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.
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).
In the category of best actress in a motion picture - drama, the nominees are: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), Julie Christie (Away From Her), Jodie Foster (The Brave One), Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart) and Keira Knightley (Atonement
In the
category of best actress
in a motion picture - drama, the nominees are: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), Julie Christie (Away From Her), Jodie Foster (The Brave One), Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart) and Keira Knightley (Atonement
in a motion
picture - drama, the
nominees are: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), Julie Christie (Away From Her), Jodie Foster (The Brave One), Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart) and Keira Knightley (Atonement).
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.
In the category of best actor in a motion picture - musical or comedy, the nominees are: Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd), John C. Reilly (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story), Ryan Gosling (Lars and the Real Girl), Tom Hanks (Charlie Wilson's War), and Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Savages
In the
category of best actor
in a motion picture - musical or comedy, the nominees are: Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd), John C. Reilly (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story), Ryan Gosling (Lars and the Real Girl), Tom Hanks (Charlie Wilson's War), and Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Savages
in a motion
picture - musical or comedy, the
nominees are: Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd), John C. Reilly (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story), Ryan Gosling (Lars and the Real Girl), Tom Hanks (Charlie Wilson's War), and Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Savages).
In the category of best actress in a motion picture - musical or comedy, the nominees are: Amy Adams (Enchanted), Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray), Helena Bonham Carter (Sweeney Todd), Ellen Page (Juno), and Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose
In the
category of best actress
in a motion picture - musical or comedy, the nominees are: Amy Adams (Enchanted), Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray), Helena Bonham Carter (Sweeney Todd), Ellen Page (Juno), and Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose
in a motion
picture - musical or comedy, the
nominees are: Amy Adams (Enchanted), Nikki Blonsky (Hairspray), Helena Bonham Carter (Sweeney Todd), Ellen Page (Juno), and Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose).
The Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled the
nominees for all 24
categories Thursday morning.Here is the list of
nominees: Film «American Sniper» «Birdman» «Boyhood» «The Grand Budapest Hotel» «The Imitation Game» «Selma» «The Theory of Everything» «Whiplash «ActressMarion Cotillard
in «Two...
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?
For our final edition, we take a look at all nine of the Best
Picture nominees — a group that includes some of the finest films nominated
in this
category in some time, and some of the most forgettable.
In one sense, the Golden Globes, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, muddy the water by dividing the best actress, actor and
picture categories into drama and musical or comedy, thereby doubling the number of
nominees.
But best
picture nominees typically don't lose
in this
category to movies that weren't likewise nominated.
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?»
In fact every best picture nominee except for The English Patient was set in the present or recent past meaning they were a non-factor in such below the line categories as art direction, costume, makeup, the sound categories and (w / the exception of Shine) original scor
In fact every best
picture nominee except for The English Patient was set
in the present or recent past meaning they were a non-factor in such below the line categories as art direction, costume, makeup, the sound categories and (w / the exception of Shine) original scor
in the present or recent past meaning they were a non-factor
in such below the line categories as art direction, costume, makeup, the sound categories and (w / the exception of Shine) original scor
in such below the line
categories as art direction, costume, makeup, the sound
categories and (w / the exception of Shine) original score.
Each year, the IPA celebrates
nominees from domestic and international submissions for 38
categories: 19
in Motion
Pictures, 13
in Television, 2
in Blu - ray DVDs and 4
in Video Games.
It's a good thing the Best Director
category didn't go the way of Best
Picture to accommodate more
nominees, because this year's campaign has only ever been a three - man race even
in its most competitive stages.
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.
Also nominated for best
picture are «Selma,» «The Theory of Everything» and, a surprise, «Whiplash,» for a total of eight
nominees in the
category.
In most cases, the adapted screenplay
category of a given Oscar race is packed with Best
Picture nominees or contenders.
Following a short qualifying run for other
categories late
in 2017, Sony
Pictures Classics» foreign - language
nominee A Fantastic Woman by Sebastián Lelio is heading to theaters this weekend.
However, from 2009 to 2016 the exact same number of
nominees in both supporting
categories were tied to Best
Picture.
In an interesting bit of trivia, for the first time since expanding the
category, all 8 Best
Picture nominees took home at least one award.
More likely, the winner
in either supporting
category is not
in a Best
Picture winner, but often appears
in a Best
Picture nominee.
