Sentences with phrase «as academy voters»

La La Land made history at the 74th Golden Globe Awards, winning in all categories it was nominated in - a record seven trophies, including Best Picture - Comedy / Musical, cementing it's frontrunner status for Best Picture as Academy voters...

If the above scenario plays out, presumptive Best Picture winner «La La Land» will be the biggest casualty, as Academy voters shunt aside the popular throwback musical starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling for something less frothy.

Not exact matches

The Academy's membership demographics have changed more in the last four years than in the previous 20, and as a result, we know less about what voters will or won't do than we ever have.

If Boyhood captures this year's best picture trophy as widely expected, it will mark the second year in a row that Academy voters have opted for the year's best - reviewed film.

Every question as to why they hadn't fared better circled back to a depressing statistic: Academy voters are 93 percent white and 76 percent male.

That way, he can try to break through without having to be introduced as Jennifer Lawrence's boyfriend, and Harvey doesn't have to complain about his star actress being weighed down by a young English dude that nobody knows; he'd rather present her to those old ass Academy voters as the plucky, unspoiled American girl not unlike their college - aged granddaughters who sass them when they come home for family holidays.

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

Erin Brockovich is about as funny, smart, interesting and inspiring movie as any this year and one can only hope Academy voters don't suffer from the short attention span that they are known for come nomination time.

The Lobster I'm also going to scratch off as being too hardcore for Academy voters, despite how much critics like it.

The balloting procedure is conducted honestly and reflects a collective opinion, which was demonstrated this year when the Academy voters had the curiosity to seek out Demian Bichir for best actor for his deeply convincing performance as a Mexican gardener in Los Angeles in «A Better Life.»

Keegan - Michael Key Key and Jordan Peele ended «Key & Peele» just as that show was hitting its stride TV Academy voters.

I have no doubt that there were several # 1 votes by Academy voters during the nomination process, but so many other movies were more beloved that year that, as a seasoned awards watcher, to complain about The Passion not being nominated is pretty ridiculous.

If not: «The Light That Never Fails» from Meru Lowdown: Going out on a limb here that the Academy music branch can't say no to the great track from The Weeknd just like they couldn't as Grammy award voters.

But it's possible that some Academy voters who missed the summer hit will make sure to catch Girls Trip on - demand (or on a screener) after seeing Haddish's comedic stylings on S.N.L. Haddish already seems like a lock for a Golden Globe nomination — given the show's separate categories for comedy performances — but this S.N.L. appearance could be the beginning of a very smart Oscar campaign as well.

But what about those movies deserving of awards that open during the summer, which may as well be a decade ago to some Academy voters?

I think Bullock is tremendous in «Gravity,» but academy voters will think of her performances as Sandra in outer space, so she's out.

(One Academy voter recently admitted, anonymously, to having rejected Get Out, Jordan Peele's deeply innovative and urgently important Best Picture contender, out of hand — precisely because, the voter groused, «as far as I'm concerned, they played the race card.»)

Some veterans remain in the mix as well; Alexander Payne's Downsizing and George Clooney's Suburbicon both debuted to mixed reviews, but seem likely to play better with Academy voters who are already fans.

Easily the best list of Best Picture candidates the Academy has compiled in years, though we say that as if the blame for the dismal crops of years past falls in the laps of the voters and not that of the studios that make the movies in the first place.

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).

«Many if not most of the Academy can't fathom songs like «Fuck Tha Police,»» said the voter, identified only as a director.

«Social media matters more every year as the academy gets younger and as the generation that uses it begins to be Oscar voters, but it is in no way representative of this group of some 7,000 people.»

At a basic level, this implies two possible conclusions: either films with outstanding female lead performances actually aren't as good (on average) as films with outstanding male lead performances, or there's an unfair perception among Academy voters that this is the case.

Rachel Weisz, «Youth» Deserves it probably more than Fonda, but the movie really has to play as well to Academy voters and SAG nom com as Searchlight thinks it is for her to get a nod.

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.

The voting rights and women's right factor could play right into the hands of Academy voters as both issues are front and center in 2015/2016 politics right now.

It happens sometimes as voters (Academy or SAG) are not required to put any actor in any category.

