Besides Dern and Ejiofor, lead
actor nominations went to Oscar Isaac for «Inside Llewyn Davis,» Michael B. Jordan for «Fruitvale Station,» Matthew McConaughey for «Dallas Buyers Club» and Robert Redford for «All Is Lost.»
In the supporting categories,
actor nominations went to Robert Duvall in «The Judge,» Ethan Hawke in «Boyhood,» Edward Norton in «Birdman,» Mark Ruffalo in «Foxcatcher» and J.K. Simmons in «Whiplash.»
Besides Cooper, best
actor nominations went to Steve Carell in «Foxcatcher,» Benedict Cumberbatch in «The Imitation Game,» Michael Keaton in «Birdman» and Eddie Redmayne in «The Theory of Everything.»
Not exact matches
The second Hanks film this Fall isn't one that's
going to get him
nominations (though a Critics Choice Best
Actor in an Action Movie nod could be a possibility).
Denzel Washington also turns in the kind of work that draws fellow
actors» eyes in «Roman J. Israel, Esq.,» but will he be eager to hustle the circuit once again after all the work that
went into a
nomination (and loss) for his role in «Fences» last year?
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* The two lead
actors of «Tangerine» also deserved serious consideration, but it was always
going to be hard to get The Academy's attention with no critic's honors outside of Spirit Award
nominations.
The role nabbed the
actor one of two Golden Globe
nominations that year, and she would
go on to win the Oscar for «The Danish Girl.»
Maybe they all
went to Nocturnal Animals, which somehow managed to rack up three
nominations, including Tom Ford for Best Director and Best Screenplay and Aaron Taylor - Johnson for Best Supporting
Actor.
He scored a Supporting
Actor nomination at the SAGs yesterday but it seems that Scott Feinberg's inside info about HFPA voters not
going for child
actors turned out to be true.
The last time Nicolas Cage and director Mike Figgis worked together, the result was Leaving Las Vegas, which scored four Oscar
nominations and saw the
actor go home with a Best Actor
actor go home with a Best
Actor Actor gong.
Of the three
nominations for Sean Baker's «The Florida Project» — best picture, Willem Dafoe for supporting
actor and Brooklynn Prince for young performer — only 7 - year - old Prince came away with an award, charming the audience with a tearful speech and telling her fellow nominees, «We should
go and get ice cream after this!»
With just over a week to
go until the 87th Academy Awards Oscar
nominations come out, Best
Actor has become the most volatile category of the season.
In the Supporting categories,
Actor went 5/5 with the Screen
Actors Guild but Actress deviated, earning Laura Dern her second Oscar
nomination of her career, for Wild.
Last year's closing night film, Foxcatcher,
went on to garner five Oscar
nominations, including Best Director, Best
Actor (Steve Carell) and Best Supporting
Actor (Mark Ruffalo).
The film
went on to earn seven Oscar
nominations, including Best Picture (and winning the Best
Actor trophy for lead Geoffrey Rush), and took a spectacular $ 35 million in the U.S.
She now has the big
actor award, her film just received 14 Academy Award
nominations, and you'd have to
go back to 2002 to find the last instance of an actress losing the Oscar after winning at the SAG Awards, when her film won Best Picture (that would be Renee Zellweger in Chicago).
Rival British boffin biopic The Theory of Everything trailed with four
nominations (including those for its leading
actor, Eddie Redmayne and actress Felicity Jones), level pegging with David Fincher's
Gone Girl, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and the Martin Luther King drama Selma.
For the last twenty years, Affleck has consistently turned heads with sometimes subtle, sometimes vociferous performances in films that include: «To Die For,» «Good Will Hunting,» «Gerry,» «
Gone Baby
Gone,» «The Killer Inside Me,» «Out of the Furnance,» and his career - best, «The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford» — for which he received an Academy Award
nomination for Supporting
Actor (2007).
Allen has also created platforms for his
actors to
go on winning Oscars ® themselves, making this film an excellent vehicle for Stone to be nominated once again, after her
nomination last year for Best Supporting Actress in «Birdman.»
I love how that's the new phrase for everyone's over due Oscar — last time someone had a Brockovich
nomination it was Sandra Bullock — none of these people including Julia Roberts should be teaching acting classes but that
goes to show you the power of movie stars — that the Academy doesn't waste its powers on just character
actors hogging all the glory.
