Sentences with phrase «picture prize last»

So maybe the Los Angeles critics will feel the need to get behind a few ponies, as they do annually (Vera Farmiga in «Down to the Bone,» handing «There Will Be Blood» their Best Picture prize last year when Oscar buzz -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Last night, the 31 - year - old won the prize for Best Screenplay and Best Director, with his film winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, and its stars, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, winning Best Actor and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

If, however, yesterday's Independent Spirit Awards Best Feature winner, Get Out, manages to take tonight's top prize, then it will even outdo the last few Best Picture winners at the box office to top nine digits.

The film had been seen as a best picture front - runner after it picked up a Screen Actors Guild of America honor for its last weekend and nabbed a top prize at the Globes.

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.

Jimmy Kimmel brought back Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway to present the Best Picture Oscar, after they mistakenly announced the wrong winner last year (it was Moonlight, not La La Land), but Guillermo del Toro was the one who tackled the awkwardness with real aplomb, as he cheekily checked the envelope himself before accepting the prize.

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.

On the television side, which spanned 10 awards, «Justified» was a surprise winner for Best TV Drama Series, while the deliciously ribald «It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,» now entering its seventh season, was named Best TV Comedy Series, knocking off last year's winner, «The Big C.» Kate Winslet («Mildred Pierce») and Jason Isaacs (PBS» «Case Histories») were awarded Best Actress and Best Actor prizes in the Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television categories, while Vanessa Williams («Desperate Housewives») and Ryan Hurst («Sons of Anarchy») won supporting performance trophies, which span both TV movie and serial work.

Lisa Cholodenko, who helmed the four - hour «Olive Kitteridge» for HBO, had last directed «The Kids Are All Right» to a Best Picture Oscar nomination, while Dee Rees won prizes from the Independent Spirit Awards and Gotham Film Awards for her debut feature «Pariah» before turning to «Bessie.»

Now on a new episode of «On the Score,» Brian Tyler is joined by «Mummy» filmmaker Alex Kurtzman as they talk about a long - lasting collaboration that's evolved from «Eagle Eye» to «Hawaii Five - 0» and «Now You See Me» to reach its biggest challenge yet for a genre directing debut that's drawn vital powers of grandly melodic, evil excitement as both men seek to create a new, Dark Universe for Universe Pictures» most prized and fearsome properties.

Last year's ceremony, also hosted by the late - night personality, concluded with an unforgettable envelope mix - up during the best picture category; although Lionsgate's «La La Land» earned the most statues, A24 indie «Moonlight» claimed the top prize.

Last year, the winner of the Globes» Drama prize, Moonlight, did end up winning Best Picture, and the awards» big winner La La Land also performed well at the Oscars.

(«The Artist,» last year's Best Picture winner, was declared a Musical or Comedy by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and so won that prize, not Drama.)

The Academy loves its biopics, having nominated more than a dozen for the coveted Best Picture prize in the last ten years.

In the 21 previous years the PGA has awarded the prize, 14 of the winners (including the last three) have gone on to win the Best Picture Oscar.

Last year, the NBR picked three eventual Oscar winners — Manchester by the Sea director Kenneth Lonergan and star Casey Affleck, as well as best documentary winner O.J.: Made in America — but also gave their best director prize to Barry Jenkins for Moonlight, an early award that bolstered that film's status as the underdog champion of the year (and eventual best picture winner).

Even though AMPAS's decision last year to widen the Best Picture field to 10 nominees was an obvious publicity stunt, a means of boosting the Oscar telecast's ratings share by ensuring that more than one box office cash cow would compete for Oscar's top prize, we were optimistic that a few legitimately off - the - beaten - path treasures would somehow manage to enter the race.

Last year's Overall Showcase prize was given to Fiddlesticks» Hue (pictured), which also picked up the People's Choice award.

The sleeve features a picture of Ocean with green hair, photographed last year by the Turner prize - winning artist Wolfgang Tillmans.

The committee on the award of the $ 10.00 prize, offered by the American Art News for the best explanation or solution of the so - called Armory Puzzle of the supposed lady in Duchamp's picture in the «Cubist» room in the International Exhibition of Modern Art, which will close at the 69th Regiment Armory this evening, as was announced last week, awarded the prize to «Guilfish.»