The last Best
Picture winner nominated for Best Art Direction to lose that award was «Gladiator,» which lost to fellow Best Picture nominee «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.»
Similarly, the last Best
Picture winner nominated for Best Costume Design to lose that award was «Braveheart,» which lost to period piece «Restoration.»
Another note: The last Best
Picture winner nominated for Best Art Direction to LOSE said award was «Gladiator» (which lost to fellow Best Picture nominee «Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon»).
Similarly, the last Best
Picture winner nominated for Best Costume Design to LOSE said award was «Braveheart,» which lost to period piece «Restoration.»
Not exact matches
Terrible acting; terrible movie.I predict that it'll be
nominated to the Razzie Awards.When I went to see it in the theater I got bored.I hope it'll be the
winner of the 33th edition of the Razzie Awards for Worst
Picture.
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.
Johnny Depp returns to his iconic, Academy Award ® -
nominated role of Captain Jack Sparrow, one of the most beloved characters in motion
picture history, newly joined by Oscar ®
winner Javier Bardem («No Country for Old Men,» «Skyfall»), rising young stars Kaya Scodelario («The Maze Runner,» British television's «Skins») and Brenton Thwaites («Maleficent,» «The Giver») and Golshifteh Farahani («The Patience Stone,» «Exodus: Gods and Kings»).
No Best
Picture winner has won without first being at least
nominated here with the exception of Braveheart, which missed out in the very first year of this award.
Million Dollar Baby (2004) is still the last Best
Picture winner to feature an actress
nominated in a lead role.
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.
The OFCS has
nominated the eventual Oscar
winner for Best
Picture in eight of the last ten years; matching Oscar
winners 12 Years a Slave (2013), The Hurt Locker (2009), No Country for Old Men (2007) and Argo (2012), becoming the first major critics group to recognize Ben Affleck's future Academy Award recipient.
The honor makes the «Get Out» filmmaker just the fifth black director
nominated for the award, a distinguished group that includes John Singleton for 1991's «Boyz n the Hood,» Lee Daniels for 2009's «Precious,» Steve McQueen for 2013's «12 Years a Slave» and Barry Jenkins for last year's best -
picture winner, «Moonlight.»
By the way, is it not odd that first time
winner James L. Brooks has never again been
nominated in the directing category again, despite two Best
Picture nominees in «Broadcast News» and «As Good As It Gets?»
Last year's Best
Picture winner, «Birdman,» was
nominated for an Eddie but didn't make the cut in the equivalent Academy Awards category.
The three
pictures nominated are: «Incendies», directed by Denis Villeneuve,
winner of last year's Canadian Feature award for «Polytechnique»; «Splice», directed by Vincenzo Natali, and «Trigger», directed by Bruce McDonald.
Oscar's best
picture winner The Shape of Water was
nominated in six categories but only took home one medal (gold for Production Design).
Academy Award -
winner Affleck, who is
nominated this year for producing the Best
Picture nominee «Argo,» won the award in 1997 for co-writing the Best
Picture nominee -LSB-...]
Music dominated some of the biggest and most high - profile movies of 2016 — from Best
Picture Critics Choice
winner «La La Land» to animated blockbusters «Trolls» and «Sing» and the charming Golden Globe
nominated Best
Picture «Sing Street».
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.»
With $ 37.7 million in domestic ticket sales since its release in October, «Birdman» is one of the lowest grossing best
picture winners ever, underscoring the unusually wide gap this year between Oscar
nominated films and box - office results.
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2010
winner Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar's Beasts of the Southern Wild was
nominated for four Academy Awards including Best
Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress (Quvenzhané Wallis).
Ahead of the Academy Awards tonight, the
winners of the 33rd Film Independent Spirit Awards were announced in Hollywood last night, with Jordan Peele's Best
Picture -
nominated Get Out taking home the top honour, Best Feature, as well as Best Director.
The Grammy
winner is the first person to be
nominated for both a performance and original song in the same year, the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences said.
A small part as Anne Boleyn in Best
Picture winner «A Man For All Seasons» was a mere taster for more full - on roles in cult sixties hit and Palme D'Or
winner «Blow - Up», and her first Oscar -
nominated performance in «Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment».
