Sentences with phrase «picture winner also»

It sounds like the front runner but it'll have to buck that huge trend of the best picture winner also being the best director winner.

Best picture winners also usually win for their writing.

During the aftermath of the Oscars, I looked up how many Best Picture winners also managed to be my # 1 Movie Of The Year.

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Winner of seven Oscars, including best picture, it also will forever be known for its use of the Scott Joplin piano ragtime piece «The Entertainer.»

With that in mind, I'm reluctant to pick The Shape of Water as this year's Best Picture winner: It received the most nominations and several guild wins, but like La La Land (which also breezed through awards season until the final night), it's a retro pastiche.

Widely regarded as one of the best centre - backs in the world at the moment, the German World Cup winner is also a very lucky man based on these stunning pictures of his wife - to - be!

In addition to winning the $ 10 Starbucks card and $ 100 Paypal cash, the winner also gets their pick of a Pearberry Pie headband pictured below!

The picture's success paved the way for one additional collaboration between Winner and Clement, 1969's Hannibal Brooks, also starring Oliver Reed.

Born in 1937 in West Cliff - on - Sea, England, screenwriter - turned - director Dick Clement cut his teeth on the small screen in his mid - to late twenties, as a BBC television writer and director, including such now - classic programs as the sitcom The Likely Lads (1964), the Dudley Moore and Peter Cook series Not Only... But Also (1965), and the brief Steptoe and Son successor Mr. Aitch (1967), starring Harry H. Corbett.Clement segued into big - screen comedy in 1966, co-scripting (with Ian La Frenais) the Michael Winner - directed picture The Jokers.

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.

It's notable because (as TIFF reminded us with tags in front of every film) in past years Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech were winners of the «Audience Award», later going on to also win Best Picture as well as the hearts of the entire world.

Barry Jenkins, who directed Moonlight, is also the first black director since Steve McQueen (2013's Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave) to be recognized for Best Director, a category that's only nominated four black men — John Singleton, Lee Daniels, McQueen and Jenkins — since the award was first handed out in 1929.

But there are also plenty of licensed titles ranging from a Disney sports classic to a Best Picture winner.

There's also Ejiofor, whose fewer years of clout were cemented by his lead role in 2013 Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave.

Best Picture Oscar winner «The Shape of Water,» «Justice League» and «Call Me By Your Name» are also new to Blu - Ray this week.

Though the influence of Hong Kong director Wong Kar - wai on Barry Jenkins» Moonlight has been well documented, the Best Picture winner's most direct allusion to the master of exquisitely stylised melancholy comes via its brief use of Caetano Veloso's rendition of «Cucurrucucú paloma» by Mexican composer Tomás Méndez, a lovesick piece also features in the soundtrack of Wong's own mood - drenched classic of gay cinema, 1997's Happy Together.

Of the faux - David Lean white elephants that proliferated in the early «80s, Gandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India; it now exists in that dreary realm of antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignments.

Late Wednesday afternoon, Sony Pictures» showed clips from their upcoming product slate that included a remake of Total Recall starring Colin Farell; the next James Bond film: Skyfall; Adam Sandler's That's My Boy; Hope Springs, starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carrell; the action sci fi thriller Looper starring Joseph Gorden Levitt and Bruce Willis; Premium Rush also starring Joseph Gordon Levitt; and the remake of the musical Sparkle starring former American Idol winner Jordan Sparks and the late, great Whitney Houston in her last film role.

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.

What You Need To Know: On the slim off - chance that you've heard none of the deafening buzz surrounding Steve McQueen «s «Hunger» and «Shame» follow - up (which also stars Michael Fassbender), let's get to it: by all accounts (our own included), lead Chiwetel Ejiofor is anything from a good bet to a surefire winner for this year's Best Actor Oscar, with the film itself a likely player in the Best Picture race and any number of the other actors (Fassbender foremost among them) potentially primed for Supporting Actor nod.

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Grant, who plays Ladybird Johnson, also starred in Best Picture winners «The Artist» and «No Country for Old Men.»

Of course «The Big Short» also didn't win Best Picture from any major critics group, but that's usually a bonus for an Oscar winner these days anyway.

