It's tough to think of Oscar's most successful Best
Picture nominee going home empty - handed.
Of course, this leaves a few Best
Picture nominees going home empty - handed («Lady Bird,» «Get Out,» and «The Post»), but that's what happens when you have so many.
Not exact matches
Over the past few weeks, Clint Eastwood's second 2014 release (after the mostly ignored musical Jersey Boys) American Sniper has
gone from an also ran in the awards race to a Best
Picture nominee and a huge financial success.
It's rare for the cinematography prize to
go to a film not nominated for best
picture — not that Deakins hasn't had more shots on goal than many of his contemporaries; five of his 14 notices have come for best
picture nominees, and one of them, «No Country for Old Men,» won the big prize.
But perhaps the best moment for a female
nominee went unnoticed when during last night's biggest award - Best
Picture - Vanessa Taylor won alongside Best Director winner Guillermo del Toro for co-writing the fantasy thriller
But predicting the DGA
nominees and the Oscar
nominees for Directing and Best
Picture is
going to be harder than it has ever been.
But perhaps the best moment for a female
nominee went unnoticed when during last night's biggest award - Best
Picture - Vanessa Taylor won alongside Best Director winner Guillermo del Toro for co-writing the fantasy thriller The Shape of Water.
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A handful of limited - release Best
Picture nominees are
going into tonight's awards with some box - office wind in their sails, placing most of tonight's contenders on par with most recent recipients of the top prize.
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.
«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.
Winners that
went on to make the list of Best
Picture Oscar
nominees include La La Land, Room, The Imitation Game, Silver Linings Playbook, Precious, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Life Is Beautiful, Shine, Places In The Heart and The Big Chill.
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!»
Eddie Coyle is directed by Peter Yates, the British helmer of Bullitt who would
go on to success with the Best
Picture nominees Breaking Away (1979) and The Dresser (1983).
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.
With no best
picture nominees in the mix this time and no more chances to give Caesar his due, the Academy has no reason not to
go for Apes at last.
Even stranger is that these Best
Picture nominees that WON the SAG ensemble
went home empty - handed:
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.
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Picture at the 49th Academy Awards... The Oscars celebrating the best of 1976 were a rarity, in that, almost all of the
nominees for Best
Picture are truly excellent and have
gone on to become celebrated classics.
«As you can see, recently Best Film Editing has
gone to a Best
Picture nominee, but not the winner.
AND THE OSCAR FOR BEST ORIGINAL SONG
GOES TO... Here are the
nominees for best original song from a motion
picture.
Once you
go back before the Academy expanded the Best
Picture ballot, you see fewer supporting actress contenders linked to a Best
Picture nominee or winner:
Films opening in limited release this weekend include Well
Go USA's Korean fantasy - drama Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds, while Sony
Pictures Classics is bowing Happy End, Oscar -
nominee Michael Haneke's drama centered on a bourgeois family aloof to the refugee crisis in their backyard.
Prior to 2010, in fact, you have to
go all the way back to 2002 to find a year where there was a Best Supporting Actress
nominee tied to a Best
Picture winner.
It's the second year in a row the award has
gone to an English - language Best
Picture nominee: «An Education» took the prize last year.
But with competition from Oscar perennials, including Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks («The Post»), Frances McDormand («Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»), Saoirse Ronan («Lady Bird»), Daniel Day - Lewis («Phantom Thread») and Gary Oldman («Darkest Hour»)-- plus the lack of persistent buzz enjoyed by last year's diverse
nominees including «Lion,» «Fences» and «Hidden Figures» — it's
going to be a struggle for most of these
pictures and performances to simply score a nomination.
The number of best - actress
nominees who give their performances in best -
picture nominees has
gone up since the 2010 awards ceremony — but only in roughly equal proportion to the increased number of best -
picture nominees.
She was a 10 - time
nominee going into this morning's announcement and she now stands at 13 with her nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion
Picture (Trumbo), Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (Woman in Gold) and Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Trumbo).
This may not be a death sentence for an Oscar nom, though, assuming ten
nominees,
Gone Girl would certainly get more love than a few of the nominations for Best Motion
Picture — Musical or Comedy.
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Fact: Selma will now
go down in movie history as a Best
Picture nominee, something only 8 movies from hundreds and hundreds released in 2014 can claim.
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.
Following a short qualifying run toward the end of 2017, Sony
Pictures Classics is
going out with its Oscar Best Foreign Language
nominee, A Fantastic Woman on Friday.