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.
Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (who brought Little Miss Sunshine to a Best
Picture nomination) and written by Simon Beaufoy (Oscar
winner for Slumdog Millionaire and nominee for 127 Hours), Battle of the Sexes is one of the best films to screen here at the 44th Telluride Film Fest and will very likely be
nominated for several of Oscars.
Roger Deakins shot two Best
Picture winners (A Beautiful Mind and No Country for Old Men) and five films that were
nominated for Best
Picture.
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.
REVIEWS OF
NOMINATED FILMS We are merely days away from Oscar night, and I still can't predict who will go home the
winner of the coveted Best
Picture Oscar.
Pontiac, MI., July 25, 2011 — Walt Disney
Pictures» fantastical adventure «Oz The Great and Powerful,» directed by Sam Raimi, went in front of the cameras at the brand - new Raleigh Studios in Pontiac, Michigan, on Monday, July 25, 2011, boasting a stellar cast that includes Academy Award ® nominee James Franco («127 Hours») as the young wizard, Golden Globe ® nominee Mila Kunis («Black Swan») as the witch Theodora, Academy Award ®
winner Rachel Weisz («The Constant Gardener») as Kunis» sister Evanora and two - time Oscar ® -
nominated actress Michelle Williams («Brokeback Mountain,» «Blue Valentine») as Glinda, the Good Witch.
Nominated for a combined (22) Academy Awards and
winner of (9) Oscars, including (2) for Best
Picture, «The Godfather» and «The Godfather: Part II» are still considered, forty - years after their release, to among the greatest American films ever made.
Beresford is one of the few directors of a Best
Picture winner not
nominated for Best Director also (although he earlier was, for 1983's Tender Mercies) and his career decidedly did not take off after that.
The blue - tinted Euro thriller struck out with critics and bombed with moviegoers, but Cumberbatch had four other Oscar -
nominated films to fall back on that year, including a forgettable brief appearance in Best
Picture winner 12 Years a Slave.
While it's true that the best
picture and director
winners aren't always awarded for the same film, for Gerwig not to be even
nominated for an acclaimed feature speaks volumes.
As touched on previously, La La Land was the biggest
winner on the night, coming out on top in every category it was
nominated, including «best
picture, comedy or musical,» «actress, comedy or musical,» «actor, comedy or musical,» «director,» «screenplay,» «original score,» and «original song».
Hollywood was truly at a crossroads then, and so were the Oscars, which had
nominated in 1970 such daringly different kinds of films as Midnight Cowboy (the eventual Best
Picture winner), Easy Rider, Z, and Medium Cool, while also giving Best
Picture nods to films like Hello Dolly and Anne Of The Thousand Days, two movies more representative of the past than the future.
Ugh, yes, I actually didn't mean to write «not
nominated for Best
Picture» but instead a movie not
nominated for a whole swag of other awards, but as I was looking at the list of
winners I forgot that Dark Knight wasn't
nominated for BP.
In 1968, the Oscarcast went on without incident after the burial of King, and ironically, two
nominated films that dealt with bigotry owned the night: The Best
Picture winner In The Heat Of The Night, and the inter-racial marriage comedy Guess Who's Coming To Dinner — both starring Sidney Poitier — won the most awards.
This year's costume design lineup is a mix of three two time nominees (Johnston, previously
nominated for Lincoln, Boyle, previously
nominated for The Queen, and Zophres, previously
nominated for True Grit), one of Oscar's all time favorites (three time
winner Atwood), and the new - to - Oscar Madeline Fontaine from France who designed the costumes of Jackie and was previously best known for costuming French
pictures like Amelie and Yves Saint Laurent.
Directed by Dayton and Faris who brought «Little Miss Sunshine» to a 2006 Best
Picture nomination, and written by Simon Beaufoy (Oscar
winner for «Slumdog Millionaire» and nominee for «127 Hours»), «Battle of the Sexes» is one of the best films to screen in Telluride and will very likely be
nominated for a handful of Oscars.
This year's
winner was Mel Gibson, who was
nominated two years ago for his performance in «The Expendables 3» and who has now scored a Best Director and Best
Picture nomination at the Oscars with «Hacksaw Ridge.»
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: