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What they unveiled today may transform Ethan Tobman into an Academy Award nominee and make «Room» a lock for a Best Picture nomination if it isn't already.

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Now you can add the film American Hustle — which won a Golden Globe for Best Picture and picked up 10 Academy Award nominations this week — to the list, especially if you want to explain how really great salespeople find leads, draw customers, and make deals.

That movie is positively bursting with creative energy, unforgettable characters, riotous comedy and genuine heart, and it was the easy favorite to win this year's best animated picture nod, if not pick up a nomination for Best Picture opicture nod, if not pick up a nomination for Best Picture oPicture overall.

In the seven years since that threequel set box office records and earned a Best Picture nomination, the studio has had some generally liked if not quite loved triumphs (Finding Dory, Brave, Monsters University), one film that most would agree is at least in contention of «masterpiece» status (Inside Out), and some perplexing, unprecedented misses (Cars 2 & 3 plus the aforementioned Good Dinosaur).

The studio does not appear to have any releases on tap that will match The Big Short's best picture nomination (with the possible — if unlikely — exception of Richard Linklater's upcoming spring release Everybody Wants Some), while its box office fortunes ride in large part on the success of upcoming Star Trek and TMNT sequels.

If you thought that fanboys were upset about The Dark Knight not getting a Best Picture nomination at this year's Academy Awards, just imagine how crushed they will be if Wall - E doesn't win for Best Animated FeaturIf you thought that fanboys were upset about The Dark Knight not getting a Best Picture nomination at this year's Academy Awards, just imagine how crushed they will be if Wall - E doesn't win for Best Animated Featurif Wall - E doesn't win for Best Animated Feature!

But if Oscar voters do decide to honour the film and not the man, it could end up with a Best Picture nomination.

From the all - star cast, to the historical premise, to Clooney's gilded track record behind the camera, I'd be surprised if it didn't pull off at least five nominations and mostly a lot more — Best Picture, Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Cinematography, Score, you name it, this has a strong shot.

Otherwise this must have a strong outside chance of a Best Picture nomination — and even a win if the film assumes some momentum with audiences.

As we get closer to Ender's Game and more people hear about the movie, it wouldn't surprise me if people see Abigail Breslin's name and immediately picture a Valentine the same age as Breslin's character in Little Miss Sunshine, the role that got her a Best Supporting Actress nomination in the 2007 Academy Awards.

If it were up to me, Beauty and the Beast would also get a Best Picture nomination.

I'll start my review for Wonderstruck like this: If Wonderstruck doesn't get a nomination for best picture this year then something is horribly wrong.

If the picture is snubbed again in this category when Academy Award nominations are announced next Thursday it will have many believing it's a much shakier frontrunner than we believed.

But what if a baseline of commercial success were required to earn a best picture nomination?

If you are going to go by the stats, the only films nominated for Best Picture that could win after the nominations were announced earlier this month were «Spotlight» and «The Big Short.»

As usual, if our familiar rules apply, almost all of the Best Director nominees will very likely have a corresponding Best Picture nomination.

If «Inside Out» earned a Best Picture nomination it probably would be a much tighter race, but Oscar voters have shown their love for «Spotlight» overall and will reward it here.

Laura Poitras — «Citizenfour» Easily the most talked - about non-fiction film of the year, a front - runner for the Documentary Oscar (and even, some suggest, a dark horse for a Best Picture nomination), «Citizenfour» looks to make director Laura Poitras, if she wasn't already, one of the best known documentarians working today.

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.

If Oscar voters knew that the only thing standing between them and Dee Rees» Mudbound getting an Oscar nomination for Best Picture was how they ranked it on their ballots, do you think they would mark it at number one?

Thompson: If Brie Larson landed a lead actress nomination for Cinedigm SXSW pickup «Short Term 12,» which she would have if Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics or Harvey Weinstein had been behind it, I would be happIf Brie Larson landed a lead actress nomination for Cinedigm SXSW pickup «Short Term 12,» which she would have if Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics or Harvey Weinstein had been behind it, I would be happif Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics or Harvey Weinstein had been behind it, I would be happy.

If Gyllenhaal is firmly entrenched in the Best Actor race, Picture and Director will be mentioned much of the year as well, in terms of potential nominations.

If they didn't, they wouldn't be regarded as successes and they wouldn't be worthy for Best Picture nominations.

If his film wins Best Picture he's always going to be that guy who won without a director nomination.

Argo, Ben Affleck's third feature film, is looking more and more like a lock for the Best Picture prize at Sunday's Oscars, and even if the man himself didn't get a Best Director nomination, it's still a remarkable culmination of one of the most fascinating second acts in Hollywood.

