Sentences with phrase «award contenders»

There's a sense of genuine chance, and also that audiences at the festival aren't just getting a preview of awards contenders that are about to roll out to theaters everywhere.

First of all, it's a terrific movie, one of my favorites of 2015 so far, and a legitimate Academy Award contender.

British audiences proved this past weekend that they have an appetite for serious films, putting three of the year's top awards contenders in the first three spots on the box office chart.

Those that loved it think it a serious awards contender, but the question is will it have enough wide support.

Two of the year's potential major awards contenders have posted trailers this week.

Though there aren't many films worth getting genuinely excited about, the schedule does provide some audience - friendly fare as well as an early look at a few potential awards contenders.

For those who don't know, most studios use the fall film festivals as a kind of launching pad for their big awards contenders.

It's a moderately interesting film, with a few surprises here and there but this performance piece doesn't have the originality of other awards contenders.

A number of recent movies — including some of this year's top awards contenders — revive a decades - old debate about the type of director who shapes the most memorable films.

The actor will conclude the year with three possible awards contenders.

True Story showcases brilliant performances, excellent storytelling, and an atmosphere that all suggest this could be the first awards contender of the year.

I got a way bigger kick out of it than I got from most of the year - end awards contenders.

That's a nice change - of - pace from some of the more dramatic and heavy awards contenders, and Hidden Figures has found a sizable audience.

This could either be an underwhelming period piece or a big time awards contender.

Early yesterday, one of the formerly unseen awards contenders finally revealed itself with a Trailer.

Awards contender Spotlight continues to perform well in its nationwide expansion, coming in eighth again with $ 4.4 million.

Then again, most of this year's awards contenders struggled commercially, in contrast to the prior year's popular candidates.

Obviously, this wouldn't need to apply to every single awards contender that hits the screen during the season.

Unless the script completely falls flat on its face, this should be an emotional journey and a definite award contender.

Here's a film that benefits by no longer being looked at as a potential awards contender.

Steve Jobs and The Martian also emerged as awards contenders, with Kate Winslet winning Best Supporting Actress and Aaron Sorkin winning Best Screenplay, plus Matt Damon winning Best Actor and Ridley Scott's sci - fi winning Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy.

While an almost certain Academy Award contender for Sarah Greenwood's (Anna Karenina) production design and Jacqueline Durran's (Mr. Turner) costumes, from an emotional standpoint this Disney effort is about as lively as a roomful of catatonic narcoleptics high on sleeping pills.

Its lack of even a single Golden Globes nomination revealed that, despite the timing and its inclusion in the National Board of Review's annual top ten list, this is not a serious award contender like many of this year's other new releases.

The fall movie season kicks off with awards contenders starring Alicia Vikander and Tom Hanks, a new Blair Witch film and the latest from Tim Burton.

Gyllenhaal is currently a dark horse awards contender for «Southpaw» and he'll soon begin filming Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals.»

The answer to these questions will very much determine the awards fate of «Trumbo,» as Bleeck Street has not handled a major awards contender on its own before.

The nominations give fresh life to the film, which was deemed a strong awards contender early on but has yet to garner widespread support either among Oscar bloggers or at the box office.

2013 saw a great deal of self - contained films released, including awards contenders Gravity and All Is Lost, but writer / director Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) has a nice gift waiting for audiences come April.

In recent weeks, Casey Affleck's performance in Manchester by the Sea has gone from acclaimed awards contender to near - Oscar lock.

Her vividly sensual prose may make the novel a production designer's dream — and given what we've seen of the film thus far, it seems a likely awards contender in the design categories — but there should be more at play here than simple visual splendor.

True Detective's Cary Fukunaga directs British star in the first competition film to screen at this year's Venice film festival — and the first awards contender from Netflix's new cinema division

But Venice is not limited to American awards contenders by any means.

The contest was open to registered, street - legal customized current - generation vehicles, as outlined in the SEMA Award contender list.

The first trailer for new Steven Spielberg drama The Post has been released uniting an impressive cast in what looks to be a surefire awards contender in the forthcoming season.

And now Carol has become one of the most talked about awards contenders of the year across a range of categories.To see an exclusive featurette about Nagy, who recently won the New York Film Critics award for Best Screenplay, just click on the video link above.

Though Streep's recent trend of turning bad movies into awards contenders (see: «Into the Woods, «August: Osage County») is certainly impressive, it's hard to imagine that continuing here.

The fact that Parker's film was created by and starred many African - American actors, along with bringing another important and well - known slavery narrative to the big screen, was certainly not lost on various commentators who held up the film as an obvious awards contender that would help ensure more diversity among the next crop of Oscar nominees.

The list did not include «Selma,» «Foxcatcher,» «Whiplash,» «The Theory of Everything» or «Interstellar,» among other presumed awards contenders.

«The Revenant» beat several hotly tipped awards contenders, including Steven Spielberg's Cold War thriller «Bridge of Spies» and Todd Haynes» lesbian romance «Carol.»

Neon / 30West's I, Tonya joins the wide - release awards contenders, playing fourteen hundred and fifty locations this Friday to Sunday, taking in $ 2.55 M ($ 1,763 PTA).

In the international TV category, FX's «The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story» prevailed over awards contenders «The Night Of,» «Stranger Things,» and «Transparent,» all of which will be major contenders — in different categories — at this year's Emmy Awards.

She talked about how she feels about the impact of her character and whether she'd add onto her range as an actress by not only doing more award contender films but also maybe still playing with genre, specifically if she'd be open to playing in the Disney Marvel sandbox with the likes of Chris Pratt and Bradley Cooper:

It's launching a pair of expensive - looking period - set miniseries, a long - anticipated Marvel spin - off, a sophomore run for one of the best TV cult comedies of the past 10 years and their big - league awards contender film of the year.

To help plan your movie - going schedule, we've put together release dates and trailers of key awards contenders for you:

A destination event for cinephiles everywhere, and known for launching new films and creating awards season buzz, MVFF has earned a deserved reputation as a «filmmaker's festival» by celebrating the best in American, independent, and world cinema alongside high profile and prestigious award contenders.

This time last year, the new wave of unexpected awards contenders came to fruition with Westworld, Stranger Things, and a surprising broadcast sensation in This Is Us.

The 39th Toronto Film Festival has announced part of their expected lineup today and unsurprisingly there is a lot of future awards contenders making the rounds such as The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher.

LION marks the 26th Best Picture nomination for legendary film producer Harvey Weinstein, and has been hailed as this year's crowd pleasing awards contender.

There's a brilliant line in the current awards contender Trumbo, where producer Frank King (John Goodman)-- a purveyor of low rent,...