Not exact matches
So far Silver Linings has
placed Lawrence and Cooper in privileged positions for Academy Award
nominations and not unlikely is the possibility of the film getting recognition in the Best
Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and of course Best Director categories.
Little did I know though that it would be Phantom Thread «s Paul Thomas Anderson that would take his
place as part of a huge surge for that film that included a Best
Picture nomination.
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.»
Molly's Game showing up there is, I'd say, fairly significant, and could point to some kind of shift for Jessica Chastain to get in, or even Molly's Game to show up other
places in the
nominations — who knows, maybe even a surprise Best
Picture nomination.
With the film and Haynes
placed so high in Best
Picture and Director, having Moore represent the best chance for an acting
nomination for the film just makes sense.
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.
I reviewed the film in 2009 (read the feature review here) and it since
placed on scores of Top Ten lists and critics awards and received Academy Awards
nominations for Best
Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
This is the first Oscar for Pixar since Toy Story 3 delivered one of the studio's most successful awards seasons, with the film not only topping many animation lists, but also
placing in many «best films of the year» lists, culminating in the capturing of a Best
Picture nomination at the Oscars.
In seeking to decipher the identity and thoughts of a figure photographed from behind, the viewer can visually assume their
place within the
picture — joining baseball spectators in the crowd in Tod Papageorge's Shea Stadium, New York, 1970, witnessing Senator John F. Kennedy's presidential
nomination in Garry Winogrand's Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles (JFK), 1960, or attending a traditional Chinese funeral ceremony in the Sichuan Province in Adou's Funeral, Women, 2006.