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The English Patient was such a cultural phenomenon when it was released that Seinfeld built it into an episode of the same name during its 8th season (joining Schindler's List as Best Picture winner which serviced elements of the sitcom's plot).

Not exact matches

Spotlight is one of a handful of frontrunners for Best Picture and its box office gross is just $ 38 million — which would make it one of the lowest - grossing Best Picture winners.

That said, Moonlight, which focuses on a young man growing up gay in Miami, is one of the least widely seen best picture winners, trailing the likes of Spotlight ($ 45 million, domestically) and Birdman ($ 42.3 million, domestically).

Last year's winner had an October release, which set the film up well to benefit from the notorious Oscar bump following its Best Picture nomination and eventual win.

«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.

Paltrow was the Weinsteins» It Girl back in 1995, right after Se7en put her on the map and just before The Pallbearer and Emma — the latter earning her the top - billing spot two years later in Miramax's first Best Picture - winner, Shakespeare in Love, beating Steven Spielberg's war epic, Saving Private Ryan, which, to this day, is still a shock.

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.

There are certainly formulas which have proven to be successful for Best Picture winners as well as Best Actor and Actress.

Brazil international Neymar, recovering from a foot injury, posted an Instagram picture that showed him playing poker with the match on a screen in the background — behaviour for which he was strongly criticised by France World Cup - winner Christophe Dugarry.

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.

Markey's office, which received a Blueray copy of this year's Best Picture winner that chronicles the Boston Globe's investigation into sexual abuse by priests, was originally told it was a copyright issue.

«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.»

The robot analyzed the pictures to see which proteins fit the researchers» ideal criteria, and ultimately identified a winner: a protein called Archon1.

Until recently, that is... Mark and I headed out for a day at the tracks, which included losing every bet we placed, 5 very watery dirty Bombay Sapphire martinis, a picture taken alongside a horse and jockey in the winner's circle (which has yet to arrive at our house..

Walter «Robby» Robinson, «Spotlight» Keaton was among the ensemble of 2015's Best Picture Oscar winner, which also included Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery and Stanley Tucci.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Written and directed by Academy Award ® winner Paul Haggis (Best Motion Picture, Crash, 2005), Third Person is a mystery, a puzzle in which the truth is revealed in glimpses, clues are caught by the corner of the eye and nothing is truly what it seems.

Actually, it's the considerably more tender «August Rush,» opening today, which, with its rounded corners and loving flourishes, trades the harsh realism of that 1969 best - picture Oscar winner for a heartwarming fairy - tale quality that is undeniably sweet, even if it occasionally crosses over into sappiness.

Universal Pictures (alongside Focus Features) was the winner of the night taking home 15 Golden Trailer Awards, followed by Warner Bros. (with HBO) which earned 11 wins, while Disney and Lionsgate earned 9 statues each.

Ridley Scott and Robert Stromberg bring their «The Martian VR Experience» which is a nice moment in Park City for a potential Best Picture winner.

Behind the scenes, Macchio was asked how it was out there: «A little rocky,» he said, to which director Avildsen, Oscar - winner for Rocky, said, «Yeah, I've heard a lot of people describe the picture that way.»

With the exception of the best picture prize, which is a tight Oscar race, most of Sunday night's winners are expected to take home statuettes again at the Academy Awards on March 4.

Which is to say that the Best Picture winners, with seemingly increasing frequency, are prone to parsing the zeitgeist without delving deeply into any of the sundry particulars — which makes sense because, as popular film edges ever closer to its dream of total inoffensiveness, the picture that's celebrated as the year's best must be the one that best democratizes the annual caboWhich is to say that the Best Picture winners, with seemingly increasing frequency, are prone to parsing the zeitgeist without delving deeply into any of the sundry particulars — which makes sense because, as popular film edges ever closer to its dream of total inoffensiveness, the picture that's celebrated as the year's best must be the one that best democratizes the annual caPicture winners, with seemingly increasing frequency, are prone to parsing the zeitgeist without delving deeply into any of the sundry particulars — which makes sense because, as popular film edges ever closer to its dream of total inoffensiveness, the picture that's celebrated as the year's best must be the one that best democratizes the annual cabowhich makes sense because, as popular film edges ever closer to its dream of total inoffensiveness, the picture that's celebrated as the year's best must be the one that best democratizes the annual capicture that's celebrated as the year's best must be the one that best democratizes the annual caboodle.

What You Need To Know: On the slim off - chance that you've heard none of the deafening buzz surrounding Steve McQueen «s «Hunger» and «Shame» follow - up (which also stars Michael Fassbender), let's get to it: by all accounts (our own included), lead Chiwetel Ejiofor is anything from a good bet to a surefire winner for this year's Best Actor Oscar, with the film itself a likely player in the Best Picture race and any number of the other actors (Fassbender foremost among them) potentially primed for Supporting Actor nod.

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

Similarly, the last Best Picture winner nominated for Best Costume Design to LOSE said award was «Braveheart,» which lost to period piece «Restoration.»

