The Best
Picture nominees include The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire, Frost / Nixon, Milk and The Reader and the directors of these five films were nominated as well.
Other Worst
Picture nominees include «Dirty Grandpa,» «Gods of Egypt» and «Independence Day: Resurgence.»
Other best
picture nominees included Fox Searchlight Pictures» «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» which earned seven; Martin McDonagh was recognized for his original screenplay and not his directing, as many projected.
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.
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.
Four Oscar - nominated films,
including best
picture nominee «Manchester by the Sea,» reaped taxpayer - funded benefits from New York, according to the state's economic development arm.
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.
«Birdman» leads film
nominees at this year's Golden Globe Awards with seven bids,
including best
picture (musical or comedy), best actor for star Michael Keaton, and supporting actor nods for Emma Stone and Edward Norton.
Snub: Jesse Tyler Ferguson (
pictured right) and Eric Stonestreet (left), «Modern Family» Supporting Actor - Comedy Though «Modern Family» scored its sixth straight nom for Best Comedy, several members of its much - honored cast got the could shoulder,
including five - time
nominee Jesse Tyler Ferguson and three - time
nominee (and two - time winner) Eric Stonestreet.
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).
The film has dominated the
nominees, and is up for a total of ten awards,
including Best
Picture.
«The Shape of Water,» which stars
nominee Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaning lady who falls for a soulful, otherworldly beast, tops all movies with seven nominations,
including best director, best screenplay and best motion
picture, drama.
His credits
include last year's Best
Picture Oscar
nominee Boyhood, Slacker, Dazed And Confused, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, School Of Rock, Bernie, Fast Food Nation and the Before trilogy.
Amy Adams, already a five - time
nominee, had been widely - tipped to pick up another nomination for her performance in acclaimed sci - fi film Arrival, which has been nominated for eight awards
including Best
Picture.
Steven Spielberg's «Lincoln,» starring Daniel Day - Lewis as the 16th President of the United States, leads this year's Academy Award
nominees with 12 total nominations
including best
picture, best director (for Spielberg), best actor (for Day - Lewis), best supporting actor (for Tommy Lee Jones), and best supporting actress (for Sally Field).
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.
The Best
Picture category can
include up to ten
nominees.
«Good Time,» then, juxtaposes Connie's treatment of his brother and of a stranger, but most of all is a high - tension
picture with bold use of music and songs,
including Iggy Pop's «The Pure and the Damned,» and assorted electronica — which could make the
picture a Best Music
nominee at awards time.
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.
Winners that went on to make the list of Best
Picture Oscar
nominees include La La Land, Room, The Imitation Game, Silver Linings Playbook, Precious, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Life Is Beautiful, Shine, Places In The Heart and The Big Chill.
Sometimes it's a strong indicator, as in 2010 when nine films (
including two of the Best
Picture nominees, Winter's Bone and The Kids...
Director Lasse Hallstrom has the distinguished honor of being the director of my pick for the least deserving Best
Picture nominee for the last two years (
including Cider House Rules).
Cavalcade beat out nine other
nominees for Best
Picture,
including 42nd Street, well - known adaptations of A Farewell to Arms and Little Women, the non-musical version of State Fair, the Paul Muni crime drama I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, and Frank Capra's Lady for a Day.
(2001)-- How McGregor starred in a Best
Picture nominee yet failed to land a slot on the 2001 Oscar Best Actor roster (which
included Sean Penn for I Am Sam!)
Even things considered the apex of feel - good cinema, like, for instance, the public - uniting blockbuster The Blind Side, may seem unrefined to seasoned patrons (
including yours truly, who would rank it near the bottom of this young century's Best
Picture Oscar
nominees).
As a two - time Oscar
nominee it would seem that Chastain has the edge but Russo is in a film that is possibly getting other nominations,
including Best Actor and Best
Picture.
Films opening in limited release this weekend
include Well Go USA's Korean fantasy - drama Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds, while Sony
Pictures Classics is bowing Happy End, Oscar -
nominee Michael Haneke's drama centered on a bourgeois family aloof to the refugee crisis in their backyard.
• «The Kids Are All Right,» with major nominations
including picture, actress (Annette Bening), supporting actor Mark Ruffalo) and screenplay (Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg), joins «Milk» among top
nominees with a homosexual subject, and in a way is more meaningful because it shows a functioning family rather than a single person.
