But last year, Hidden Figures, a Best
Picture nominee also from Fox, had taken in $ 119.5 million through Feb. 5, three weeks before the Feb. 26 Oscar ceremony.
Not exact matches
Meanwhile, Dunkirk
also fared the best of all Best
Picture nominees on YouTube, with the movie's trailer getting nearly 44 million global views on Google's digital video service (Get Out and The Shape of Water are the runners up in that regard, with 30 million and 18 million respective views for their trailers).
Icahn's new slate of
nominees includes Christodoro; Keith Cozza,
also associated with Icahn; Jay Firestone, the CEO of Prodigy
Pictures, and Randolph Read, the CEO of Nevada Strategic Credit Investments, an investment fund.
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.
The studio
also had a best
picture nominee in The Imitation Game, and earned 9 Academy Award nominations overall.
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.
The domestic and global market share leader with worldwide receipts north of $ 5 billion last year, Warner Bros. is
also the only major studio last year to record a Metascore of 91 or higher — a feat it accomplished not once but twice, with best
picture nominees Gravity and Her.
The cast
also includes Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Bradley Whitford, and B.J. Novak, and it's Hancock's first directorial effort since best
picture nominee The Blind Side.
Even though Sony released only one positively reviewed film in 2010 and managed to boost that total to six films in 2011 (led by best
picture nominee Moneyball), its overall Metascore still dropped nearly two points last year, while the studio's average Metacritic user score was
also the lowest among the big six distributors.
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.
McCraney is among several LGBT
nominees, which
also includes Mica Levi (Best Original Score for Jackie), Scott Rudin (Best
Picture for Fences), Benj Pasek (up twice for Best Original Song for La La Land) and Bryon Howard, co-director of Best Animated Feature
nominee Zootopia, which tells the story of a female rabbit police officer fighting prejudice and triumphing over xenophobia.
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.
We
also consider whether «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» could be the franchise's first Best
Picture nominee since the 1977 original, «A New Hope.»
The independents tag
also underscores that four of the most - nominated contenders were released by indie or boutique distributors: Miramax, The English Patient; October, Secrets & Lies; Gramercy, Fargo; Fine Line, Shine — the second Best
Picture nominee from Australia, and arguably the most «Hollywood» movie in the running.
Also # 16 Cinematic Lump of Coal: The 11th Best
Picture BFCA
nominee (smh) is Star Wars, which I love but only in one category why not reopen all voting then?
These are
also the only best
picture nominees with notable female leads, aside from Frances McDormand's character Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Also among the 9 Oscar
nominees for best
picture Thursday: the old - age love story «Amour»; the Iran hostage thriller «Argo»; the independent hit «Beasts of the Southern Wild»; the slave - revenge narrative «Django Unchained»; the musical «Les Miserables»; the shipwreck story «Life of Pi»; the lost - souls romance «Silver Linings Playbook»; and the Osama bin Laden manhunt chronicle «Zero Dark Thirty.»
Christopher Nolan is an Oscar
nominee for Best Director for the first time thanks to «Dunkirk,» which is
also nominated for Best
Picture and a handful of crafts prizes, and he made it clear at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (via Collider) that he has brushed up on the competition.
Also nominated for best
picture are «Selma,» «The Theory of Everything» and, a surprise, «Whiplash,» for a total of eight
nominees in the category.
Sony
Pictures Classics Sony
Pictures Classics» main competitor is «Call Me By Your Name,» the romantic best
picture nominee that's
also up for actor, adapted screenplay, and original song.
Ahead of its release next week, Paramount
Pictures has dropped a new poster for director Rupert Wyatt's (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) remake of the 1974 crime drama The Gambler... SEE
ALSO: Read our review of The Gambler here Jim Bennett (Academy Award -
nominee Mark Wahlberg) is a risk taker.
«Imitation»
also received a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion
Picture, the Screen Actors Guild Awards equivalent of Best
Picture, when the SAG Awards
nominees were announced yesterday.
