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.
There are certainly formulas which have proven to be successful for Best
Picture winners as well as Best Actor and Actress.
The golden age of movie musicals saw four Best
Picture winners as the Academy fell in love with the likes of Julie Andrews, and directors like George Cukor and Robert Wise got their big Oscar wins.
Not exact matches
Now, The Hurt Locker stands
as the lowest - grossing best
picture winner on record.
Four Oscar best -
picture winners topped their respective years, including «The Hurt Locker,» with other Oscar darlings making it on the list,
as well.
«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.
It went on to win six statues, but what we all remember is when «La La Land» was mistakenly announced
as the
winner of Best
Picture, when the
winner was actually «Moonlight.»
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.
At this year's Oscars, La La Land was incorrectly announced
as the
winner in the prestigious «Best
Picture» category.
Additionally, Janelle took her talent to the silver screen, wherein she starred
as a lead actor in the critically acclaimed drama, Hidden Figures and Best
Picture winner, Moonlight.
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!
La La land was a -600 favorite to win best
picture and was originally announced
as the
winner.
The
winner of the Pelada Heart and Soul Shirt (
pictured above) is John K., who named his all - time Arsenal XI (including, of course, Pelé)
as the following:
Oddsmakers have The Artist
as the presumed
winner for Best
Picture.
The basis of the role model concept in sporting contexts is the belief that young people, women, and members of disadvantaged minorities simply lack imagination - they can't
picture themselves
as «
winners.»
Copies of texts supplied by Matt Seaton and Chris Sharpe,
as well
as photos of
pictures and
winners from the «Images of Fathers» exhibition (in print and email format) are available from Fathers Direct and from the Lloyds TSB Foundation (contact numbers attached).
But after reviewing each photo, judges chose Arindam Ghosh of Framingham
as the 2014 Grand Prize
Winner for his
picture of a male mallard duck, wings spread and seemingly standing on water.
After reviewing more than 2,000 entries, judges chose Arindam Ghosh of Framingham
as the 2014 Grand Prize
Winner for his
picture of a male mallard duck, wings spread and seemingly standing on water.
There was a massive mixup at the Oscars last night, during which «La La Land» was first announced
as the best
picture winner before its jubilant cast and crew were interrupted with a scarcely believable correction that actually, «Moonlight» was the real
winner.
Papers divided This morning's papers painted different
pictures of the debate
as the press remained divided over the debate's
winner.
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.
«It's a more complicated
picture, but broadly it means that there are going to be
winners and losers in the oceans
as its chemistry is modified by human activities — this could have the effect of altering major ocean ecosystems on which both we and a large part of marine life depend.»
London Films put itself on the international map in 1933 with The Private Life of Henry VIII, the most successful British
picture produced since the advent of sound, and a nominee for Best Picture as well as a winner for Best Actor (for Charles Lau
picture produced since the advent of sound, and a nominee for Best
Picture as well as a winner for Best Actor (for Charles Lau
Picture as well
as a
winner for Best Actor (for Charles Laughton).
With past Oscar nominees such
as Elizabeth, The Queen, The Young Victoria and 2010's best -
picture winner The King's Speech, the British have monopolized the royal biopic the way Americans have colonized the Second World War movie.
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.
Faye, 77, and Warren, 80, had announced La Land
as Best
Picture, the pair had been given the wrong envelope to announce the prize, leading Oscar producers to run onto the stage midway - through the acceptance speeches to unveil Moonlight
as the real
winner.
Much in the way Scott Rudin has owned the Oscar circuit for sometime, Gardener and Kleiner have established themselves
as an awards magnet for their films
as seen by their two previous Best
Picture winners («Moonlight» and «12 Years a Slave») and their three other nominations for «The Tree of Life,» «Selma,» and «The Big Short.»
The Help star was among the stunned celebrities featured in a now - famous Academy Awards photo taken
as the audience and viewers at home learned Faye Dunaway had announced the wrong Best
Picture winner.
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.