Additionally, the winners of the various awards at TIFF were announced, including an important win for Tom Hooper's The King's Speech, which took home the coveted Audience Award (the same that Slumdog Millionaire won before it went on to nab Best Picture at the Oscars).

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»).

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.

The old way of handicapping best picture was to narrow the field down to the biggest movies and then, of the biggest, to figure out which was the stupidest, and that was the winner.

The organization also groveled at the feet of this year's Cecil B. DeMille winner, Meryl Streep, giving her a nod for Best Actress, Musical Or Comedy for Florence Foster Jenkins, which is also up for musical or comedy best picture.

On September 12, when Mark Harris officially returned to Grantland to cover the Oscar race (he stepped aside last season due to the conflict of husband Tony Kushner's Lincoln being in contention), he penned this dead - on and intentionally prickly piece, which took to task the festival - going, hastily - Tweeting types who hurried to declare 12 Years a Slave this year's Best Picture winner.

Josh Brolin obviously gained renewed prominence for his terrific starring turn in Best Picture - winner No Country for Old Men, after which he got to show off his dramatic chops in films like W. and Milk.

Iñárritu, who made his name with the savage dog - fighting drama Amores Perros, has burnished a reputation for technically complex films starring Hollywood A-listers, including Oscar best picture winner Birdman, starring Michael Keaton, and the Leonardo DiCaprio - fronted survival epic The Revenant, both of which landed him best director Oscars.

The only other multiple winner of the ceremony was fellow Best Picture Oscar nominee «Winter's Bone,» which took a well - deserved brace of supporting trophies for John Hawkes and Dale Dickey — the film's only reward for a field - leading haul of seven nominations.

Needless to say, The Artist was a complete throwback to a time when dialogue wasn't a necessity in cinema and harkens back to the inaugural Best Picture winner, Wings, which was also a silent - film.

On the television side, which spanned 10 awards, «Justified» was a surprise winner for Best TV Drama Series, while the deliciously ribald «It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,» now entering its seventh season, was named Best TV Comedy Series, knocking off last year's winner, «The Big C.» Kate Winslet («Mildred Pierce») and Jason Isaacs (PBS» «Case Histories») were awarded Best Actress and Best Actor prizes in the Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television categories, while Vanessa Williams («Desperate Housewives») and Ryan Hurst («Sons of Anarchy») won supporting performance trophies, which span both TV movie and serial work.

Some of the winners» names were familiar just kicked - off awards season — Alexander Payne's Hawaiian - set «The Descendants» was named Best Picture, as it also was recently by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association — but perhaps the biggest winner of the night was Nicolas Winding Refn's neon - lit, criminally overlooked «Drive,» which sadly withered on the box office vine earlier this fall and yet sped off with the most trophies Sunday night.

• The underdog winner of the year is the indie film «Winter's Bone,» made for less than $ 2 million, which won at Sundance just a year ago and now has nominations including Best Picture, actress (Jennifer Lawrence), supporting actor (John Hawkes) and adapted screenplay.

This would mark the beginning of a long working relationship between Scorsese and Ballhaus that would include five additional collaborations — «The Color of Money» (1986), «The Last Temptation of Christ» (1988), «Goodfellas» (1990), «The Age of Innocence» (1993), «Gangs of New York» (2002), which earned him the last of his three Oscar nominations, and the Best Picture winner «The Departed» (2006).

That's another coup for the DC cinematic universe, which is racking up Oscar winners with Jeremy Irons (1991 Best Actor for Reversal of Fortune) as Alfred and Ben Affleck (2013 Best Picture for Argo).

Which Best Picture winners to prioritize?

The film, which had a limited theatrical engagement on May 3 through Fathom events, has been touted at various film festivals with awards including Winner Best Picture, Best Ensemble Cast, Best Screenplay and Best Breakout Performance — Boston Film Festival; Winner Audience Award for Best Picture — Austin Film Festival; Winner Outstanding Achievement in Film making, Best Actor — Newport Beach Film Festival; and Audience Award for Best Film, Audience Award for Best Actor, Winner Best Actor — Napa Valley Film Festival.

On Monday, February 27, 2017, Linda DeLibero — Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University — and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that's me)-- Chair and Professor, Department of Film & Moving Image, Stevenson University — joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, «Roughly Speaking,» where we discussed this year's Academy Awards Ceremony, which ended in an embarrassing mishap when La La Land was mistakenly announced as Best Picture (Moonlight was eventually declared the winner, a well - deserved award).

Barry Jenkins» affecting adaptation of Tarell Alvin McCraney's play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue won the Academy Award for Best Picture this year (after a brief fiasco in which La La Land was announced as the winner) and it was one one of the few occasions when the Oscars gave out a prestigious award to very little backlash.

This is to say nothing of established competitors like Fox Searchlight, which put out best - picture winners like Birdman and 12 Years a Slave, or fellow newbies Broad Green Pictures and Bleecker Street.