All of the specialty Best
Picture nominees still in release upped their theater counts heading into the awards - season climax, which has offered an extra week of playtime due to the Winter Olympics.
2010 The 63rd edition of Cannes had the least crossover with Oscar in sometime, even with those 10 Best
Picture nominees still in play.
Not exact matches
Over a month after the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences announced this year's Oscar
nominees, and the entire movie industry can
still only guess at who will leave Los Angeles» Dolby Theatre with a golden statue on Sunday night.
«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.
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.
World War II movies are
still a reliable genre — two of the nine best
picture nominees of 2017 were set during that wartime — but the Great War, «Wonder Woman» aside, rarely gets much love.
2007, for example, was seen as a fight between «No Country for Old Men» ($ 74 mil, 36th for the year) and «There Will Be Blood» ($ 40 mil, 66th), while the highest - grossing best
picture nominee that year, «Juno,»
still only 15th, wasn't really seen as a contender for BP.
I've
still not seen The Full Monty, but it's tough to dispute any of its four fellow Best
Picture nominees (Titanic, L.A. Confidential, Good Will Hunting, and As Good As It Gets) or claim that Amistad was worthier than them.
That last one is the only Oscar
nominee still in the Top 10, although if you scroll a little bit further down the charts you'll see a solid block of Oscar
nominees, from Best
Picture winner The Shape Of Water at No. 12 to Best Supporting Actress winner I, Tonya at No. 19, filling out the Top 20.
They're
still hoping that with the new 10 Best
Picture nominee system, it will have a good chance of getting nominated next year even if they release it in February.
Best
Picture nominee Call Me By Your Name dropped 106 theaters, but
still collected $ 683K in 475 locations, averaging $ 1,439 in its third month of release.
In theory, this should
still be a close race: Lady Bird is a best
picture nominee; I, Tonya is a surprising best editing
nominee; and both movies have gained pop culture traction.
With Oscars on Sunday, moviegoers will definitely make a point about seeing this year's crop of best
picture nominees specifically those
still in theaters, read The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; The Post, Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Lady Bird, and Phantom Thread.
While The Jungle Book is
still the strong frontrunner to win the Oscar, after last year's shocking upset of Ex Machina over The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road (breaking a 45 - year Oscar stat of a non-BP nominated film beating a Best
Picture nominee), anything can happen.
Still need to catch up with some of the 2016 Best
Picture nominees?
Still, this ranked just seventh out of the nine Best
Picture nominees by gross, besting only the limited release indies Beasts of the Southern Wild and Amour.
And they
still have only five Best
Picture nominees.
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).
Writer - director Damien Chazelle is
still trying to process his wild ride with «Whiplash» — from Sundance debut to best
picture nominee.
Today, though the Academy Awards» Best
Picture field can accommodate up to ten
nominees, there
still seems to be little opportunity for a film that doesn't look like conventional Oscar fare to make the cut.
The Best
Picture nominees are
still very much in the air in this week's tweet collection after the jump.
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.
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.»
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.