Sentences with phrase «actress nominations just»

If you subscribe to the idea that most movies yielding best - actress nominations just aren't quite good enough to be nominated for best picture, your best supporting evidence is to look at the films made by top directors — and then emphatically throw shade at how few of them star women in the first place.

Not exact matches

Though Nashville won just a single Oscar and a single Golden Globe, each for Best Original Song (for «I'm Easy», written and performed by Carradine), it was nominated for five of the former and eleven of the latter, which even bestowed two nominations each on Tomlin and Blakley, actresses making their film debuts, while classifying the film as a drama (back when true musicals weren't so rare).

This year shouldn't have any leftover winners from last year looking for nominations but there is a chance that nominee Isabelle Huppert (Elle) could crash Best Actress as her film screened just outside of last season's deadline.

Curiously, its star Ellie Kemper missed out, but Actress in a Comedy Series was probably the most competitive in years and a very deserved nomination for Fresh Off the Boat «s Constance Wu probably just kept her from getting in.

This is a competent enough, if plodding, espionage thriller with mostly compelling actors (except for the lead, Jessica Chastain, a lightweight who is mysteriously being called great in this film, and who just received a Best Actress nomination) that tells the story of the painstaking intelligence gathering that led to the ultimate revenge killing, when U.S. Navy Seals exacted retribution for the murder of 3000 people on September 11, 2001, on U.S. soil.

The Screen Actors Guild announced its nominations today and we'll get to more of that later but I just want to single out Sarah Silverman because OMG, she's been included in the list of Best Actresses along with Helen Mirren, Cate Blanchett, Saoirse Ronan, and Brie Larson.

It even earned a number of award nominations and not just in the Golden Globes» easily cracked Comedy / Musical categories but contending for lead actress, cinematography, and costume design Oscars.

Those movies won her fans and the first also the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy / Musical, an honor she repeated for Prizzi's Honor before having to settle for just a Peggy Sue nomination.

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).

• The underdog winner of the year is the indie film «Winter's Bone,» made for less than $ 2 million, which won at Sundance just a year ago and now has nominations including Best Picture, actress (Jennifer Lawrence), supporting actor (John Hawkes) and adapted screenplay.

This just in from our friend Julien in Paris... Jean Dujardin, interviewed on Europe1 this week to promote his new movie Mobius, was asked about his acceptance speech at last year's Oscars and Emmanuelle Riva's nomination in Best Actress this year, the award he'll be presenting on Oscar night.

Its nominations include best drama and best director, and a well - deserved best supporting actress for Patricia Arquette, although it's disappointing that Ellar Coltrane was overlooked — perhaps the HFPA thought that he wasn't acting, just doing what came naturally.

When: November 21st Why: The last time that director David O. Russell got this much talent together, it resulted in a movie that earned seven Oscar nominations (including two wins in the Supporting Actor and Actress categories) and landed on just about every Top 10 list in the country.

Mudbound landed just an Adapted Screenplay nomination and Best Supporting Actress frontrunner Allison Janney (I, Tonya) found herself out of the rink.

Latifah has received four nominations for Outstanding Actress for her work in Just Wright (2010), The Secret Life of Bees, Beauty Shop (2005) and Bringing Down the House (2003); two nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress for Chicago, and The Bone Collector (1999).

Instead, Kumail Nanjiani's autobiographical «The Big Sick» followed up its rough Globes morning with not just a best ensemble nod but a supporting actress nomination for Holly Hunter.

Weaver's nomination was followed just a few years later by a Best Actress win for Kathy Bates in another King adaptation, Misery.

Cruz was lovely in «Volver» and richly deserving of the Oscar nomination she received, just as she deserved to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress last year for her hell cat in «Vicky Christina Barcelona.»

Just this year, the Dee Rees - directed drama Mudbound picked up several Oscar nominations, including best cinematography and best - supporting actress.

Given both of Winslet's performances this year are housed in what we expect to be revealed next Thursday as failed Oscar bait that no one particularly likes, we were originally going to bank on the Academy's resistance to allowing a questionable double bid just because Winslet's presence is considered obligatory (especially after the same hustle netted Cate Blanchett a best actress nomination for fucking Elizabeth: The Golden Age last year).

And Weaver does not seem to be well liked and somehow she's very underrated not simply in the denial of nominations but just the conversations people have of great actresses.

This should come as a shock to no one, at least to close watchers of the yearly Oscar race: Steinfeld, who just received a BAFTA nomination for Leading Actress, may have shown up in the supporting category when the SAG nominations were announced last month, but that's where Keisha - Castle Hughes (The Whale Rider) and Kate Winslet (The Reader) also appeared prior to subsequently securing Best Actress Oscar nominations for the same performances.

Likewise, the much - lauded Paddington 2 delighted audiences in North America as much as it has overseas, and Steven Spielberg's The Post entered wide release just in time to land Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress contender Meryl Streep.

Guillermo del Toro's cold war - era fantasy was nominated for best picture, best director and best actress for Sally Hawkins, who plays the mute cleaner, as well as in 10 other categories, part of a bumper haul on Tuesday just one nomination shy of the record for the most in Academy Awards history.

A double nomination seems like a stretch for such a new actress to the awards plate and this role has a more traditional Oscar feel to it but then, the Oscars just left tradition in the dust this year so anything can happen.

But early in his career, he did just that (his disgust with the resulting picture produced his change of heart), and despite being critically panned, the movie, based on one of his short stories, earned two Oscar nominations (for Best Actress and Best Song).