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.
Not exact matches
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.
The bicentennial film was the recipient of five Academy Award
nominations - Best Director, Best
Picture, Best Supporting Actress (2)(Ronee Blakely and Lily Tomlin), with its
only win for Best Song («I'm Easy», sung by Keith Carradine).
That might be why it ended up with a whopping 14
nominations, and now remains the
only film to get that many
nominations and not win best
Picture, as you can see over at FilmSite.org.
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.
Of course, Oscar voters must
only select five, not ten, Best
Picture titles on their
nominations ballots, but both Tonya and Molly movies appeal to the largely male voting bodies, given the nature of the films — sports oriented - ish with women who are easy on the eyes.
Few would have bet that «Inglourious Basterds» would turn into the festival's Oscar MVP (they might have been more inclined to say Jane Campion's «Bright Star,» but that film went on to
only earn one
nomination), or that festival opener «Up» was a sure thing for a Best
Picture nomination.
«The Tree of Life» became the first since 2002's «The Pianist» to manage a Best
Picture nomination, and
only the fifth since 1983 (the others being «The Piano,» «Pulp Fiction» and «Secrets and Lies»).
Last year,
only six out of their top 10 earned Best
Picture nominations, seven with their winner, Manchester by the Sea.
«The Imitation Game» trails,
only just, with eight, and «Boyhood» walked away with six
nominations including best
picture, best director for Richard Linklater, and best supporting recognition for both Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.
Only once in DGA / Oscar history did only two directors from the DGA's list get Oscar nominations and of course, the one who won the DGA also won the Directing Oscar and Best Picture, Robert Wise and The Sound of Mu
Only once in DGA / Oscar history did
only two directors from the DGA's list get Oscar nominations and of course, the one who won the DGA also won the Directing Oscar and Best Picture, Robert Wise and The Sound of Mu
only two directors from the DGA's list get Oscar
nominations and of course, the one who won the DGA also won the Directing Oscar and Best
Picture, Robert Wise and The Sound of Music.
It garnered seven Academy Award
nominations, including Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal against winner Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)-RRB-, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role from the earlier stage production, and in her film debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won
only one Oscar for Best Art Direction - Interior Decoration.
Awards and
nominations left, right and centre — the season is officially under way, folks: • «Slumdog Millionaire» emerged as a bona fide frontrunner, taking Best
Picture at the season kickoff, the National Board of Review awards... •...
only days after taking -LSB-...]
Alone with «American Hustle,» it was the
only one of the 10 movies up for a Golden Globe best
picture that also collected a SAG
nomination for ensemble, the acting union's equivalent of the best
picture category.
«Big Short» not
only snuck into the Best
Picture category but it earned McKay a Best Director nod, an Adapted Screenplay
nomination (shared with Charles Randolph) and the film took an Editing slot as well.
With his Oscar
nomination for Best Director, Get Out's Jordan Peele became
only the fifth black director to ever be nominated by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences.
Despite its enormous critical acclaim, «Silence» will be
only the second Scorsese film in the last 15 years to not get a Best
Picture nomination.
«Argo» is expected to pick up some more hardware this weekend at the BAFTA Awards, where its
nominations include not
only best
picture and director, but best actor for Ben Affleck.
Well, it is the
only the sound people who do the nominating in these categories, so I'm sure it will be a focus for those members (the
only other category they get to vote in for
nominations is best
picture).
Every NYFCC winner for best
picture of the last decade has proceeded to secure a nomination for the Best Picture Oscar; only two al
picture of the last decade has proceeded to secure a
nomination for the Best
Picture Oscar; only two al
Picture Oscar;
only two also won.
With the exception of Boyhood, which emerged as a Best
Picture favorite
only to fall to Birdman, Linklater's work has mostly flown under the radar of awards organizations, aside from Adapted Screenplay
nominations at the Oscars for the two Before sequels.
If you are going to go by the stats, the
only films nominated for Best
Picture that could win after the
nominations were announced earlier this month were «Spotlight» and «The Big Short.»
He was nominated twice for «Babe,» which even picked up a best
picture nomination back in the days of
only five nominees.
His lensing has been a part of a Best
Picture winner (No Country for Old Men) as well as his being the
only nomination from the film (The Man Who Wasn't There, Prisoners).