With all the discussion of this year's Oscar
nominees — which embraced a more diverse range of performers and stories — another big industry change
went largely unremarked on: the first Best
Picture nomination for a film distributed by a streaming service.
Film Editing is tricky because it could really
go any which way, but they like to lean on Best
Picture nominees, so I have Dunkirk, Get Out, Shape of Water and Three Billboards getting in.
Below are the top - shelf domestic narrative nominations: Best
Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost / Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Director Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Stephen Daldry, The Reader David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard, Frost / Nixon Gus Van Sant, Milk Best Actor Richard Jenkins, The Visitor Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon Sean Penn, Milk Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Best Actress Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married Angelina Jolie, Changeling Melissa Leo, Frozen River Meryl Streep, Doubt Kate Winslet, The Reader Best Supporting Actor Josh Brolin, Milk Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams, Doubt Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis, Doubt Taraji P Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler Best Original Screenplay Frozen River In Bruges Happy -
Go - Lucky Milk Wall ▪ E Best Adapted Screenplay The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Doubt Frost / Nixon The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Animated Feature Bolt Kung Fu Panda Wall ▪ E More thoughts later, and in the coming weeks, certainly, but the Best Supporting Actress nominations clearly offer mostly confirmatory love on the part of AMPAS voters — Cruz and Adams are recent
nominees, and Tomei a past Oscar winner.
I'm
going with I, Tonya because it reportedly performed well at the shortlist «bakeoff» and features both showy makeup and hair, plus it's probably a
Picture nominee.
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Go • Eastern Promises Doubt • Revolutionary Road • There Will Be Blood • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button • Enchanted April • Forrest Gump The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou • Extract • Margot at the Wedding • The Darjeeling Limited • Knowing Richard Kind in the Flesh: Scrubs: Season 4 • Spymate The Voice of Richard Kind: A Bug's Life • Santa Buddies • The Wild • Cars
The NBR Best Film prize has
gone to Best
Picture nominees like «Manchester By the Sea,» «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Her,» and «Zero Dark Thirty» in the past, but the group has also awarded outliers like «A Most Violent Year» with their top prize as well.
With nine
nominees for Best
Picture, it feels like this year's race will almost certainly
go the route of preferential balloting.
There isn't a single person out there who knows how the ten best
picture nominees coupled with preferential ballot is
going to
go.
With anywhere from five to 10 Best
Picture nominees up for grabs, it would be surprising if
Gone Girl missed the cut.
Pontiac, MI., July 25, 2011 — Walt Disney
Pictures» fantastical adventure «Oz The Great and Powerful,» directed by Sam Raimi,
went in front of the cameras at the brand - new Raleigh Studios in Pontiac, Michigan, on Monday, July 25, 2011, boasting a stellar cast that includes Academy Award ®
nominee James Franco («127 Hours») as the young wizard, Golden Globe ®
nominee Mila Kunis («Black Swan») as the witch Theodora, Academy Award ® winner Rachel Weisz («The Constant Gardener») as Kunis» sister Evanora and two - time Oscar ® - nominated actress Michelle Williams («Brokeback Mountain,» «Blue Valentine») as Glinda, the Good Witch.
Two of last year's Best
Picture nominees debuted in the first half of 2009 (we must
go back nine years to find two first - half Best
Picture nominees before them).
The
nominees for Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Motion
Picture — Live Action
went to «Bridge of Spies,» «The Hateful Eight,» «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «The Revenant» and «Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens.»
On the best
picture front, the academy usually
goes its own way with a pick or two (especially since the Globes are still limited to five
nominees in each category).
Best
picture, like last year, has 10
nominees, but if you want to know what's really
going on in that category, just look at best director: Darren Aronofsky («Black Swan»), David O. Russell («The Fighter»), Tom Hooper («The King's Speech»), David Fincher («The Social Network») and Joel and Ethan Coen («True Grit»).
Explaining to future generations why Rob Reiner was once one of Hollywood's top directors was never
going to be easy, but as his latter - day output worsens, the fact that he once helmed a Best
Picture nominee (1992's A Few Good Men) starts to seem like a form of temporary insanity, or a remnant from an eradicated timeline.
Earlier this month, she was excluded from the directing race at the Golden Globes, despite her film
going on to win Best Motion
Picture, Musical or Comedy, prompting Natalie Portman's iconic «all - male
nominees» swipe.