That movie
went on to win Eddie Redmayne an Oscar for best
actor and
nominations for best picture, writing, actress, and music.
In 1944 however, Barry Fitzgerald managed two
nominations for the same performance, in two different categories for «
Going My Way,» which resulted in him winning his Academy Award in Best Supporting
Actor.
««Detroit» is likely destined for the Oscar race, where Smith and Poulter could
go head - to - head with best supporting
actor nominations, if the film sustains itself through the long awards slog,» wrote USA Today's Andrea Mandell.
Why It Could Succeed: Coming off of the cult favorite «Drive» (also a critical darling, if a big Oscar snub come
nomination morning), any reuniting of filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn and
actor Ryan Gosling was
going to draw major notice.
The move surprised a lot of people, considering there was already plenty of buzz about funnyman Steve Carell, who
went through a drastic physical transformation to play multimillionaire John du Pont, delivering a career - defining dramatic performance worthy of a Best
Actor nomination and possibly a win.
She was a 10 - time nominee
going into this morning's announcement and she now stands at 13 with her
nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (Trumbo), Outstanding Performance by a Female
Actor in a Leading Role (Woman in Gold) and Outstanding Performance by a Female
Actor in a Supporting Role (Trumbo).
Christoph Waltz earned the Best
Actor in a Supporting Role
nomination expected to
go to his «Django Unchained» co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, while Jacki Weaver of «Silver Linings Playbook» is the nice surprise of the Best Actress in a Supporting role category.
When is Gael Garcia Bernal, who I think is the best
actor of his generation, finally
going to get an Oscar
nomination?
Though it nabbed Critics» Choice and Golden Globe
nominations for its two lead
actors, — Emma Stone and Steve Carrell (Carrell also snuck into the SAGs Best
Actor category)-- those categories are
going to be way more stacked by the time the Oscars are announced.
In a rather short period of time, he's
gone from a character
actor to a critical darling to a superstar, with an Academy Award
nomination thrown in there for good -LSB-...]
Below are the top - shelf domestic narrative
nominations: Best Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost / Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Director Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Stephen Daldry, The Reader David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard, Frost / Nixon Gus Van Sant, Milk Best
Actor Richard Jenkins, The Visitor Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon Sean Penn, Milk Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler Best Actress Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married Angelina Jolie, Changeling Melissa Leo, Frozen River Meryl Streep, Doubt Kate Winslet, The Reader Best Supporting
Actor Josh Brolin, Milk Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams, Doubt Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis, Doubt Taraji P Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler Best Original Screenplay Frozen River In Bruges Happy -
Go - Lucky Milk Wall ▪ E Best Adapted Screenplay The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Doubt Frost / Nixon The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Animated Feature Bolt Kung Fu Panda Wall ▪ E More thoughts later, and in the coming weeks, certainly, but the Best Supporting Actress
nominations clearly offer mostly confirmatory love on the part of AMPAS voters — Cruz and Adams are recent nominees, and Tomei a past Oscar winner.
After cleaning up with various critics groups and other film - honoring bodies, and
going 1 - 2 at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards, commercial juggernauts Wall ▪ E and The Dark Knight both got relegated to somewhat unfortunately expected, consolation - type booby prizes: a Best Animated Feature nod for the former, and a Best Supporting
Actor nomination for Heath Ledger for the latter, among a mess of other, lesser nods.
He's competing against Daniel Day - Lewis (
going for a record - tying fourth Best
Actor win) for «Phantom Thread,» Daniel Kaluuya for «Get Out,» Denzel Washington with his ninth career
nomination for «Roman J. Israel,» and the tremendous Timothee Chalamet for «Call Me By Your Name.»
