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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.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

Oscar - winning films like the abuse - survival tale Precious, the 2016 Best Picture winner Room, about a kidnapping victim, may not be straight - ahead biopics, but both stories were pulled from the headlines and spun into fiction.

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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There's a trailer out there that people seem to like, it has pedigree (writer - director Bill Condon adapted the screenplay for Chicago, another musical turned undeserved Best Picture winner), and it's been promoted with a certain amount of swagger.

Vera Farmiga has had success with hits like the «Conjuring» movies and Best Picture - winner «The Departed,» and landed an Oscar nomination for «Up in the Air.»

Shakespeare in Love Year: 1998 Directed by: John Madden Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush, Ben Affleck, Colin Firth Why it's essential: This might seem like an odd pick for the single most essential Oscar - winner of the»90s, given that Shakespeare in Love beating Saving Private Ryan in a Miramax - backed last - minute coup that seemed to annoy even presenter Harrison Ford (who was clearly chosen to hand Best Picture over to his Raiders of the Lost Ark director Steven Spielberg).

In what has become perhaps the most infamous moment in Oscars history, «La La Land» was incorrectly declared the winner of Best Picture, and the shock and confusion that followed as «Moonlight» triumphantly won has been dissected like crazy over the last couple days.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and of the Special Jury Prize for Best Actress for Felicity Jones, Like Crazy depicts both the hopefulness and the heartbreak of love.

The movie also feels like a throwback to old Hollywood in the same vein as 2012's Best Picture winner, The Artist, and nobody loves a film about showbiz more than showbiz people.

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!)

Winners like The Bourne Ultimatum, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Matrix have won without the benefit of a Best Picture nomination.

Full of suspense at every turn and adrenaline flowing like life - support, Katheryn Bigelow's Best Picture winner of 2010 examines the psychology behind a reckless, bomb - diffusing soldier.

I've seen 50 Best Picture winners and I haven't disliked a single one... even ones I'm not too fond of like «The Best Years of Our Lives» or «Braveheart.»

It's also a grand - scale film that feels like a possible best picture winner.

The intention, of course, was to avoid any headline - making gaffes like last year when Faye Dunaway read the wrong 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.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's 2015 Best Picture winner is set backstage at a big Broadway show, and cleverly edited to look like a single shot.

Moonlight feels a bit like Sideways; a critical favorite that beat the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner at SAG.

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.

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.

I totally understand the logic of not splitting the winners or nominees of the Directing and Picture categories, especially for a practicing auteurist like me.

The golden age of movie musicals saw four Best Picture winners as the Academy fell in love with the likes of Julie Andrews, and directors like George Cukor and Robert Wise got their big Oscar wins.

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?»).

Taking a tour through the Academy Award winners for Best Picture is like using a Cliff's Notes guide through Hollywood history.

It sounds like the front runner but it'll have to buck that huge trend of the best picture winner also being the best director winner.

Still, the current list of films that look like Best Picture candidates consists of biopics (Darkest Hour, The Current War), stories helmed by previous Best Picture / Director winners (Kathryn Bigelow's Untitled Detroit Riots project), World War II (Dunkirk), a gay coming of age story (Call Me By Your Name) and sci - fi (Blade Runner 2049).

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

In our question to find the Best Picture winner on a preferential ballot, we need to find the one that is loved, liked, and not hated.

Like «Schindler's List,» another Best Picture winner, «12 Years a Slave» can be a tough film to watch.

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.

Like many Studio Ghibli productions, The Wind Rises has gotten the red - carpet treatment from stateside distributor Disney (under its adult - skewing Touchstone Pictures banner), including seven - time Oscar winner Gary Rydstrom to direct the English version, and a cast that also includes John Krasinski, Martin Short, Jennifer Grey, Werner Herzog, William H. Macy, Elijah Wood and Mandy Patinkin.

The Marvel film's success comes three years after the #OscarsSoWhite controversy raged — and follows the critical and commercial success of films like «Straight Outta Compton,» «Wonder Woman,» «Coco,» «Get Out,» and last year's Oscar Best Picture winner «Moonlight.»

Based on the different variations among recent Best Picture winners, why couldn't a film like Get Out or Lady Bird «only» win Screenplay and then Best Picture?

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).

127 Hours is Boyle's follow - up to Slumdog Millionaire and like that deserving 2008 Best Picture winner, this drama takes Boyle away from his native England, albeit to a place less exotic and far less populous than Mumbai: Utah.

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.

Some top - tier flicks are coming to the streaming service, including Best Picture Oscar - winners No Country for Old Men, American Beauty, Rain Man and Driving Miss Daisy and all - time classics like Pulp Fiction, Apocalypse Now and Rosemary's Baby.

No one has ever accused Anderson of being a populist filmmaker; his personal top - grosser, 2007 Best Picture nominee and Actor winner Blood, looks like a fluke.

The coveted Palme d'Or prize for best picture was awarded today, and like most years at Cannes, there was no front - runner winner.

It happened with The Hurt Locker but before that, you have to go all the way back to 1993 3) It is on the understated side for your usual Best Picture winner — a debatable point and perhaps, like all of the other points, insignificant.

The likes of The Artist and Argo may still coast to victory sometimes, but contemporary winners like 12 Years A Slave, Birdman, Spotlight, Moonlight, The Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, No Country For Old Men, and The Departed add up to an eclectic batch of films that only feel like inevitable Best Picture winners in retrospect.

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.

Like last year's Best Picture winner, «Moonlight,» it achieves much of its brilliance through specificity.

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.

Although it seems like we keep writing this same article over and over again, the point still needs to be made about why predicting a Best Picture winner with the preferential ballot can be so tricky.