But with competition from Oscar perennials,
including Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks («The Post»), Frances McDormand («Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»), Saoirse Ronan («Lady Bird»), Daniel Day - Lewis («Phantom Thread») and Gary Oldman («Darkest Hour»)-- plus the lack of persistent buzz enjoyed by last year's diverse
nominees including «Lion,» «Fences» and «Hidden Figures» — it's going to be a struggle for most of these
pictures and performances to simply score a nomination.
It also amassed more than five of its nine fellow Best
Picture nominees,
including media fixture The Social Network and Aronofsky - produced The Fighter.
Luca Guadagnino's «Call Me By Your Name» led all
nominees with eight nominations,
including Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Actor, Breakthrough Performer, and two nominations for Best Supporting Actor.
Our readers are both happy and outraged (see their reactions below) with this year's
nominees from the British academy, which
include «The Big Short,» «Bridge of Spies,» «Carol» «The Revenant» and «Spotlight» for Best
Picture.
Gordon's upcoming motion
picture endeavors
include the untitled Steve Jobs biopic written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, and ARMS AND THE DUDES starring Academy Award
nominee Jesse Eisenberg and Shia LaBeouf.
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.
Four years later, Alfred Hitchcock — already a four - time
nominee who was responsible for Best
Picture - winner Rebecca — released Psycho, which earned him his fifth and final Best Director nomination, as well as three other nods,
including one for Best Supporting Actress for Janet Leigh.
On January 23rd, the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences announced this year's Oscar
nominees —
including Get Out, which earned nominations for Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay.
The Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences» annual Oscar
nominees luncheon Monday drew A-listers
including Eddie Redmayne, Julianne Moore, Patricia Arquette and Bradley Cooper.
The Shape of Water, director Guillermo det Toro's «fish out of water» love story, led all
nominees when the nominations for the 90th Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning, receiving thirteen,
including Best
Picture and both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for del Toro.
In a wide open field I think they will default to the composers they know in Best
Picture nominees,
including John Williams for The Post and Carter Burwell for Three Billboards.
It's the film's universal truths — among them the constant splintering and rebuilding of familial relations, the open road as an open - ended metaphor, and the need for continued purpose and relevancy as one grows older — that makes this six - time Oscar
nominee (
including a Best
Picture nod) less a movie involving a specific state and more a film evoking a specific state of mind.
This year, The Academy selected a total of nine Best
Picture nominees,
including: Get Out, Lady Bird, Dunkirk, and Phantom Thread.
The Academy Awards are just a few days away and four major nominated films are newly available on Cable and Video On Demand,
including three best
picture nominees.
Mudbound should've been
included among the Best
Picture nominees as well, though it did manage four total nominations,
including two history - making ones.
Other
nominees with Canadian connections
include Toronto - born Will and Grace star Eric McCormack for best actor in a musical or comedy series, the Canadian co-production The Breadwinner for best animated film, and the Alberta - shot series Fargo for TV's best limited series or motion
picture.
Once the Academy decided to expand the Best
Picture category to
include ten
nominees, it suddenly made the groups that already decide on ten, the National Board of Review, the American Film Institute and the Broadcast Film Critics (I...
The Theory of Everything, which despite Jones» nomination is largely a biopic about Stephen Hawking (Best Actor
nominee Eddie Redmayne), scored five nominations in total,
including one for Best
Picture.
just saw an article on Deadline about the oscar campaign for Alice In Wonderland... apparently they think their billion dollars means they deserve to be
included among the Best
Picture nominees.
Pontiac, MI., July 25, 2011 — Walt Disney
Pictures» fantastical adventure «Oz The Great and Powerful,» directed by Sam Raimi, went in front of the cameras at the brand - new Raleigh Studios in Pontiac, Michigan, on Monday, July 25, 2011, boasting a stellar cast that
includes Academy Award ®
nominee James Franco («127 Hours») as the young wizard, Golden Globe ®
nominee Mila Kunis («Black Swan») as the witch Theodora, Academy Award ® winner Rachel Weisz («The Constant Gardener») as Kunis» sister Evanora and two - time Oscar ® - nominated actress Michelle Williams («Brokeback Mountain,» «Blue Valentine») as Glinda, the Good Witch.
This week's new Blu - ray releases
include a Diamond Edition of Walt Disney's last film, the latest season of one of the most engrossing shows currently on television, a Best
Picture winner, a current Oscar
nominee, and more.