Classic screen beauties, unforgettable musical moments and other Best
Picture nominees after the jump...
Not exact matches
The controversy erupted
after the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences announced this year's Oscar nominations earlier this month, revealing a list that included no non-white acting
nominees for the second year in a row.
The company tracked the number of Internet searches across various platforms for each of the Best
Picture nominees during the week before the nominations were announced last month and the week
after, and then compared those numbers to the weeks around each film's initial release.
Over a month
after the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences announced this year's Oscar
nominees, and the entire movie industry can still only guess at who will leave Los Angeles» Dolby Theatre with a golden statue on Sunday night.
Quality-wise, the studio was all over the map in 2013, releasing a pair of well - reviewed best
picture nominees in American Hustle and Captain Phillips but also a pair of Razzie «worst
picture»
nominees in
After Earth and Grown Ups 2.
12 times in the past 20 years, so just a little over half of the time, a Best Actress winner was at least in a Best
Picture nominee, and of those only once has a winner won for her second Oscar — Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby, winning just five years
after her first Oscar.
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.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson and star Daniel Day - Lewis reteam,
after 2007's brilliant There Will Be Blood, for this Best
Picture Academy Award
nominee set in the fashion world of 1950s post-war London.
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!»
WIP may not have hit any major strides (though a Best
Picture nominee one year
after it became a brand wasn't too shabby), but I believe Bob Berney had built something -LSB-...]
WIP may not have hit any major strides (though a Best
Picture nominee one year
after it became a brand wasn't too shabby), but I believe Bob Berney had built something special at Picturehouse, a company that was beginning to look like a real home for filmmakers and visions you can't put into little boxes.
While The Jungle Book is still the strong frontrunner to win the Oscar,
after last year's shocking upset of Ex Machina over The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road (breaking a 45 - year Oscar stat of a non-BP nominated film beating a Best
Picture nominee), anything can happen.
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.
After all, it's now a PGA
nominee and a Golden Globe Best
Picture nominee.
After Toronto, Lady Bird suddenly shot up to likely best -
picture -
nominee status, as did Saoirse Ronan's lead performance.
After receiving excellent reviews, some critics feel «Bright Star» could be a sleeper Best
Picture nominee.
The Best
Picture nominees are still very much in the air in this week's tweet collection
after the jump.
After it was excluded from a Best
Picture nomination, the Academy sensed a public backlash, so they expanded their Best
Picture list to ten nomination slots and ten
nominees for Best
Picture.
The
nominee comes into
picture only
after the death of the life assured (policy holder).