But Venice is not limited to American
awards contenders by any means.
Not exact matches
The musical is nominated in 16 categories heading into the 70th Tony
Awards, which air on CBS on Sunday, making the show a strong
contender to top the Tony's record of 12 wins, set
by Mel Brooks» The Producers in 2001.
Part of that likely has to do with the absence of many truly great movies this year, and the fact key
contenders — like «The Shape of Water» (the pick
by the directors and producers guilds) and «Get Out» (the WGA's original screenplay winner)-- come from genres that seldom receive top
awards recognition.
The Film Stage has been sharing the screenplays for this
award season's top
contender movies, and the official one for Lady Bird, written
by Greta Gerwig, is now available!
by Bill Chambers In the interest of full disclosure, I've yet to see three of the major Academy Award ™ contenders, Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird, or Phantom Threa
by Bill Chambers In the interest of full disclosure, I've yet to see three of the major Academy
Award ™
contenders, Call Me
By Your Name, Lady Bird, or Phantom Threa
By Your Name, Lady Bird, or Phantom Thread.
Unfortunately for Get On Up, Universal may see Unbroken as that top
contender, as they have demonstrated
by giving that film a Christmas Day release, traditionally considered the premier launching pad for an
awards run.
Onstage at Deadline's 7th annual The
Contenders awards - season event at the DGA Theater, Boseman was joined
by Marshall director Reginald Hudlin, producer Paula Wagner and songwriter Diane Warren.
Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve took the stage at Deadline's The
Contenders award - season event to discuss the anticipated follow - up to Ridley Scott's classic inspired
by Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
While many speculated that the jury might
award only the second Palme d'Or to a film directed
by a woman, the most likely
contender — Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Capernaum — was instead given Cannes» jury prize.
La La Land racked up 14 Oscar nominations, tying a record set
by Titanic and All About Eve, while Moonlight, Arrival and Hell or High Water also scoring multiple nods as the
contenders for the 2017 Academy
Awards were announced this morning.
Hammer already has a major
awards contender in his hands, as Luca Guadagnino's Sundance hit «Call Me
By Your Name» will hit theaters in late November.
The movie will be headlined
by Frank Grillo, who is best - known for his roles in «The Purge» and «Wolf Warrior II,» which has grossed an estimated $ 850 million in China; Jamie Bell, who stars opposite Annette Bening in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,» which SPC is positioning as an
awards contender; Margaret Qualley, who starred in «The Nice Guys» and «Novitiate,» which SPC has acquired; and James Badge Dale («Only the Brave»).
And yet one of the season's biggest prizes for new talents, BAFTA's Rising Star
award, has just announced its five
contenders for 2017 honors: Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth), Josh O'Connor (God's Own Country), Tessa Thompson (Thor Ragnarok), and Timothée Chalamet (Call Me
By Your Name and Lady Bird).
So, seizing the opportunity of a sympathetic audience, and amidst a season where many of the 84 movies put forward
by their home countries as Academy
Award contenders are floating around at festivals — big and small, rural and urban, American and elsewhere — I thought I'd weigh in on the titles I've caught.
With a cast led
by Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, and Rachel Weisz, it's little wonder why «The Light Between Oceans» is shaping up to be a major
awards contender.
The animated family adventure film The Adventures of Tintin arrives first on December 23rd, followed
by what appears to be his
awards contender for the year, the dramatic and uplifting War Horse.
Timothée Chalamet, who appears in three critically acclaimed
awards contenders this season in «Lady Bird,» «Hostiles» and «Call Me
by Your Name,» has certainly been on enough red carpets to have answered dozens of questions about representation, Hollywood inequities, sexual misconduct and more.
By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Sometimes we get caught up with the
awards contenders of the fall and holiday film seasons, but that doesn't mean there aren't straight - up genre films we're eagerly anticipating.
The final film of DreamWorks Pictures distributed
by Disney both domestically and abroad, Light Between the Oceans can't be taken seriously as an
awards contender on account of its too - early Labor Day weekend release.
This fall, he appears in three critically acclaimed
awards contenders: «Lady Bird,» «Hostiles» and «Call Me
by Your Name,» which opens Friday.
After narrowly missing out on a spot in the top ten back in 2012 with Moonrise Kingdom, acclaimed filmmaker Wes Anderson makes our end of year list for the first time with his star - studded
awards contender The Grand Budapest Hotel, which topped two of our writers» individual lists and just managed to sneak into sixth place ahead of The Winter Soldier
by a solitary point in the voting.
They even keep it timely
by relating the film to the current movie
award season, drawing connections and comparisons to such Oscar
contenders as Nebraska, 20 Feet from Stardom, and The Wolf of Wall Street.
The film is expected to be one of 2017's top
awards contenders, being named film of the year
by the National Board of Review and ranking on the American Film Institute's best movies of the year list.
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:
«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.
When we are given the chance, it's unlikely to be an
awards contender or be positioned
by a studio and or supported
by a marketing team to do big numbers at the box office.
