They can still end up with strong constituencies
among awards voters — but if so, those constituencies will more likely be among guild and Academy members than critics.
Shot in Sylva, North Carolina and produced by Film4 Productions, «Three Billboards» will be released later this year by Fox Searchlight Pictures with a likely push for awards season; the distributor's recent releases, «Jackie» and «The Birth of a Nation,» largely failed to gain traction
among awards voters.
Not exact matches
While Nixon has strong political connections and name recognition in the city that was the backdrop for her Emmy
Award - winning role as lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the HBO comedy «Sex and the City,» her star power
among upstate
voters is less certain.
Before the 1997 general election he praised Tony Blair at the Brit
awards, offering the then - leader of the opposition invaluable good publicity
among young
voters.
The HFPA
voters — a relatively small group as far as major
awards bodies go — typically make some oddball selections, and while not all of their film choices were favorites
among the film critic community, the
voters seemed to avoid any laughably bad selections this year.
There's an old truism
among Oscar observers that, in any given year, one can look at one of the winners of the Screenplay
awards and spot the true best picture of the year, regardless of what the
voters actually elected to the top spot.
With a little overlap
among voters for both the BAFTA
Awards and Oscars, there's no guarantee that the winners will repeat on Oscar Sunday in a few weeks.
Since one of the most enjoyable parts of any Oscar season is the healthy debate these
awards provoke, The Times» film critics and reporters offer up their personal favorites
among the academy's chosen best pictures, as well as picks for the
voters» biggest oversight.
Though Ronan's Lady Bird has been a more overall
awards - season favorite, it has just one more Globe nomination than I, Tonya, suggested a parity of affection
among Globes
voters.
He's well known for his stage portrayals of larger - than - life characters — including Dracula and Sherlock Holmes,
among others — but his perfectly modulated performance here is one of managed disappointment, something apparently too subtle for Academy
Award voters to recognize.