Sentences with phrase «searchlight dark»

Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri came out on top as the Hollywood Foreign Press awarded the Fox Searchlight dark comedy its top awards, including Best Motion Picture — Drama, Actress, Supporting Actress and Screenplay.

The Fox Searchlight dark comedy got a big boost over the weekend, winning best ensemble, best actress (Frances McDormand), and best supporting actor (Sam Rockwell) at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Not exact matches

Suppose that on a dark night you see the beam from a searchlight, or a lighthouse, moving about the sky, or sweeping over the sea; the beam in some sense preserves its identity and yet you do not think of its being a «thing.»

In the dark, a huge ship bearing down on the launch and the swimmer is a semiblind demon to be diverted with sirens, a powerful searchlight and flaming, gasoline - dipped rags waved wildly on sticks.

We are searchlights, we can see in the dark We are rockets, pointed up at the stars We are billions of beautiful hearts And you sold us down the river too far What about us?

Searchlight's main competition has been Focus Features, the prestige film division of Universal, which this year racked up an impressive 14 nominations for «Phantom Thread» and «Darkest Hour.»

A few critics also singled out Fox Searchlight's «Battle of the Sexes,» a well - received dramatization of Billie Jean King's tennis triumph starring Emma Stone, and «Darkest Hour,» in which Gary Oldman plays Winston Churchill.

Although January 2018 lacks an Oscar movie like 2017's La La Land, cinema bookers are celebrating the fact that Darkest Hour and Fox Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri are shaping up to be collectively equivalent.

Fox Searchlight leads the pack with 20 nominations for «The Shape of Water» and «Three Billboards,» but Focus Features surprised when «Phantom Thread» and «Darkest Hour» landed 6 nominations apiece.

Action / Adventure, Comic Book / Superhero, Fox Searchlight, Horror, Reshoots, Rumors, Sequels, James - McAvoy, jennifer lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Josh Boone, Michael - Fassbender, Simon - Kinberg, Sophie Turner, The New Mutants, X-Men, X-Men: Dark Phoenix

The nominees: «Argo» (Warner Bros.)-- Producers: Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov «Beasts of the Southern Wild» (Fox Searchlight Pictures)-- Producers: Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn «Django Unchained» (The Weinstein Company)-- Producers: Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone, Stacey Sher «Les Misérables» (Universal Pictures)-- Producers: Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh Life of Pi» (Fox 2000 Pictures)-- Producers: Ang Lee, Gil Netter, David Womark «Lincoln» (Touchstone Pictures)-- Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg «Moonrise Kingdom» (Focus Features)-- Producers: Wes Anderson & Scott Rudin, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales «Silver Linings Playbook» (The Weinstein Company)-- Producers: Bruce Cohen, Donna Gigliotti, Jonathan Gordon «Skyfall» (MGM / Columbia Pictures)-- Producers: Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson «Zero Dark Thirty» (Columbia Pictures)-- Producers: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Megan Ellison

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING: «Darkest Hour» (Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski, Lucy Sibbick) BEST COSTUME DESIGN: «Phantom Thread» (Mark Bridges) BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «Icarus» (Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan) BEST SOUND EDITING: «Dunkirk» (Richard King, Alex Gibson) BEST SOUND MIXING: «Dunkirk» (Gregg Landaker, Gary A. Rizzo and Mark Weingarten) BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: «The Shape of Water» (Paul D. Austerberry, Jeffrey A. Melvin, Shane Vieau) BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «A Fantastic Woman» from Chile BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM: «Dear Basketball» (Kobe Bryant, Glen Keane) BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: «Coco» (Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson) BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: «Blade Runner 2049» (John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover) BEST FILM EDITING: «Dunkirk» (Lee Smith) BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT: «Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405» (Frank Stiefel) BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT: «The Silent Child» (Chris Overton, Rachel Shenton) BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: «Call Me by Your Name» (James Ivory) BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: «Get Out» (Jordan Peele) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: «Blade Runner 2049» (Roger Deakins) BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: «The Shape of Water» (Alexandre Desplat) BEST ORIGINAL SONG: «Remember Me» from «Coco» BEST DIRECTING: Guillermo del Toro, «The Shape of Water» BEST ACTOR: Gary Oldman, «Darkest Hour» BEST ACTRESS: Frances McDormand, «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» BEST PICTURE: «The Shape of Water» (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role JESSICA CHASTAIN / Maya — «ZERO DARK THIRTY» (Columbia Pictures) MARION COTILLARD / Stephanie — «RUST AND BONE» (Sony Pictures Classics) JENNIFER LAWRENCE / Tiffany — «SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK» (The Weinstein Company) HELEN MIRREN / Alma Reville — «HITCHCOCK» (Fox Searchlight) NAOMI WATTS / Maria — «THE IMPOSSIBLE» (Summit Entertainment)

Overlooked here by the Spirit Awards either because their budgets didn't meet qualification or otherwise: Searchlight's Battle of the Sexes and The Shape of Water (that Guillermo del Toro movie has a reported production cost north of $ 30M); Taylor Sheridan's Wind River, which won best director at Un Certain Regard at Cannes; and Focus Features» slate of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Phantom Thread (which technically starts screening this weekend), Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled which won her best director at Cannes, and Joe Wright's Darkest Hour.

Fox Searchlight has revealed an official trailer for the new dark comedy from filmmaker Martin McDonagh, of the movies In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths previously.

Gary Oldman for Focus Features» «Darkest Hour,» Allison Janney for NEON and 30WEST's «I, Tonya,» and both McDormand and Sam Rockwell for Fox Searchlight Pictures» «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» took home the acting accolades.

The Shape of Water, Universal's Get Out and Lady Bird were joined on the Best Picture list by Sony Classics» Call Me By Your Name; Focus Features» Darkest Hour, home to Best Actor frontrunner Gary Oldman, nommed today; Warner Bros» Dunkirk, with Christopher Nolan's stunning war movie scoring eight noms; Focus» Phantom Thread, with Daniel Day - Lewis back in the Actor race; Fox's The Post, along with it the 21st nomination for Meryl Streep (though not for director Stephen Spielberg); and Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, probably the other frontrunner coming into today noms and which had seven nominations, with Martin McDonagh nominated for writing but not directing, and the film's big three — Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell — all nominated.

It can be kind of dark and discouraging down there, but Mrs. Dyck often comes down with a bright searchlight to remind us that we don't have to stay down there for long.

This novel has a cast of amusing characters, a plot with a few surprises and is filled with wonderful prose like: «A passing car sent its searchlight - glare crazy and liquid over the sides of the buildings and into the trees, revealing not the colours, the daylight solidity of things, but a world of dark gaps cut from an empty skin of light».

Often illuminated by flashes of searchlights, Ruscha's paintings of common objects and urban night scenes evoke atmospheres culled from Hollywood movies, casting a dark shadow on American myths of affluence and success.