And though Martin Scorsese's Silence isn't making as many waves in the best
picture race as you might expect, Neeson's veteran status could push him into a category that's usually friendly territory for well - known actors with a long history in the business.
[The Playlist] • Gregg Kilday writes up the Best
Picture race as he sees it.
Conventional wisdom cast this year's best
picture race as «the exciting underdogs» v «the stolid favourites».
However, a preferential ballot offers a cavalcade of complications that need to be considered and in hindsight, it's clear that The Revenant was terribly vulnerable and what lessons there are for this forthcoming and, indeed, every Best
Picture race as long as this voting system is retained.
Not exact matches
He's got his NHRA auto -
racing suit, in T - Mobile magenta; a cardboard cutout of Carly Foulkes, the ex-pitchwoman colloquially known
as the «T - Mobile girl»;
pictures of his two daughters; and cookbooks for his slow - cooking show, a surprise Facebook hit.
It appears that Las Vegas oddsmakers are not in total agreement with movie experts,
as the online gambling site Bovada actually has Three Billboards (20/23)
as the odds - on bet to win the Best
Picture race over the likes of The Shape of Water (7/5), Get Out (11/2), and Lady Bird (14/1).
New York «s culture website Vulture wrote recently about the difficulty in forecasting this year's Best
Picture Oscar
race for reasons that include an especially diverse crowd of contenders,
as well
as last - minute controversies and an all - around «politically charged moment» in time.
In 2016, Amazon Studios released Manchester By the Sea to theaters, bringing the company that started out
as a bookseller in 1996 into the best
picture race at this year's Oscars.
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A set of
pictures have been accompanying Argentine giants
Racing Club's photo parade following their tense title victory this week,
as the daughters of the club president proved to be a distraction from the celebrations with a set of sexy selfies.
That's exactly what this NASCAR fan did during the Sprint Cup
race at Richmond,
as the shirtless idiot climbed the fence to get a better
picture.
A blistering start saw them
race into a 3 - 1 lead with less than half hour on the clock
as Charlie Brown, Dujon Sterling (
pictured celebrating top) and Jacob Maddox all netted early goals.
«While I have been certified
as a USA Triathlon
Race Director for the past two years, and have produced a few youth events, I knew I didn't have the «big
picture» when it came to youth events,» said Patrick Hight, the Owner /
Race Director of Multisport Endurance Events, LLC in Austin, Texas.
The only thing I've «proven» here — it's also been demonstrated by other analysts such
as Dean Strachan — is that there's an incongruity between how people4 are looking at individual Senate
races (let's call this the «micro» view) and how they're looking at the overall Senate
picture (the «macro» view).
Sugarman's memo paints a
picture of a coordinated effort by the mayor and his allies — dubbed interchangeably
as «Team de Blasio» and «Team Coordinated» — to deliberately circumvent legal campaign donation limits in three upstate
races in what turned out to be an unsuccessful effort to help Democrats win control of the state Senate in 2014.
Others also hit back at Mr Osborne
as two new polls painted a dramatically different
picture of the state of the
race to win the In - Out referendum on June 23.
As he passed out leaflets where his
picture was placed prominently beside a photo of the two women, he dismissed the suggestion that the outcome of the primary
races would reflect on his personal influence and whether or not his recent victory had coattails.
Two new polls paint a better
picture of the Senate
races in AK and ME,
as Stevens is sinking against Begich but Collins is increasing her already sizable lead in Maine.
A new poll was released today based on survey data from last Thursday to Tuesday, asking potential voters about their feelings on the upcoming Congressional
race in the West Bronx between Senator Adriano Espaillat (
pictured >) and incumbent Charlie Rangel (
pictured ^),
as well
as other Yolanda Garcia and Michael Walrond.
His sustained focus on the city's finances has cast the
race as a battle of fiscal forecasts, with Sheehan pointing to the recent obtainment of $ 12.5 million in state aid
as a sign her approach is working and Commisso wielding a state - backed consultant's study to paint a darker
picture.
Asking whether the person
pictured was black or white would have sped up their performance, yet subjects — adults in one study and children
as young
as age 10 in the other — rarely mentioned
race unless their partner did so first.
As pictures of the dead lying in the streets
race round the world, many fear a runaway pandemic of Hollywood proportions.
At first, when we
raced out the door, I was sad that the sun was gone,
as the canola is so vibrant in the sunshine, and yet, I love how the towering storm clouds and the perfect lighting you get before a storm, gave such a brooding depth to the
pictures.
I spent most of my life
as a stuntman in the motion
picture industry and I have
raced Nascar
as well
as worked for them.