A big hit in its day and also a multiple Oscar winner, this picture has never stopped pleasing and rousing audiences.

It's also a grand - scale film that feels like a possible best picture winner.

Get Out, the winner, was seen as the favorite but there were also trumpets blared for Lady Bird «s last stand to stake a claim of a guild win (it did not) and then the creeping feeling that if The Shape of Water is the Best Picture frontrunner then it winning WGA wouldn't be out of the blue and could signal a true lead.

The organization also groveled at the feet of this year's Cecil B. DeMille winner, Meryl Streep, giving her a nod for Best Actress, Musical Or Comedy for Florence Foster Jenkins, which is also up for musical or comedy best picture.

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.

What probably won't happen, or what we've never seen happen since SAG gave out its first Ensemble award to The Birdcage, is for their Ensemble award winner not also be a Best Picture nominee — this is true of the acting categories as well.

Needless to say, The Artist was a complete throwback to a time when dialogue wasn't a necessity in cinema and harkens back to the inaugural Best Picture winner, Wings, which was also a silent - film.

The Best Picture category also included previous award winners The Descendants and The Tree of Life.

Some of the winners» names were familiar just kicked - off awards season — Alexander Payne's Hawaiian - set «The Descendants» was named Best Picture, as it also was recently by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association — but perhaps the biggest winner of the night was Nicolas Winding Refn's neon - lit, criminally overlooked «Drive,» which sadly withered on the box office vine earlier this fall and yet sped off with the most trophies Sunday night.

Bigelow is directing from a script by Mark Boal, who also penned and produced her 2010 Best Picture and Best Director Oscar winner «The Hurt Locker,» as well as her 2010 Academy Award nominated film «Zero Dark Thirty.»

The initial predictions that were released on March 6 named Martin Scorsese's upcoming crime thriller «The Irishman» as the probable Best Picture winner, also slated in the top spots for Director, Supporting Actor for Al Pacino, and Film Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker.

The top four contenders aren't just all possibilities here, they're also all legitimate contenders for Best Picture and looking at the recent trend of Best Picture winners, it's a screenplay win that is its closest ally.

Plus, Moonlight's historic win last year over a loved — but also hated — La La Land has given professional pundits and amateur watchers pause in predicting the picture that every indicator suggests is the winner: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.

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.

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.

It breaks the streak of the PGA winner also winning the Best Picture Oscar since the expanded field began and the first overall since 2006's Little Miss Sunshine.

Helena was also executive producer of the motion picture WAATI, directed by Palme D'Or winner Souleymane Cisse; THE MANGLER, directed by Tobe Hooper (POLTERGEIST); Katinka Heyns» PALJAS, which was selected as South Africa's first official entry in the 1998 Academy Awards ® in the Best Foreign Language film category and Darrell James Roodt's SARAFINA!

After Guillermo del Toro turned a creature feature into a best picture Oscar winner, films with B - movie plots, from Rampage to A Quiet Place, are also edging their way to the top

The filmmaker's movie Boyhood was the big winner of the night, also taking home Best Motion Picture — Drama and Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Arquette.

Both Morris and Madison also levied the ultimate critique by equating Three Billboards» simplistic take on race to that of 2006's best - picture winner, Crash, which has been pilloried relentlessly as the year the Academy got it really wrong — even by Crash's own director.

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).

For starters, the film failed to earn Golden Globe nods for Best Director or Best Screenplay, while also failing to earn BAFTA nods for Best Film and Best Director (Best Picture winners usually have all of these).

It also makes perfect sense as a Best Picture winner in 2018.

He also is the co-host of the podcast «The People vs Oscar,» where he pits the Best Picture winner and highest grossing film of each year against each other («Snow White» vs «The Life of Emile Zola» anyone?).

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.

Like many Studio Ghibli productions, The Wind Rises has gotten the red - carpet treatment from stateside distributor Disney (under its adult - skewing Touchstone Pictures banner), including seven - time Oscar winner Gary Rydstrom to direct the English version, and a cast that also includes John Krasinski, Martin Short, Jennifer Grey, Werner Herzog, William H. Macy, Elijah Wood and Mandy Patinkin.

Million Dollar Baby was also of the few instances when a Best Actress winner was in the Best Picture winner.