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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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But it does not mean you can not send pictures that present you in the best way: send a photo of yourself with a happy smile, it's always a winner!
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 nomineesdo 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 nomineesDo 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 winnerdid 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.»)
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