Golden Globe winner Angela Bassett, Golden Globe winner and two - time
nominee America Ferrera, Chloë Grace Moretz and two - time Golden Globe Award
nominee Dennis Quaid joined previously announced Miss Golden Globe Corinne Foxx, Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Lorenzo Soria and executive VP of television at Dick Clark Productions, Barry Adelman,
in announcing the
nominees in 25
categories spanning motion
picture and television.
We address queries regarding «Black Swan» as a potential dark horse Best
Picture winner, lurking
nominee hopefuls
in that field, the fact that the
category is not called «Best Makeup
in a Good Movie» and... contender drinking games?
How, for instance, do you have 6
nominees for most
categories but only 4 for Best Actress
in an Action
picture and only nominate supporting actresses for that prize and leave out two leading women who really carried their films with aplomb: Mary Elizabeth Winstead
in 10 Cloverfield Lane and Blake Lively
in The Shallows.
Nominee: Actress Ellen Page and Actor Michael Cera are shown
in a scene from the film «Juno,» which was nominated
in the best
picture category of the Academy Awards.
Warner Bros.» best
picture nominee «Dunkirk» earned eight nods, many of them
in technical
categories.
The Oscars notoriously expanded to 10
nominees in the wake of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight getting shut out of a Best
Picture category that only had five.
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.
Pro: While action films typically take the two sound awards, a musical (a best
picture nominee at that) can upset
in this
category.
That is only part of the reason that Hungary's official submission for 2015's Foreign Language Film Oscar, Son of Saul, emerged as the
category's frontrunner and was the only non-English film with a snowball's chance
in Hell of cracking the field of Best
Picture nominees.
It's also the only one of the five Best
Picture nominees that fell short of a nomination
in the Best Original Screenplay
category.
Nominees in the first set of
categories will be revealed at 8:22 a.m. ET / 5: 22 a.m. PT, while nominations
in some of the most prestigious
categories — such as Actor
in a Leading Role, Actress
in a Leading Role and Best
Picture — will be revealed at 8:38:30 a.m. ET / 5: 38:30 PT.
The other
nominees are Call Me by Your Name, a Best
Picture contender written by Hollywood luminary James Ivory; Dee Rees and Virgil Williams's literary, astute Mudbound, which marks the first time a black woman has ever been nominated
in this
category; Aaron Sorkin's 10 - quips - per - minute poker drama Molly's Game; and Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's The Disaster Artist.
At that time, there were only three
nominees in most of the academy's major
categories, except for Best
Picture, which had eight contenders.
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.
The entertainment news website, acquired by the Penske Media Corporation
in 2015, released lists of potential Oscar
nominees in each
category: Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay (among others).
On a night where Ronan won Best Actress
in a Motion
Picture, Musical or Comedy, and her film won Best
Picture, Musical or Comedy, Gerwig was not listed as one of the directing
category's five (all - male)
nominees.
Being a Best
Picture nominee is always a plus
in the writing
categories, and it can frequently be a great place to reward a film that doesn't really compute for voters
in other fields.
In the Motion
Picture — Animated
category expected Oscar
nominee «Anomalisa» wasn't part of the, um, mix as traditional fare such as «Inside Out,» «The Good Dionsaur,» «Hotel Transylvania 2,» «Minions» and «The Peanuts Movie» rounded out the field.
On the best
picture front, the academy usually goes its own way with a pick or two (especially since the Globes are still limited to five
nominees in each
category).
BY STAFF Beverly Hills, CA (February 12, 2010)-- Fourteen of the 20
nominees in the acting
categories will be among more than 120 Academy Award ®
nominees who will gather at noon on Monday (February 15) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel when the Academy of Motion
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Best
picture, like last year, has 10
nominees, but if you want to know what's really going on
in that
category, just look at best director: Darren Aronofsky («Black Swan»), David O. Russell («The Fighter»), Tom Hooper («The King's Speech»), David Fincher («The Social Network») and Joel and Ethan Coen («True Grit»).
But the film does not rise up to his abilities or his work, and he is the only
nominee in this
category not to star
in a Best
Picture nominated film.
Each of the
nominees is also a Best
Picture nominee, unlike
in the Best Original Screenplay
category.
But of course the
picture is a little more balanced when you expand it to include
nominees in other
categories.
Nominees for the Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) 21st Annual Excellence
in Production Design Awards
in 11
categories of Production Design for theatrical motion
pictures, television, commercials and music videos were announced today by ADG Council Chair Marcia Hinds and Awards Producers Thomas Wilkins and Thomas Walsh.
While introducing the
nominees for best
picture — drama at the close of the show, Streisand expressed disbelief that she remained the only woman to win
in the directing
category in the show's 75 - year history.
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.