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.
Not exact matches
Invictus will be a shoo - in for a Best
Picture nomination at the Academy Awards ®, especially as the new system nominates ten films,
instead of five.
It was assumed it would get in here rather easily, but
instead, it looks like it's effectively been eliminated from the competition, and subsequently for Best
Picture (no
nomination here equals no chance of winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and nowadays no screenplay Oscar means no Best
Picture Oscar).
Instead, it's getting the «Selma» treatment, earning a Best
Picture nomination but only getting one other nom for Meryl Streep while Spielberg misses out on an eighth Oscar
nomination.