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.
Not exact matches
Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award
nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best
Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's
coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
Paramount's highest - scoring 2014 film, Selma, was one of just two best
picture nominees to
come from one of the majors, and Paramount finished with 7 Oscar
nominations in all (even with Selma's snubs in other categories).
Grainger first
came to the attention of American audiences in the television series THE BORGIAS, and has appeared in such television productions as BONNIE & CLYDE, playing the titular role of Bonnie and earning
nominations from the Critics» Choice Awards for Best Actress in a Movie or Mini-Series and the Satellite Award for Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion
Picture Made for Television; and in LADY CHATTERLEY»S LOVER among others.
On the other hand, the preferential ballot may make it a little harder when it
comes to a Best
Picture nomination.
Obviously such great acting results
come from the experienced direction of David O. Russell, who received his first Academy Award
nomination for Best Director and noms for Best
Picture, Original Screenplay, and Editing.
Other film front - runners include the
coming - of - age story «Boyhood» and World War II code - cracking drama «The Imitation Game,» which have five
nominations each, including best
picture (drama).
But no Oscar predictor has the film on the list for Best
Picture even though many believe Sully could
come in with a few
nominations because of the Eastwood - Hanks Academy connection.
Coming in behind «The Shape of Water» are Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird» and Luca Guadagnino's summer romance «Call Me By Your Name» with seven nominations each, also including best pi
Coming in behind «The Shape of Water» are Greta Gerwig's
coming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird» and Luca Guadagnino's summer romance «Call Me By Your Name» with seven nominations each, also including best pi
coming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird» and Luca Guadagnino's summer romance «Call Me By Your Name» with seven
nominations each, also including best
picture.
Maybe that's the baggage of expectations that
come with a Best
Picture nomination.
Denzel Washington's adaptation of Fences
came made off with a Best
Picture nod and a handful of major
nominations, with Washington doing double duty as Best Director and Best Actor; his costar Viola Davis takes one step closer to bringing home a Supporting Actress statuette.
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The film
came in right behind Best
Picture nominees «Atonement» (7), «Michael Clayton» (7), «No Country for Old Men» (8) and «There Will Be Blood» (8) for total
nominations.
The Globe
nominations were kind to other films
coming out later this year: Both «The Wolf of Wall Street,» the account of a win - at - all - costs stockbroker premiering on Christmas, and «Her,» a dystopian tale of severed interpersonal relationships opening Dec. 18, received multiple
nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., including selections alongside «American Hustle» for best comedy or musical motion
picture.
Something to note; of Daniel Day - Lewis's five Oscar
nominations (and three wins) all have
come from top 5 films with Best
Picture, Director and Screenplay
nominations and three with a supporting acting
nomination as well.
With the full Academy Award
nominations due January 16, 2014, the time has
come to start sizing up favorites for the Best
Picture Oscar.
Of the three
nominations for Sean Baker's «The Florida Project» — best
picture, Willem Dafoe for supporting actor and Brooklynn Prince for young performer — only 7 - year - old Prince
came away with an award, charming the audience with a tearful speech and telling her fellow nominees, «We should go and get ice cream after this!»
But it
came up empty - handed that night, was largely overlooked by the guilds and, in the end, scored only two Oscar
nominations, for
picture and lead actress (Streep)-- major categories, to be sure, but far less than what 20th Century Fox must have been hoping for.
most noms for a film that did not make my top ten list: Sicario (10
nominations) which
came in at # 13 on my year - end list most noms for a film not nominated for Oscar's Best
Picture: Carol (19
nominations) most noms for a film nominated for Oscar's Best
Picture: Mad Max Fury Road (16
nominations) most noms for a film I was lukewarm on: Straight Outta Compton (4
nominations) most noms for a film I didn't like at all really: The Revenant (2
nominations) most noms for a film that received ZERO Oscar attention: Spy (7
nominations) most noms for a film that received only 1 Oscar
nomination: Creed (6
nominations) most noms for a foreign language film: Phoenix (2
nominations)... hmm.
There are quite literally 10 actors ranging from co-leads to bit roles,
coming from likely Best
Picture nominees and likely one - off
nominations for their films.
«Moneyball» (Sony), arguably the brainiest sports movie ever,
came away with six
nominations, including Best
Picture, Best Actor (Brad Pitt), Best Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill) and Adapted Screenplay.
What's
Coming July 1: «Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close» Starring Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock and Thomas Horn, Stephen Daldry's film adaptation of «Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close» earned a Best
Picture nomination in 2011.
One week after La La Land won the Toronto People's Choice Award — a key indicator of a film's likelihood of securing an Oscar
nomination for Best
Picture — another major awards season clue has
come to us in the form of the DOC NYC's Short List.
Aladdin
came at the right time for Disney, capitalizing on the worldwide popularity of Robin Williams and widespread enjoyment of hand - drawn animation months after Beauty and the Beast became the first such film to get a Best
Picture nomination at the Oscars.
Most of the expected contenders
came away with something to show from the
nominations, including the scientific space adventure «The Martian» (including nods for star Matt Damon and director Ridley Scott), David O. Russell's matriarch portrait «Joy» (best
picture, comedy and best actress Jennifer Lawrence).
Its main competitors for Best
Picture are now the horror - satire Get Out and the teen
coming - of - age dramedy Lady Bird, each of which received
nominations for their screenplays as well as Best
Picture and Director nods.
