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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.

Not exact matches

With that in mind, I'm reluctant to pick The Shape of Water as this year's Best Picture winner: It received the most nominations and several guild wins, but like La La Land (which also breezed through awards season until the final night), it's a retro pastiche.

choosing an elegant and princess - like gown to correspond with her nomination for Best Actress in a motion picture.

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).

Best Picture: Three of the past five years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» diPicture: Three of the past five years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» dipicture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» did not).

The SAG nom comm obviously saw La La Land and liked Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling enough to nominate them and by most accounts the cast / ensemble nomination at SAG is a default Best Picture nomination.

Thanks to the current nomination calendar, U.S. presidential candidates (like Chris Christie, pictured at the 2015 Iowa State Fair) get lots of practice at flipping pork chops.

It's no secret we really like Moonlight — and, thankfully, the Academy did too, giving it eight nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Score.

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).

Vera Farmiga has had success with hits like the «Conjuring» movies and Best Picture - winner «The Departed,» and landed an Oscar nomination for «Up in the Air.»

With the double - whammy of the critically acclaimed Logan and Wonder Woman, it looked like 2017 was going to be the year that a comic book movie finally earned a Best Picture nomination.

I'll start my review for Wonderstruck like this: If Wonderstruck doesn't get a nomination for best picture this year then something is horribly wrong.

Winners like The Bourne Ultimatum, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Matrix have won without the benefit of a Best Picture nomination.

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.

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

Just yesterday it had a superb showing in yesterday's Independent Spirit nominations, where it beat the more hotly fancied likes of «The Visitor» to a Best Picture nomination, only two days after landing an unexpected nod in the -LSB-...]

On the flipside, with a SAG, PGA, and now WGA nomination under its belt, Dallas Buyers Club is looking more and more like a genuine threat to land a Best Picture nomination.

The film is very popular and well liked all around and is the only adapted screenplay that also has a Best Picture nomination, making it a shoo - in.

For a time, Chalamet seemed like a potential dark - horse spoiler, but the best picture nomination for Darkest Hour — and the curious failure of the assault allegations in his past, which were dismissed in court, to affect his campaign — have made that seem virtually impossible.

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.

Argo, Ben Affleck's third feature film, is looking more and more like a lock for the Best Picture prize at Sunday's Oscars, and even if the man himself didn't get a Best Director nomination, it's still a remarkable culmination of one of the most fascinating second acts in Hollywood.

Today, looking back, the decision to award «Miss Daisy» Best Picture while «Do the Right Thing» didn't even score a nomination feels like something from another age.

It feels like a 100 - minute challenge to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to continue denying Anderson's films the Production Design and Cinematography Oscar nominations many would argue they deserve.

Four of the past six years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, «Beasts» in 2012, «Whiplash» in 2014 — «Like Crazy» and «Fruitvale Station» were the exceptions).

The Houston Film Critics Society released their nominations where «The Nice Guys» surprisingly popped up in their Best Picture lineup, alongside films like «The...

Some of the movies we though might be big deals this year like Chile's Oscar nominee A Fantastic Woman opted for Oscar qualifying release only and Germany's Oscar finalist In the Fade starring Diane Kruger (pictured left) opted to sneak out at the last second to qualify for all Oscars though it did not receive nominations, buried in that post Christmas glut of tiny releases.

While «The End of the Tour» might be a bit of a long shot for Best Picture (though who knows at this point), it seems like a much safer bet to net Jason Segel his first Oscar nomination as late author David Foster Wallace.

Ever since Selma received a Best Picture nomination, DuVernay has been in - demand at various Hollywood studios, being considered for projects like Marvel's Black Panther among others.

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.

Capturing the horror of the camps like few filmmakers before and displaying a gift for camerawork both realistic and with a heightened terror that Inarritu and Lubezki would be jealous of, it's sure to win him a Foreign Language Oscar nod and could lead to Best Picture and Best Director nominations as well, while he's currently developing his second feature «Sunset,» a thriller set in Budapest in 1910.

The film raked up a slew of nominations and may just be the most universally liked Best Picture nominee of the bunch.

But just for kicks, and because Pixar has a habit of making us think about stuff like this, let's examine what it might take for «Inside Out» to actually get that elusive Best Picture nomination.

Although director Stephen Frears has twice landed Oscar nominations for Best Director (The Queen and The Grifters) and twice guided a film to a Best Picture nomination (The Queen and Philomena), it is unreasonable to expect anything like that from this rather lightweight period comedy, which will fare well with older moviegoers but less so with the public at large despite favorable reviews from most critics.

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.

Like Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Part 2 is a shoo - in to earn a Best Picture nomination, if only in recognition of the franchise's record - breaking success and tireless pursuit of excellence.

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.

Despite Best Picture wins for movies like Hitchcock's psychologically spooky Rebecca and Jonathan Demme's suspenseful classic The Silence of the Lambs, as well as the Best Director nomination awarded to The Sixth Sense's M. Night Shyamalan, it's safe to say that genre movies just can't catch a break with this awards body.

All the Best Picture Academy Awards nominations from Get Out to Shape of Water receive an illustrated makeover to look like Oscar statuettes.

However, like The Post, The Shape of Water, and Dunkirk, not getting a SAG ensemble nomination makes it a little tougher to pull out a Best Picture win.

With more movies, the nominations and wins are more likely to come from Best Picture nominees (something like 80 + %).

At this point, Mudbound, so deserving of many category nominations from Best Picture to Screenplay to Supporting Actor and Actress to Song, seems like the longest of long shots.

To shed that hex, Warner Bros. has splurged on a lavish campaign (it even included «For Your Consideration» billboards around Los Angeles) to persuade Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences voters that (like the final «The Lord of the Rings» movie) the finale of this fantasy mega-franchise deserves some nomination and trophy love.

This year they liked The Handmaiden so much that it even broke into their Best Picture nomination, a rarity for the group.

But off late, they have really lost credibility (save for chance miracles like the Best picture nomination for The Lives Of others).

Like many others, his list has «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» ruling the roost with eight nominations, with «Defiance,» «Doubt,» «Milk» and «Miracle at St Anna» rounding out the Best Picture list.

Deakins got his first Oscar nomination for his work on 1994's The Shawshank Redemption, and through the years, he's been nominated for all kinds of movies, from Best Picture nominees (No Country for Old Men; Fargo; The Reader) to more offbeat but lush achievements, working with directors like the Coen Brothers (whose movies make up for 5 of Deakins's 14 nods), Martin Scorsese (Kundun), Sam Mendes (Skyfall), and Angelina Jolie (Unbroken).

There always seemed to be at least somewhat of a chance that it would make it into the Best Picture category as one of those token nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of Unbroken, but it was also just as likely to get bumped by more mainstream fare like Gone Girl or Interstellar or a similarly positioned low profile picture like NightcPicture category as one of those token nominations, which was aided by the under - performance of Unbroken, but it was also just as likely to get bumped by more mainstream fare like Gone Girl or Interstellar or a similarly positioned low profile picture like Nightcpicture like Nightcrawler.

It now has some competition, though, in La La Land, another critical and festival darling that scored 12 Critics» Choice nominations, more than any other film, including key categories like best picture, best director, best actor, and best actress.

However, he's got a host of impressive credits to his name, having been part of movies like Zero Dark Thirty, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Netflix's Mudbound, which many feel was deserving a Best Picture Oscar nomination this year.

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.