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.
Speaking of unlikely - but - welcome Oscars prospects, the NYFCC joined the NBR in paying tribute to Get Out, which could — and maybe this is optimistic — end up as a dark horse Best
Picture nominee come next year.
Not exact matches
Paramount's highest - scoring 2014 film, Selma, was one of just two best
picture nominees to
come from one of the majors, and Paramount finished with 7 Oscar nominations in all (even with Selma's snubs in other categories).
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.
Forte is just
coming off a more dramatic role in the Best
Picture nominee Nebraska, in which he more than holds his own opposite acting legend Bruce Dern.
The film
came in right behind Best
Picture nominees «Atonement» (7), «Michael Clayton» (7), «No Country for Old Men» (8) and «There Will Be Blood» (8) for total nominations.
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!»
But then
came the much - touted reunion of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway who played the Depression - era bank robbers in «Bonnie and Clyde,» the Best
Picture nominee from 1967.
There are quite literally 10 actors ranging from co-leads to bit roles,
coming from likely Best
Picture nominees and likely one - off nominations for their films.
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.
The $ 1.5 - million
coming of age story about a gay black boy in Miami has grossed $ 22.3 million in the U.S. and Canada, the lowest of the nine best -
picture nominees so far.
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.
Moving on, if there are pleasant surprises within the
nominees, it would most certainly be films like «Beasts of Southern Wild ``, «Moonrise Kingdom» and even by a long shot «The Perks of Being a Wallflower ``,» The Dark Knight Rises ``, however, the race will be very tight and with all of the quality films being released in the upcoming weeks, it all
comes down to how many films the Academy will select for Best
Picture.
The teen
coming of age comedy / drama The Edge of Seventeen scored a Best
Picture nomination as well as a nomination for its writer / director Kelly Fremon Craig but strangely snubbed the film's lead, Golden Globe
nominee Hailee Steinfeld (in a field of six,...
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.
What's
Coming Nov. 25: «Boyhood» Richard Linklater took over a decade to film his 2014 Best
Picture nominee «Boyhood,» which follows the journey of a boy, played by Ellar Coltrane, from childhood into adolescence.
BAFTA stopped producing its longlists from which nominations would
come from, the Oscars expanded Best
Picture in 2009 and 2010 to 10 and then to a group of 5 - 10 possible
nominees.
Glenn Dunks discusses the poster art for the Best
Picture Nominees for the up -
coming Academy Awards.
It is without question a promising sign that Moonlight, a movie about the romance between two black men
coming of age in inner - city Miami, directed by a black man, is not only a Best
Picture nominee but a genuine contender to win.
The story gets better, though: the movie is
coming out smack dab in between the most recent projects from its lead actors, one of which was a Best
Picture nominee (James McAvoy, «Atonement») and the other is one of the summer's most anticipated movies (Christina Ricci, «Speed Racer»).
With more movies, the nominations and wins are more likely to
come from Best
Picture nominees (something like 80 + %).
When it
comes to winning the Best Actor prize, it is almost always tied with a Best
Picture nominee.
Wallfisch composed the scores for last year's Best
Picture nominee Hidden Figures and the
coming IT remake.
Since his first film and television appearances in the late - eighties, actor Chris Cooper's filmography has
come to include blockbusters (The Bourne Identity, the upcoming The Amazing Spider - Man 2), comedies (Me, Myself, and Irene, The Muppets), Best
Picture nominees (Seabiscuit, Capote), a Best
Picture winner (American Beauty), and his own Oscar win in 2003 for Best Supporting Actor for Adaptation.
Pictures comes the action thriller «Run All Night,» starring Oscar
nominee Liam Neeson («Schindler's List,» «Non-Stop»), Joel Kinnaman («The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo»), Vincent D'Onofrio («The Judge»), and Oscar
nominee Ed Harris («Pollock,» «The Hours»), under the direction of Jaume Collet - Serra («Non-Stop»).
So, it's worth remembering maybe three Best
Picture nominees at the most
come from Telluride.
Of the above five, only Margot Robbie isn't repping a Best
Picture nominee, and given I, Tonya «s Best Editing nomination (usually a reliable bellwether for Best
Picture success), you have to figure her film
came close too.
Since 2009 the Academy increased its Best
Picture nominees from five to a maximum of 10, so although a SAG nomination is harder to
come by, a film's chances of winning the ensemble award once nominated is up to twice as high as at the Oscars.
His
came for playing a ferocious yet vulnerable Winston Churchill in best -
picture nominee «Darkest Hour,» which also took home a prize for best makeup and hairstyling.
The
nominee comes into
picture only after the death of the life assured (policy holder).