Sentences with phrase «academy voters took»

For that matter, if academy voters took international cinema seriously, they might have spared a thought for Beya, a Congolese woman who had never acted on - screen before giving her mesmerizing performance in «Félicité» (shortlisted as Senegal's entry for the foreign - language film Oscar).

Did Waltz's sorta - surprise win foreshadow an evening of academy voters taking pointed stands against pinched - face controversy?

Not exact matches

Like the Lopezes and Pasek and Paul, Common is a known quantity among academy voters: The Chicago rapper took the original song prize three years ago with «Glory,» his and John Legend's tune from Ava DuVernay's «Selma.»

In our conversation last month at the DGA Theater in front of a packed house of Academy and key guild voters, she discusses why she was attracted to taking on the movie, her first theatrical feature since 2003's Monster.

Among the many biopics swarming Academy voters this year (much like every other year), few will take you as much by surprise as Trumbo.

What It Could Win: The first trailer for Collateral Beauty makes it look like a weepy take on A Christmas Carol, but the movie has a dark side that might intrigue more than one Academy voter.

This year, these two slots could be taken up by Unbroken and American Sniper because inside the insular world of Academy voters, with only five slots for nominating, and not the freedom of ten, they tend to «vote with their heart.»

Pfister took those strengths further in TDK, and with the extra oomph delivered by those IMAX shots, here's hoping the Academy voters would nominate him a second time.

Of course, it takes a fully realized performance to win an Academy Award, but sometimes it takes just a single scene to win the heart of an audience member — or an Oscar voter.

I hope this Logan nomination in the screenplay category means that the Academy voters will start recognizing not only the artistry it takes to make these movies look spectacular, but also the care and talent the writers, directors, and actors put into these pictures.

Whether a movie about unemployment can succeed with Academy voters remains to be seen, but few other movies in the running this year can claim to have taken on an issue so intractable and relevant to so many people.

It takes more than that, and some impossible - to - measure percentage of Academy voters ultimately supported Moonlight precisely because they knew it would irritate Trump.