Jodie Foster and Hilary Swank both have two in lead, but both of them starred in Best
Picture winners when they won their second.
Not exact matches
It went on to win six statues, but what we all remember is
when «La La Land» was mistakenly announced as the
winner of Best
Picture,
when the
winner was actually «Moonlight.»
In case you've somehow missed it, the envelope Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway read from
when announcing Best
Picture winner was the wrong one, and it took until midway through round of impassioned acceptance speeches for the producers of La La Land to realize they hadn't won the top prize, after all; Moonlight had.
Not least
when he scored five goals in six games during the fledgling stages of Liverpool's revival under Dalglish, including the
winner against his now new employers in February (
pictured below).
When Ahna Skop (
pictured left) met the president of the United States in early November at a ceremony honoring the
winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — the highest honor bestowed on young scientists by the U.S. government — she was the only one the president spoke to.
Why waste time holding an election
when children can look at
pictures and pick the
winners?
When assembled, it's a snapshot of your date, with the
winner being the first player to complete their date's
picture.
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.
,
when the
winner for best
picture is announced, it's the culmination of a spirit that has been building for most of the evening.
But perhaps the best moment for a female nominee went unnoticed
when during last night's biggest award - Best
Picture - Vanessa Taylor won alongside Best Director
winner Guillermo del Toro for co-writing the fantasy thriller
But perhaps the best moment for a female nominee went unnoticed
when during last night's biggest award - Best
Picture - Vanessa Taylor won alongside Best Director
winner Guillermo del Toro for co-writing the fantasy thriller The Shape of Water.
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!)
Hollywood legend Warren Beatty found himself at the centre of a hilarious snafu
when he and Faye Dunaway announced the wrong
winner for the coveted Best
Picture award.
Oscar
winner Matthew McConaughey got more than he bargained for
when he acted in a smoking scene with real - life marijuana aficionado Snoop Dogg on the Florida set of Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum (editing room
pictured May 15)
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.»
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.
No one was surprised
when Faye Dunaway read La La Land as the Best
Picture winner, but we were all stunned by the very unintentional bait - and - switch to reveal that Moonlight was, in fact, the
winner for Best
Picture.
Tom McCarthy's Spotlight, the
winner of best
picture Oscar, celebrates the virtues of investigative reporting at a time
when the old world of journalism seems to have changed drastically.
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.
The intention, of course, was to avoid any headline - making gaffes like last year
when Faye Dunaway read the wrong Best
Picture winner.
Sometimes, sometimes Dolores, these things cross over, and often
when they do that is
when you have a slam dunk Best
Picture winner.
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.
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).
The already infamous gaffe saw Beatty and Dunaway go on to announce that La La Land had won Best
Picture —
when in fact Moonlight was the
winner — after they were handed a second Best Actress category envelope by mistake.
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.
When Faye Dunaway erroneously declared La La Land the best
picture winner over Moonlight at Sunday night's Academy Awards, the crew backstage was the first to realize her mistake.
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).
On second viewing, this was confirmed
when it became apparent how these memorable scenes were actually part of a very nuanced and touching portrayal in how memories and life experiences effect our own identities throughout our lives and the aspects of those identities that we choose to reveal to those around us — and a Best
Picture winner that fully deserves the accolade is such a rare achievement nowadays!
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.
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.
Six - time Academy Award ® nominee Glenn Close (Best Supporting Actress: The World According to Garp, 1982, The Big Chill, 1983, The Natural, 1984; Best Actress: Fatal Attraction, 1987, Dangerous Liaisons, 1988, Albert Nobbs, 2011), Academy Award nominee Terence Stamp (Best Supporting Actor, Billy Bud, 1962), Max Irons (Woman in Gold), Stefanie Martini («Doctor Thorne»), Emmy ®
winner Gillian Anderson (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, «The X Files,» 1993) and six - time Emmy nominee Christina Hendricks («Mad Men») head the all - star cast bringing Agatha Christie's eponymous best - selling book to life
when CROOKED HOUSE debuts on Blu - ray and DVD January 16 from Sony
Pictures Home Entertainment.
Clark Gable became the first actor to star in back - to - back Best
Picture winners,
when this seafaring drama (separated by seven Gable vehicles but no other Oscar ceremonies)
The likely
winner of this year's best
picture award is «Crash,» a film that was all but written off last September,
when Oscar season kicked off at the Toronto Film Festival.
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 Academy has clearly shown us that they believe writing to be the single most important thing for a Best
Picture winner to have nowadays, shown most clearly by
when «Spotlight» won Best
Picture and just ONE additional award: Best Original Screenplay (and also
when «Argo,» «12 Years a Slave,» and «Moonlight» won Best
Picture with just TWO additional Oscars, one of which was Adapted Screenplay).
In the broader context of history, the two - Oscar Best
Picture winner has occurred six times in 89 years of Academy Awards ceremonies — in all honesty, that's more than I expected
when I started researching the stats.
Million Dollar Baby was also of the few instances
when a Best Actress
winner was in the Best
Picture winner.
When you're looking for a Best
Picture WINNER you're looking not for the razzle dazzle of the director, but something that is actor - driven, character - driven.
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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.
We're talking, of course, about Scoot McNairy, who broke through in Monsters and is soon to be seen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a terrific actor who has the midas touch
when it comes to recent Best
Picture winners.
Gigi Year: 1958 Directed by: Vincente Minnelli Starring: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdon, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor Notable Oscar trivia: Minnelli's second Best
Picture -
winner of the decade, Gigi held the record for biggest Oscar sweep — nine nominations, nine wins — for nearly 30 years,
when its record was tied by The Last Emperor in 1987, and then bested in 2003
when The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King went 11 - for - 11.
[Driving Miss Daisy's] ending — «You're my best friend, Hoke» — is one of the few times you'll ever see me moved to praise the recent Best
Picture winner Crash, because I sort of think Crash knew how ridiculous it was
when Sandra Bullock says the same thing to her beleaguered housekeeper.
Elsewhere, however, Brits did less well than expected
when the list of nominees was read out by Sid Ganis, president of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences, and 2006 best actor
winner Forest Whitaker at the Samuel Goldwyn theatre in Los Angeles.
It's happened before that the
winner for best
picture didn't also get a statuette for best director (notably when the film «Crash» won for Best Picture but «Brokeback Mountain» director Ang Lee took the directing prize), but not
picture didn't also get a statuette for best director (notably
when the film «Crash» won for Best
Picture but «Brokeback Mountain» director Ang Lee took the directing prize), but not
Picture but «Brokeback Mountain» director Ang Lee took the directing prize), but not often.
Not quite sure
when or where the critical backlash against Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's «Birdman» began, but it will probably only gain pace now that it's a Best
Picture winner — how terribly de trop!
Rooney Mara Mara was just another working actress doing guest spots on TV and the occasional role in mostly forgettable films until 2009
when she successfully auditioned for the small but pivotal role of Mark Zuckerberg's girlfriend in David Fincher's Oscar
winner for Best
Picture, The Social Network.
,
when presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty were given the wrong envelope and wound up giving the best
picture Oscar to «La La Land» instead of the real
winner, «Moonlight.»
What looked like a fairly straightforward split between the nomination leader / technical masterpiece / likely Best Director
winner The Shape of Water and the hit - a-nerve acting / story showcase / likely Best
Picture winner Three Billboards got thrown into chaos
when Martin McDonagh, the Three Billboards director, was left off the Best Director ballot.