Despite being a Best
Picture nominee, it's an
also ran in the Best Film Editing race.
Much like last year, one of the Best
Picture nominees for the Academy Awards ended up taking the top prize with Spotlight winning Best Feature, not to mention a prize for the film's director Tom McCarthy, who
also got a prize along with Josh Singer for the film's script.
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.
This year's slate
also contains a sole Best
Picture nominee, one whose spare but surprisingly inventive sound (inspired by Robert Bresson, not that I imagine most voters would give a shit)
also just won the award from the Cinema Audio Society.
Ellis, who joined the cast of CBS» Elementary this past season as a series regular before his character Shinwell was murdered, was
also in the Oscar Best
Picture nominee The Help alongside Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis and Emma Stone.
It
also amassed more than five of its nine fellow Best
Picture nominees, including media fixture The Social Network and Aronofsky - produced The Fighter.
In addition to Scott's nomination for Directing, the film
also is a
nominee for Best
Picture, Lead Actor (Matt Damon), Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Sound Design, and Visual Effects.
The list is
also missing several directors that have only made a single best -
picture nominee so far, including people like Denis Villeneuve, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jean - Marc Vallée — all of whom have
also made powerful films about women.
But just beyond that (mandated) equality lies a huge disparity: while 21 of those best - actor performances came in films that were
also nominated for best
picture, only 12 best - actress performances came from best -
picture nominees.
The
picture was directed by five - time Oscar -
nominee Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights and Magnolia), who
also adapted the script from the Thomas Pynchon best - seller of the same name.
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Picture Oscar
Nominees: District 9 • Up New: New York, I Love You • The Boys Are Back • Whip It • Zombieland Whatever Works • World's Greatest Dad • Then She Found Me Focus Features: Coraline • Away We 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
(I dare say this last would
also have been a Best
Picture nominee in a year of 10.)
It's
also the only one of the five Best
Picture nominees that fell short of a nomination in the Best Original Screenplay category.
For one thing, the Oscar nominations secured a few more weeks in theaters for «Phantom Thread,» his most commercially successful movie since his last best
picture nominee, «There Will Be Blood,» which
also starred Daniel Day - Lewis.
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.
Alissa Wilkinson: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the most controversial of the Best
Picture nominees, and it's
also one of the favorites to win.
When the Best
Picture pool expanded to 10
nominees in 2009, the balloting system
also changed — ballots asked that voters list their favorite films in order.
Additionally, while the fact three of the eight Best
Picture nominees (Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road and Room) focus on female protagonists, the lack of women in a number of major categories (notably directing, but
also cinematography and original score) continues to be vexing, the overall demographic makeup of Academy membership (primarily Caucasian and over the age of 65) leading to voting trends that remain troublesome, to say the least.
We
also make some time for the Best
Picture nominee Five Easy Pieces and its abundance of actressing, not just Karen Black!
Not only is it the one Best
Picture nominee this year to have a corresponding Best Actress
nominee, but it's
also the only Best
Picture nominee this year to have what could realistically qualify as a lead actress at all.
Barber made the Academy Awards shortlist this year for Best Original Score for Best
Picture nominee «Manchester by the Sea,» directed by Kenneth Lonergan (
also a
nominee for Best Director).
They
also distributed «Last Flag Flying,» «Wonder Wheel,» and last year's Best
Picture nominee, «Manchester by the Sea.»
In a field of 10 Best
Picture nominees, the group
also found room for The Handmaiden, Hell or High Water, Jackie, O.J.: Made in America, Paterson and The...
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.
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.
But he's
also facing stiff competition in the form of four Best
Picture nominees, so that's like all she wrote.
Yes, it's piercing and sad, but it's
also full of life, gusto and humor — it's the funniest best
picture nominee, bar none — and like most great art, it's the very opposite of depressing.
Even though Lubezki is backed, for the first time ever, by a Best
Picture nominee, he's
also almost entirely surrounded by
nominees that can boast the same, each with more nominations, more heat.