But for the Gotham Awards, it can get a Best
Picture nomination right alongside likely Oscar nominee 12 Years a Slave.
Not exact matches
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.
Even as the parenting dramedy «The Kids Are All
Right» hauled in the
nominations — for best
picture, original screenplay, lead actress (Annette Bening) and supporting actor (Mark Ruffalo)-- director and co-writer Lisa Cholodenko expressed a degree of shock that «Kids» co-lead Julianne Moore had been overlooked.
Right behind was Ang Lee's «Life of Pi,» which received 11
nominations, among them one for Best
Picture.
Oscar
nominations: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor (2), Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best
Picture Where to see it
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Oscar
nominations: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best
Picture Where to see it
right now: In theaters (watch the trailer)
Oscar
nominations: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design, Best
Picture Where to see it
right now: In theaters (watch the trailer)
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nominations: Best Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best
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Awards and
nominations left,
right and centre — the season is officially under way, folks: • «Slumdog Millionaire» emerged as a bona fide frontrunner, taking Best
Picture at the season kickoff, the National Board of Review awards... •... only days after taking -LSB-...]
The film came in
right behind Best
Picture nominees «Atonement» (7), «Michael Clayton» (7), «No Country for Old Men» (8) and «There Will Be Blood» (8) for total
nominations.
Pictures hit a brick wall on January 22 this year when «The Dark Knight» failed to land an unlikely Oscar
nomination, but the studio will jump
right back on the horse this year.
Right now in my personal predictions, I have Demolition scoring
nominations in Best
Picture, Best Actor (Gyllenhaal), Best Supporting Actress (Watts), and Best Original Screenplay (Sipe), with Gyllenhaal taking home his first statue in Actor.
Aladdin came at the
right time for Disney, capitalizing on the worldwide popularity of Robin Williams and widespread enjoyment of hand - drawn animation months after Beauty and the Beast became the first such film to get a Best
Picture nomination at the Oscars.
• «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.
Today, looking back, the decision to award «Miss Daisy» Best
Picture while «Do the
Right Thing» didn't even score a
nomination feels like something from another age.
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.»
Right off the top, in the Cast in a Motion
Picture category, we saw two of the biggest surprises: Oscar Best
Picture frontrunner La La Land did not score a
nomination.
Also in contention for the Best Film AACTA are the sleeper hit Ali's Wedding (8
nominations) and box office non-starters Berlin Syndrome (8
nominations;
pictured,
right), Hounds of Love (8
nominations) and Jasper Jones (6
nominations).
Hold on, though — its only guild win was with WGA, and it didn't manage to land even a single craft
nomination with the Academy, so it can't win Best
Picture,
right?
Oh, but it didn't get a SAG Best Cast
nomination and it has so many genre underpinnings, so it can't win Best
Picture,
right?
Natalie Portman (Black Swan,
pictured left) is the nominal favourite, but Annette Bening, whose
nomination for The Kids Are All
Right is her fourth, is long overdue the statuette.
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.
Hong Chau (
pictured left) is a deserved recipient of a Golden Globe
nomination for a lively performance which is more moving than the script has a
right to ask.
In just a few days we'll have the Producers Guild
nominations to help (or hamper) the eventual Oscar Best
Picture hopefuls but for
right now there doesn't seem to be anything other than Spotlight moving its way closer to...
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