BAFTA
nominations list Best film Birdman Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game The Theory of Everything Leading
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler Michael Keaton - Birdman Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel Leading Actress Amy Adams - Big Eyes Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything Julianne Moore - Still Alice Reese Witherspoon - Wild Rosamund Pike -
Gone Girl Supporting
Actor Edward Norton - Birdman Ethan Hawke - Boyhood J.K. Simmons - Whiplash Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher Steve Carell - Foxcatcher Supporting Actress Emma Stone - Birdman Imelda Staunton - Pride Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game Patricia Arquette - Boyhood Rene Russo - Nightcrawler Outstanding British Film»71 The Imitation Game Paddington Pride The Theory of Everything Under the Skin Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Elaine Constantine (writer / director)- Northern Soul Gregory Burke (writer), Yann Demange (director)-»71 Hong Khaou (writer / director)- Lilting Paul Katis (director / producer), Andrew de Lotbiniere (producer)- Kajaki: The True Story Stephen Beresford (writer), David Livingstone (producer)- Pride Film Not in the English Language Ida Leviathan The Lunchbox Trash Two Days, One Night Documentary 20 Feet from Stardom 20,000 Days on Earth Citizenfour Finding Vivian Maier Virunga Animated Film Big Hero 6 The Boxtrolls The Lego Movie Whiplash Adapted Screenplay American Sniper
Gone Girl The Imitation Game Paddington The Theory of Everything EE Rising Star Jack O'Connell Gugu Mbatha - Raw Miles Teller Margot Robbie Shailene Woodley
Philip Seymour Hoffman received a 2007 Drama Desk Award
Nomination for Best
Actor in Jack
Goes Boating off - Broadway, and now the film adaptation serves as his directorial debut.
NOMINATIONS FOR THE 20th ANNUAL CRITICS» CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS BEST PICTURE Birdman Boyhood
Gone Girl The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Nightcrawler Selma The Theory of Everything Unbroken Whiplash BEST
ACTOR...
In an August Entertainment Weekly article previewing «Collateral Beauty», star Will Smith, coming - off his #OscarsSoWhite Best
Actor nomination snub for his electrifying performance in «Concussion», is quoted as saying his latest film is «delicately framed in a way that's
going to be tough to promote.»
This time it's Las Vegas who have
gone all in on Creed, giving it Best Picture, Director,
Actor and Supporting
Actor nominations, the first group to do so.
Unlike in the best
actor category, best actress usually
goes to someone on her first
nomination in that category.
Although we don't anticipate any Oscars for Deadpool this year, the film has
gone on to garner two Golden Globe
nominations — one for Best
Actor and one for Best Comedy / Musical.
British talent did extremely well with
nominations going to Ewan McGregor for Leading
Actor (Musical), Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren (for Gosford Park) and Sharon Maguire's Bridget Jones's Diary for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical).
Woody Harrelson, Best Supporting
Actor, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2 prior
nominations) Back in the Eighties, who would've guessed that Harrelson would
go from Cheers» resident airheaded hunk to having a thriving, award - worthy movie career?
If Tatum were to
go Supporting, the size of his role and reviews would all but assure his
nomination, but Ruffalo's chances might be in jeopardy then — the last film to receive two Best Supporting
Actor nominations was 1991's Bugsy.
In many ways, Wednesday's Screen
Actors Guild nominations went according to plan, with the 2,100 randomly - chosen voters on the SAG Nominating Committee saluting the actors they were expected to salute and honoring the films they were supposed to
Actors Guild
nominations went according to plan, with the 2,100 randomly - chosen voters on the SAG Nominating Committee saluting the
actors they were expected to salute and honoring the films they were supposed to
actors they were expected to salute and honoring the films they were supposed to honor.
The award winners for leading male
actor had run exactly parallel over the last 10 years — until last year in which the SAG statue
went to Denzel Washington for his performance in «Fences,» and the Oscar to Casey Affleck for «Manchester by the Sea»; both, of course, received
nominations from both groups.
David's performance
went on to earn him an Academy Award
nomination for best
actor, as well as
nominations from the Golden Globes, the Independent Spirit Awards, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, and the Screen
Actors Guild.
The movie is awful, from the script's blending of Southern charm and Jewish slang, to the over-the-top performances by its
actors, but when an internet posting begins a rumor that star Marilyn Hack (Catherine O'Hara) should garner an Oscar
nomination come awards time, the film's publicist (John Michael Higgins)
goes into overdrive, generating even more buzz about possible
nominations for its other two stars, Victor Allen Miller (Harry Shearer) and Callie Webb (Parker Posey).
Going into The Post, I didn't have high hopes from its announcement to its release as 20th Century Fox have marketed it as a «Oscar bait» film (it sure paid off, gaining Meryl Streep a Best
Actor in a Supporting Role and a Best Picture
nomination), which usually wards me off from seeing a film (see: Moonlight, Argo, The Artist, The King's Speech and so forth).