This film doesn't succeed to the extent that comparable Best
Picture winner did, but it is similarly accessible, involving, and fast - moving.
A little bit of history on NYFCC: Last year was the first time since 2006 that their Best
Picture winner did not go on to an Oscar nomination.
You have to go back to 2012 to find a year when the Best
Picture winner did not get either a Gotham nomination or win the Gotham.
David Lean's 1957 Best Picture winner doesn't hold up for me as well as some of his other films, but it's still got legs.
But Best Picture is tricky and since the implementation of the expanded ballot a Best Picture winner doesn't usually sweep like it used to, it doesn't dominate like it used to, it doesn't tower over Tinseltown as the Big Champ like it used to.
Not exact matches
Evidence suggests that many Best
Picture Oscar
winners do indeed get a box office bump.
So, yes, while some of the competing recipes
do fall into the «semi homemade» category (Sandra Lee,
pictured with me above, is going to announce the
winner on April 15th), I guarantee that most of the participants in the contest
do a heck of a lot more in the kitchen than making up only «semi homemade» recipes.
More likely, Romo will be one of the most forgettably great quarterbacks we have ever seen — someone who no one could hate but was never deeply loved, like that Best
Picture winner that didn't stand the test of time.
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I'm actually a fan of «Chicago» (one of the decade's strongest Best
Picture winners, if you ask me), but it's Bill Condon's ingeniously conceived adaptation that
did the heaviest lifting on that project and, to my mind, is largely responsible for its success.
Last year's Best
Picture winner, Birdman, went the Telluride route, which I'm sure didn't please Toronto organizers one bit, but the fact remains that the last five
Picture winners have had their debut over there.
The trouble this year is that the most likely Best
Picture winner, Argo,
does not have its director nominated in a puzzling snub that can only be explained in this manner.
If this is not the 2017 Best
Picture winner at the Oscars then I don't know what.
The last Best
Picture winner to
do that was 1980's Ordinary 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.
You
do see some overlap between the NBR awards and the Oscars, of course — the awards in 1980 and 1982, to name but two years, were pretty close to those of the Academy, and the Board gave their award for Best Picture of 1989, the year of «Do the Right Thing,» to «Driving Miss Daisy,» for crying out loud; like the Oscars, they have a weakness for White Elephant - type biopics and costume dramas — but there are more years when the winners (not the nominees
do see some overlap between the NBR awards and the Oscars, of course — the awards in 1980 and 1982, to name but two years, were pretty close to those of the Academy, and the Board gave their award for Best
Picture of 1989, the year of «
Do the Right Thing,» to «Driving Miss Daisy,» for crying out loud; like the Oscars, they have a weakness for White Elephant - type biopics and costume dramas — but there are more years when the winners (not the nominees
Do the Right Thing,» to «Driving Miss Daisy,» for crying out loud; like the Oscars, they have a weakness for White Elephant - type biopics and costume dramas — but there are more years when the
winners (not the nominees!)
Last year's Best
Picture winner, «Birdman,» was nominated for an Eddie but didn't make the cut in the equivalent Academy Awards category.
It didn't win the PGA Award and the last time the PGA
winner didn't take Best
Picture was in 2007 when «Little Miss Sunshine» lost to «The Departed.»
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.
All of these and the others I didn't mention presently hold a higher user rating on IMDb than Cavalcade's lowly 6.2, which trails all but Cimarron (6.0) among Best
Picture winners.
For the
winner, it is a moment of euphoria and exhaustion, which last year Warren Beatty
did his best to make as chaotic as possible, with Faye Dunaway, by accidentally awarding best
picture to La La Land, when it should have gone to Moonlight.
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.
It should be noted that the extent of the alignment of the Gothams and the Oscars basically ends after the Best
Picture winners; acting categories are approached differently and therefore don't really have the opportunity to coalesce.
