And now Carol has become one of the most talked
about awards contenders of the year across a range of categories.To see an exclusive featurette about Nagy, who recently won the New York Film Critics award for Best Screenplay, just click on the video link above.
Not exact matches
For those curious
about the film's
awards season prospects, Witherspoon clearly moves to the front of the pack of Best Actress
contenders.
Jolie and her co-writer Loung Ung visited last month's 7th annual Deadline's The
Contenders all - day
awards - season event at the DGA Theater to talk
about their film (as part of N... Read
The season's two most talked -
about Academy
Award contenders, «Cold Mountain» and «Master and Commander,» are both set in the 1800s.
Jolie and her co-writer Loung Ung visited last month's 7th annual Deadline's The
Contenders all - day
awards - season event at the DGA Theater to talk
about their film (as part of Netflix's presentation) to a packed house of AMPAS and key guild voters.
La La Land racked up 14 Oscar nominations, tying a record set by Titanic and All
About Eve, while Moonlight, Arrival and Hell or High Water also scoring multiple nods as the
contenders for the 2017 Academy
Awards were announced this morning.
Two leading Oscar
contenders also won
awards: «Spotlight,» the drama
about newspaper reporters investigating sex abuses in the Catholic Church, for original screenplay, nd «The Big Short,» the financial crisis dramedy, for adapted screenplay.
Oldman is also being talked
about as an
awards contender (if you like Oscar talk, that is.)
Timothée Chalamet, who appears in three critically acclaimed
awards contenders this season in «Lady Bird,» «Hostiles» and «Call Me by Your Name,» has certainly been on enough red carpets to have answered dozens of questions
about representation, Hollywood inequities, sexual misconduct and more.
A number of recent movies — including some of this year's top
awards contenders — revive a decades - old debate
about the type of director who shapes the most memorable films.
As I mentioned last week and the week prior to that, with the festival season well underway and a good portion of the major
contenders for the Academy
Awards having screened or
about to screen, now seems like as good a time as any to take a look at the -LSB-...]
The buzz out of Telluride is that 8 - year - old Jacob Tremblay is a revelation, and maybe an
awards contender, for his role in Lenny Abrahamson's dark drama
about a boy raised inside a small room where he and his mother (Brie Larson) are imprisoned.
She talked
about how she feels
about the impact of her character and whether she'd add onto her range as an actress by not only doing more
award contender films but also maybe still playing with genre, specifically if she'd be open to playing in the Disney Marvel sandbox with the likes of Chris Pratt and Bradley Cooper:
Top
awards - season
contenders and perhaps your faves, Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Reese Witherspoon (Wild), Amy Adams (Big Eyes), Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Patricia Arquette (Boyhood), Hilary Swank (The Homesman), and Laura Dern (Wild) sat down with Hollywood Reporter for an hour - long roundtable
about the industry.
While it's true that Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel is also an early
contender for film
awards, Mike Leigh's lavish epic
about Britain's greatest painter is very likely a film to keep an eye on for end of the year voting — if it...
«If you think of race as the third rail of this country, I think it's something that is perhaps incumbent and imperative for all of us to try and do something
about,» Bigelow told Deadline's Mike Fleming Jr. during our annual The
Contenders awards - season event last month.
Michael Moore was the last to appear at Deadline's big
awards season event, The
Contenders Presented By Deadline, on November 7th to talk
about his latest documentary, Where To Invade Next, in front of the AMPAS and key guild members attending the all - day Oscar primer at the DGA Theatre.
Actor Jason Segel and Director James Ponsoldt talked End Of The Tour, their acclaimed movie
about the Rolling Stone magazine interview of author David Foster Wallace when they came to participate in Deadline's big
awards season event, The
Contenders Presented By Deadline which took place last month in front a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members at the DGA.
The feature directorial by Robin Pront
about punk criminal brothers who teeter on the edge of a not - so legit life earned the country's thumbs up this year as its Academy
Awards contender beating out The Unknown Girl, the latest movie by the country's perennial go - tos Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardennes.
But while there's no denying that its message resonates even more in light of the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and Staten Island, hopefully those parallels won't end up overshadowing the movie itself, because although it's not quite as sobering as last year's Oscar - winning «12 Years a Slave,» «Selma» is a deftly made drama
about an important piece of American history that's guaranteed to be a major
awards contender, largely due to the outstanding lead performance from David Oyelowo.
Though the film is fairly low - key for a potential
awards contender, «Spotlight» relies on some top - notch acting and writing to recount the fascinating true story
about a group of journalists who lifted the lid on a massive child molestation scandal within the Boston archdiocese that changed the way we looked at the Catholic Church forever.
means that Darren Aronofsky's drama
about a woman who lives on an abandoned farm isn't going to be an
awards contender.
As I've been mentioning to you all over the past couple of weeks, with the festival season well underway / now nearing completion and just
about all of the major
contenders for the Academy
Awards having screened or
about to screen, now seems like as good a time as any to -LSB-...]
«12 Years a Slave,» a real - life story
about a free black man sold into slavery, has been a top
contender for
awards since winning at the Toronto International Film Festival.
In THR's annual actor roundtable, this season's six top
awards contenders — including Ethan Hawke, Michael Keaton, Eddie Redmayne and Timothy Spall — open up
about why a Hollywood film is preferable to a classical theater role («Stick Polonius straight up your arse»), flunking out of college and how a meeting with Stephen Hawking turned into the equivalent of a «Saturday Night Live» skit
While an almost certain Academy
Award contender for Sarah Greenwood's (Anna Karenina) production design and Jacqueline Durran's (Mr. Turner) costumes, from an emotional standpoint this Disney effort is
about as lively as a roomful of catatonic narcoleptics high on sleeping pills.
Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi provided what would certainly get votes as the most entertaining Q&A at Deadline's annual The
Contenders awards - season event last month when he took the stage to talk
about the Marvel Studios blockbuster.
Though there aren't many films worth getting genuinely excited
about, the schedule does provide some audience - friendly fare as well as an early look at a few potential
awards contenders.
HollywoodNews.com: Michelle Williams is being buzzed
about as a potential best actress
contender this
award season for both her turns in «Blue Valentine» and «Meek's Cutoff.»
There's a sense of genuine chance, and also that audiences at the festival aren't just getting a preview of
awards contenders that are
about to roll out to theaters everywhere.
The film —
about a young woman who has a passionate affair with an artist sent to paint her portrait — was thought to be a potential
awards contender, in part because of the presence of Vikander who won last year's best supporting actress Oscar for «The Danish Girl.»
Jason from MNPP here with this week's «Beauty vs Beast» contest - we've been more or less working our way through the year's big
awards contenders over the past few weeks, with a Three Billboards here and a Phantom Thread there, and knowing what you know
about my oft - expressed personal... predilections... you'd be forgiven for expecting a proper Call Me By Your Name showdown at some point.
Still, given all the speculation
about The Shape of Water being a serious
contender at this year's Academy
Awards, movie fans may want to make sure to check it out - especially if this latest trailer for the film piques their interest.
One of the interesting things
about the month of January is that we not only see the expansion of Academy
Award nominated films, but also the release of many would be
contenders that simply weren't recognized by Oscar.
What
awards seasons
contenders Naomie Harris, Viola Davis, and Mahershala Ali can tell us
about last year's controversial campaign.
For those of you unfamiliar with our Pickup Truck of the Year (PTOTY) competition, here is a bit of background: PTOTY isn't
about awarding the truck that excels in one category but rather championing the vehicle that is the top all - around
contender.