A Best
Picture nomination also seems rather probable with ten films in play.
Not exact matches
With that in mind, I'm reluctant to pick The Shape of Water as this year's Best
Picture winner: It received the most
nominations and several guild wins, but like La La Land (which
also breezed through awards season until the final night), it's a retro pastiche.
The studio
also had a best
picture nominee in The Imitation Game, and earned 9 Academy Award
nominations overall.
She
also received a
nominations from The Golden Globes, and took home no less than two Academy Awards for Best
Picture and Best Director (another prize that had never before gone to a woman), beating out ex-husband James Cameron, who was nominated for his CG juggernaut Avatar.
The former
also received 10 Oscar
nominations including best
picture (while the latter was arguably robbed of a similar honor).
It
also snared Tarantino his first writing and directing Oscar
nominations since Pulp - and got a Best
Picture nod, too.
Additional film credits include TALK TO ME; the 2006 Oscar ® winning Best
Picture, CRASH, which Cheadle
also produced; HOTEL RWANDA, for which his performance garnered Academy Award ®, Golden Globe ®, Broadcast Film Critics Award and Screen Actors Guild ® Award
nominations for Best Actor; OCEAN»S ELEVEN, OCEAN»S TWELVE, and OCEAN»S THIRTEEN, directed by Steven Soderbergh; Mike Binder's REIGN OVER ME with Adam Sandler; the Academy Award ® winning film TRAFFIC and OUT OF SIGHT, both
also directed by Soderbergh; Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed BOOGIE NIGHTS; BULWORTH, SWORDFISH, MISSION TO MARS, John Singleton's ROSEWOOD, for which Cheadle earned an NAACP Image Award
nomination; FAMILY MAN, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage; COLORS, HAMBURGER HILL, and the independent features MANIC and THINGS BEHIND THE SUN.
It
also earned Meryl the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical in a Motion
Picture and her 14th Oscar
nomination for Best Actress.
The film
also received Oscar
nominations for best
picture, best director for Peele, and best actor for Kaluuya.
Ellison is
also one of only four honorees ever to receive two Best
Picture nominations in the same year, with HER and AMERICAN HUSTLE, both earning nods in 2014.
He
also earned another
nomination for the
picture's screenplay.
The 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards
nominations have been announced and Jordan Peele's completely different but
also masterful social thriller Get Out, scored five nods in total including Best Director and Screenplay for Peele, as well as Best
Picture, Actor, and Editing.
An independent drama based on an intense, bestselling 2010 novel by Emma Donoghue, «Room»
also collected Oscar
nominations for best
picture, director for Lenny Abrahamson and adapted screenplay for Donoghue.
Only once in DGA / Oscar history did only two directors from the DGA's list get Oscar
nominations and of course, the one who won the DGA
also won the Directing Oscar and Best
Picture, Robert Wise and The Sound of Music.
Also getting a best
picture nomination (as well as nods for star Brie Larson, adapted screenplay by Emma Donoghue from her novel and director Lenny Abrahamson) was the singular «Room,» an emotional roller coaster whose success led to perhaps the biggest surprise of the morning.
If it were up to me, Beauty and the Beast would
also get a Best
Picture nomination.
In addition to
nominations for McDormand and supporting actor Sam Rockwell, the movie is
also up for best director, best screenplay, best original score and best motion
picture, drama.
Coming in behind «The Shape of Water» are Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird» and Luca Guadagnino's summer romance «Call Me By Your Name» with seven
nominations each,
also including best
picture.
Women in Love (which received key marquee nods and critical support) and Ryan's Daughter (4
nominations and public enthusiasm) surely would have
also been nominated for a 7 wide Best
Picture race.
Alone with «American Hustle,» it was the only one of the 10 movies up for a Golden Globe best
picture that
also collected a SAG
nomination for ensemble, the acting union's equivalent of the best
picture category.
It
also received 11 César Awards
nominations including Best
Picture as well as Best Director, which Desplechin won.
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.
Woodstock won the most
nominations ever given to a documentary feature (three) and it was
also a hit with the public but Oscar has still never nominated a documentary for Best
Picture so there must be a subconscious unwillingness to do so.
Two films that picked up acting
nominations but missed out on best
picture at the Oscars are
also neck and neck.
Gosling was
also awarded the Best Actor in a Motion
Picture, Comedy or Musical at the Satellite Award and earned his second Screen Actors Guild Award
nomination and his first Golden Globe Award for his lead performance in Lars and the Real Girl (2007).
Armie Hammer scored a Golden Globe
nomination — for best actor in a supporting role in any motion
picture — Monday morning for his performance in the acclaimed «Call Me by Your Name,» costarring Timothée Chalamet, who was
also nominated.
The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson has his best ever shot at the Oscars this year, with his first Directing and
Picture nominations to go along with his third Screenplay
nomination (he was
also nominated for Best Animated Film in 2009).
