Not exact matches
The Post
seems certain to draw a number of major Academy Award
nominations, including Best
Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.
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.
All Best
Picture nominees to be sure, and a
nomination for «American Hustle»
seems very likely to give them a seven - year winning streak in that regard.
Both missed SAG Cast noms and Golden Globe Motion
Picture nominations and now
seem like contenders for just Mark Rylance and Saoirse Ronan, respectively.
For a time, Chalamet
seemed like a potential dark - horse spoiler, but the best
picture nomination for Darkest Hour — and the curious failure of the assault allegations in his past, which were dismissed in court, to affect his campaign — have made that
seem virtually impossible.
In any case, «Birdman,» «Boyhood,» and «The Theory of Everything» all continue to
seem likely contenders for a Best
Picture nomination.
As a two - time Oscar nominee it would
seem that Chastain has the edge but Russo is in a film that is possibly getting other
nominations, including Best Actor and Best
Picture.
While «The End of the Tour» might be a bit of a long shot for Best
Picture (though who knows at this point), it
seems like a much safer bet to net Jason Segel his first Oscar
nomination as late author David Foster Wallace.
Some have forecasted a heated battle against Anomalisa for animated film of the year (and that even excludes When Marnie Was There, a fantastic film that's also in this feature), but it
seems like a relative shoo - in for Inside Out, especially with the film garnering Best
Picture nomination predictions for the Oscars — the new model nod for cultural transcendence in animated film.
It
seems plausible that, even without a Best
Picture nomination, it can do what others have not.
Lead performance of Taraji P. Henson and supporting for Octavia Spencer
seem the most likely
nominations outside of a Best
Picture nod.
A Best
Picture nomination also
seems rather probable with ten films in play.
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 cool remove from humanity and a spot - on performance by Steve Carell, not to mention Channing Tatum, Foxcatcher
seems poised for several
nominations, including
Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor, Supporting Actor for Mark Ruffalo.
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.
Doubts
seemed to be confirmed when David O. Russell failed to get a Globe nod for director (only Driving Miss Daisy has ever won Best
Picture in the musical / comedy category without a
nomination for director), and more importantly, a DGA
nomination.
At this point, Mudbound, so deserving of many category
nominations from Best
Picture to Screenplay to Supporting Actor and Actress to Song,
seems like the longest of long shots.
«Fruitvale Station» Though it
seems unlikely to repeat the best
picture nomination its Sundance Grand Jury Prize - winning predecessor «Beasts of the Southern Wild» managed, it's notable that even without that accolade, Ryan Coogler's «Fruitvale Station» has already outgrossed «Beasts.»
There always
seemed to be at least somewhat of a chance that it would make it into the Best
Picture category as one of those token
nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of
There always
seemed to be at least somewhat of a chance that it would make it into the Best
Picture category as one of those token nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of Unbroken, but it was also just as likely to get bumped by more mainstream fare like Gone Girl or Interstellar or a similarly positioned low profile picture like Nightc
Picture category as one of those token
nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of Unbroken, but it was also just as likely to get bumped by more mainstream fare like Gone Girl or Interstellar or a similarly positioned low profile
picture like Nightc
picture like Nightcrawler.
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...
As the season has broken down some pundits to the point of pondering whether or not «The Hangover» has a shot at a Best
Picture nomination, it really does
seem an eternity ago that «Bright Star» was even in the conversation.