Sentences with phrase «award pundits»

After world - premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, I, Tonya quickly garnered rave reviews from critics and significant Oscar buzz from awards pundits, namely for the performances of Robbie and Janney.

«Creed» is coming off a $ 40 million - plus opening weekend, with awards pundits seeing Oscar potential.

«Creed» has been a box office champ so far, grossing $ 103 million, with awards pundits seeing Oscar potential following Sylvester Stallone's win Sunday night at the Golden Globes for best supporting actor.

While most awards pundits kept their eyes glued on the NYFCC today (or at least their Twitter account), the animators guild quietly revealed their own set of nominations today.

Jason is a film critic and awards pundit writing for AMC Film Critic and Next Projection.

Although awards pundits had put the smart money on previous Oscar winners Alex Gibney for «Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer» and Davis Guggenheim for his educational system exposé «Waiting for «Superman,»» both were left off the list.

The full - time awards pundit predicts nominees, sometimes even winners, months before a film has even left the editing room («Could it be two in a row for Eddie Redmayne?!»)

Ma's grace under pressure and inner strength while re-assimilating into a world they barely recognize have audiences dampening hankies and awards pundits murmuring.

Awards pundits parse the Golden Globes for its Oscar meaning, gauging snubs and momentum with studious intensity.

«Three Billboards,» the tale of an angry woman seeking justice for her daughter's killer, scooped multiple honors earlier this year, but «Get Out,» a bold horror movie that became a talking point around modern - day race relations in America, appears to have gained momentum in the last two weeks, awards pundits say.

Such buzz has landed La La Land atop awards pundits» 2017 Oscar predictions, with many touting Chazelle as a frontrunner for the best director Oscar (he was previously nominated for best adapted screenplay for Whiplash).

Though awards pundits have predicted that The Shape of Water or Get Out could take the best - picture title, Sony Pictures Classics heads Michael Barker and Tom Bernard have hope that Call Me by Your Name could come out victorious on Sunday night.

In a stark contrast from previous years (think La La Land vs. Moonlight and Birdman vs. Boyhood), even the most accomplished award pundits are having a difficult time predicting 2018's Best Picture winner.

In both cases, we saw what happens when awards pundits hold off with their pronouncements, hoping for one last bang at the end of the year to clarify what seems like a foggy year with no clear Best Picture frontrunner.

«In a year overloaded with self - aware showbiz satires, Alejandro G. Inarritu's fifth and best feature provides the delirious coup de grace — a triumph on every creative level, from casting to execution, that will electrify the industry, captivate arthouse and megaplex crowds alike, send awards pundits into orbit and give fresh wings to Keaton's career.»

In the end, the latter's welcome victory mostly corroborated film critic and unlikely awards pundit J. Hoberman's tacit acknowledgement, in an article for the Los Angeles Times about Hollywood's relationship to the Holocaust, that the only way for a film about the Holocaust told from the perspective of its victims to lose an Oscar is for it to compete against a film, like The Virgin Spring, whose breaking into the mainstream so clearly meant that it was destined for greatness.

Focus is releasing Loving on November 4, but it unveiled the 1950s - and»60s - set interracial marriage story from writer - director Jeff Nichols at last month's Cannes Film Festival and got immediate Oscar buzz from awards pundits.

Awards pundits have marveled that this has been one of the most up - for - grabs film races in years.