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But those tactics have often worked — in the past decade, the Weinstein Company has 10 Best Picture nominations, and two wins, unprecedented success for an independent movie company.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale made the Best Actor cut over Robert Redford and Tom Hanks, Her, Dallas Buyers Club, and Philomena all got Best Picture nominations over Saving Mr. Banks, and Sally Hawkins landed a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work in Blue Jasmine, seemingly taking Oprah Winfrey «s spot from Lee Daniels» The Butler.

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.

Since SAG first started handing out the Best Cast award in 1995 it has become a big indicator for Oscar Best Picture nominations and winners.

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.

There were nine Best Picture nominations this year — a category that can be anywhere from five to ten — with a diverse list that included a Western (Hell Or High Water), a war movie (Hacksaw Ridge), a sci - fi (Arrival).

And beginning with the 2010 Oscars, up to 10 movies could be nominated for Best Picture, making it technically possible for all 10 Golden Globe Best Picture nominations (in both the Drama and Comedy / Musical categories) to also appear in the Oscar Best Picture nominations list.

Only two don't have Best Picture nominations, but the other three could split up the vote, especially The Shape of Water vs. Dunkirk.

This year is no exception, as some films rallied to make it to the Best Picture nominations list and some actors received nods despite earlier doubts.

Due to the revised voting system, only (8) films qualified for Best Picture nominations — a maximum of (10) are allowed.

Of his previous seven feature films, three (Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained) did reasonably well with Oscar, netting twenty nominations and four wins among them — including Best Picture nominations for each.

The academy's full membership of about 5,800 was eligible to vote for best - picture nominations and can cast ballots for the winners in all categories at the Oscar ceremony itself.

Barker and Bernard have released prestigious films that have won 32 Academy Awards ® (28 of those at Sony Pictures Classics) and have garnered 140 Academy Award ® nominations (114 at Sony Pictures Classics) including Best Picture nominations for AMOUR, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, AN EDUCATION, CAPOTE, HOWARDS END, and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON.

The 21 - year - old actor received his breakout role in two - time Oscar winner «Manchester by the Sea,» which earned Hedges his first nomination, and two of his 2017 dramas, «Lady Bird» and «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» landed best picture nominations.

Neither resulted in an Oscar nomination for the pair and both films missed Best Picture nominations, with the latter in particular (one of a number of would - be Oscar vehicles for comedy superstar Jim Carrey) seen as a disappointment.

Over the years Spielberg's films have secured a not - to - be-balked-at nine Best Picture nominations, and his sterling stewardship has been rewarded with seven Best Director nods.

Surprise: Your movie «Foxcatcher» wasn't good enough to earn one of the 10 eligible Best Picture nominations, but you get a nomination?

I'll list a few of my reactions to this year's crop of Best Picture nominations with incredibly in - depth, one - line reviews.

All three films earned best picture nominations.

With the Oscars less than a month away, here's a look at how the best picture nominations are doing at the domestic box office.

They have produced 24 Academy Award ® winners (21 of those at Sony Pictures Classics) and have garnered over 100 Academy Award ® nominations (92 at Sony Pictures Classics) including Best Picture nominations for AN EDUCATION, CAPOTE, HOWARDS END, AND CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON.

It was just the start, as the film went on to secure a number of Best Picture nominations and win the Producer's Guild of America's top prize (which has aligned with the Oscar's Best Picture on almost every recent year, since both organizations switched to a preferential ballot).

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).

Alexander Payne is on some kind of hot streak, with all four of his major features receiving Oscar nominations and his last two (Sideways and The Descendants) both earning Best Picture nominations and taking home statues for Best Adapted Screenplay.

With 10 best picture nominations to choose from, there could be a twist: Perhaps the blockbuster «Toy Story 3» (also nominated in the animated feature film category) or the Coen brothers» revisionist Western, «True Grit,» could sneak in and snatch the big prize.

If they didn't, they wouldn't be regarded as successes and they wouldn't be worthy for Best Picture nominations.

«Moonlight» producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B are the first individual producers to snag Best Picture nominations in four consecutive years («12 Years a Slave,» «Selma,» «The Big Short»), and smartly took the movie to A24, which didn't miss a trick (they took «Amy,» «Ex Machina,» and «Room» to three Oscar wins last year.)

That is enough to chalk this up as a commercial win for The Walt Disney Company, who distributed this and four other DreamWorks Pictures under their Touchstone banner in 2011 per a multi-year deal to healthy profits on all but one (Fright Night) and two Best Picture nominations.

Many of them recently have gone on toward Best Picture nominations like 12 Years a Slave, Moneyball, The Tree of Life, Inglourious Basterds to name a few.

Both missed SAG Cast noms and Golden Globe Motion Picture nominations and now seem like contenders for just Mark Rylance and Saoirse Ronan, respectively.

In recent years, The Help and Hell or High Water managed to open in August yet maintain enough steam to pick up Best Picture nominations the following January.

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.

And with a cast that's littered with some of the best character actors in the business, «Argo» is pretty much a shoo - in for Best Director and Best Picture nominations come awards season.

The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson has his best ever shot at the Oscars this year, with his first Directing and Picture nominations to go along with his third Screenplay nomination (he was also nominated for Best Animated Film in 2009).

Not that the current batch of Best Picture nominations are worthless or anything.

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

The buzz: Jackson's first two installments received best picture nominations.

Barker and Bernard have released prestigious films that have won 27 Academy Awards ® (23 of those at Sony Pictures Classics) and have garnered 114 Academy Award ® nominations (93 at Sony Pictures Classics) including Best Picture nominations for AN EDUCATION, CAPOTE, HOWARDS END, AND CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON.

Last year, only six out of their top 10 earned Best Picture nominations, seven with their winner, Manchester by the Sea.

PLATFORM This section of 12 films, which tends to focus on directors in early stages of their careers, is actually juried (though TIFF isn't known for awards really outside of «People's Choice» which tends to have a strong correlation to eventual Best Picture nominations at the Oscars).

Just a few years back, a whopping three Cannes titles ended up with best picture nominations, «Midnight in Paris,» «The Tree of Life» and «The Artist» — the latter winning.

Ellison is also one of only four honorees ever to receive two Best Picture nominations in the same year, with HER and AMERICAN HUSTLE, both earning nods in 2014.

All of these films received Best Picture nominations.

And, though the studio was shut out of the best picture nominations for the first time since 2010, it still picked up five nominations in other categories for films such as Before Midnight (one of critics» favorites last year) and Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine.

And Paramount earned best picture nominations for its two highest - scoring films last year, Alexander Payne's Nebraska and Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street; in all, the studio collected 13 nominations, trailing only Warner Bros. and Sony.

In addition to Bullock's win, it somehow managed to get a best picture nomination, because 2009 was not the finest year for film.

Last year's winner had an October release, which set the film up well to benefit from the notorious Oscar bump following its Best Picture nomination and eventual win.

That's because it received a Best Picture nomination but Ben Affleck failed to get a nod as Best Director.

In the seven years since that threequel set box office records and earned a Best Picture nomination, the studio has had some generally liked if not quite loved triumphs (Finding Dory, Brave, Monsters University), one film that most would agree is at least in contention of «masterpiece» status (Inside Out), and some perplexing, unprecedented misses (Cars 2 & 3 plus the aforementioned Good Dinosaur).

The studio does not appear to have any releases on tap that will match The Big Short's best picture nomination (with the possible — if unlikely — exception of Richard Linklater's upcoming spring release Everybody Wants Some), while its box office fortunes ride in large part on the success of upcoming Star Trek and TMNT sequels.