By messing with the number of Best
Picture nominees yet again, the Academy makes the awards race less inclusive — and less interesting
(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!)
Not exact matches
There's no reason to signal the death bells just
yet for Inside Llewyn Davis, but it's not feeling like a sure - thing Best
Picture nominee anymore.
Furthermore, Wright has
yet to be nominated for Best Director, missing out even for Best
Picture nominee Atonement.
In the same sense that the music branch last year seemed to deliberately keep Bruce Springsteen out of the song lineup to ensure
yet another win for that Bollywood facsimile, the makeup branch apparently decided to clear a path for Star Trek by passing over Best
Picture -
nominee District 9's goopy, feature - length metamorphosis.
Yet if Disney is distributing The English Patient and Sling Blade, and studio - controlled rather than independent theaters are showing all the best -
picture nominees, calling these multimillion - dollar productions independent is merely an attempt to rationalize a process of upper - class decision making into something resembling a populist triumph.
«And here are the all - male
nominees,» Natalie Portman announced while presenting Best Director at the Golden Globes earlier this month, where Lady Bird won Best
Picture - Musical or Comedy,
yet Gerwig was notably excluded from the directing race.
More interesting, and more considered, are some recent comments on «The Social Network» from the star of
yet another Best
Picture nominee, «Inception» «s Joseph Gordon - Levitt.
When the best -
picture field was expanded to 10
nominees, the unspoken reason for the change was to make room for a superhero movie like The Dark Knight — but no such movie has
yet been nominated there.
Streep is already way beyond the record for most nominated, with 20 times at bat, and
yet if she and The Post are nominated that will mean that all five Best Actress
nominees match Best
Picture, since The Post is probably more likely to get in than Molly's Game.
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...