Sentences with phrase «picture winner spotlight»

The year before, Mad Max: Fury Road won six Oscars, but Best Picture winner Spotlight only claimed one other victory on the night.

In 2016, for instance, The Revenant won the Globe for the top drama prize, beating out eventual Best Picture winner Spotlight.

Mark Felt could be likened to Robert DeNiro's The Good Shepherd, a far more comprehensive and moody thriller about the CIA, or best picture winner Spotlight, for its investigation presentation.

And Open Road's 2016 Oscar Best Picture winner Spotlight is still in theaters and is getting close to a new cumulative threshold.

Best Picture winner Spotlight becomes the 6th film to win BP and only one other award and the first to do so since 1952's The Greatest Show on Earth, which also just won Screenplay.

While Hannah is picking up her first theatrical writing credit, Singer is no stranger to journalism dramas, having penned the nonstarter Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate before rebounding with 2015's spectacular Best Picture winner Spotlight.

Not exact matches

Spotlight is one of a handful of frontrunners for Best Picture and its box office gross is just $ 38 million — which would make it one of the lowest - grossing Best Picture winners.

That said, Moonlight, which focuses on a young man growing up gay in Miami, is one of the least widely seen best picture winners, trailing the likes of Spotlight ($ 45 million, domestically) and Birdman ($ 42.3 million, domestically).

Ironically, the hearing and movie showing was to take place the same day that Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D - Queens) wanted to show «Spotlight,» this year's Academy Award best picture winner, as part of a roundtable she is holding on the issue of child sex abuse.

Walter «Robby» Robinson, «Spotlight» Keaton was among the ensemble of 2015's Best Picture Oscar winner, which also included Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery and Stanley Tucci.

TIFF hasn't premiered a Best Picture winner since «Crash» in 2004, but Toronto was where the Venice or Telluride enthusiasm for «Slumdog Millionaire,» «Argo,» «The King's Speech,» «12 Years a Slave,» and «Spotlight» began to turn from spark to flame.

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role ROONEY MARA / Therese Belivet — «CAROL» (The Weinstein Company) RACHEL McADAMS / Sacha Pfeiffer — «SPOTLIGHT» (Open Road Films) HELEN MIRREN / Hedda Hopper — «TRUMBO» (Bleecker Street) ALICIA VIKANDER / Gerda Wegener — «THE DANISH GIRL» (Focus Features)-- WINNER KATE WINSLET / Joanna Hoffman — «STEVE JOBS» (Universal Pictures)

That means that Spotlight and The Big Short, the two Oscar Best Picture frontrunners, are statistically the only viable winners in the top category.

The last four Spirit Best Picture winners have gone on to pick up the Best Picture at the Oscars, Moonlight, «Spotlight, «Birdman,»12 Years a Slave.

Producers Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Blye Pagon Faust, and Michael Sugar, winners of Best Picture for «Spotlight,» pose in the press room during the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Loews Hollywood Hotel on February 28, 2016 in... More

Spotlight became the first Best Picture winner since 1952's The Greatest Show on Earth and the sixth overall to win only one other award, which was... Read more

Carol, Phyllis Nagy (The Weinstein Company) The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Marielle Heller (Sony Pictures Classics) Love & Mercy, Oren Moverman and Michael Alan Lerner (Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate, and River Road Entertainment) Spotlight, Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Open Road Films)-- WINNER While We're Young, Noah Baumbach (A24)

If «Revenant,» «Spotlight» or «Big Short» upset you have your Best Picture winner.

Winner: Alicia Vikander, «The Danish Girl» Should win: Jennifer Jason Leigh, «The Hateful Eight» Upset player: Kate Winslet, «Steve Jobs» Nightmare win: Rachel McAdams, «Spotlight» (love her but she's not even the fourth best performance in the movie) Lowdown: The pundits have been fishing for a category that might provide an upset and if the Best Picture race wasn't so tight there would be more think pieces about this race than you can shake a stick at.

(Read: Oscars 2016 winner: «Spotlight» wins Best Picture)

Tom McCarthy's Spotlight, the winner of best picture Oscar, celebrates the virtues of investigative reporting at a time when the old world of journalism seems to have changed drastically.

All other winners went on to win Oscars in their respective categories, including Spotlight, the winner of the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award.

Once seen as a waning force in the film industry calendar, the world's oldest film festival has regained its status as a kingmaker for award - season hopefuls, with a record of launching films that have gone on to enjoy success at the Academy Awards, including two recent best picture winners in Spotlight and Birdman, and the film that took home the highest number of Oscars this year, La La Land.

BEST PICTURE Winner: Spotlight The Big Short Bridge Of Spies Brooklyn Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Revenant Room

The PGA has matched the Oscar for Best Picture in 19 of its 27 years, although last year it chose «The Big Short» instead of eventual Best Picture winner «Spotlight.»

In the past two years, the PGA and Oscars went with different winners, however, as The Big Short won the PGA Award while Spotlight took the Best Picture Oscar; while La La Land won the top PGA honor and Moonlight, after a barrage of on - stage confusion, won the Oscar for Best Picture.

If you think of Spotlight as being an Ordinary People type of winner (somber, understated, actor - driven), remember that it won only Picture, Supporting Actor, Director and Screenplay.