#OscarsSoWhite again: Despite a Producers Guild Award
nomination for Best
Picture, Straight Outta Compton didn't make the Oscar Best
Picture cut, while Creed, directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan,
only scored one nod, for supporting player Stallone.
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-...]
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!»
«The Shape of Water,» which received the most
nominations of any film, took home
only four of 14
nominations: best production design, best score, best
picture and best director for Guillermo del Toro.
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.
If Oscar voters knew that the
only thing standing between them and Dee Rees» Mudbound getting an Oscar
nomination for Best
Picture was how they ranked it on their ballots, do you think they would mark it at number one?
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.
But, in order to do that Dunkirk would have to take the Oscars all the way back to 1932's Grand Hotel, which won Best
Picture as its
only nomination (so obviously no acting or writing noms).
Not
only did it lose Best
Picture, it lost other major awards that films with 14
nominations just don't lose.
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.
The upcoming fan uproar for all things «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» — You won't see me in the picket line, but just sit back and watch the populist hatred grow today and this month for «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» getting
ONLY five
nominations (Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Original Score, Film Editing, and Visual Effects) and no nod for Best
Picture.
The
only other multiple winner of the ceremony was fellow Best
Picture Oscar nominee «Winter's Bone,» which took a well - deserved brace of supporting trophies for John Hawkes and Dale Dickey — the film's
only reward for a field - leading haul of seven
nominations.
The Academy offered a major surprise by not
only honoring the film with
nominations for Best Actor Andrew Garfield, Editing, Sound Editing, and Mixing, but also for Director and Best
Picture, signaling that scandal - tainted Mel Gibson, who directed «Braveheart» to five Oscar wins including director and picture back in 1996, made such a strong movie that the Academy couldn't de
Picture, signaling that scandal - tainted Mel Gibson, who directed «Braveheart» to five Oscar wins including director and
picture back in 1996, made such a strong movie that the Academy couldn't de
picture back in 1996, made such a strong movie that the Academy couldn't deny him.
It's
only the third original musical to land a Best
Picture nomination, following «All That Jazz» (1979) and «Anchors Aweigh» (1945).
You can always tell when the actors have their say because the film will have a Best
Picture nomination and
only one acting
nomination.
MacLaine's win is also one of
only three Best Actress wins by a film that won Best
Picture and did not have a corresponding Best Actor
nomination.
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.
Not
only did «Moonlight's» Mahershala Ali and «Fences»» Viola Davis earn Oscars for their supporting roles — the first time two African American actors won in both supporting categories in the same year — Ruth Negga was nominated for her lead role in «Loving» and Denzel Washington earned his seventh acting
nomination plus a shot at best
picture as one of the producers of «Fences.»
After all, five of the films currently sitting in the «most likely» pile for a Best
Picture nomination — «The Fighter,» «Black Swan,» «The Kids Are All Right,» «The Town» and «Winter's Bone» — placed in my own Best of 2010 list last week: hardly an unhappy stat, even if my and the Academy's respective Top Tens will have
only a 20 % overlap.
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.
One and Done: Manchester by the Sea joins I, Robot & Fade to Black as the
only films to
only receive an Outstanding Motion
Picture nomination.
It was
only a few years ago that Brokeback Mountain was nominated for Best
Picture, as well as racking up Oscar
nominations for its lead actors who played gay cowboys.
Despite being nominated by the Producers Guild of America at the 2018 PGA Awards, Warner Bros.» DC blockbuster Wonder Woman not
only found itself missing out on a Best
Picture nomination at the Academy Awards, but was also shut out entirely at the Oscars — something that left TV's Wonder Woman Lynda Carter feeling very -LSB-...]
Due to the revised voting system,
only (8) films qualified for Best
Picture nominations — a maximum of (10) are allowed.
I hope this Logan
nomination in the screenplay category means that the Academy voters will start recognizing not
only the artistry it takes to make these movies look spectacular, but also the care and talent the writers, directors, and actors put into these
pictures.
By now, anyone who's followed the Oscars with enthusiasm levels we'll say match your best friend who tries to maybe catch four or five of the best
picture nominees
only after the
nominations have been announced is now likely familiar with the sad case of Alexandre Desplat.