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«Netflix has been unable to get a Best Picture nomination so far,» Belloni says.

«I look at the Christian Bale nomination as acknowledging the whole cast along with the Best Picture nomination so that was real nice,» McKay said.

Not exact matches

For many this year, Oscar competition has focused on the family films «Hugo» and «War Horse,» which have received so much recognition from the Academy — «Hugo» leads the pack with the most nominations this year (although «The Artist» and «The Descendants» will offer stiff competition when the envelope is opened for Best Picture on Feb. 26).

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.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) rarely knows what to do with comedies, so it's no surprise that Don Roos» insanely black comedy about a pregnant runaway (Christina Ricci, deserving of a Best Actress nomination) conning everyone in her path, including a guileless bisexual (Ivan Sergei) and her gay half - brother Bill (Martin Donovan, Supporting Actor - worthy for sure), never registered with them.

So, though it was inexplicably denied best picture and director nominations, Todd Haynes» «Carol» ended up with six nods, including actress nominations for co-equal stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, a result that validated the Weinstein Co.'s controversial decision to put Mara in the supporting category.

Netflix strived for a Best Picture nomination when they purchased Beasts of No Nation at 2015's Toronto Film Festival and gave it a two - week theatrical run alongside a simultaneous online release so that it was eligible for awards.

So far, Greta Gerwig's directorial debut Lady Bird has been cleaning up on the awards circuit, earning Best Picture from the New York Film Critics Circle and several awards and nominations for stars Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf.

The site notes that with a March 3 release date, «it would be one of those rare titles that managed a Best Picture nomination opening so early in the year.

So too should we be thankful for this thought - provoking, poignant, deceptively effortless comedy that would garner 7 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, scoring three for its screenplay and the supporting performances of Caine (is he really a supporting actor in this?)

Neither The Lobster nor 20th Century Women have Best Picture nominations, so don't expect any upsets from them.

Woodstock won the most nominations ever given to a documentary feature (three) and it was also a hit with the public but Oscar has still never nominated a documentary for Best Picture so there must be a subconscious unwillingness to do so.

Earlier in his career, the lines were not so clearly drawn; Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and E.T. each topped the box office in their years en route to Best Picture Oscar nominations.

Well, it is the only the sound people who do the nominating in these categories, so I'm sure it will be a focus for those members (the only other category they get to vote in for nominations is best picture).

The biggest complaints so far include Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close getting some nominations, 50/50 being completely snubbed (I kind of agree that Gordon - Levitt got snubbed), and somehow people are upset that Bridesmaids didn't get a nomination for best picture, which blows my mind completely, not because it wasn't nominated but for the fact that anyone would consider that film worthy of any sort of award.

While a dozen or so are undeniably in the running for a Best Picture nomination, the best that can be said for most others named here is that...

A) It has a best picture nomination, b) it's ever so slightly more recent than Alice, and c) I think more Oscar voters took it more seriously than Alice.

We've looked at nominations for Best Picture, now let's look at wins so far and what any of those might tell us.

But, in order to do that Dunkirk would have to take the Oscars all the way back to 1932's Grand Hotel, which won Best Picture as its only nomination (so obviously no acting or writing noms).

«Selma» missed out on the recent SAG Award nominations altogether, so the fact that it earned a Best Motion Picture — Drama nod may mean it's again a likely contender for an Oscar Best Picture nomination.

It scored him an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, so now he's adapted a popular novel... and stooped to outright pandering.

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.

Another big question mark is Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, though Tarantino has yet to make a bad film so odds are pretty good that Django will at least land a Best Picture nomination.

Park City premieres «Boyhood» and «Whiplash» both received Best Picture nominations, with the former the shaky frontrunner to end up winning (the first time a Sundance film will have ever done so).

I still think McCarthy will receive a nomination at the Oscars since the BAFTA lineup of directors has been so wishy washy over the years in terms of matching the academy, but I definitely don't think he is winning either award (Picture or Director).

Rule changes eliminate the need to film 10 slots, so a fluid number of pictures could end up with nominations on Jan. 24.

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.

This is usually because the film that wins also has a Best Picture nomination, as so few of Deakins» nominations have had.

Although director Stephen Frears has twice landed Oscar nominations for Best Director (The Queen and The Grifters) and twice guided a film to a Best Picture nomination (The Queen and Philomena), it is unreasonable to expect anything like that from this rather lightweight period comedy, which will fare well with older moviegoers but less so with the public at large despite favorable reviews from most critics.

So it was exciting to see the film rack up five nominations: one apiece for stars Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf, two for Gerwig in the writing and directing categories, and the all - important Best Picture nomination.

And in terms of historical stats, it won big with SAG and BAFTA... but wait, it didn't even get a Best Director nomination, so it can't win Best Picture, can it?

Lew Ayres, who starred in the classic 1931 anti-war film (and Best Picture Academy Award winner), «All Quiet on the Western Front,» was so affected by that movie, he became a conscientious objector and served as a medic in World War II (and was later to earn a Best Actor nomination for «Johnny Belinda»).

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?

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.

This year they liked The Handmaiden so much that it even broke into their Best Picture nomination, a rarity for the group.

In terms of nominations, since 1970, roughly 114 (counted myself, so give or take) out of 200 nominations were nominees in Best Picture contenders.

Call Me By Your Name has been cleaning up on the awards circuit so far this season, most recently garnering eight nominations from the Critics» Choice Awards and three from the Golden Globes — both including Best Picture.

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.

Any indie award would be insane to deny Richard Linklater's film, possibly the indie event of the year, some love, so Gotham understandably gave it four nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor (Ethan Hawke), Best Actress (Patricia Arquette) and Breakthrough Actor (Ellar Coltrane).

This time it's Las Vegas who have gone all in on Creed, giving it Best Picture, Director, Actor and Supporting Actor nominations, the first group to do so.

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.

And to give you just one example of how much money means to the corrupt Oscar race: By Tuesday morning, the bulk of the dozen or so films with a legitimate shot at a Best Picture nomination will have made in excess of $ 75 million each.

Since 2009 the Academy increased its Best Picture nominees from five to a maximum of 10, so although a SAG nomination is harder to come by, a film's chances of winning the ensemble award once nominated is up to twice as high as at the Oscars.

After it was excluded from a Best Picture nomination, the Academy sensed a public backlash, so they expanded their Best Picture list to ten nomination slots and ten nominees for Best Picture.

But after the last five years or so of Oscar history, the technical achievements and total nominations for Shape start to align with movies like Gravity, The Revenant, and La La Land: big, impressive feats of moviemaking that win Best Director with ease only to falter in Best Picture.

Going into The Post, I didn't have high hopes from its announcement to its release as 20th Century Fox have marketed it as a «Oscar bait» film (it sure paid off, gaining Meryl Streep a Best Actor in a Supporting Role and a Best Picture nomination), which usually wards me off from seeing a film (see: Moonlight, Argo, The Artist, The King's Speech and so forth).