This year's field of Best
Picture nominees features eight movies with widely variant box office performances, from 20th Century Fox's (FOX) The Martian «s leading $ 228 million in domestic gross to Room, which barely cracked $ 12.5 million in ticket sales.
In 2013, not a single Oscar Best
Picture nominee featured any sex.
Not exact matches
Universal's specialty films division, Focus
Features had a wildly disappointing 2014 from a quality standpoint (especially compared to its successful 2013), despite the presence of an Oscar best
picture nominee (The Theory of Everything).
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.
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.
The 2015 Japan Film Festival of San Francisco is adding 16 acclaimed films to its programming — including Best Animated
Feature Oscar -
nominee The Tale of Princess Kaguya and Studio Ghibli's latest film, When Marnie Was There (
Pictured).
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Announced in Los Angeles by DGA President Thomas Schlamme, the five
nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in
Feature Film represent the best big - screen helmers of the calendar year: Guillermo del Toro for «The Shape of Water» (Fox Searchlight
Pictures), Greta Gerwig for «Lady Bird» (A24), Martin McDonagh for «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» (Fox Searchlight
Pictures), Christopher Nolan for «Dunkirk» (Warner Bros.), and Jordan Peele for «Get Out» (Universal
Pictures).
Even the original soundtrack from Benjamin Wallfisch (who has worked on the harrowing 12 Years a Slave and most recently Best
Picture nominee Hidden Figures) is deeply unsettling,
featuring angelic hymns from young women and ominous notes that heighten the eeriness of every single scene.
And in this exciting 2018 race, for all five
nominees — Paul Thomas Anderson (Focus
Features» «Phantom Thread»), Guillermo del Toro (Fox Searchlight
Pictures» «The Shape of Water»), Gerwig (A24's «Lady Bird»), Christopher Nolan (Warner Bros.» «Dunkirk»), and Peele (Universal
Pictures» «Get Out»)-- a win would mean their first Oscar in any category.
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Three Best
Picture nominees were
featured on the Black List.
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.
NOMINEES FOR CAMERA OPERATOR OF THE YEAR IN 2013: Camera Operator of the Year -
Feature Film Ian Fox, SOC - Saving Mr. Banks (Walt Disney Studios Motion
Pictures) Geoffrey Haley, SOC - American Hustle (Columbia
Pictures) Jacques...
In the same sense that the music branch last year seemed to deliberately keep Bruce Springsteen out of the song lineup to ensure yet another win for that Bollywood facsimile, the makeup branch apparently decided to clear a path for Star Trek by passing over Best
Picture -
nominee District 9's goopy,
feature - length metamorphosis.
The
nominees: «Argo» (Warner Bros.)-- Producers: Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov «Beasts of the Southern Wild» (Fox Searchlight
Pictures)-- Producers: Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn «Django Unchained» (The Weinstein Company)-- Producers: Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone, Stacey Sher «Les Misérables» (Universal
Pictures)-- Producers: Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh Life of Pi» (Fox 2000
Pictures)-- Producers: Ang Lee, Gil Netter, David Womark «Lincoln» (Touchstone
Pictures)-- Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg «Moonrise Kingdom» (Focus
Features)-- Producers: Wes Anderson & Scott Rudin, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales «Silver Linings Playbook» (The Weinstein Company)-- Producers: Bruce Cohen, Donna Gigliotti, Jonathan Gordon «Skyfall» (MGM / Columbia
Pictures)-- Producers: Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson «Zero Dark Thirty» (Columbia
Pictures)-- Producers: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Megan Ellison
This breakfast staple
features in five out of the nine Best
Picture nominees at the 90th Academy Awards.
The Academy has made strides in the last two years to increase its female membership, and the list of potential
nominees features a number of best -
picture and best - actress contenders with significant overlap.
Nine or 10 Best
Picture nominees Not only is «Beauty and the Beast» the only animated film to be nominated for Best
Picture in a year with only five Best
Picture nominees, but the creation of the Best Animated
Feature category has made it all - but - impossible for any other animated film to crack a five - film list.
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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
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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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
Of the nine Best
Picture nominees, four of them
feature an exclusive female lead, which seems enormous compared to the usual Best
Picture breakdown, even if it is less than 50 %.
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.
The race for best
feature, the Spirit Awards» top honor, includes two Oscar
nominees for best
picture: the historical drama «12 Years a Slave» and the father - son road movie «Nebraska.»
At 5:38:30 a.m. PT / 8: 38:30 a.m. ET,
nominees were announced in the remaining 13 categories:
Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, Original Song, Animated
Feature, Documentary
Feature, Foreign Language Film and Documentary Short Subject.
Most seem happy with the choice and at least we'll have a Best
Picture winner that
features a Best Actress
nominee — probably a Best Actress winner — a rarity that we haven't seen for over a decade.
Best motion
picture of the year: Avatar (20th Century Fox), A Lightstorm Entertainment Production, James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers The Blind Side (Warner Bros.), An Alcon Entertainment Production, Nominees to be determined District 9 (Sony Pictures Releasing), A Block / Hanson Production, Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers An Education (Sony Pictures Classics), A Finola Dwyer / Wildgaze Films Production, Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), A Voltage Pictures Production, Nominees to be determined Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company), A Weinstein Company / Universal Pictures / A Band Apart / Zehnte Babelsberg Production, Lawrence Bender, Producer Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire (Lionsgate), A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Production, Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel - Magness and Gary Magness, Producers A Serious Man (Focus Features), A Working Title Films Production, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers Up (Walt Disney), A Pixar Production, Jonas Rivera, Producer Up in the Air (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios), A Montecito Picture Company Production, Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Pr
picture of the year: Avatar (20th Century Fox), A Lightstorm Entertainment Production, James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers The Blind Side (Warner Bros.), An Alcon Entertainment Production,
Nominees to be determined District 9 (Sony
Pictures Releasing), A Block / Hanson Production, Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers An Education (Sony
Pictures Classics), A Finola Dwyer / Wildgaze Films Production, Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), A Voltage
Pictures Production,
Nominees to be determined Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company), A Weinstein Company / Universal
Pictures / A Band Apart / Zehnte Babelsberg Production, Lawrence Bender, Producer Precious: Based on the Novel «Push» by Sapphire (Lionsgate), A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Production, Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel - Magness and Gary Magness, Producers A Serious Man (Focus
Features), A Working Title Films Production, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers Up (Walt Disney), A Pixar Production, Jonas Rivera, Producer Up in the Air (Paramount in association with Cold Spring
Pictures and DW Studios), A Montecito
Picture Company Production, Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Pr
Picture Company Production, Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
Another street - art installation around the corner
features three red billboards à la best -
picture nominee Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, haranguing participants to be more active onstage with missives like «We All Knew and Still No Arrests» and «Name Names Onstage or Shut the Hell Up.»