Portman, who conducted extensive research on Jackie, will certainly be a strong Oscar
contender with this performance, which would be her second
award for Best Performance
by an Actress in a Leading Role (won for Black Swan in 2010).
This year, however, Burwell's odds are further bolstered
by his music for three other
awards contenders: Paramount's adult animated Anomalisa, Roadside Attraction's Mr. Holmes and Universal's British gangster epic Legend.
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.
Call Me
By Your Name, which is also a big
awards contender this year, receiving the most Independent Spirit
Award nominations, grossed nearly $ 405K in just four New York and L.A. theaters.
The sumptuously filmed classical drama will be a strong
awards contender (for cinematography as well as foreign film) and could prove an art - house hit in North America, adding to such Amazon successes as Kenneth Lonergan's «Manchester
by the Sea» (Roadside Attractions) and Asghar Farhadi's «The Salesman» (Cohen Media), which both won Oscars, as well as last year's Sundance acquisition, summer hit «The Big Sick» (Lionsgate), which earned an Original Screenplay nomination.
Oscar nominated film editors Jay Cassidy and Alan Baumgarten joined me onstage last month for our big
awards season event, The
Contenders Presented
By Deadline.
As first reported (exclusively)
by Variety, several high - profile Oscar
contenders will not find a boost from the Writers Guild of America as they have been deemed ineligible for its
awards.
Michael Moore was the last to appear at Deadline's big
awards season event, The
Contenders Presented
By Deadline, on November 7th to talk about his latest documentary, Where To Invade Next, in front of the AMPAS and key guild members attending the all - day Oscar primer at the DGA Theatre.
At Deadline's big day - long
awards - season event The
Contenders Presented
By Deadline last month, Youth composer David Lang explained his process to a packed DGA Theatre audience of AMPAS and guild voters.
Actor Jason Segel and Director James Ponsoldt talked End Of The Tour, their acclaimed movie about the Rolling Stone magazine interview of author David Foster Wallace when they came to participate in Deadline's big
awards season event, The
Contenders Presented
By Deadline which took place last month in front a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members at the DGA.
During Deadline's big
awards - season event The
Contenders Presented
By Deadline last month at... Read
For the first time in the five - year history of Deadline's annual big
awards - season event The
Contenders Presented By Deadline, I got to host an all - female panel thanks to Focus Features, which spotlighted two contenders: The Danish Girl and Su
Contenders Presented
By Deadline, I got to host an all - female panel thanks to Focus Features, which spotlighted two
contenders: The Danish Girl and Su
contenders: The Danish Girl and Suffragette.
Sicario came to Deadline's big
awards season event, The
Contenders Presented
By Deadline which was held at the DGA last month in front of a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members.
The Irish spirit came to our big
awards - season event The
Contenders Presented
By Deadline, which took place earlier this month in front of a packed DGA theater full of AMPAS and guild members.
The feature directorial
by Robin Pront about punk criminal brothers who teeter on the edge of a not - so legit life earned the country's thumbs up this year as its Academy
Awards contender beating out The Unknown Girl, the latest movie
by the country's perennial go - tos Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardennes.
Certainly one of the most acclaimed, as well as harrowing movies on display at our big 5th annual
awards season event The
Contenders Presented
By Deadline (which took place in front of a packed DGA house full of AMPAS and Guild voters earlier this month) was Son Of Saul, Hungary's official entry into the Best Foreign Language Film race.
At Deadline's big
awards - season event, The
Contenders Presented
By Deadline, held in front of a packed audience of AMPAS and key guild members last month at the DGA, Sony Pictures Classics highlighted its Sundance pickup Grandma, which since has earned Golden Globe and Critics» Choice nominations for star Lily Tomlin.
The dearth of surprise extended to the actual
awards, with all the biggies going the way we thought they would: the Oldman / McDormand combo looking nailed on back in January, while Guillermo del Toro had convincingly stomped all
contenders by the time he won the Directors Guild of America
award.
Winning the top film
awards were original screenplay
contender Jordan Peele for Universal Pictures» «Get Out» and adapter James Ivory for Sony Pictures Classics» «Call Me
by Your Name.»
The
awards contender written
by the actress, playwright and screenwriter received the title from the site upon collecting 165 positive reviews against zero negative ones.
There's more to the story (co-written
by «The Usual Suspects» screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie), but it doesn't matter much — with Depp and Jolie on the poster, people are going to turn out for «The Tourist,» and with the amazingly named Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck behind the cameras, it's an immediate
awards season
contender.
The Shape of Water was
awarded the big prize for film, defeating 10 other
contenders, including The Big Sick, Call Me
by Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, I, Tonya, Lady Bird, Molly's Game, The Post, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Wonder Woman.
A tough, uncompromising take on a jazz legend, lifted
by a never - been - better Ethan Hawke — an early
contender for Best Actor consideration come
awards season.
With much of the marketplace distracted
by awards contenders and the seasonal onslaught of horror offerings, «John Wick» may find an opening to start building some seriously sustained momentum with both male and female Reeves fans during its initial rollout.