However despite those major differences, for the past four years running the Spirit Award has shared its Best Picture winner with the Academy Awards: «12 Years a Slave» (with 2013 in consideration), «Birdman» (2014), «Spotlight» (2015), and «Moonlight» (2016).

Producers Steve Golin, Blye Pagon Faust, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar, winners of the Best Picture award for «Spotlight,» pose in the press room during the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Loews Hollywood Hotel on February 28, 2016 in... More

The success of Mad Max: Fury Road has put the film into top 5 status and if there was going to be a split season between Best Picture and Best Director (assuming Spotlight is the BP winner) Miller would seem the most likely to benefit.

This year's Oscar Best Picture winner and nominees Spotlight, Brooklyn and Room continue to hold their own.

Best screenplay, motion picture Emma Donoghue, «Room» Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, «Spotlight» Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, «The Big Short» Aaron Sorkin, «Steve Jobs» - Winner Quentin Tarantino, «The Hateful Eight»

2016 — Moonlight — supporting actress 2015 — Spotlight — supporting actress 2014 — Birdman — supporting actress 2013 — 12 Years a Slave — supporting actress 2012 — Argo 2011 — The Artist — supporting actress 2010 — The King's Speech — supporting actress 2009 — The Hurt Locker 2008 — Slumdog Millionaire 2007 — No Country for Old Men 2006 — The Departed 2005 — Crash (the closest thing to it is ensemble work) 2004 — Million Dollar Baby — Swank is the only Best Actress nominee or winner to star in a Best Picture winner in this period

The last two Best Picture winners («Spotlight» and «Moonlight») were rather mediocre films, so having a decent film win is certainly a step up.

The Academy has clearly shown us that they believe writing to be the single most important thing for a Best Picture winner to have nowadays, shown most clearly by when «Spotlight» won Best Picture and just ONE additional award: Best Original Screenplay (and also when «Argo,» «12 Years a Slave,» and «Moonlight» won Best Picture with just TWO additional Oscars, one of which was Adapted Screenplay).

And it's eerily similar to the Best Picture Oscar - winner Spotlight in that they're both ensemble dramas recounting an idealistic newspaper's legal battle on behalf of Freedom of the Press.

For the past three years the Gothams have honored the same best picture winner as the Oscars — «Moonlight,» «Spotlight» and «Birdman» — and tipped «The Hurt Locker» before that.

LOS ANGELES, CA — JANUARY 30: (L - R) Actors Billy Crudup, Brian d'arcy James, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Michael Keaton and Liev Schreiber, winners of the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for «Spotlight,» pose in the press room during The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 30, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.

Todd McCarthy's film of the story, which stars Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Brian d'Arcy James as the Spotlight journalists, is being talked up as a potential Oscar best picture winner.

The last four Spirit winners for best film («Moonlight,» «Spotlight,» «Birdman,» «12 Years a Slave») have won best picture at the Oscars.

THE 88th ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS The Complete List of Winners... and some commentary BEST PICTURE Spotlight BEST DIRECTOR Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant BEST ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant BEST ACTRESS Brie Larson, Room BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy, Spotlight BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, The Big Short BEST EDITING Margaret Sixel, Mad Max Fury Road BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Son of Saul, Hungary BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Emmanuel «Chivo» Lubezki, The Revenant First to win three back to back Oscars in this caWINNERS The Complete List of Winners... and some commentary BEST PICTURE Spotlight BEST DIRECTOR Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant BEST ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant BEST ACTRESS Brie Larson, Room BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy, Spotlight BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, The Big Short BEST EDITING Margaret Sixel, Mad Max Fury Road BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Son of Saul, Hungary BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Emmanuel «Chivo» Lubezki, The Revenant First to win three back to back Oscars in this caWinners... and some commentary BEST PICTURE Spotlight BEST DIRECTOR Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant BEST ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant BEST ACTRESS Brie Larson, Room BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy, Spotlight BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, The Big Short BEST EDITING Margaret Sixel, Mad Max Fury Road BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Son of Saul, Hungary BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Emmanuel «Chivo» Lubezki, The Revenant First to win three back to back Oscars in this category.

The guild has crowned the eventual Academy Award for Best Picture winner for eight out of the nine previous years (last year's winner, «The Big Short,» fell to «Spotlight» at the Oscars), so the Jan. 28 ceremony will be regarded as a significant precursor to the Oscars.

The likes of The Artist and Argo may still coast to victory sometimes, but contemporary winners like 12 Years A Slave, Birdman, Spotlight, Moonlight, The Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, No Country For Old Men, and The Departed add up to an eclectic batch of films that only feel like inevitable Best Picture winners in retrospect.

Gold Rush Gang Golden Globe Winner Predictions: Best Motion Picture (Drama) Carol Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant Room Spotlight — Erik, Evan, Jason, Kenneth, Chris, Nicole, Jacqui, James, Adam, Long Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) The Big Short — Erik, Evan, Jason, Kenneth, Chris, Nicole, Jacqui, James, Adam, Long Joy The Martian Spy Trainwreck Best Actor (Drama)...

McCarthy won an Academy Award for co-writing Best Picture winner «Spotlight» in 2015.

The top winner was Spotlight with five nominations and winning in four categories of Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Ensemble, and Best Screenplay.