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Looking back at Oscar history, when the only Best Actress candidate in a Best Picture nominee doesn't win she loses to a vet usually who has never been honored.

Most of the time, the some of the year's Best Picture nominees do come from earlier in the year — sleeper films that pundits already whip through but that the Academy maybe didn't get to see.

Indeed, having 10 Best Picture nominees didn't so much create more interest as simply drag out the show even more, as all 10 nominees had to have their two - minute video packages, which were each introduced by a different celebrity, which added another 60 seconds — all in all, those Best Picture nominee previews added an extra half - hour onto an already bloated telecast.

Not exact matches

Five - time nominee «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» missed out on a picture nomination, along with the PGA - and SAG - nominated «Straight Outta Compton,» which did earn a nomination for original screenplay.

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.

Obviously Adams would do better if Arrival were also a Best Picture nominee, which is might be, but she could also get in without it.

If Get On Up is in fact Universal's second campaign priority, it does not bode well for the film; Universal has not had two Best Picture nominees since 1995's Apollo 13 and Babe.

But best picture nominees typically don't lose in this category to movies that weren't likewise nominated.

You do see some overlap between the NBR awards and the Oscars, of course — the awards in 1980 and 1982, to name but two years, were pretty close to those of the Academy, and the Board gave their award for Best Picture of 1989, the year of «Do the Right Thing,» to «Driving Miss Daisy,» for crying out loud; like the Oscars, they have a weakness for White Elephant - type biopics and costume dramas — but there are more years when the winners (not the nomineesdo see some overlap between the NBR awards and the Oscars, of course — the awards in 1980 and 1982, to name but two years, were pretty close to those of the Academy, and the Board gave their award for Best Picture of 1989, the year of «Do the Right Thing,» to «Driving Miss Daisy,» for crying out loud; like the Oscars, they have a weakness for White Elephant - type biopics and costume dramas — but there are more years when the winners (not the nomineesDo the Right Thing,» to «Driving Miss Daisy,» for crying out loud; like the Oscars, they have a weakness for White Elephant - type biopics and costume dramas — but there are more years when the winners (not the nominees!)

It's a good thing the Best Director category didn't go the way of Best Picture to accommodate more nominees, because this year's campaign has only ever been a three - man race even in its most competitive stages.

Only one year, 2014, did all of the Best Picture nominees win an Oscar.

Sony Pictures Classics is doing a qualifying run for Independent Spirits Award - nominee Loveless, while Vitagraph Films is opening The Dancer by Stéphanie Di Giusto.

Four of the five films in contention were Best Picture nominees, which is typical, and understandable: surely a picture's putative Best - ness has a lot to do with the excellence of its various elPicture nominees, which is typical, and understandable: surely a picture's putative Best - ness has a lot to do with the excellence of its various elpicture's putative Best - ness has a lot to do with the excellence of its various elements?

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.

Like AIDS related Best Picture nominee Dallas Buyers Club twhich some gay critics don't like at all and on principal but which factors into both of the gay - specific awards recently announced.

The five directing nominations tend to line up with the strongest Best Picture contenders, although snubbed director nominee Ben Affleck did win Best Picture win for «Argo.»

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).

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?

How, for instance, do you have 6 nominees for most categories but only 4 for Best Actress in an Action picture and only nominate supporting actresses for that prize and leave out two leading women who really carried their films with aplomb: Mary Elizabeth Winstead in 10 Cloverfield Lane and Blake Lively in The Shallows.

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.

But I like that there's even a very remote possibility that Chris Pratt's streak of being in a Best Picture nominee could extend to four years in a row with THE LEGO MOVIE doing weirdly well so far.

We are entering an era when the studios do not often attempt to make Best Pictures, and most of the nominees are generated by independent filmmakers and specialty distributors.

The other animated film to land a best - pic nod, and the only one to do so in a year of only five Best Picture nominees, was Disney's «Beauty and the Beast» in 1991.

DVDizzy.com: There was some good news for A Serious Man this week, so I just want to start by asking you, how does it feel to be the lead actor in a Best Picture nominee?

It does not seem like the stars are going to align to give him a win for a Best Picture nominee or winner, but voters have a chance this year to give him the Oscar for a film that isn't nominated but would be well deserved win without a doubt.

The choices by these groups don't always line up with the eventual Oscars Best Picture, but it may at least increase the movie's odds of a place on the nominees list.

