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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.

The Dark Knight became the first superhero movie to win an Oscar for acting (Health Ledger for Best Supporting Actor), and many were surprised that the film didn't receive a Best Picture nomination despite its massive success and widespread acclaim.

Not exact matches

Despite some genuinely hilarious sequences that, regrettably, are spaced too far apart, this meditation on the things that matter in life is too slow and at times too forced to deserve the high praise it has been getting (including an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film that should have gone to a number of other more worthwhile pictures).

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).

Just as many expected, Argo took home the top award of Best Picture at the 85th Academy Awards, despite Ben Affleck not receiving a Best Director nomination, something that has

Despite its Best Picture nomination, last year's War Horse didn't do anything for me.

Despite its enormous critical acclaim, «Silence» will be only the second Scorsese film in the last 15 years to not get a Best Picture nomination.

#OscarsSoWhite again: Despite a Producers Guild Award nomination for Best Picture, Straight Outta Compton didn't make the Oscar Best Picture cut, while Creed, directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, only scored one nod, for supporting player Stallone.

And yet Best Picture has remained elusive, even in the era of the expanded lineup, which Moonrise failed to crack despite scoring nominations from key precursors such as the Producers Guild of America (PGA), Writers Guild (WGA) and Golden Globes.

Despite relying on revisionist history, the movie earned five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Director (Ron Howard), Actor (Frank Langella), Script Adaptation (Peter Morgan) and Editing.

Outstanding Motion Picture: The Birth of a Nation, Hidden Figures, Queen of Katwe Despite getting three nominations for Actor, Director, and Screenplay, The Birth of A Nation failed to garner an Outstanding Picture nomination.

Despite being nominated by the Producers Guild of America at the 2018 PGA Awards, Warner Bros.» DC blockbuster Wonder Woman not only found itself missing out on a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards, but was also shut out entirely at the Oscars — something that left TV's Wonder Woman Lynda Carter feeling very -LSB-...]

Possibly the biggest snub is no Best Picture for Gone Girl, despite receiving nominations for Best Actress, Director and Screenplay (no adapted / original clarification for the Globes).

Hidden Figures may have gotten surprisingly little love in the acting categories despite a Best Picture nomination for this year's Academy Awards, but the Screen Actors Guild awards felt a bit differently.

This year is no exception, as some films rallied to make it to the Best Picture nominations list and some actors received nods despite earlier doubts.

Although director Stephen Frears has twice landed Oscar nominations for Best Director (The Queen and The Grifters) and twice guided a film to a Best Picture nomination (The Queen and Philomena), it is unreasonable to expect anything like that from this rather lightweight period comedy, which will fare well with older moviegoers but less so with the public at large despite favorable reviews from most critics.

Despite its foul language and bawdy sexual humor, the Motion Picture Academy recognized it with a Best Original Song nomination for «Blame Canada.»

Despite Best Picture wins for movies like Hitchcock's psychologically spooky Rebecca and Jonathan Demme's suspenseful classic The Silence of the Lambs, as well as the Best Director nomination awarded to The Sixth Sense's M. Night Shyamalan, it's safe to say that genre movies just can't catch a break with this awards body.

The Theory of Everything, which despite Jones» nomination is largely a biopic about Stephen Hawking (Best Actor nominee Eddie Redmayne), scored five nominations in total, including one for Best Picture.

Critics loved it too and despite the dissenting voices condemning its perceived immorality, it received ten Oscar nominations and five wins, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay among them (all three going to Wilder himself).

The Imitation Game is an enjoyable and well - done biopic that lacks a certain intangible hook which holds it back in my mind from a Best Picture nomination, despite some of the nods it has already gotten.

The director nominees are Fincher, Hooper, Aronofsky, Russell and the Coens, so - despite the Best Picture nominations for The Kids Are All Right and Winter's Bone - neither Cholodenko nor Granik will echo Kathryn Bigelow's success last year.

«King & Country» is a very harsh and bleak anti-war film that's been largely relegated to the cinematic dustbin of history, despite being very well - regarded at the time — enough to earn four BAFTA Awards nominations (the British equivalent of the Oscars), including Best Picture.

Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades» worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture despite very conspicuously not being nominated for its director, not having even remotely close to the year's highest nomination tally (it trails behind four other films), and not having even a halfway plausible shot at winning more than two other categories aside from thDespite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades» worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture despite very conspicuously not being nominated for its director, not having even remotely close to the year's highest nomination tally (it trails behind four other films), and not having even a halfway plausible shot at winning more than two other categories aside from thdespite very conspicuously not being nominated for its director, not having even remotely close to the year's highest nomination tally (it trails behind four other films), and not having even a halfway plausible shot at winning more than two other categories aside from this one.

That year was thrown into chaos on nomination day, when perceived frontrunner Dreamgirls was left off the Best Picture ballot entirely, despite still having the most nominations of any film, and everybody else went scrambling.

But early in his career, he did just that (his disgust with the resulting picture produced his change of heart), and despite being critically panned, the movie, based on one of his short stories, earned two Oscar nominations (for Best Actress and Best Song).