The research depicted that these children stared considerably longer at those
pictures, which had faces of people who belonged to a different
race as compared to their parents.
While Tarantino has called «Django» a chance to hold up America's ugly past up like a mirror, this is empty rhetoric and the
picture has almost nothing of substance to say socially or politically about
race or slavery other than it was unfortunate and atrocious — seemingly the only two comments the filmmaker can make (
as he did with WWII).
He returned to the Oscar
race in 2014 playing the title role in Clint Eastwood's 21st century war drama American Sniper, for which he also was nominated for Best
Picture, having served
as a producer on the film.
Given that SAG treat the Best Ensemble category
as their own Best
Picture honor, the award has, in years past, been an indicator of shifting momentum in the Academy's top
race: «Shakespeare in Love» and «Crash» both foreshadowed their Oscar night upsets in this category.
All three films are obviously going to be players in the Oscar
race, but we're currently uncertain
as to what extent they'll factor into the overall
picture.
Hoffman's masterful display of talent in The Master is also undeniable, and
as that film's divisive reaction makes it a lesser player in the Best
Picture race, many of its admirers will likely look to the acting categories to show their appreciation.
As for the Globes themselves, Dave Karger analyzes how the wins will affect the Oscar
race, saying, ««The Fighter,» which won both supporting
races, could steal the SAG Best Cast prize, and «The King's Speech» still has a shot for Best
Picture based on what I'm hearing from voters, but «Network «s» performance so far has been almost unprecedented.»
Far fewer industry observers were predicting the film to factor into the highly competitive
races for best
picture, director and supporting actress, where Lesley Manville received a nomination for her magnificently icy turn
as Woodcock's sister and business partner.
«The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro's striking, sensual fantasy film, won the Producers Guild of America's top honor Saturday night at the PGA Awards, cementing its place
as one of the front - runners of this year's wide - open Oscar best
picture race.
Far From Heaven, the TV series Mildred Pierce and now the glorious Carol rekindle the spirit of an age when «women's
pictures» were commonplace in Hollywood, telling female - centred, taboo - breaking stories, featuring exceptional actresses such
as Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, whose characters face obstacles — prejudice around
race, class, gender — that are no less prevalent today.
Over at Oscar Watch: Universal
Pictures has already set up its awards site, and a little clicking around uncovers something very interesting: The studio apparently has decided to campaign for both Frank Langella and Michael Sheen
as Best Actor for Frost / Nixon, instead of placing one of them in the Best Supporting Actor
race so they -LSB-...]
Depending on how you see the Best
Picture race, Peele is probably 2nd or 3rd at the moment with The Shape of Water's Guillermo del Toro
as the frontrunner.
(One Academy voter recently admitted, anonymously, to having rejected Get Out, Jordan Peele's deeply innovative and urgently important Best
Picture contender, out of hand — precisely because, the voter groused, «
as far
as I'm concerned, they played the
race card.»)
I expect Foxcatcher, which screened this morning, to fare extremely well in at least one of these polls, and perhaps in both; initial reactions on Twitter suggest that it's already perceived
as a frontrunner in various Oscar
races (
Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor).
In a crowded Foreign Film category, the sublime and deserving Portugese entry «Mysteries of Lisbon» won, while Formula One
race driver biopic «Senna» (unfortunately overlooked on the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts & Sciences Oscar shortlist) was honored
as Best Documentary, and Steven Spielberg's «The Adventures of Tintin» was named Best Animated or Mixed Media Motion
Picture.
If Gyllenhaal is firmly entrenched in the Best Actor
race,
Picture and Director will be mentioned much of the year
as well, in terms of potential 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.
As the buzz fades and its genre stylings probably keep it out of most awards
races, Baby Driver recently hit home video in Blu - ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD versions from Sony
Pictures Home Entertainment.
As already hinted at in the latest Oscar Predictions, the A24 film could prove to be the spoiler in the Best
Picture race by the end of the season.
Sony
Pictures Classics is planning a full - court press Oscar campaign for the actress and with Julianne Moore (Still Alice) and Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
as recent winners from the studio, they know how to run this
race.
This is more true
as there are more tech heavy, effects driven films heading into the Best
Picture race,
as Life of Pi or Gravity recently prove.
Like anyone who's been covering what's become,
as the party line goes, «the closest Best
Picture race in recent memory,» I've gone through many mental rewrites of this top - prize breakdown.
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picture race said before Sunday's surprise win: «Look how many theaters our movie is in.
One doesn't have to strain their brain to see Gosling
as a viable Best Actor player, with the movie itself aiming squarely at the Best
Picture race.
As the Academy Awards approached, La La Land pulled ahead of Moonlight in the Best
Picture race.