The other 40 % is divided between that one exceptional work that can't ignored, and if the nomination is somehow tied to Best Picture.

The venerable studio probably had too many wannabe players on their dance card last year with «Interstellar,» «The Gambler» and «Top Five,» but found success when «Selma» landed a Best Picture nomination (even if was snubbed in some other key categories).

After all, five of the films currently sitting in the «most likely» pile for a Best Picture nomination — «The Fighter,» «Black Swan,» «The Kids Are All Right,» «The Town» and «Winter's Bone» — placed in my own Best of 2010 list last week: hardly an unhappy stat, even if my and the Academy's respective Top Tens will have only a 20 % overlap.

If you subscribe to the idea that most movies yielding best - actress nominations just aren't quite good enough to be nominated for best picture, your best supporting evidence is to look at the films made by top directors — and then emphatically throw shade at how few of them star women in the first place.

OTHER CATEGORIES There's far more to choose from if you expand the survey to films that will compete for nominations outside the Best Picture and acting races.

However, all of the NYFCC's Best Pictures since 2007 have at least received a nomination for Best Picture at the Oscars and the LAFCA's selections have received nods for the past 10 years, so, if history is any indication, the odds are strong that «Boyhood» will be on the list when Best Picture Oscar nominees are announced.

Logan was released in March, which means if it nabs a Best Picture nomination, it will be in an elite club of rare titles that have managed a nomination after opening so early in the year.

Production Design: The beautiful world of Wakanda should secure a nomination here easily, even if the movie's overlooked for Best Picture.

Like Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Part 2 is a shoo - in to earn a Best Picture nomination, if only in recognition of the franchise's record - breaking success and tireless pursuit of excellence.

Plus, the narrative for one film or another could shift based on the Oscar nominations — if Jordan Peele or Greta Gerwig are snubbed in Best Director, might that galvanize support behind their film in the Best Picture race («The Argo Effect»)?

Some pundits have wondered if the Warner Bros. tentpole could be the first comic book movie to score a best picture nomination at the Oscars.

The Shape of Water did okay in terms of Sally Hawkins and also netted a nomination for the great Richard Jenkins, but still missed out on the all - important ensemble nomination, which, if you read this site, you would know that is a potential problem in terms of winning Best Picture.

If its lack of a Best Picture nomination wasn't enough, Thompson's absence here very much shows that the Academy was not high on Banks.

Likewise, if you miss those two recent years (or those eight distant years) of a big fixed field of ten, it seems reasonable to determine what film just missed out on a Best Picture nod based on the other major nominations it received.

It has an outside shot for Best Picture — easier if there were a solid ten, harder with only five nomination slots for voters to fill in.

And, if I was really into long - shot betting, I might go ahead and predict Beasts of No Nation to make it in based on celebrity endorsements and passion votes, flying in from out of nowhere to land a Best Picture nomination.

Ryan Reynolds discusses Deadpool's chances of earning a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars, teasing a «crazy reaction video» if that happens.

I can't imagine the Academy going for Black Swan in such a big way as the BFCA did, but on the other hand it could surely rack up quite a few nominations if they really love it: Picture, Director, Actress, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Costume Design and so on.

If I had my way, and I don't, a Best Picture nomination would certainly go to Benh Zeitlin's «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» with its extraordinary lead performance by Quvenzhané Wallis as a young Louisiana girl named Hushpuppy.

A few fun things to consider with Best Picture; if Birdman wins it will be the first film in 34 years to win Best Picture without a Film Editing nomination.

If «The Florida Project» lands a best picture Oscar nomination on Tuesday, the filmmakers can thank their young star, Brooklynn Prince of Winter Springs.

The guild, which crosses over significantly in membership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, tends to be one of the better Oscar predictors — it's only missed one Best Picture nominee in each of the last three years — and considering Deadpool also netted a surprise Writers Guild of America nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay last week, its selection certainly positions the film as a serious (if still relatively unlikely) contender.

If they indeed go 0 - 3 on Sunday and «The Shape of Water» takes the top prize, the fantasy drama will join eight other Best Picture champs that did not convert any of its three - plus acting nominations into wins.

Whether it's the Bunsen burner or the microscope, scientists young and old are being asked to post their nominations along with a photo or picture if available, online www.scientificlaboratoryshow.com The top ten nominated objects will go into the Show's «Hall of Fame» on 25th May, and delegates will be asked to vote for their Number One object during the Show and conference.

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