Mudbound should've been included among the Best
Picture nominees as well, though it did manage four total nominations, including two history - making ones.
Not exact matches
Get Out is the second highest - grossing Best
Picture nominee ($ 255 million globally),
as that particular Oscars field is frequently devoid of blockbusters.
asks West Virginia's secretary of state and Democratic Senate
nominee,
as her new campaign commercial shows a
picture of the White House.
Both of those films were —
as widely expected — among eight
nominees for best
picture this year,
as were longtime Oscar favorite Boyhood and awards - friendly biopics like The Imitation Game, Selma, and The Theory of Everything.
It's no Annie Hall, sure, but Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen's best reviewed film in over a decade and his highest grossing release of all time; it's also being mentioned
as a likely best
picture nominee.
London Films put itself on the international map in 1933 with The Private Life of Henry VIII, the most successful British
picture produced since the advent of sound, and a nominee for Best Picture as well as a winner for Best Actor (for Charles Lau
picture produced since the advent of sound, and a
nominee for Best
Picture as well as a winner for Best Actor (for Charles Lau
Picture as well
as a winner for Best Actor (for Charles Laughton).
With past Oscar
nominees such
as Elizabeth, The Queen, The Young Victoria and 2010's best -
picture winner The King's Speech, the British have monopolized the royal biopic the way Americans have colonized the Second World War movie.
And,
as you can see below in our quick look back at the last two decades of best
picture nominees, having the best reviews among just the nominated films isn't even enough to guarantee a win.
Veteran move and film actress Archer, is most notable to audiences for playing Michael Douglas's wife in the 1987 Best
Picture Oscar
nominee «Fatal Attraction,» starring Glenn Close
as a psycho mistress.
Nominees for the Producers Guild Awards are endorsed
as the predictor of eligibility for producing honors given by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA), the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), and the Television Academy.
Both films feature in the Best
Picture lineup,
as does «Public Enemy Number One,» a sprawling biopic of gangster Jacques Mesrine that has been a local box - office smash and leads all
nominees with 10 bids.
Of the first - weekend limited release Best
Picture Nominees currently in theaters, most are in the same realm in terms of box office totals
as the Best
Picture winners of the past several years.
Kenyan actress Nyong» o has earned a nod for her role
as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave, here
pictured with Best Supporting Actor
nominee Michael Fassbender.
It's very likely a Best
Picture nominee and could easily see a large following in the Academy citing the film
as the best of the year.
In a year that saw the Academy heavily criticized for its noticeably white
nominees across every major category, the inclusion of Tyldum
as Best Director and the title amongst the Best
Picture nominees came
as a bit of a surprise considering the film's very routine, unavoidably square structure
as a well - intentioned, noble biopic.
2007, for example, was seen
as a fight between «No Country for Old Men» ($ 74 mil, 36th for the year) and «There Will Be Blood» ($ 40 mil, 66th), while the highest - grossing best
picture nominee that year, «Juno,» still only 15th, wasn't really seen
as a contender for BP.
«The Shape of Water,» which stars
nominee Sally Hawkins
as a mute cleaning lady who falls for a soulful, otherworldly beast, tops all movies with seven nominations, including best director, best screenplay and best motion
picture, drama.
I've still not seen The Full Monty, but it's tough to dispute any of its four fellow Best
Picture nominees (Titanic, L.A. Confidential, Good Will Hunting, and
As Good
As It Gets) or claim that Amistad was worthier than them.
Steven Spielberg's «Lincoln,» starring Daniel Day - Lewis
as the 16th President of the United States, leads this year's Academy Award
nominees with 12 total nominations including best
picture, best director (for Spielberg), best actor (for Day - Lewis), best supporting actor (for Tommy Lee Jones), and best supporting actress (for Sally Field).
Sure to remind some of «Cellular,» the 2004
picture starring Kim Basinger, Chris Evans and Jason Statham, The Call is, for the most part, a gripping little tight - knit crime thriller directed by Brad Anderson («The Machinist «-RRB- and blessed with decent work by Halle Berry (Academy Award winner for «Monster's Ball «-RRB-
as heroine Jordan, and Abigail Breslin (Oscar
nominee for «Little Miss Sunshine «-RRB-,
as Casey, the girl Jordan is trying to save.
A crazy day
as the National Society of Film Critics announced their winners today, the Producers Guild announce their Best
Picture nominees on Tuesday, the BAFTA nominations are Friday and the Golden Globes are Sunday.
Bill Nighy - A host of stars were photographed
as they arrived for the Meet the 2015 Tony
Nominees reception which was held at the Paramount Hotel in New York City, New York, United States - Wednesday 29th April 2015 (8
Pictures)
Maybe it's better to see the
picture as a scary - prescient prediction of what would happen if someone like Ernest were not only tasked with choosing the next President of the United States, but moreover tabbed
as the vice-presidential
nominee of a major candidate.
