Sentences with phrase «picture nomination because»

The expanded Oscar ballot makes it even harder than ever to win for cinematography without a Best Picture nomination because voters tend to like to spread the wealth among the Best Pic nominees.

Not exact matches

In addition to Bullock's win, it somehow managed to get a best picture nomination, because 2009 was not the finest year for film.

That's because it received a Best Picture nomination but Ben Affleck failed to get a nod as Best Director.

But no Oscar predictor has the film on the list for Best Picture even though many believe Sully could come in with a few nominations because of the Eastwood - Hanks Academy connection.

You can knock «The Revenant's» chances because the last time a movie won Best Picture without a screenwriting nomination was «Titanic» in 1998 (18 years ago).

The biggest complaints so far include Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close getting some nominations, 50/50 being completely snubbed (I kind of agree that Gordon - Levitt got snubbed), and somehow people are upset that Bridesmaids didn't get a nomination for best picture, which blows my mind completely, not because it wasn't nominated but for the fact that anyone would consider that film worthy of any sort of award.

This year, two documentaries crack my Best Picture field, likely because I didn't see five documentaries worthy of an Oscar nomination, not that they don't exist... I just didn't see them.

• Jeff Wells is beside himself because Oscar prognosticators understand «Che» has a snowball's chance in hell at a best Picture nomination.

• «The Kids Are All Right,» with major nominations including picture, actress (Annette Bening), supporting actor Mark Ruffalo) and screenplay (Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg), joins «Milk» among top nominees with a homosexual subject, and in a way is more meaningful because it shows a functioning family rather than a single person.

You can always tell when the actors have their say because the film will have a Best Picture nomination and only one acting nomination.

But just for kicks, and because Pixar has a habit of making us think about stuff like this, let's examine what it might take for «Inside Out» to actually get that elusive Best Picture nomination.

This is usually because the film that wins also has a Best Picture nomination, as so few of Deakins» nominations have had.

That might be because The Weinstein Co did not get a Best Picture nomination last year.

The victory for «The Shape of Water» is rather surprising because, for the first time in over 20 years, a Best Picture winner has won the top prize without having a nomination for Best Cast from SAG, along with another big surprise of not winning its respective Screenplay category on the way to the top.

A Best Picture nomination for that could be her ticket to the Oscars, but Witherspoon won't need that because she's one of a few practically guaranteed to be nominated in one of the acting categories.

Or maybe it's because no SAG Ensemble nomination + no BAFTA / Oscar screenplay nominations have always been insurmountable roadblocks for winning Best Picture, regardless.

Perhaps this is because this Merchant Ivory production earned eight Oscar nominations, including nods for Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Actress (Emma Thompson), and Best Picture.

We aren't sure what that something is, but we know something is out there, In The Sixth Sense that «something» revealed made it a great film in the eyes of many viewers, earning it an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, but I feel that it is only because people who saw the film had no idea there was a «something», and were genuinely unprepared for the bottom dropping out of the story in the end.