Breaking Away was one of the fortunate few to get a Best
Picture nomination without any tried - and - true ingredients.
Not exact matches
Even
without a Best
Picture nomination, Schnabel shouldn't be discounted, though Tony Gilroy's impeccable aping of Sydney Pollack's sleepy - time career work probably should.
And, it goes
without saying, the two films nominated for PGA's most likely to miss out on a Best
Picture nomination are «Ex Machina» and «Sicario» although this pundit is personally overjoyed they received some just recognition.
Winners like The Bourne Ultimatum, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Matrix have won
without the benefit of a Best
Picture nomination.
Even
without a
Picture or Director mention the biopic scored four
nominations: Actor (Michael Fassbender), Supporting Actress (Kate Winslet), Screenplay and Score.
You can knock «The Revenant's» chances because the last time a movie won Best
Picture without a screenwriting
nomination was «Titanic» in 1998 (18 years ago).
The Shape of Water is in it for screenplay and director, but
without a SAG ensemble
nomination (which it really did deserve) it's hard to see it pulling it out for Best
Picture.
Can it become one of the few films to win
without a Best
Picture nomination?
Although it would be quite something if it does win considering the time before Argo that a film won Best
Picture (and Best Actress)
without a Best Director
nomination also had a (now) problematic view on race, Driving Miss Daisy.
Did you know that in all of SAG / DGA / Oscar history, no DGA winner has ever predicted Best
Picture without a SAG ensemble
nomination?
If his film wins Best
Picture he's always going to be that guy who won
without a director
nomination.
I'm still going to bet that the film with the Best
Picture nomination is the best bet to win (13/15 out of the past winners have had BP
nominations — and no film since they expanded Best
Picture has won the Eddie
without a Best Pic nod), although honestly Star Wars: The Force Awakens could totally take it (and then take the Oscar too).
The biggest question mark will be for the acting nods, since we all know that
without a SAG
nomination, your «Best
Picture» prospects are pretty much dead in the water.
Interstellar's five
nominations weren't quite enough for it to take the honour previously held by Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight for the most nods
without a shot at best
picture.
No film has earned Best
Picture without a Best Cast
nomination since 1995, when Braveheart upset Apollo 13 at the Oscars.
No other film since 1995's «Braveheart» has taken Best
Picture without also claiming a Screen Actors Guild ensemble
nomination.
Last year, for example, the musical «La La Land» set a record for the most
nominations — 14 —
without winning best
picture, and the documentary «O.J.: Made in America,» with a running time of nearly eight hours, became the longest film ever to win an Academy Award.
For 30 years the «No film has ever won the Best
Picture Oscar
without an Editing
nomination since Ordinary People!»
It seems plausible that, even
without a Best
Picture nomination, it can do what others have not.
The expanded Oscar ballot makes it even harder than ever to win for cinematography
without a Best
Picture nomination because voters tend to like to spread the wealth among the Best Pic nominees.
These are two other categories where the film might well be nominated
without a Best
Picture nomination.
The victory for «The Shape of Water» is rather surprising because, for the first time in over 20 years, a Best
Picture winner has won the top prize
without having a
nomination for Best Cast from SAG, along with another big surprise of not winning its respective Screenplay category on the way to the top.
Grand Hotel was the only Best
Picture to win
without any other
nominations, and beat out the likes of John Ford's Arrowsmith, King Vidor's The Champ, Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express and Ernst Lubitsch's The Smiling Lieutenant.
And only five films in movie history have won Best
Picture without a craft
nomination: The Broadway Melody (1929), Grand Hotel (1932), It Happened One Night (1934), Annie Hall (1977), and Ordinary People (1980).
The film became the third film in ACCA history to win Best
Picture without a Director
nomination.
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.
Since Oscar changed up to more than five Best
Picture nominees, only one — Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart — won
without a Best
Picture nomination.
No film has ever won Best
Picture at the BAFTAs
without a screenplay
nomination, going way way way back (to 1989).
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.
No film has won Best
Picture at the Oscars ®
without also having received at least a Best Editing
nomination since ORDINARY PEOPLE in 1981.
Since the Oscars expanded the best -
picture slate in 2009, only «The Tree of Life,» «Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close» and «Amour» have made the cut
without a single
nomination from the four major guilds (the DGA, PGA, WGA and SAG).
«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.»
In the past 23 years, no movie has ever won Oscar best
picture without the SAG ensemble
nomination (this is what foretold «La La Land» losing last year).
A few fun things to consider with Best
Picture; if Birdman wins it will be the first film in 34 years to win Best
Picture without a Film Editing
nomination.
Only 11 films have won Best
Picture without a single acting
nomination, a group «Dunkirk» will try to join this year.
SEE «Dunkirk» has an uphill Oscar battle: It'd be first Best
Picture champ
without acting or writing
nominations in 85 years
Call Me by Your Name, which made it into the Best
Picture race and earned a Best Actor
nomination for Timothée Chalamet, simply would not have worked
without Hammer.