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Still, there's only one film I've been touting for months now, and No Country for Old Men deserves this award more than any of the Best Picture nominees in years.

Two Best Picture nominees in particular are a response to our current social climate.

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.

In the runup to the Oscars, Vox's culture staff decided to take a look at each of the nine Best Picture nominees in turn.

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.

By the way, is it not odd that first time winner James L. Brooks has never again been nominated in the directing category again, despite two Best Picture nominees in «Broadcast News» and «As Good As It Gets?»

Granted, there were other major snubs involving potential Best Picture nominees in this category including «Carol,» «Room,» «The Hateful Eight,» «Bridge of Spies» and «Brooklyn,» but «Spotlight's» omission is truly puzzling.

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.

Most of the best picture nominees in recent years are nothing like the Star Wars franchise and, unfortunately, I can't see The Last Jedi getting the nod no matter how great it is.

The studio also had a best picture nominee in The Imitation Game, and earned 9 Academy Award nominations overall.

Of the Best Actress contenders so far this year, only Viola Davis stars in what will likely be a Best Picture nominee in a whole sea of films starring white men.

It would seem that this year's cinematography nominees were picked by aliens — certainly not by the same people who voted for Memoirs of a Geisha last year (no offense to Dion Beebe, who surely deserved a nomination this year): not a single Best Picture nominee in the lot, and all mostly uncompromised examples of purposeful cinematographic beauty.

As someone who seriously brought up the possibility of «Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens» as a best picture nominee in October, I'm not adverse to the idea of J.J. Abrams sequel playing the...

Without a Best Picture nominee in the bunch (that old stat from the 1970s is a pretty solid one) it feels like the safest bet.

Isabelle Huppert was nominated for Best Actress last year for «Elle», and «Amour» was a Best Picture nominee in 2013.

(I dare say this last would also have been a Best Picture nominee in a year of 10.)

As someone who seriously brought up the possibility of «Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens» as a best picture nominee in October, I'm not adverse to the idea of J.J. Abrams sequel playing the awards season game.

Would «Precious» have been a Best Picture nominee in 1989?

The director rang up Rolling Stone to talk about heroes, healing, and how it feels to direct a box office mega-bomb and a presumptive Best Picture nominee in the span of a single year.

The Boxer marks Day - Lewis's third collaboration with director Jim Sheridan, and while it is a well - made, well - meaning drama, there is nothing said here about Irish strife that was not more powerfully explored in their last collaboration, the 1993 Best Picture nominee In the Name of the Father.

The guild, which crosses over significantly in membership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, tends to be one of the better Oscar predictors — it's only missed one Best Picture nominee in each of the last three years — and considering Deadpool also netted a surprise Writers Guild of America nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay last week, its selection certainly positions the film as a serious (if still relatively unlikely) contender.

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.

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.

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).

«Moonlight» had brought in $ 22.3 million in domestic ticket sales through Sunday, the smallest take among the best picture nominees, according to comScore data.

In 2013, not a single Oscar Best Picture nominee featured any sex.

Oscar nominee Kate Hudson is in Buffalo to film her role in «Marshall,» the major motion picture being shot across Western New York.

«If there still is a field — because candidates will drop out of this race — I think it will be a far more narrow field and we'll have a better picture of who is poised to be the nominee in time for that primary,» he said.

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 big difference was that he wasn't simultaneously in postproduction on one movie and preproduction on another while shooting that 2006 best picture nominee.

London Films put itself on the international map in 1933 with The Private Life of Henry VIII, the most successful British picture produced since the advent of sound, and a nominee for Best Picture as well as a winner for Best Actor (for Charles Laupicture produced since the advent of sound, and a nominee for Best Picture as well as a winner for Best Actor (for Charles LauPicture as well as a winner for Best Actor (for Charles Laughton).

And it's grossed $ 182 million domestically, quite a bit more than every other Best Picture nominee despite them being more in line with modern moviegoer tastes.

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).

And, as you can see below in our quick look back at the last two decades of best picture nominees, having the best reviews among just the nominated films isn't even enough to guarantee a win.

Ranked 8th among all studios (by average Metascore) in 2013, Fox Searchlight shot up to # 3 last year by avoiding any negatively reviewed films and impressing critics with best picture nominees Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

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.

Veteran move and film actress Archer, is most notable to audiences for playing Michael Douglas's wife in the 1987 Best Picture Oscar nominee «Fatal Attraction,» starring Glenn Close as a psycho mistress.

If A Single Man has the brains to match its good looks, and somehow fails to make the final ten, then I'll wonder what happened to the Academy members who annually select Best Picture nominees like Atonement, Brokeback Mountain, Sideways, Lost in Translation, The Hours, Gosford Park, and other films that play to literate stylish taste.

Third - billed Domhnall Gleeson is good enough in his sporadic role, which virtually guarantees him two Best Picture Oscar nominees this year (along with Brooklyn) and a presence in four of the year's most acclaimed films (with Ex Machina and Star Wars: The Force Awakens) without being terribly noteworthy or conspicuous in any of them.

2009 This was a pretty standout year for Cannes» ability to churn out Oscar hopefuls, with two Best Picture nominees debuting at the festival for only the second time in history.

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.

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.

2010 The 63rd edition of Cannes had the least crossover with Oscar in sometime, even with those 10 Best Picture nominees still in play.

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.

Looking back at Oscar history, when the only Best Actress candidate in a Best Picture nominee doesn't win she loses to a vet usually who has never been honored.

Davis in Fences will be a formidable challenger because it will likely be a Best Picture nominee.

Of the first - weekend limited release Best Picture Nominees currently in theaters, most are in the same realm in terms of box office totals as the Best Picture winners of the past several years.

Hans Zimmer could contend for Best Original Score and when you toss in a possible Best Picture nod and the longshot possibility of a Director, Screenplay, or Supporting Actor nod, this could be a double - digit nominee next January 2013.

To wit: in just the past four months, Spielberg has released one Best Picture nominee, the historical drama The Post, and is now back in theaters with one of the more complicated and ambitious works of his career, the long - awaited virtual - reality sci - fi adventure Ready Player One.