trumbo,» which not only earned Bryan Cranston a Leading Actor nomination, but a Best Ensemble as well.

In a slightly alternate universe, this is a Best Picture frontrunner.

In both cases, we saw what happens when awards pundits hold off with their pronouncements, hoping for one last bang at the end of the year to clarify what seems like a foggy year with no clear Best Picture frontrunner.

You also feel that this baldly manipulative, yet nevertheless adorable, origin flick has all the trappings of a Best Picture frontrunner — one from some stage in history, at least.

In the absence of a de facto Best Picture frontrunner, the Oscar here usually goes to the slickest contender.

Just looking at the contenders to emerge so far this year, would Boyhood be the awards player, and arguably the Best Picture frontrunner, it is today if it had made only $ 2.3 million instead of the $ 23 million (and still counting!)

Just looking at the contenders to emerge so far this year, would Boyhood be the awards player, and arguably the Best Picture frontrunner, it is today if it had made only $ 2.3 million instead of the $ 23 million (and...

It depends on whether that film is a Best Picture frontrunner or not, like The King's Speech for instance.

Overall, I would say that Lady Bird got a major bump, Three Billboards is the Best Picture frontrunner heading out of this night, and The Shape of Water is still in there.

It will give them a very diverse group that includes their favorites, Clint Eastwood and Warner Bros, the historical importance of Jackie and Loving, the meat and potatoes filmmaking of Hell or High Water, the cultural diversity of Fences and Moonlight, and of course, the current Oscar Best Picture frontrunner, La La Land.

By Sean O'Connell hollywoodnews.com: For a handful of reasons, Tate Taylor's «The Help,» an adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's best - selling novel, feels like it could lay claim to the title of Best Picture frontrunner.

Right off the top, in the Cast in a Motion Picture category, we saw two of the biggest surprises: Oscar Best Picture frontrunner La La Land did not score a nomination.

Deserved Best Picture frontrunner, Up in the Air is all things a great film should be, with the performance of George Clooney's career at the heart of it, Jason Reitman's comedic timing and willingness to go deeper when the plot calls for it.

The Best Picture frontrunner, Spotlight, has an amazing score.

Given Silver Linings Playbook's Best Picture frontrunner status, director David O. Russell also has a decent chance at pulling off a nomination.

Howard Shore easily gets in because 1) he's Howard Shore, and 2) Spotlight is the Best Picture frontrunner.

I don't quite thing it's as good as a Best Picture frontrunner should be, but that's just my opinion.

This year is going to be a bit different in that Oscar's Best Picture frontrunner, La La Land, isn't even nominated for the top award.

While most people are predicting Moonlight to win (as I am) the film is the second lowest box office grosser of the bunch and this is a category that favors two things: the Best Picture frontrunner or a populist hit.

Since our Best Picture frontrunner is not in the running that points to Moonlight or Manchester.

And while it makes sense that The Shape of Water would be the Best Picture frontrunner I've backed off from that.

Get Out, the winner, was seen as the favorite but there were also trumpets blared for Lady Bird «s last stand to stake a claim of a guild win (it did not) and then the creeping feeling that if The Shape of Water is the Best Picture frontrunner then it winning WGA wouldn't be out of the blue and could signal a true lead.

The American Cinema Editors, Second Major Guild to Ring In, Offers Few Clues on Best Picture Frontrunner

And being in a Best Picture frontrunner never hurts matters, as always.

What it did, however, was frame «Mad Max» as a prestige enough picture for members of The Academy to truly embrace even though many pundits believed «Carol» left la croisette as a best picture frontrunner (well, except me...).

The American Cinema Editors (ACE) announced the nominees for the 2016 Eddie Awards today and snubbed the current Best Picture frontrunner in most pundit's eyes, «Spotlight.»

But in these results there is a notable echo of last season, where the only roadblock for «La La Land» came at the WGA Awards when «Moonlight» — categorized as an original screenplay by the guild, yet adapted by the Academy's writers branch — upset the perceived best - picture frontrunner.

Let's first look at the connection between Best Actress and the driving force and center of the Best Picture frontrunner.

So here's the bottom line: Emma Stone has the edge to win her first Oscar for a starring role in a Best Picture frontrunner, where she is a breath of fresh air that will blow through the Oscar race.

The film isn't a Best Picture frontrunner, but is a player in other major categories, making it one that's difficult to miss for those trying to keep up.

That means that Spotlight and The Big Short, the two Oscar Best Picture frontrunners, are statistically the only viable winners in the top category.

What's Coming July 6: «The Big Short» One of the Best Picture frontrunners last year, Adam McKay's «The Big Short» boasts a stacked cast that includes Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and Christian Bale.

Hans Zimmer («Inception») and Alexandre Desplat («The King's Speech») have the combination of having scored Best Picture frontrunners and earning BFCA, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.

A funny thing happened last year, something that's never really happened in recent years and that was only two of the Best Picture frontrunners were named on their ensemble list.

If the three picture frontrunners are «Gravity,» «12 Years a Slave,» and «American Hustle,» then one has to assume their three directors are getting nominated (although last year's nominees prove that assuming anything here will only drive you batty).

In a two - part announcement this morning, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences» President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, actor John Krasinski and directors Ang Lee and Guillermo del Toro let the world know the nominees for the 88th annual Academy Awards, survival epic The Revenant, dystopian action effort Mad Max: Fury Road, journalism procedural Spotlight and housing crisis comedic satire The Big Short instantly emerging as Best Picture frontrunners.

Not exact matches

Spotlight is one of a handful of frontrunners for Best Picture and its box office gross is just $ 38 million — which would make it one of the lowest - grossing Best Picture winners.

With «Inglourious Basterds» winning the top SAG award and «Avatar» winning Best Drama at the Golden Globes, Kit Bowen looks at the three frontrunners for Best Picture.