In the last few years, it's been worth keeping an eye (or an ear, rather) on the Sundance buzz, as the festival has birthed a number of future critical hits, and even awards - season success stories: recent Best Picture nominees «Little Miss Sunshine,» «Precious,» «An Education» and now «The Kids Are All Right» and «Winter's Bone» all premiered there, as did «Frozen River,» «Blue Valentine» and a plethora of Oscar - nominated documentaries.

How great that «The Grand Budapest Hotel» did better abroad than any other best picture nominee — even «Sniper»?

When Oscar voters fill out their ballots, they don't just select the film they like best; they rank all nine nominees in order, a process called the preferential ballot that makes the best - picture voting process different from any other.

To show how this works, I asked SurveyMonkey Audience to run a survey of moviegoers — people who have seen at least one movie in the past six months — to rank the best picture nominees the same way the Academy voters do.

The Best Picture nominee and the erotic trilogy don't banish the aspirational fairy tale of what happens to women who marry powerful men, but they do both hold it up to a new light.

Mudbound should've been included among the Best Picture nominees as well, though it did manage four total nominations, including two history - making ones.

I almost always end up predicting nine Best Picture nominees, and am doing so again this year, given how broad support seems to be among many contenders.

If the previous two, 1998's Best Picture Academy Award nominee The Thin Red Line and 2005's forgettable The New World, could be easily described as poems, then this one feels more like a concerto grosso, one which really does make a sincere effort to tie together life, the universe, and everything in a way that the number 42 fell short.

Note, in case it's necessary: Jennifer Lawrence did not actually send us reviews of the Best Picture nominees.

How does Jennifer Lawrence feel about the rest of the Best Picture nominees?

Even when the Oscars pull out a kooky Best Picture nominee (The Blind Side in 2009; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close in 2011), the PGA didn't.

So you see, there isn't a single nominee for Best Picture that doesn't have SOMETHING against it.

Two - time nominee John Hawkes failed to get a mention for The Sessions, although Helen Hunt (pictured left) did for her performance as the woman who awakens his character to sex, while the presence of the pint - sized Wallis in the actress line - up meant nothing for previous winner Marion Cotillard, who had been considered a shoo - in for Rust and Bone.

The main lineup may be lighter on films that could figure into the Oscar race than in some recent years; it won't likely have as much of a U.S. awards presence as it did in 2011, when Best Picture nominees «The Tree of Life,» «The Artist» and «Midnight in Paris» all screened in Cannes, or last year, when «Nebraska,» «Inside Llewyn Davis,» «The Great Beauty,» «Fruitvale Station,» «All Is Lost» and «The Great Gatsby» were part of the program.

The SAG Ensemble nomination didn't fail even when only two of the Best Picture nominees had it — The Big Short and Spotlight.

After Toronto, Lady Bird suddenly shot up to likely best - picture - nominee status, as did Saoirse Ronan's lead performance.

While that Best Picture nominee, the first ever animated feature to be so honored and the only one to do it when there were only five contenders, obviously owed a huge debt to Jean Cocteau's landmark 1946 adaptation of the classic Jeanne - Marie Leprince de Beaumont fairy tale, thanks to lush characterizations, superb animation, brilliant set pieces and a marvelous soundtrack it instantaneously entered the pantheon of all - time great Disney classics.

They used to have five, just as the Academy's Best Picture did, but changed to a solid 10 when the Academy also changed their number of Best Picture nominees in 2009 to 10.

Being a Best Picture nominee is always a plus in the writing categories, and it can frequently be a great place to reward a film that doesn't really compute for voters in other fields.

Not only does Chalamet also appear in Lady Bird, another of this year's most exciting best picture nominees, but this very model of a post-Weinstein star has shown more courage off - screen that most actors twice his age.

While Rooney Mara did have a role in best picture nominee Lion, it was somewhat thankless, and her other awards - friendly titles of the year (The Secret Scripture, Una) made little impact on the festival circuit.

Elsewhere, however, Brits did less well than expected when the list of nominees was read out by Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and 2006 best actor winner Forest Whitaker at the Samuel Goldwyn theatre in Los Angeles.

Today, though the Academy Awards» Best Picture field can accommodate up to ten nominees, there still seems to be little opportunity for a film that doesn't look like conventional Oscar fare to make the cut.

But the film does not rise up to his abilities or his work, and he is the only nominee in this category not to star in a Best Picture nominated film.