Although BlacKkKlansman was expected to hit Cannes, now that it officially has been announced and that it has a release date of August 10th, I'm a bit less inclined to see it
as a Best
Picture winner with those two elements in place.
Widows from Oscar
winner Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) is the new top pick for Best
Picture for April
as Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, which was just announced to debut at the Cannes Film Festival next month, falls to # 4.
But for this Academy, you might think of Schindler's List
as the ultimate Oscar Best
Picture winner.
The World War I drama Wings, which would become the first
winner of the Best
Picture Oscar, is clearly cut from the same cloth and not quite
as effectively.
Of the first - weekend limited release Best
Picture Nominees currently in theaters, most are in the same realm in terms of box office totals
as the Best
Picture winners of the past several years.
I have pretty much the same
winners here
as with Oscar, with the exception of Ridley Scott winning Best Director, on the potential strength of The Martian going Comedy and winning Best
Picture in that area and getting Matt Damon that Best Actor win
as well.
These models are the same cars featured in Universal
Pictures» upcoming Rush, an epic action - drama directed by Academy Award ®
winner Ron Howard, and will be available
as a free download to all «Forza Motorsport 5» players at launch.
Last Year «Äôs Big
Winners: In LA, while Oscar snubees «ÄúWALL - E «Äù and the ultra deserving Sally Hawkins took top honors for best picture and actress, eventually Oscar winners Danny Boyle, Sean Penn, Heath Ledger and Penelope Cruz all won here a
Winners: In LA, while Oscar snubees «ÄúWALL - E «Äù and the ultra deserving Sally Hawkins took top honors for best
picture and actress, eventually Oscar
winners Danny Boyle, Sean Penn, Heath Ledger and Penelope Cruz all won here a
winners Danny Boyle, Sean Penn, Heath Ledger and Penelope Cruz all won here
as well.
The festival has hosted five of the last six Best
Picture Oscar
winners, rolling out the red carpet for A-list actors and filmmakers while heavily supporting local filmmakers
as well.
Last Year «Äôs Big
Winners: «ÄúSlumdog Millionaire «Äù took its first major best
picture award of the season here,
as well
as honors for adapted screenplay and breakthrough actor Dev Patel.
If the above scenario plays out, presumptive Best
Picture winner «La La Land» will be the biggest casualty,
as Academy voters shunt aside the popular throwback musical starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling for something less frothy.
In what has become perhaps the most infamous moment in Oscars history, «La La Land» was incorrectly declared the
winner of Best
Picture, and the shock and confusion that followed
as «Moonlight» triumphantly won has been dissected like crazy over the last couple days.
If «Shape» were to take this category and then go on to win Best
Picture, it would be the first time since 2003 that the
winner of the big prize took Production Design
as well («The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King»).
Sure to remind some of «Cellular,» the 2004
picture starring Kim Basinger, Chris Evans and Jason Statham, The Call is, for the most part, a gripping little tight - knit crime thriller directed by Brad Anderson («The Machinist «-RRB- and blessed with decent work by Halle Berry (Academy Award
winner for «Monster's Ball «-RRB-
as heroine Jordan, and Abigail Breslin (Oscar nominee for «Little Miss Sunshine «-RRB-,
as Casey, the girl Jordan is trying to save.
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.
A crazy day
as the National Society of Film Critics announced their
winners today, the Producers Guild announce their Best
Picture nominees on Tuesday, the BAFTA nominations are Friday and the Golden Globes are Sunday.
THE DVDs Released on DVD a few years back by DreamWorks in an «Awards Edition» now bundled
as part of Paramount's «Best
Picture: Academy Award
Winners Collection,» American Beauty is crying out for a fresh run through the telecine (there's a hair in a couple of frames), its 2.37:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer conspicuously struck back in the nascence of the format.
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.
Despite the accolades, the film was doomed by the fatal flaw of casting a Kids Week Jeopardy -
winner in the pivotal role
as the
picture's narrator / protagonist.
Watch Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announce #LaLaLand
as the best
picture winner.
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.