This go - round, the nine - time emcee revived such trademarks of his tenure
as an opening song - and - dance
as well
as an inspired spoof of the Best
Picture nominees via a movie montage.
Paramount
Pictures announced on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 that Academy Award ® -
nominees Greg Kinnear and Djimon Hounsou and Academy Award ® - winners Renee Zellweger and Jon Voight will star in Same Kind of Different
As Me, based on the best - selling nonfiction book by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent, author of the bestselling book Heaven Is for Real.
As someone who seriously brought up the possibility of «Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens» as a best picture nominee in October, I'm not adverse to the idea of J.J. Abrams sequel playing the.
As someone who seriously brought up the possibility of «Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens»
as a best picture nominee in October, I'm not adverse to the idea of J.J. Abrams sequel playing the.
as a best
picture nominee in October, I'm not adverse to the idea of J.J. Abrams sequel playing the...
«The Great Gatsby» joined «Frozen»
as the evening's other multi-award winner while Best
Picture nominees «Captain Phillips», «Philomena» and «The Wolf of Wall Street» all went home empty - handed.
By the way, is it not odd that first time winner James L. Brooks has never again been nominated in the directing category again, despite two Best
Picture nominees in «Broadcast News» and «
As Good
As It Gets?»
Some other pundits have speculated this means only a few
nominees will make the field, but my instinct is that it will actually bring us back to nine
nominees as too many
pictures have passionate pockets of support (I'm not convinced 10 can occur with the current tabulation system, however).
Since the Academy expanded their Best
Picture slate to
as many
as 10
nominees, the BFCA has matched almost all of the Best
Picture contenders, missing only one each year.
As usual, if our familiar rules apply, almost all of the Best Director
nominees will very likely have a corresponding Best
Picture nomination.
In fact every best
picture nominee except for The English Patient was set in the present or recent past meaning they were a non-factor in such below the line categories
as art direction, costume, makeup, the sound categories and (w / the exception of Shine) original score.
At this point only «The Big Short» is viewed
as a legitimate Best
Picture and or Best Editing
nominee among this group.
Sometimes it's a strong indicator,
as in 2010 when nine films (including two of the Best
Picture nominees, Winter's Bone and The Kids...
Moonlight won last year with just WGA but last film to win Best
Picture with only WGA going in was 1995's Braveheart which,
as a non-SAG Cast
nominee, is one of the long - standing stats we rely on.
#BLL2»: The 42 - year - old Oscar winner will return
as outspoken housewife Madeline Martha Mackenzie alongside two - time Oscar
nominee Laura Dern's anti- bullying crusader Renata Klein (
pictured March 19)
The Producers Guild of America has named Life Itself
as one of the
nominees for this year's best documentary theatrical motion
picture.
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As you can see, recently Best Film Editing has gone to a Best
Picture nominee, but not the winner.
As a two - time Oscar
nominee it would seem that Chastain has the edge but Russo is in a film that is possibly getting other nominations, including Best Actor and Best
Picture.
A healthy portion of the first part of the Golden Globe conversation centers around Get Out, both in its quality
as a film and its likelihood
as a Golden Globe Best
Picture nominee.
More complications: The late - arriving American Sniper is the only one of the Best
Picture nominees to qualify
as a real box - office smash.
If either of the Best
Picture nominees just mentioned win this prize
as well
as Best Director, it'll be the 36th film to do so.
What probably won't happen, or what we've never seen happen since SAG gave out its first Ensemble award to The Birdcage, is for their Ensemble award winner not also be a Best
Picture nominee — this is true of the acting categories
as well.
Not ashamed to say I love La La Land and it's okay to wholeheartedly love it even if you agree that Moonlight deserved Best
Picture from the
nominees (
as I myself do).
We address queries regarding «Black Swan»
as a potential dark horse Best
Picture winner, lurking
nominee hopefuls in that field, the fact that the category is not called «Best Makeup in a Good Movie» and... contender drinking games?
The Academy resurrected the ten Best
Picture nominee format for the publicly perceived snub of TDK but could it be possible that just didn't care enough for it
as a whole with the except of Ledger's performance?
Hidden Figures taking the prize for Best Ensemble in a Motion
Picture honestly seems right on brand
as it's big ensemble with name actors in a movie everyone likes, without the big Oscar
nominee in the race.
As the only Best Actress
nominee who stars in a Best
Picture candidate, Golden Globe winner Emma Stone is favored to win Best Actress.
As a proud member of the Houston Film Critics Society, it is with great enthusiasm that I announce this year's
nominees, celebrating the best motion
pictures and performances of 2015.
Anyway, unless everyone is slightly underestimating the appeal of the other four Best
Picture nominees it's up against, Moonlight will probably get its due here — especially
as it remains the only particularly plausible threat to La La Land's (probably inevitable) end - of - the - night victory.