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WHY: Tom McCarthy's «Spotlight» may be one of the most low - key awards contenders in quite some time, relying on top - notch acting and writing to recount the fascinating true story that changed the way we looked at the Catholic Church forever.

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.

One, the second Weinstein potential awards contender in a row to open in just two cities, «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,» exceeded expectations while the other, Spike Lee's remake of «Oldboy,» performed weakly in several hundred theaters.

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.

Between Steven Spielberg's reverential directing and Daniel Day Lewis» amazing performance, the film felt like a loving tribute to Abraham Lincoln, the most exciting history lesson ever and a serious award contender in every year - end category.

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.

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.

As to my other favorites: High - profile books like The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith, Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman (which just won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature) and Bone Gap by Laura Ruby are favored award contenders in many circles — and deservedly so.

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.

The so - called «Nobel Prize in Economics» (more accurately known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) will be awarded Monday morning and two Canadian economists are considered to be top contenders.

One of the most inspiring parts of the day was during judging of the student awards, when the jury called in the top contenders — students from Brigham Young University in Utah and Filmakademie Baden - Wurttemberg in Germany.

We are super excited to be a contender for BEST FRIED CHICKEN in Chicago in the @chicagotribune Dining Awards!

Those three i's are the foundation for the NEXTY Awards, the pinnacle biannual award bestowed upon worthy contenders in the natural products industry at Natural Products Expo West and Expo East.

In both 2013 and 2014, Chef Maslow was nominated for the James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year Award, and this past year was a Food & Wine «The People's Best New Chef: New England» contender.

Just one goal behind James Rodriguez in the race for the top scorer award and having done more than anyone to drag Germany to the quarter finals, Muller deserves as much respect as other contenders with more exotic names and trendy haircuts.

The Egyptian has been in fine form so far this campaign, scoring 36 and assisting 12 in 41 appearances in all competitions, form that will surely see him be in the contender of the award for Premier League Player of the Year.

The Puskas award itself would be riddled in bias, the panel (chose the contenders) had three of them hailing from the British isles.

Tottenham Hotspur have punched way above their weight this season, with Pochettino already one of the stronger contenders for the end of the year manager of the season award — for the impressive work he's done in a fairly short time at the North London club.

The PFA announced the shortlist of contenders for the 2015/16 Players» Player of the Year award today with six games remaining in the Premier League season.

In the period leading up to the announcement of the Fields Medal, which is awarded every 4 years to a mathematician under the age of 40, both the winners and the «similarly brilliant» mathematicians recognized as contenders show similar levels of productivity, Borjas and Doran found.

With hundreds of product launches in the running, we narrowed the contenders for our Editor's Pick category down to the eleven wins showcased in this years awards for their ingenuity and stelllar performance.

Showtime Boxing: Top - rated contender and Chicago native Adrian Granados opens up in an extensive interview with Sports Emmy Award - Winning Writer Mark Kriegel in advance of his welterweight showdown with former four - division world champion, Adrien Broner.

Showtime Boxing: Top - rated contender and Dallas native Errol Spence Jr. opens up in an extensive interview with Sports Emmy Award - Winning Writer Mark Kriegel in advance of his welterweight title fight with IBF Champion Kell Brook.

This story of the strange relationship between eccentric millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell) and Olympic wrestling champions Mark (Channing Tatum) and Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) will be a major contender during awards seasons, with all three actors in the running for nominations.

Distributor Sony Pictures Classics has pulled off a number of wins in this category, and, in Andrei Zvyagintsev's «Leviathan,» which took the screenplay award at Cannes, the studio has another strong contender, a movie that weaves naturalism, allegory and dark humor into a multi-layered masterpiece.

When said rare movie opens in theaters one week before Christmas with a fair amount of pre-release buzz, it is expected to not only be good, but a wisely - timed serious contender for Hollywood's award season.

Sometimes those few mostly come in the form of foreign language film contenders, but sometimes Cannes blows away even Toronto when it comes to giving awards season its main contenders.

Starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence as the two leads, the film is expected to be one of the major contenders in the upcoming Award season.

The season's two most talked - about Academy Award contenders, «Cold Mountain» and «Master and Commander,» are both set in the 1800s.

During last month's 7th Annual Deadline's The Contenders awards season event at the DGA Theatre he joined me on stage with his director Joe Wright to discuss the film and the towering performance in front of a packed house of AMPAS and key guild members.

Sam Elliott gets the role of his long acting career in The Hero, and as he told a packed audience at Deadline's 7th annual The Contenders awards - season event last month, the biggest surprise of all for him was that he actually got to play an actor for the first time.

For a spell, it looked like Oliver Stone «s Snowden could be a contender in this year's awards race.

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.

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 Thread.

Earlier in the year when the prestige pictures were vying for the early awards buzz, Angelina Jolie's Unbroken was kicked around as a contender.

In the nominations for France's premier film awards, Jacques Audiard's Oscar contender leads the field with a massive 13 bids.

Seeing the three of them and other respected actors like Molina, Dean Norris, and Michael Kelly assembled here in a movie unspooling just before Thanksgiving gives Secret the illusion of being an awards season contender.

The creature (Doug Jones) watches as Emily (Sally Hawkins) shows him a card she purchased for him in «The Shape of Water,» one of the top contenders for the best picture Academy Award.

It's that time of year again - the road to the Oscars is fraught with rumours, shifts in momentum and, of course, all the contenders maximising their awards potential for the audiences» «consideration».

Streep plays Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and Hanks plays editor Ben Bradlee in the film, one of the year's last - arriving awards contenders.

Jury member Maren Ade, director of shut - out 2016 contender Toni Erdmann, accepted the award for Coppola in her absence.

Fox Searchlight's awards contender «The Shape of Water» finished in ninth place with $ 4.3 million at 2,341 screens for a 10 - week total of $ 37.3 million.

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

Matt Rodgers on 2018's forgotten Oscar contenders... As Jimmy Kimmel steps out onto the Dolby Theatre stage to deliver his introduction to the 90th Academy Awards, spare a thought for those who still have their pre-ordered tuxedo hanging in the closet, or that dress they'd practiced the red carpet walk in still tagged for return, -LSB-...]

The third annual The Contenders Emmys, Deadline's television awards - season event, was held yesterday at the DGA Theater in Hollywood, where a total of 24 networks and studios showed off 43 of their Emmy - contender programs to kick off Emmy season.

Two leading Oscar contenders also won awards: «Spotlight,» the drama about newspaper reporters investigating sex abuses in the Catholic Church, for original screenplay, nd «The Big Short,» the financial crisis dramedy, for adapted screenplay.

The constant presence of Manchester, in the background, in theory, as critical darling, as awards contender, turned my anticipation into fear so gradually that I didn't notice until the opportunity to see the damn thing finally presented itself.

Here's what a few of the top contenders in Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony are up to:

Brie Larson in Room is the real wild card as she and her film really burst onto the scene in late summer, culminating in a surprise People's Choice Award win at the Toronto International Film Festival in September that cemented her as not only a contender but as a threat to win.

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»).