Did you know that in all of SAG / DGA / Oscar history, no DGA
winner has ever predicted Best
Picture without a SAG ensemble nomination?
Sometimes, sometimes Dolores, these things cross over, and often when they
do that is when you have a slam dunk Best
Picture winner.
In a strange turn, Foxcatcher didn't get a Best
Picture nomination but its director, Cannes
winner Bennett Miller,
did.
It didn't get much further than that, though, and eventually five releases overtook it: Twins, Big, Coming to America, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and» 88's Best
Picture winner and box office champ, Rain Man.
In September, Lady Bird auspiciously launched in Telluride, just as Moonlight — a fellow production from indie distributor A24 and the Academy's most recent best
picture winner —
did a year earlier.
and Best
Picture winner Chicago and then in 2006 - 2007 there was a huge wave of popular favorites like Dreamgirls, Hairspray, Enchanted and Sweeney Todd that managed to
do solid business at the box - office as well as with the critics.
I generally approve of the Academy's choices — with the notable exception of «Crash», every Best
Picture winner of the past 20 years has been a good movie — but they don't stretch their horizons as they should.
Usually, though, a Best
Picture winner will only win Score if a sweep is afoot, and hardly ever
does the rest of the time because in years when the Academy spreads the wealth, they seem to divide the films they like along the lines of tech, craft and major categories.
An index of
Winner & co.'s sense of film history: at the world premiere of the new Rudy Montague (Rudolph Valentino by way of Ron Leibman)
picture, the image on the screen is blocked - up, ultracontrasty, and scratchy («Gee, didn't old movies always look like that?»).
As I've
done in the past, the
winner will receive a DVD / Blu - Ray of the film that wins Best
Picture — though I've been known to be accommodating in the past if that is not your preferred option.
The latter isn't one of the better films the pair made, but it
does feature a bizarre parody of the Best
Picture -
winner «Going My Way,» which makes one wonder how ubiquitous that movie was in 1950 and if the pop culture references in Judd Apatow's films are going to age this badly.
Gurus link In our ongoing search for Oscar's best
picture winner, which doesn't necessarily define the best film in a given year, we continue to grope around in the dark.
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
does not seem like the stars are going to align to give him a win for a Best
Picture nominee or
winner, but voters have a chance this year to give him the Oscar for a film that isn't nominated but would be well deserved win without a doubt.
Does that mean the make - up of Academy voters has pivoted so much that future Best
Picture winners won't look like previous ones either?
Best original song, motion
picture «Love Me Like You
Do,» «Fifty Shades of Grey» «One Kind of Love,» «Love & Mercy» «See You Again,» «Furious 7» «Simple Song # 3,» «Youth» «Writing's on the Wall,» «Spectre» -
Winner
So when Moonlight won three Oscars last year, or when 12 Years a Slave
did the same in 2014, those weren't modern outliers, but rather fell squarely into the historical context for Best
Picture winners.
The 2017 best
picture winner «Moonlight» played the Ross, as
did «Birdman,» the 2015 best
picture, and 2014's «12 Years a Slave.»
Rhodes picks up a project that gives him exposure while his turn in the final third of last year's Best
Picture winner is still fresh in mind, but it doesn't seem like a project that will advance his career.
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.
Synopsis:
Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best
Picture, and based on the first - hand experiences of Oscar - winning director Oliver Stone, Platoon is a movie «that regards combat from the ground level, from the infantryman's point of view, and
does not make war look like fun» (Roger Ebert).
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.
A rare disconnect when Best Director and Best
Picture nominations only matched for 3 films (Alan J. Pakula, Sidney Lumet — and
winner John G. Avildsen), Ingmar Bergman and Lina Wertmuller were the directors whose movies didn't make the cut.
They
did, however, award the eventual Best
Picture winner «Moonlight,» with a sole win in the drama category.
That snub for director Martin McDonagh doesn't help, either, although best
picture winners have overcome that in recent years (see «Argo.»)