To win, it would have to triumph with the fewest total nominations of any Best
Picture winner since the»30s, but we've been steadily moving towards Best Picture winners with fewer and fewer total nominations lately.
As we're sure you're aware by now, it's also become an increasingly crucial Oscar launching pad: every Best
Picture winner since «No Country For Old Men» has been featured at the festival.
Three of those four losing bids came for Titanic and none were Oscars; this is the first and only Best
Picture winner since The Sound of Music (1965) not to have also competed for a screenplay Academy Award.
Why: The Shape of Water has been considered the inevitable Best
Picture winner since it launched to acclaim on the festival circuit last fall.
That moment when the surest best
picture winner since Schindler's List was announced, Hollywood reacted with one final weary round of applause, and Oscar - party attendees everywhere started collecting their coats.
For those who believe Gravity will win Best Picture, might it then become the highest grossing Best
Picture winner since Return of the King?
While there hasn't be a lead performance by a female in a Best
Picture winner since 2004's Million Dollar Baby, there have been plenty of supporting actress nominations, especially recently:
Spotlight became the first Best
Picture winner since 1952's The Greatest Show on Earth and the sixth overall to win only one other award, which was... Read more
TIFF hasn't premiered a Best
Picture winner since «Crash» in 2004, but Toronto was where the Venice or Telluride enthusiasm for «Slumdog Millionaire,» «Argo,» «The King's Speech,» «12 Years a Slave,» and «Spotlight» began to turn from spark to flame.
Not exact matches
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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).
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.
The December release date (no film
since 2004's Million Dollar Baby has been a December release Best
Picture winner) is going to be an easier one to overcome.
The big surprise is less that no one releases a prestige pic in January, but how long it's been
since we've had a best
picture winner released in December.
Frankly, if «The Big Short» wins Best
Picture it will be the worst
winner since «Crash.»
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»).
Since 2000, only three NYFCC Best
Picture winners have failed to earn the Oscar equivalent (Mulholland Dr., United 93 and Carol).
No movie has won Best
Picture with a Best Actress nominee in it, let alone a Best Actress
winner,
since 2004's Million Dollar Baby.
The fact that The Shape of Water was the first Best
Picture winner with a female protagonist
since Million Dollar Baby 13 years ago alone is something to decry and applaud in equal measure.
McQueen will direct; Widows will be his first feature
since 2013's Best
Picture winner 12 Years A Slave.
Since BIFA began in 1998, two
winners have gone on to win the Best
Picture Oscar, «Slumdog Millionaire» in 2008 and «The King's Speech» in 2010, but for the most part the honor has been given to a film not on the U.S. awards radar.
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.
I'm still going to bet that the film with the Best
Picture nomination is the best bet to win (13/15 out of the past
winners have had BP nominations — and no film
since they expanded Best
Picture has won the Eddie without a Best Pic nod), although honestly Star Wars: The Force Awakens could totally take it (and then take the Oscar too).
Reigning Best
Picture winner Moonlight stood out for focusing on the kind of characters that remain underrepresented in the quarter - century
since Juice.
Every year
since then, the Original Score
winners have all been Best Pic nominees or Best
Picture winners.
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.
Dramas, and to a lesser degree musicals, have dominated the Best
Picture nominees and
winners since the 1970s.
With «Sully,» Eastwood delivers his best film
since 2004's Best
Picture winner, «Million Dollar Baby.»
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.
Adversely, The Big Short becomes the first PGA
winner to lose Best
Picture since 2006's Little Miss Sunshine.
They believe themselves immune to it but trust me, there is a dividing line, which is the main reason there hasn't been a Best
Picture winner with a female lead
since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.
Since 2000, the winner of Best Director at the Globes has gone on to win Best Picture or Director at the Oscars seven times.This is a year where Picture and Director are either going to split or not, and in almost all instances where Best Director split from Best Picture since 2009, all the winning directors won the Globe first: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro G. Iñarritu, Damien Chaz
Since 2000, the
winner of Best Director at the Globes has gone on to win Best
Picture or Director at the Oscars seven times.This is a year where
Picture and Director are either going to split or not, and in almost all instances where Best Director split from Best
Picture since 2009, all the winning directors won the Globe first: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro G. Iñarritu, Damien Chaz
since 2009, all the winning directors won the Globe first: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro G. Iñarritu, Damien Chazelle.
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.
Since SAG first started handing out the Best Cast award in 1995 it has become a big indicator for Oscar Best
Picture nominations and
winners.
Since 1970, 35 out of 40 Best Actor
winners were in a Best
Picture nominee, give or take a name or two, but it's fairly significant.
Since his first film and television appearances in the late - eighties, actor Chris Cooper's filmography has come to include blockbusters (The Bourne Identity, the upcoming The Amazing Spider - Man 2), comedies (Me, Myself, and Irene, The Muppets), Best
Picture nominees (Seabiscuit, Capote), a Best
Picture winner (American Beauty), and his own Oscar win in 2003 for Best Supporting Actor for Adaptation.
But usually,
since the year 2000, the Oscar Best
Picture winner won more than one BAFTA.
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.
Best
Picture usually brings along an acting win — nine of this century's
winners have earned at least one trophy for their stars —
since actors make up the academy's largest voting branch and support from them can go a long way.
The Caldecott
winner (
since I cover illustration and
picture books so often here)?
Below are
pictures of just a few of FCU's over 400
winners that have won cash prizes from Frankenmuth Credit Union
since Save To Win started in 2009.
Since I've only visited three of these to date, I can't help but see myself in twenty - five more cheezy jump
pictures, with each of the possible
winners as my background (did someone say «round the world ticket?»).
Once you've taken your share of
pictures, you're free to use the pools and other facilities at Mayaland Resort, a multiple Condé Nast Traveler magazine
winner and considered a National Geographic favorite
since 1936.