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

Not exact matches

The company tracked the number of Internet searches across various platforms for each of the Best Picture nominees during the week before the nominations were announced last month and the week after, and then compared those numbers to the weeks around each film's initial release.

Last year's winner had an October release, which set the film up well to benefit from the notorious Oscar bump following its Best Picture nomination and eventual win.

And Paramount earned best picture nominations for its two highest - scoring films last year, Alexander Payne's Nebraska and Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street; in all, the studio collected 13 nominations, trailing only Warner Bros. and Sony.

And, though the studio was shut out of the best picture nominations for the first time since 2010, it still picked up five nominations in other categories for films such as Before Midnight (one of critics» favorites last year) and Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine.

Last year's crop, however, was a major exception to the rule: No Sundance film got a best picture nomination or any acting nominations.

Snub: Mandy Patinkin (pictured right), «Homeland» Supporting Actor - Drama Though «Homeland» returned to the Best Drama race, Patinkin was passed over after getting nominations for the last two years.

Best Picture: Three of the past five years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» diPicture: Three of the past five years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» dipicture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» did not).

Last year, only six out of their top 10 earned Best Picture nominations, seven with their winner, Manchester by the Sea.

With three best - picture Oscars in the last 10 years, out of 12 nominations, the specialty film label has outpaced far bigger rivals thanks to a consistently off - beat slate of independent releases that have clicked with audiences and academy voters.

Oscar Potential: Best Picture — always a potential, with many believing that The Dark Knight was # 6 on the Academy's last 5 - film nomination list.

Garnering 10 nominations last week confirmed «Slumdog Millionaire»» s established status as the frontrunner for this year's Best Picture Oscar.

It would seem that this year's cinematography nominees were picked by aliens — certainly not by the same people who voted for Memoirs of a Geisha last year (no offense to Dion Beebe, who surely deserved a nomination this year): not a single Best Picture nominee in the lot, and all mostly uncompromised examples of purposeful cinematographic beauty.

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.

Every NYFCC winner for best picture of the last decade has proceeded to secure a nomination for the Best Picture Oscar; only two alpicture of the last decade has proceeded to secure a nomination for the Best Picture Oscar; only two alPicture Oscar; only two also won.

In the wake of last week's semi-surprise Best Picture nomination, the New York Times has rather an interesting piece on the sly marketing strategies that propelled «The Blind Side» to phenomenon status in the first place — tactics a Hollywood marketing consultant likens to «the regional marketings approach of the 50s, 60s and 70s.»

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).

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

Last year, Amazon had a huge breakthrough success in their film division, with Manchester by the Sea becoming an indie hit, followed by a bunch of Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and wins for star Casey Affleck and writer / director Kenneth Lonergan's screenplay.

Jeff earned his first Oscar nomination in 1971 for Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, co-starring Cybill Shepherd.

At the Academy Award nominations last week, the film paced the field with 13 nominations, including Best Picture and Director.

«Moonlight» producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B are the first individual producers to snag Best Picture nominations in four consecutive years («12 Years a Slave,» «Selma,» «The Big Short»), and smartly took the movie to A24, which didn't miss a trick (they took «Amy,» «Ex Machina,» and «Room» to three Oscar wins last year.)

She now has the big actor award, her film just received 14 Academy Award nominations, and you'd have to go back to 2002 to find the last instance of an actress losing the Oscar after winning at the SAG Awards, when her film won Best Picture (that would be Renee Zellweger in Chicago).

Alexander Payne is on some kind of hot streak, with all four of his major features receiving Oscar nominations and his last two (Sideways and The Descendants) both earning Best Picture nominations and taking home statues for Best Adapted Screenplay.

But with competition from Oscar perennials, including Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks («The Post»), Frances McDormand («Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»), Saoirse Ronan («Lady Bird»), Daniel Day - Lewis («Phantom Thread») and Gary Oldman («Darkest Hour»)-- plus the lack of persistent buzz enjoyed by last year's diverse nominees including «Lion,» «Fences» and «Hidden Figures» — it's going to be a struggle for most of these pictures and performances to simply score a nomination.

Some of the movies we though might be big deals this year like Chile's Oscar nominee A Fantastic Woman opted for Oscar qualifying release only and Germany's Oscar finalist In the Fade starring Diane Kruger (pictured left) opted to sneak out at the last second to qualify for all Oscars though it did not receive nominations, buried in that post Christmas glut of tiny releases.

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).

This would mark the beginning of a long working relationship between Scorsese and Ballhaus that would include five additional collaborations — «The Color of Money» (1986), «The Last Temptation of Christ» (1988), «Goodfellas» (1990), «The Age of Innocence» (1993), «Gangs of New York» (2002), which earned him the last of his three Oscar nominations, and the Best Picture winner «The Departed» (20Last Temptation of Christ» (1988), «Goodfellas» (1990), «The Age of Innocence» (1993), «Gangs of New York» (2002), which earned him the last of his three Oscar nominations, and the Best Picture winner «The Departed» (20last of his three Oscar nominations, and the Best Picture winner «The Departed» (2006).

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.

Lisa Cholodenko, who helmed the four - hour «Olive Kitteridge» for HBO, had last directed «The Kids Are All Right» to a Best Picture Oscar nomination, while Dee Rees won prizes from the Independent Spirit Awards and Gotham Film Awards for her debut feature «Pariah» before turning to «Bessie.»

Last year we saw the two - year drought of no acting nominations for people of color turn into nominations in all four categories, two winning (Mahershala Ali and Viola Davis) and Moonlight become the first black - led and LGBTQ film to win Best Picture in Oscar's 89 - year history.

Last year, for example, the musical «La La Land» set a record for the most nominations — 14 — without winning best picture, and the documentary «O.J.: Made in America,» with a running time of nearly eight hours, became the longest film ever to win an Academy Award.

In 1974, Jeff Bridges was still known mostly as the son of Lloyd Bridges, though he had also made a name for himself with a Best Supporting Oscar nomination for The Last Picture Show (McMurtry, Bogdanovich, 1971).

Jordan Peele's satirical horror film «Get Out» grossed $ 255 million at the box office last year and scored four Oscar nominations, including best picture.

The movie also scored nominations for Paul Haggis for best direction and original screenplay (co-written with Bobby Moresco), continuing his streak after «Million Dollar Baby,» which he wrote, won as last year's best picture.

Last year's selection included Barry Jenkins» «Moonlight,» which went on to win three Academy Awards, including best picture; Pablo Larrain's «Jackie,» which earned three Oscar nominations; and William Oldroyd's recently released «Lady Macbeth.»

At Deadline's big awards - season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline, held in front of a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members last month at the DGA, Sony Pictures Classics highlighted its Sundance pickup Grandma, which since has earned Golden Globe and Critics» Choice nominations for star Lily Tomlin.

Last year, four out of five of the ASC nominations at the Oscars were Best Picture nominees.

For one thing, the Oscar nominations secured a few more weeks in theaters for «Phantom Thread,» his most commercially successful movie since his last best picture nominee, «There Will Be Blood,» which also starred Daniel Day - Lewis.

Someone asked me on Twitter last night whether I expected any big shockers among the nominations, and I suggested that «Straight Outta Compton» might get a best - picture nomination.

For instance, last year, with 5 nominations, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo seemed the most likely to have filled a tenth Best Picture nomination opening.

A little bit of history on NYFCC: Last year was the first time since 2006 that their Best Picture winner did not go on to an Oscar nomination.

She re-teamed with Oyelowo for last year's acclaimed Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic, «Selma,» which scored a Best Picture nomination, though it was widely believed that DuVernay was snubbed in the Best Director category.

Indeed, just last year we speculated about the Best Picture prospects for «Wonder Woman», which had a similar pedigree to «Black Panther» and ended up completely shut out on nomination morning.

Gigi Year: 1958 Directed by: Vincente Minnelli Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdon, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor Notable Oscar trivia: Minnelli's second Best Picture - winner of the decade, Gigi held the record for biggest Oscar sweep — nine nominations, nine wins — for nearly 30 years, when its record was tied by The Last Emperor in 1987, and then bested in 2003 when The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King went 11 - for - 11.

In fact, I was flipping through the channels the other day and ending up watching «The Last Picture Show,» Bridges» first Academy Award nomination.

Last year Focus Features» parent Universal Pictures sneaked the Blumhouse title Get Out at midnight Tuesday last year, which kicked off a roaring box office whirlwind of $ 255M worldwide for the socially - conscious horror title and a year long - plus awards season march which hasn't stopped including two Golden Globe noms (comedy, lead actor), two SAG noms (ensemble cast and lead actor Daniel Kaluuya), Critics Choice wins for best horror film and Jordan Peele's screenplay, two DGA nominations for best picture and first time feature by Peele, as well as the Stanley Kramer honor at last night's PLast year Focus Features» parent Universal Pictures sneaked the Blumhouse title Get Out at midnight Tuesday last year, which kicked off a roaring box office whirlwind of $ 255M worldwide for the socially - conscious horror title and a year long - plus awards season march which hasn't stopped including two Golden Globe noms (comedy, lead actor), two SAG noms (ensemble cast and lead actor Daniel Kaluuya), Critics Choice wins for best horror film and Jordan Peele's screenplay, two DGA nominations for best picture and first time feature by Peele, as well as the Stanley Kramer honor at last night's Plast year, which kicked off a roaring box office whirlwind of $ 255M worldwide for the socially - conscious horror title and a year long - plus awards season march which hasn't stopped including two Golden Globe noms (comedy, lead actor), two SAG noms (ensemble cast and lead actor Daniel Kaluuya), Critics Choice wins for best horror film and Jordan Peele's screenplay, two DGA nominations for best picture and first time feature by Peele, as well as the Stanley Kramer honor at last night's Plast night's PGAs.

(Only one film in the last five years, «The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,» failed to get a best - picture nomination after getting a DGA one.)

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.