Robinson has been twice nominated for a BAFTA (Best Single Drama, «
Coming Down the Mountain» and Best Drama Serial, «Blackpool») and received a Golden Globe ®
nomination (Best Mini-Series or Motion
Picture Made for Television, «Blackpool»).
The teen
coming of age comedy / drama The Edge of Seventeen scored a Best
Picture nomination as well as a
nomination for its writer / director Kelly Fremon Craig but strangely snubbed the film's lead, Golden Globe nominee Hailee Steinfeld (in a field of six,...
The Miami - set
coming - of - age drama Moonlight and the emotionally resonant sci - fi drama Arrival netted eight
nominations each including Best
Picture and Best Director.
His poignant
coming - of - age romance — adapted by James Ivory from André Aciman's novel — enters Sunday's Academy Awards with four
nominations, for Best
Picture, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Song.
Below are the top - shelf domestic narrative
nominations: Best
Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost / Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Director Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Stephen Daldry, The Reader David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard, Frost / Nixon Gus Van Sant, Milk Best Actor Richard Jenkins, The Visitor Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon Sean Penn, Milk Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Best Actress Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married Angelina Jolie, Changeling Melissa Leo, Frozen River Meryl Streep, Doubt Kate Winslet, The Reader Best Supporting Actor Josh Brolin, Milk Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams, Doubt Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis, Doubt Taraji P Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler Best Original Screenplay Frozen River In Bruges Happy - Go - Lucky Milk Wall ▪ E Best Adapted Screenplay The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Doubt Frost / Nixon The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Animated Feature Bolt Kung Fu Panda Wall ▪ E More thoughts later, and in the
coming weeks, certainly, but the Best Supporting Actress
nominations clearly offer mostly confirmatory love on the part of AMPAS voters — Cruz and Adams are recent nominees, and Tomei a past Oscar winner.
The film paired French New Wave legends Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva and scored five Oscar
nominations in all, including Best
Picture, but only
came away with a win for Best Foreign Language Film.
Snagging a
nomination for best dramatic motion
picture as well as nods for actors Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer, this
coming - of - age movie centering around a teenager and an adult graduate student was based on 2007's «Call Me by Your Name,» the debut novel of Andre Aciman.
Today's Woody Allen
comes close (and his Midnight in Paris is the surest Best
Picture nomination bet thus far) but only on account of predominantly working outside the US and after having spent decades in the public eye.
Greta Gerwig's comic
coming - of - ager has five Oscar
nominations that include acting, directing and writing nods, potent backup for a Best
Picture contender.
(Alas, the latter's accolades may have
come at the expense of Todd Haynes's excellent Carol, which failed to get deserved
nominations for
picture and director.)
BAFTA stopped producing its longlists from which
nominations would
come from, the Oscars expanded Best
Picture in 2009 and 2010 to 10 and then to a group of 5 - 10 possible nominees.
Perhaps the most promising indicator that the film would get some Oscar recognition
came with the film's Producers Guild of America
nomination for Best
Picture, since the group's industry membership also includes some members of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts & Sciences.
With more movies, the
nominations and wins are more likely to
come from Best
Picture nominees (something like 80 + %).
«Hacksaw Ridge,» which Gibson directed and in which Vaughn starred, is
coming off six Oscar
nominations, including one for Best Director and Best
Picture.
Denis Villeneuve's futurist dystopian spectacular Blade Runner 2049
comes in with five — and this must surely be the year for cinematographer Roger Deakins, although this gets no best
picture nomination.
The Shape of Water, Universal's Get Out and Lady Bird were joined on the Best
Picture list by Sony Classics» Call Me By Your Name; Focus Features» Darkest Hour, home to Best Actor frontrunner Gary Oldman, nommed today; Warner Bros» Dunkirk, with Christopher Nolan's stunning war movie scoring eight noms; Focus» Phantom Thread, with Daniel Day - Lewis back in the Actor race; Fox's The Post, along with it the 21st
nomination for Meryl Streep (though not for director Stephen Spielberg); and Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, probably the other frontrunner
coming into today noms and which had seven
nominations, with Martin McDonagh nominated for writing but not directing, and the film's big three — Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell — all nominated.
Even though Birdman
came in with the most BAFTA
nominations compared to Boyhood, it still did not win anything except Cinematography, before going on to win
Picture, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography at the Oscars.
Guillermo Del Toro's Cold War - era fantasy, The Shape of Water,
came out on top with 13
nominations including Best
Picture.
• 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.»
The most unpredictable Oscars season in years finally
came into focus Tuesday as the 90th Academy Awards
nominations were announced, with nine films representing a wide range of genres earning best
picture nods, from a sweeping World War II epic to a hot - button, racially charged horror film to an intimate portrait of a feisty teenage girl growing up in Sacramento.
Rounding out the best
picture category were the romantic drama «Call Me by Your Name,» the Winston Churchill biopic «Darkest Hour,» the
coming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird,» the period romance «Phantom Thread,» the Pentagon Papers drama «The Post» and the smash hybrid of horror and social satire «Get Out,» which picked up four
nominations overall, including writing and directing nods for Jordan Peele and a lead actor
nomination for Daniel Kaluuya.
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.
Of the above five, only Margot Robbie isn't repping a Best
Picture nominee, and given I, Tonya «s Best Editing
nomination (usually a reliable bellwether for Best
Picture success), you have to figure her film
came close too.
The
nominations for the 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards are in and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
came out on top with four mentions including Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion
Picture.