Sentences with phrase «award season contender»

Thanksgiving weekend is one of the biggest weekends of year at the box office but it's also where many major awards season contenders make their start or go wider to capitalize on good word of mouth.

Hawke is coming off of a busy year with awards season contender Boyhood; documentary Seymour: An Introduction, which he produced and directed; Michael and Peter Spierig's Predestination; Andrew Niccol's Good Kill; and Shakespeare update Cymbeline.

La La Land, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, was recently pushed back to December, making it a possible awards season contender.

Nominations for Film Independent's 31st Annual Spirit Awards have been announced, and this year's serious awards season contenders begin to take further shape.

With awards season contenders on the rise, here are 18 films to close out a strong year in films including «Selma,» «American Sniper,» «Wild,» «Top Five,» and others.

Things will cool off a bit at the start of the new year, following December's barrage of late year awards season contenders and crowd pleasing tentpoles (led by Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle).

Denzel Washington directs and stars in the new awards season contender based on August Wilson's award - winning play, featuring an astonishing performance from Viola Davis.

Other prizes at the annual awards, considered a useful early bellwether for Oscars success, were split between an array of budding awards season contenders.

Shaping as an unlikely but very real award season contender, it was scary as hell, but also smart, funny, stylish and perfectly timed to rattle Trump's America.

His relationship with du Pont — and du Pont's relationship with Dave's brother, Mark, also an Olympic wrestling gold medalist — is the subject of Bennett Miller's awards season contender Foxcatcher.

Chalamet was at the Los Angeles Times last week to sit for a roundtable discussion with other award season contenders, including Gary Oldman and Hugh Jackman.

Now, the busy character actor can be seen fulfilling a lifelong dream by playing Lady Bird Johnson in the buzzy awards season contender «Jackie» (out Dec. 2) opposite Natalie Portman's Jacqueline Kennedy.

He singled out several awards season contenders from women directors, adding that «' Mudbound,» «Lady Bird» and «Wonder Woman» are all terrific.»

Whether you want to catch up with some of the most acclaimed movies of the year or be among the first in L.A. to check out upcoming awards season contenders, AFI Fest 2017 has a lot to offer you — essentially for free.

His gonzo performance as Tommy Wiseau, the actor - director of the cult 2003 independent movie «The Room,» is now a likely award season contender.

Oscar campaigning is officially underway as there were several events this weekend in Hollywood, featuring many expected award season contenders trying to build as much awareness around their projects and performances before the holiday break.

Catch up on this year's Awards Season contenders right now On Demand, including today's pick, «The Danish Girl.»

Artistically, though, this was a clear success, a critical darling that would be a major awards season contender if voters could remember pre-fall releases and actually honor worthy cinema.

Fox Searchlight is positioning McCarthy as a legitimate Best Actress awards season contender with her performance as celebrity biographer Lee Israel in this crime / biopic dramedy.

Directed by David Frankel and written by Allan Loeb, the film looks like a sure - fire awards season contender with its starry ensemble cast and end - of - year distribution through Warner Brothers.

What awards seasons contenders Naomie Harris, Viola Davis, and Mahershala Ali can tell us about last year's controversial campaign.

While Brad Pitt has been making more headlines this week for his personal life with Angelina Jolie, he makes headlines today for his anticipated awards season contender, «Allied,» with Academy Award - winning actor Marion Cotillard.

That was certainly the case with last year's festival, which bestowed awards on eventual Oscar winners Spotlight and Room, and screened several other films that became major awards season contenders, like Brooklyn, The Danish Girl, and Trumbo.

But as we guessed (and hoped), the move was not a case of the studio dumping the picture, but instead, making sure that what they see as a possible awards season contender has the best debut possible.

While it's unlikely that record will be replicated this year (though we'll find out soon enough if this year's slate at least has that potential), we figured why not take a trip down Cannes memory lane to revisit the awards season contenders Cannes has launched, getting us on the lookout for what films from this year's line up might be their successors?

More than ever before, Hollywood's A-list actors aren't in just 1, but 2 major Awards Season contenders.

These easily can be a good list for Oscar and Award season contenders.

August is one of those award season contenders you see coming from a mile away.

From I've seen so far this year, I consider it an awards season contender.

Catch up on this year's Awards Season contenders and past winners On Demand.

«I, Tonya» will likely be one of them, along with «The Shape of Water» and probably one or two other late, Awards Season contenders.

«Atomic Blonde» is being distributed by Focus Features, a studio best known for their indie, arthouse films and awards season contenders that don't usually make big bucks at the box office.

Catch up on this year's Awards Season contenders and the latest films On Demand.

He was joined in conversation with Hedges, who once again seems poised to turn a burdened teen («Manchester by the Sea») into an awards season contender.

There are certain combinations of actor and role that, before even a second of footage has been shot, start screaming «AWARD SEASON CONTENDER».

Following its positive reception at Telluride, «Argo» will have its official world premiere in Toronto next week, where distributor Warner Bros. will likely use the buzz to position the movie as a major awards season contender.

Thelma Adams: From rage to rapture, Melissa Leo runs the gamut in another Awards Season contender, lifting up Maggie Betts» Novitiate for a major hallelujah.

It will be interesting for fans of the classic Creature From the Black Lagoon to see the Gillman / Kay influences in The Shape of Water, which is already considered to be an awards season contender.

It afforded a good opportunity to corral press members into a tight space with talent from the studio's five awards season contenders.

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