Tom Hanks, who played Washington Post editor - in - chief Ben Bradlee in «The Post,»
also did not receive a
nomination, while newcomer Daniel Kaluuya, who stars in «Get Out,» did earn recognition from the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences.
Under the Skin
also managed a healthy haul of eight
nominations, including Best
Picture, but failed to earn a Best Director
nomination for Jonathan Glazer or, more surprisingly, a Best Actress
nomination for Scarlett Johansson.
Though the film debuted to not terrible reviews, there
also wasn't much buzz around Clint Eastwood getting another Best Director
nomination, let alone the movie earning a Best
Picture nod.
Every NYFCC winner for best
picture of the last decade has proceeded to secure a nomination for the Best Picture Oscar; only two al
picture of the last decade has proceeded to secure a
nomination for the Best
Picture Oscar; only two al
Picture Oscar; only two
also won.
Beasts of the Southern Wild
also did well, picking up
nominations for best
picture, best adapted screenplay, best director (Benh Zeitlin), and best actress (Quvenzhané Wallis).
Sutherland is still searching for his first Oscar
nomination and although The Leisure Seeker could be his ticket it's getting further away by the month, especially since Sony
Pictures Classics
also has CMBYN.
Although it would be quite something if it does win considering the time before Argo that a film won Best
Picture (and Best Actress) without a Best Director
nomination also had a (now) problematic view on race, Driving Miss Daisy.
The film is very popular and well liked all around and is the only adapted screenplay that
also has a Best
Picture nomination, making it a shoo - in.
«Imitation»
also received a
nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion
Picture, the Screen Actors Guild Awards equivalent of Best
Picture, when the SAG Awards nominees were announced yesterday.
It
also joins «The Blind Side» and «A Serious Man» as films of the expansion era to receive just one other
nomination besides Best
Picture.
As for the Best Director prize, «Birdman» director Alejandro González Iñárritu and Richard Linklater of «Boyhood» received nods — no surprise — and David Fincher of «Gone Girl» (which did not earn a Best Motion
Picture — Drama nod) and «The Grand Budapest Hotel» director David Fincher
also received
nominations.
The film earned Keaton —
also the frontrunner for best actor at the Oscars — a
nomination, as well as nods for best
picture (comedy or musical) and director.
The Academy offered a major surprise by not only honoring the film with
nominations for Best Actor Andrew Garfield, Editing, Sound Editing, and Mixing, but
also for Director and Best
Picture, signaling that scandal - tainted Mel Gibson, who directed «Braveheart» to five Oscar wins including director and picture back in 1996, made such a strong movie that the Academy couldn't de
Picture, signaling that scandal - tainted Mel Gibson, who directed «Braveheart» to five Oscar wins including director and
picture back in 1996, made such a strong movie that the Academy couldn't de
picture back in 1996, made such a strong movie that the Academy couldn't deny him.
Many had predicted recognition for Whiplash's editing and best supporting actor (JK Simmons), but Damien Chazelle's taut drama about a ferocious drum teacher
also scored best
picture, best sound editing and best adapted screenplay
nominations.
With 10 best
picture nominations to choose from, there could be a twist: Perhaps the blockbuster «Toy Story 3» (
also nominated in the animated feature film category) or the Coen brothers» revisionist Western, «True Grit,» could sneak in and snatch the big prize.
Acclaimed: Daniel has
also picked up Oscar, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild
nominations for his role as Chris Washington in Get Out (
pictured with Allison Williams in the film)
Also well received is Denis Villeneuve's timely Sicario, which garnered 8
nominations for Best
Picture, Best Director, Supporting Actor (Benicio del Toro), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score, and Sound Design.
MacLaine's win is
also one of only three Best Actress wins by a film that won Best
Picture and did not have a corresponding Best Actor
nomination.
No other film since 1995's «Braveheart» has taken Best
Picture without
also claiming a Screen Actors Guild ensemble
nomination.
Given Silver Linings Playbook's Best
Picture frontrunner status, director David O. Russell
also has a decent chance at pulling off a
nomination.
In addition to Scott's
nomination for Directing, the film
also is a nominee for Best
Picture, Lead Actor (Matt Damon), Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Sound Design, and Visual Effects.
Other specialty outfits
also triumphed, including 14
nominations for Universal's Focus Features («Phantom Thread,» «Darkest Hour») and six for Sony's Sony
Pictures Classics («Call Me By Your Name,» «Loveless,» «A Fantastic Woman»).
Rounding out the Best
Picture lineup for 2015 is John Crowley's Brooklyn, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Pixar's animated blockbuster Inside Out, Lenny Abrahamson's Room and Oliver Assayas» Clouds of Sils Maria, which
also earned Kristen Stewart a
nomination for Supporting Actress.