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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.

Not exact matches

«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.

«The Shape of Water» won four Oscars and was the big winner, while fellow Best Picture nominees «Dunkirk,» «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and «Darkest Hour» took two apiece.

The other part — a weighty best picture nominee that becomes a box - office hit — will take more work.

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 Oscars luncheon happens today, where nominees will get to mingle and have their picture taken in the class photo.

But last year, Hidden Figures, a Best Picture nominee also from Fox, had taken in $ 119.5 million through Feb. 5, three weeks before the Feb. 26 Oscar ceremony.

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.

The only other multiple winner of the ceremony was fellow Best Picture Oscar nominee «Winter's Bone,» which took a well - deserved brace of supporting trophies for John Hawkes and Dale Dickey — the film's only reward for a field - leading haul of seven nominations.

Hidden Figures taking the prize for Best Ensemble in a Motion Picture honestly seems right on brand as it's big ensemble with name actors in a movie everyone likes, without the big Oscar nominee in the race.

It's the second year in a row the award has gone to an English - language Best Picture nominee: «An Education» took the prize last year.

Pro: While action films typically take the two sound awards, a musical (a best picture nominee at that) can upset in this category.

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.

The Hurt Locker, the intense war drama about explosives experts in Iraq, took top honors in the 13th annual Online Film Critics Society Awards, winning Best Picture against fellow nominees Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man, Up, and Up in the Air.

What's Coming Nov. 25: «Boyhood» Richard Linklater took over a decade to film his 2014 Best Picture nominee «Boyhood,» which follows the journey of a boy, played by Ellar Coltrane, from childhood into adolescence.

Since 1970, 35 out of 40 Best Actor winners were in a Best Picture nominee, give or take a name or two, but it's fairly significant.

The pair took home Best Picture for «No Country for Old Men» and are regular nominees.

In terms of nominations, since 1970, roughly 114 (counted myself, so give or take) out of 200 nominations were nominees in Best Picture contenders.

Up for four other prizes — including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay — the Austrian end - of - life drama will likely follow in the footsteps of the three previous Best Foreign Film / Best Picture double nominees (Life is Beautiful, Z, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), easily taking the Foreign Film Oscar and leaving the big one for domestic product.

This week, I took a seat in the U.C.L.A. lecture hall where Professor Tananarive Due teaches «The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic,» a course inspired by Peele's zeitgeist - capturing best - picture nominee, Get Out.

The 2018 Oscar nominations dropped this morning, and as Film Twitter picks apart individual categories and nominees, it's a good time to take a step back and ask: What are the big - picture takeaways here?

His came for playing a ferocious yet vulnerable Winston Churchill in best - picture nominee «Darkest Hour,» which also took home a prize for best makeup and hairstyling.

The speech to the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation's oldest civil rights organization, offered the most detailed picture yet of the direction that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee would take federal K - 12 education policy if he is elected to the...

With the Oscars just around the corner, eBay reveals shoppers are taking style inspiration from Best Picture nominees