But then either reality struck or I lost my nerve, or both, because obviously any number of voters and critics in any number of precursors weren't as persuaded as I. (The fact that Academy voters have to see all the nominees might make a difference, but I doubt «Water» went entirely unseen by the precursor voters either.)

I wonder if this might go slightly to the left of what Oscar voters (and perhaps audiences) are used to, causing it to not quite be embraced as much as his previous works, but there's such talent on display here that I can't imagine the Academy completely ignoring it.

So, you have to fold in their choices with what you know to be true: a movie like A Most Violent Year was always going to be too esoteric for Academy / industry voters where thousands choose, as opposed to up to 100.

And as the films roll out (or worse, even before they roll out), we find ourselves treating their fortunes as sport, pitting them against each other, judging their long - term prospects with critics and academy voters, and effectively dividing them into winners or losers.

The film doesn't appear to be the easiest of sells — but then again, the last three years have been kind to downbeat, female - led Sundance hits, as «Winter's Bone,» «Precious» and «Frozen River» were all embraced by critics and Academy voters alike.

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Assuming she's nominated, some Academy voters may want to give her her fourth Oscar, meaning she would draw level with Katharine Hepburn for the number of wins, though Hepburn's were all as Best Actress while Streep's Kramer vs. Kramer win was in the Best Supporting Actress category.

Academy voters will back the movie that allows them to send a message about who they are and what they value, one that either forthrightly pushes back against the president, or one that defends the industry itself as an important artistic community and not just a cesspool of male privilege run amok.

A Fantastic Woman: Another one Academy voters managed to get, Chile's nominee stars Daniela Vega, the nation's first out transgender actress, as Marina, whose loving relationship with a much older man is cut short by his death.

Why: If you think of the writing categories as the ones where Academy voters give consolation prizes to films they like but don't want for Best Picture, then expect to see Jordan Peele on stage early in the evening, picking up the hardware for his feature debut as writer / director.

Desplat is much admired among Academy voters — though not as admired as Zimmer, who is on his 11th nomination, or Williams, on his 46th -LRB-!!).

None of these flaws, however, is likely to matter with Academy voters, as The Hours looks and sounds too much like a prototypical Best Picture contender to resist.

Only 15 % of participants who identified as Republican voters said they felt the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had made the right choice for the annual awards ceremony's top prize.

The next year, David Fincher's «The Social Network» had an even more impressive, and nearly unanimous, run through the critics» awards — and while that may have helped establish it as the alternative to «The King's Speech,» it wasn't enough to persuade Academy and guild voters to forsake that crowd - pleaser for something chillier, more artful and more appealing to critics.

His work in «Call Me By Your Name» put him front and center in the attention of Academy voters, as well as the public.

Harvey Weinstein has never been one to put much faith in the length of Academy voters» memories, so as usual, he's favoring a late - year release plan for his presumed awards contenders — the prospects of which I was discussing only the other day.

The Canadian actress has won fervent critical acclaim for her chameleonic performance as a group of wildly different clones, as well as smaller prizes such as the Critics» Choice Television Award, but has yet to earn recognition from the famously habit - prone voters of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

There should also be room in Academy voters» hearts for Seamus McGarvey, who previously picked up a Cinematography bid for lensing Wright's Atonement, and brings an equally elegant eye to the collaborators» third outing (McGarvey also served as DP on The Soloist).

The omission of Christopher Nolan for directing Inception sparked a Twitter cacophony; it could be that the mindbending sci - fi thriller is perceived as too much of a special - effects entry for the Academy voters, who prefer humanist storytelling.

Such genre cross-pollination might make both films more appealing to Academy voters who otherwise wouldn't look twice as superhero fare.

Lesley Manville, haunting as the neurotic friend in Mike Leigh's Another Year, could have been nominated in either actress category but was omitted from both, a probable case of underexposure with the Academy's Californian voters.

Though the N.B.R. Awards Gala tends to diverge from the Oscars when it comes to winners, perhaps Gerwig will be making a similar speech on a much bigger stage just a couple months from now — provided Academy voters love Lady Bird as much as every industry gala does.

Carell's flashy, ostentatious performance is just the sort of thing Academy voters fawn over, and while his positioning in the lead category isn't as patently insane as Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, it's still a clear supporting role that ended up pushing out actors like Ralph Fiennes and David Oyelowo, both of whom were the actual leads of their respective films.