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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.

Not exact matches

After racking up a rash of nominations and minor wins at the Academy Awards, a Participant film finally took the big prize when Spotlight won Best Picture in February.

After racking up a rash of nominations and minor wins at the Academy Awards, a Participant film finally took the big prize when Spotlight won Best Picture in 2016.

Completed hand filled forms with copies of CDs, VIDEOS AND PROMOTIONAL PICTURES should all be submitted to the offices of Charterhouse Productions Limited located at B824 / 10 Feo Eyeo Street, Industrial Area Accra, near TV Africa, not later than 31st January, 2017 when all nominations close.

On the other hand, the preferential ballot may make it a little harder when it comes to a Best Picture nomination.

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).

You have to go back to 2012 to find a year when the Best Picture winner did not get either a Gotham nomination or win the Gotham.

In a year when the Academy Award nominations are more diverse and international than ever before, it's anyone's guess who will win best picture.

The motion picture academy still might add a wrinkle or three into the race when nominations are revealed Tuesday.

When Jordan Peele got the news that the biggest gamble of his career had just earned four major Academy Award nominations, including best picture, best director and best original screenplay, he got on the phone with his «Get Out» star, Daniel Kaluuya — and broke down in tears.

If the picture is snubbed again in this category when Academy Award nominations are announced next Thursday it will have many believing it's a much shakier frontrunner than we believed.

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.

Both Gone Girl and Nightcrawler made it to the Producers Guild but were killed when Oscar voters had to limit their scope to five slots for Best Picture nominations instead of ten, like the Producers Guild had.

The Oscar pundits over at Gold Derby (of which I am one) certainly believe it's possible that the ensemble comedy — led by «SNL» standouts Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph — could get into the Best Picture race when nominations are revealed early next year.

Contrasted to most movies that go on to win a best picture nomination, it was a rather subdued reaction, particularly given the buzz that was in the room when the film began.

«Imitation» also received a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, the Screen Actors Guild Awards equivalent of Best Picture, when the SAG Awards nominees were announced yesterday.

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).

You can always tell when the actors have their say because the film will have a Best Picture nomination and only one acting nomination.

No film has earned Best Picture without a Best Cast nomination since 1995, when Braveheart upset Apollo 13 at the Oscars.

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).

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.

When he was unable to find the young actor to play the title character, Spielberg decided to direct «The Post,» which ended up landing an Oscar nomination for best picture.

As Vox points out, even when a young turk named Steven Spielberg revolutionized the summer event movie in 1975 with Jaws, the Academy acknowledged his achievement with a Best Picture nomination — but snubbed the brash filmmaker.

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.

«Birdman,» the film that triumphantly put Michael Keaton back on the map and «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» Wes Anderson's fanciful comedy, led all films this morning when the nominations for the 87th Annual Academy Awards were announced, with each film garnering (9) nominations, including Best Picture.

In 2006, Little Miss Sunshine premiered at Sundance, sparked a major bidding war, made history when it was nabbed for $ 10.5 million from Fox Searchlight Pictures, and rode its charming script, lighthearted tone, and affecting performances to a boffo box office and a Best Picture nomination.

Entertainment Weekly writer Nicole Sperling noted that «the epic true story of Louis Zamperini has Oscar bait written all over it» and that «Angelina Jolie... will surely give the boys a run for their money» for a Best Director nod, while Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times predicted that «Unbroken» will get a Best Picture nomination but that Jolie will be skipped over when the Best Director contenders are named.

The Shape of Water, director Guillermo det Toro's «fish out of water» love story, led all nominees when the nominations for the 90th Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning, receiving thirteen, including Best Picture and both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for del Toro.

That clearly wasn't the case when Oscar nominations were announced, as the film picked up Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Costume Design, and Score nominations in addition to Best Director.

Movie buffs have actually been living through such a situation since 2009, when The Dark Knight, fresh off a $ 1 billion campaign and universal critical acclaim, did not receive a nomination for Best Picture at the Oscars.

A rare disconnect when Best Director and Best Picture nominations only matched for 3 films (Alan J. Pakula, Sidney Lumet — and winner John G. Avildsen), Ingmar Bergman and Lina Wertmuller were the directors whose movies didn't make the cut.

This is a deeply moving, under - the - radar motion picture that will likely garner more than a little attention when the Oscar nominations are announced.

It was the first year in several years when almost none of the Best Picture nominations were embarrassing — ok, looking back «Juno» is not Best Picture worthy, but nominations for «Michael Clayton» and «There Will Be Blood» were very encouraging.

The SAG Ensemble nomination didn't fail even when only two of the Best Picture nominees had it — The Big Short and Spotlight.

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.

Daniel Day - Lewis won his third best actor trophy — the first time in history when an actor has won the award thrice — while Argo walked away with best picture, medical after not getting a nomination for best director.

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.

That's incredibly important since the only film to ever win Best Picture without a nomination here was way back in 1996 when Braveheart did it.

• Steve Pond takes aim at bursting a few Oscar trial balloons already set forth this season but hedges his bet considerably when it comes to talk of a best Picture nomination for «The Town.»

Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades» worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture despite very conspicuously not being nominated for its director, not having even remotely close to the year's highest nomination tally (it trails behind four other films), and not having even a halfway plausible shot at winning more than two other categories aside from this one.

was going to miss the cut for both Best Picture and Best Director when the DGA nominations were released earlier this week and Todd Haynes» name was nowhere to be found.

For Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures, the group this year has thrown its weight behind David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight), Ron Howard (Frost / Nixon), Gus Van Sant (Milk), and Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), and history tells us at least three, most likely four, of these directors will hear their names called when Oscar nominations are announced on Thursday.

Far and away the most important film to come out of Hong Kong in the past 12 months, Ten Years was not only banned on the mainland, but when it received a Best Picture nomination at the Hong Kong Film Awards, the entire ceremony was dropped by every TV channel north of the border.

He was a producer for Damien Chazelle's jazzy debut, Whiplash, and earned an Oscar nomination when that film was up for best picture.

The difference is that when Todd Haynes was named Best Director for Far From Heaven, and Best Picture, it was not acknowledged with corresponding nominations by the Academy.

What looked like a fairly straightforward split between the nomination leader / technical masterpiece / likely Best Director winner The Shape of Water and the hit - a-nerve acting / story showcase / likely Best Picture winner Three Billboards got thrown into chaos when Martin McDonagh, the Three Billboards director, was left off the Best Director ballot.

When Ridley Scott failed to score a nomination for The Martian it threw this category a bit to the winds, and there's still plenty of room for surprise, with the three best - picture favorites — The Revenant, The Big Short, and Spotlight — all represented and favorite Mad Max: Fury Road still traveling on plenty of sentimental steam.

That year was thrown into chaos on nomination day, when perceived frontrunner Dreamgirls was left off the Best Picture ballot entirely, despite still having the most nominations of any film, and everybody else went scrambling.