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It's almost hard to believe that the same decade that gave us My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music also gave us a Best Picture winner about a male prostitute and his scumbag pimp, but Midnight Cowboy «s place in Oscar history is secure.

The «canonical» example he uses is Schindler's List, an excellent - but - extremely - serious Best Picture winner about the Holocaust.

Not exact matches

«Moonlight,» a drama about a gay black youth coming to terms with his sexuality in an impoverished Miami neighbourhood, received the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, February 26 after a stunning, unprecedented flub in which presenters erroneously announced the musical «La La Land» as the winner.

But the winner of last night's Oscar for Best Picture, Birdman, was only the 82nd best - grossing film of 2014, with only about $ 37 million in domestic ticket sales.

Oscar - winning films like the abuse - survival tale Precious, the 2016 Best Picture winner Room, about a kidnapping victim, may not be straight - ahead biopics, but both stories were pulled from the headlines and spun into fiction.

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Then I started thinking about transforming past Best Picture - winners into gnome format, and let's just say that 12 Years a Garden Gnome was not a good idea for anyone.

Just before announcing the winner of Best Picture, Sean Penn took his sweet time, fondling the envelope, then kidding about his 21 Grams director Alejandro González Iñárritu: «Who gave this sonofabitch his green card?»

The ultimate underdog among the nine Best Picture nominees, it might actually be the most traditional kind of Oscar winner: a powerful drama about a young Indian boy who gets lost from his family, then tries to find them over 20 years later.

The winner of four César awards, including best picture and director, Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain is a stirring drama about the daily joys and struggles of a bustling French - Arab family.

The movie also feels like a throwback to old Hollywood in the same vein as 2012's Best Picture winner, The Artist, and nobody loves a film about showbiz more than showbiz people.

Another photographer who took Bryant's picture at about the same time did not recognize him as a winner at the ceremony, and began following him, police said.

Fellow Oscar winner Mark Boal's screenplay takes off early on as the torture scenes paint the picture for the kind of story about to be told.

Three years ago, I set out to see and write about every winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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.

Winner of Best Picture Awards at numerous international film festivals including Sydney, Berlin and Fajr in its native Iran, as well as the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the film is an intimate drama about conflict within and between two families of vastly different social and economic standings.

But scratch that familiar surface and the evening was one that quietly made history, not only giving us the first Best Picture winner featuring a woman's love affair with a fish, but also a Best Picture from a Mexican immigrant about a black woman, gay man and a disabled woman all teaming up to fight the real monster: white male tyranny.

Put another way: Were you more likely to hear watercooler talk about such cable series as Breaking Bad, Homeland, and Game of Thrones than about Argo, last year's Oscar winner for best picture?

Few modern filmmakers are as knowledgeable and impassioned about film history as Guillermo del Toro, whose newly crowned Best Picture winner, «The Shape of Water,» is — let's face it — a TCM's lover's wet dream.

The academy's full membership of about 5,800 was eligible to vote for best - picture nominations and can cast ballots for the winners in all categories at the Oscar ceremony itself.

This Best Picture winner is way more than just a movie about a woman who falls in love with a fish creature.

-- about last year's La La Land - Moonlight best - picture mix - up, at which point the camera cut to last year's best - actress winner, Emma Stone, in the audience sitting next to one of her best friends, Lawrence.

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.

Pop Culture blogger Linda Holmes and film critic Bob Mondello talk about what to expect during Sunday's Oscar Telecast and why there's not a clear winner for Best Picture by now.

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director — Guillermo del Toro, I shouldn't have to say much to sing the praises of this fantastical love story about a mute woman, an amphibian creature, and the group of outcasts who help them.

I don't go to the cinema very often so when my friend suggested seeing this film I was reluctant as I thought it would be particularly gloomy and drawn out being 2 hours long, but then when it won the Best Picture Oscar I decided to read up about it - not that an Oscar winner necessarily means I will like it.

Still, I ended up leaving feeling good about the Best Picture winner because it is so deserving, stats be damned.

Just because the SAG Ensemble is a pretty good indicator of a potential Best Picture winner (with the caveat that stats are only reliable until they aren't) doesn't mean we can't talk about what might get nominated.

We're talking, of course, about Scoot McNairy, who broke through in Monsters and is soon to be seen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a terrific actor who has the midas touch when it comes to recent Best Picture winners.

«Lost in London» is highly reminiscent of «Birdman» — the 2014 Best Picture Oscar winner also about a troubled actor — that was (essentially) done in «one continuous shot» (maybe this is what inspired Harrelson.)

Tony Season is almost upon us) • W Magazine Lee Pace sorta comes out... in that tortured «I won't say it, but I'm saying it» Jodie Foster kinda way in this interview about taking on the Joe Pitt role in the revival of Angels in America • Theater Mania Harry Connick Jr is now in rehearsals for the debut of a new musical based on Best Picture winner The Sting.

Maxim, LAFCA cares a fuck about Oscar, you can see that from their winners and runners - up (though they also went with the consensus choice for Picture / Director).

Although it seems like we keep writing this same article over and over again, the point still needs to be made about why predicting a Best Picture winner with the preferential ballot can be so tricky.

A Dunkirk win would be a massive shock if only because the last time anyone talked about it as a possible Best Picture winner was last summer.

Several recent movies have looked at Iran, including Argo, which was the Academy Award Winner for Best Picture in 2013 and centered on the Iran Hostage Crisis - precipitated by the Iranian Revolution - and For Neda, an HBO documentary about a young woman killed while she was protesting the contested election in 2009.

I had the pleasure in early September of talking via phone with author / illustrator Brian Selznick about his latest title, Wonderstruck (Scholastic, September 2011), as well as a bit about the 2008 Caldecott winner The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic, 2007); his hybrid style, if you will, of picture book, novel, and graphic novel; and the upcoming film adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, titled simply Hugo, by Martin Scorsese.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

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The Best Picture winner last night was a movie about the present.

When America Alone (personally autographed copies of which are exclusively available, etc, etc) came out, I used to get occasional emails from Hollywood - not from the 20 - million - per - picture guys but from bona fide and Oscar - nominated stars (ie, not fake Nobel winners)- saying how much they liked the book, but please, don't mention it to anybody because they have to work in this town... Well, I'll never know what it's like to depend on Hollywood producers for your next gig, but I know a little bit about the public speaking circuit, and I was surprised, when Niall Ferguson made some unexceptional observations about Keynes that fell afoul of Big Gay, how instantly and abjectly he prostrated himself:

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This is the time to brag about your achievements and paint a picture of yourself as a winner and team player.